Bleeding hell. Four days after the season ended and he still hasn’t signed a kick into the stands centre half! We’re doomed. Doomed I tell you.
JannerinCardiff":3dsnreiu said:Most players contracts run until the 30th June. We could sign a player early on a non context agreement but I’d expect most signings to happen from 1st July.
Adam_R":199n6n9y said:Always find it odd how we used to curse the "blood and snotters" approach and centre halves who couldn't pass the ball 2 yards to a holding midfielder.
Now we want an old fashioned centre half to hoof it long.
If we want Lowe's style of play then bringing in a no nonsense defender will only hinder us IMO. Opposition will work out who "that defender" is and pressure the other 2 (if we play a back 3) to pass to him knowing that he will boot it long/out of play/halfway to Exeter.
We aren't going to find a strong/speedy/ball-playing well rounded defender at this level.
Argylegames":3396id9k said:It isn't so much about whether a defender is a hoof it or pass it player, it is more needing a player who can pass but knows when putting your boot through the ball is the right thing to do at the time.
That's called experience.
davie nine":31qrrdjn said:As many have suggested, I do think he needs a specialist defensive coach.
I have just listened back to the last fans’ forum in March when Neil Dewsnip was asked about this and he said that we do have one but refused to say who has that role. I did not think he dealt with that question well and, from Sparksy’s follow up question, he didn’t seem to think that he had adequately covered the question submitted by supporters.
Dewsnip seemed to blame the problem on the young, inexperienced defenders which, obviously, was a large part of the problem but, as he is responsible for recruitment, surely, they should have realised that when releasing Canavan and Wootton in January.
I do think that they became complacent in January and February due to a decent spell of results but I think that, regardless of our recruitment success, we will still need to be convinced about our defensive coaching.