The Fifth Column
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Cheers Lewis, club legend and all that but no longer good enough I'm.afraid.
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[Albion] Dunky
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southstandandy
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- Jul 9, 2003
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We've needed to prepare for his eventual decline and replacement and have been guilty of not targetting another centre half last summer. I'm afraid this one's on the club.
It is starting to look this way.
British Bulldog
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- Feb 6, 2006
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In fairness we've been a bit poor since he came back.
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singing4seagulls
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Over reaction.
He was left exposed in the 2nd half to counter attacks, but by design as we were going heavy on trying to score a goal.
Yes you see a player 1 v 1 against dunk and running past him, but JP wasn't even in sight in those situations. Harsh to single Dunk out for that performance.
That first half sits on the manager. De Zerbi gave us fluid, one touch attacking football, patterns of play which you could watch with confidence. We don't have any of that at the moment. It's a team of players playing together, vs being coached to be better than the sum of their parts.
He was left exposed in the 2nd half to counter attacks, but by design as we were going heavy on trying to score a goal.
Yes you see a player 1 v 1 against dunk and running past him, but JP wasn't even in sight in those situations. Harsh to single Dunk out for that performance.
That first half sits on the manager. De Zerbi gave us fluid, one touch attacking football, patterns of play which you could watch with confidence. We don't have any of that at the moment. It's a team of players playing together, vs being coached to be better than the sum of their parts.
Tom Hark Preston Park
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- Jul 6, 2003
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Came pretty damn close to scoring a Captain's Goal with that 2nd half header. And his 1st half backwards header back to Verbrugen was a thing of beauty. Alas, alack tho, those moments of play are becoming increasingly rare 
Brian Fantana
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Bringing back Dunk immediately and benching Igor didn't even need the benefit of hindsight.
seagullsovergrimsby
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Dunk has certainly had a poor run of games. You can argue there’s been a decline for a while. I agree, but he still has his qualities.
Passing from the backing and starting moves drops off when he’s not in the side. Van Hecke was also off it today defensively, but also made many lose passes.
Dunk also needs Veltman’s brain and voice on the pitch. Tactically Dunk is poor at marshalling the back line, and will talk himself into a booking. We’re also lacking experience in front of Dunk.
Passing from the backing and starting moves drops off when he’s not in the side. Van Hecke was also off it today defensively, but also made many lose passes.
Dunk also needs Veltman’s brain and voice on the pitch. Tactically Dunk is poor at marshalling the back line, and will talk himself into a booking. We’re also lacking experience in front of Dunk.
Van Hecke and Igor were playing very well.
I said at the time that putting Dunk instead of Igor was wrong and has sadly proved correct to date
Also have been on record for over two years saying we need to recruit more pace in the defence. Instead we now have about 8 wingers!
I said at the time that putting Dunk instead of Igor was wrong and has sadly proved correct to date
Also have been on record for over two years saying we need to recruit more pace in the defence. Instead we now have about 8 wingers!
pornomagboy
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tbh it was straight at the goalkeeperCame pretty damn close to scoring a Captain's Goal with that 2nd half header. And his 1st half backwards header back to Verbrugen was a thing of beauty. Alas, alack tho, those moments of play are becoming increasingly rare
Justice
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Sign of a weak manager that Igor didn’t deserve to be dropped.
The majority of NSC also wanted Dunk back in straight away.
I didn’t because he has had quite a steady decline over the past year, the recent performances do not come as a surprise.
dejavuatbtn
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Not enough flashes of his old spark. He’s been immense for us for a long long time but sentiment won’t get us into Europe.
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Just the 8 goals conceded in 3 games.