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No agenda at all. My opinion is he is very poor defensively. Nothing more, nothing less. Hope he proves me completely wrong.

I’ve said he had a good game. I just qualified it by saying we were playing against a team who were as inept going forward as you are likely to see. Second half we could have put bibs on them and called it a training game.

So he’s good positionally then? And you think I don’t know what I’m talking about.

One of the most advantageous effects he has is that he stops the CH’s having to play so many passes. Our ball retention has improved just due to that.

The forces of common sense winning the battle with a flanking manoeuvre that got them in behind their opposition 😀

Difficult one in midfield now. Do you let Andrews have a bit of game time or try and replace Sheaf. I can see us just targeting a bit of depth in Saka’s position and that being it. We don’t need a lot else.

Yeah, some very selective memories off the back of a good 3-0 win. JDS had his best game for us - accepted. But have a look at how many times he’s tracking back after a very simple ball is played in behind him. Positionally he has no idea.

I’m afraid you’ll be waiting a long time. I was at the game, I saw what I saw. I’m not going to recount individual plays just because you’ve said i should.

He’s had one decent game against the most toothless opposition your ever likely to play. I hope he carries on and becomes the second incarnation of Maldini. I’d be delighted. We’ll see

Exactly my point. We have a defender who is fine as long as he doesn’t need to defend.

Don’t know him to like him or not. Playing wise he’s a poor defender. I don’t think that’s in dispute

Excellent. Got you trawling back through old threads again. Now that is silly. Keep on with the selective memory re Dasilva. For the record I haven’t said he was poor. Just that he had nothing to do.

Don’t know if you saw the game or not. They were in behind him multiple times. Did nothing with it so it didn’t impact us. Sheaf for Torp. Not particularly controversial even though it was talking about one instance for a particular game.

They had a winger? Let’s be honest Brum were dire going forward. Dasilva had no defending to do.

Both CH’s benefitting by not trying to play in ridiculously risky situations. They are helped a lot in that by Grimes and also hopefully a coaching steer as well.

Nothing to do with Fatawu. He struggles if we have to defend full stop. Even a totally toothless Brum got in behind him 6-7 times. And as most, including me acknowledge, that was one of his better games.

Grimes knits the whole team together. He’s the one player we’d struggle without.

You have to factor in what they’re working with. It’s not mega bucks in today’s market. Yet we’ve got a top 6 championship squad.

Newsflash. Dasilva and Van Ewijk have good games when there is zero defending to be done. Also, a clean sheet, when our back 4 get pragmatic and just clear the ball. Also created chances and a goal by going long. Playing out from the back can work. Going long can work. Play what’s in front of you.

Difficult one as second half was a half paced training exercise. I’d have gone Eccles just because it was his first game back in.