Farehamseagull
Solly March Fan Club
I note in recent weeks Painter and Calderon have been getting a lot of stick on here and even tonight when I thought Painter had an excellent game there are posts suggesting he should still be dropped.
Obviously Gus is thinking along these lines as he has dropped Calderon twice recently but to me theyre not the problem. All season long our weakness has been our midfield. Dicker, Sparrow and Hartley have been very poor and continually leave our defense exposed. Tonight Bridcutt had a very rare poor game which made the problem worse. Also when Noone/Buckley or the other wide players attack out other midfielders dont seem intelligent enough to cover them.
Aswell as not offering much cover defensively the midfield actually create very little. We might have had a number of attempts at goal tonight but none of them were clear cut, usually long range shots and our set pieces were abysmal.
Forget signing target men, keepers, full backs etc. the midfield is where games are won and lost and until we sign better players there I dont believe we will finish any higher than low mid table.
Hopefully Gus will try Reyes in midfield and he will improve things as he looked class tonight but my god I am missing Elliott Bennett right now!
Obviously Gus is thinking along these lines as he has dropped Calderon twice recently but to me theyre not the problem. All season long our weakness has been our midfield. Dicker, Sparrow and Hartley have been very poor and continually leave our defense exposed. Tonight Bridcutt had a very rare poor game which made the problem worse. Also when Noone/Buckley or the other wide players attack out other midfielders dont seem intelligent enough to cover them.
Aswell as not offering much cover defensively the midfield actually create very little. We might have had a number of attempts at goal tonight but none of them were clear cut, usually long range shots and our set pieces were abysmal.
Forget signing target men, keepers, full backs etc. the midfield is where games are won and lost and until we sign better players there I dont believe we will finish any higher than low mid table.
Hopefully Gus will try Reyes in midfield and he will improve things as he looked class tonight but my god I am missing Elliott Bennett right now!