The_Cranium wrote:
DesEnglish wrote:
frank dardew wrote:
Not sure about that Rexy I thought Plow was a bit down on Saturday but is durable and can play on a number of defenders and is a seasoned senior player Marchbank potentially is a better player but never gets on the park due to injury and often when Jones and weiters play when he does play which is very rare plays on a wing because they don’t know where to put him
Is potentially very good Marchbank but almost the least durable player on our list thought that was Williamson but I think Marchbank wins the prize now
I like Plowman but his mistakes almost always cost goals. I thought he was too easily moved
He is polarising... i think the thing with him is that although he is solid 80% of the time, as Desi said, his mistakes always cost us goals. He tends to get pushed out of the contest far too easily and just makes some fundamental errors that drive me insane. He's OK but I think we'll be a far better side when players like plow struggle to hold their spot
That push you are referring to last week was potentially an ITB.
He is forced to go body on body sometimes because of the person he plays on and he isn't strong enough for that. He lost one similar contest against Dusty that the behind the goals camera clearly showed Dusty holding him down by the jumper.
If you make a mistake in the back pocket, it is usually going to result in a score involvement. If you make a mistake on the HFF, it doesn't. Who made more mistakes? Plowman or Cunningham? Cunningham cost us three goals on the weekend by skill errors. Missed two sitters and then missed a golden opportunity to hit a lead up forward and instead kicked it over his head to the sweeper. Gets coach's votes for costing us three goals? No. He played very well. Everybody is allowed to make mistakes or get beaten in a contest.
Criticism of backs for making one or two mistakes always reminds me of when Houllhan once played on Daicos and TC went mad because Daicos kicked five. Houlihan should be dropped or even hung by the neck until dead. The fact he kept Daicos to six possessions for a game of football and that Daicos couldn't have kicked some of those flukes if he had had ten attempts was completely ignored.
One day, people on here will realise that you don't have to be best on ground every week to hold down a spot in the team. You have to be solid. You have to play your role. You don't have to go at 100%, you only have to give it 100%.