Re: Stand by Tuohy
Reply #35 –
You haven't been reading again properly LP - I wasn't criticising Tuohy's general ability - I think I used the word "uncharacteristic" didn't I? It was purely an example of the type of sloppiness that is symptomatic of our game and culture atm and you can make as many excuses as you like and spin it to your heart's content.
But it is not spin Cookie2, what I describe about the defense situation is actually happening in games, and blokes can only get burnt by team-mates so often before the wheels fall off.
It was in my opinion one of the reasons Bell was dropped, because he let his direct opponents off the hook in the midfield which killed our defense. Despite being hard at the ball, the way Bell played burnt his team-mates! He got possessions at their expense not in support of them!
Yes I will agree with you 100% that our midfield allows a lot more pressure to come onto our defence, but the incident I was talking about was still sloppy. I'm not singling 2E out for specific criticism, but using that incident as a glaring example of the team's general sloppiness and poor approach. It was so obvious as the contest was a pure one on one with no other players anywhere near. I was sitting right opposite and it just made me want to cringe under the seat - it's burned into my mind. There were plenty of others from other players I might add.
All I'm saying is that those kinds of incidents are symptomatic of our present culture or collective state of mind and should be used as examples of the kind of stuff that needs to be urgently corrected if we are to become competitive again - there are plenty of other issues I agree.