McNulty

One of the worst defensive performnaces I have seen in a REDS shirt in a long while.

Absolutelely awful.........didn't win anything on floor or in air and his distributionn was shocking.

How Keith Hill cannot see we are weak with both centre-backs is baffling.

We need somebody who leads, shouts (at our players and ref) and plays the defensive game right on the edge of the laws.

 

Put Flicker in with Hassell cannot be worse. McNulty to long on ball if he manages to get it. Cannot understand why he was ouuuut so long.

 

McNulty is not the type of player who will dominate a forward in the air. He needs a player beside him who will do that, allowing McNulty to read the game and pick up the scraps. Keith asked him to do that job yesterday, and he was clearly unable to do it. However, after Wiseman went to full back, Cranie went into the centre. Cranie could have taken over that job, allowing McNulty to stand off and read the game. Cranie failed to do so, and yet he has escaped from yesterday almost completely unblemished by criticism. To my eyes, Cranie is the replacement for Hassell, because he covers all the same areas that Hassell does (Full Back, Centre Half and Defensive Midfield). Yet, the focus is on Wiseman, for elbowing out the golden boy, rather than Cranie. On Tuesday, either Cranie or McNulty must make way for Foster, but I think that it is a much closer call than you suggest.

 

never rated McNulty at all,not good enough at this level.

 

Hill clearly thinks that Foster and Hassell are not as good as the players he's brought in. I think he is in a tiny minority.

PS. With Wiseman going out to full back yesterday does this mean a return to the development squad for Stones?

 

And to cap it all when they scored their first he flapped his arms about seemingly at Steele..

 

he is awful

 

Oh right so it's hassells popularity at fault for mcfaulty and wisemans constant errors at centre half?

 

just where i have i said that ?

 

he was replying to red rain

 

Defensively yesterday

We looked hesitant, disorganised and weak.

That pairing in the middle just will not do at this level.

Hill's bizarre attitude towards Hassell is costing us. Nobody reads a game better from a defensive viewpoint than hassell. He might not have the pace that a full back needs now but he's a better centre half than Wiseman.

imho Crainie and Foster need pairing with Hassell and Stones sharing the rb role depending on opposition.

Thought Golbourne has picked up compared to recent weeks.

I back Hill but his slavish picking of Wiseman and his refusal to play Hassell at the back is costing us. We need wise experienced heads in there.

 

No

 

Cranie has escaped because he wasn't anywhere near as bad as Wiseman or McNulty. No where near.

Also, your looking for properties in McNulty that just don't exist. The myth that McNulty is a ball playing, game reading centre half is unfounded.

 

I think Keith Hill is over-complicating the game to be honest.

We simply need our two centre-halves to do what a defender should do ie. stop the opposition scoring.

Forget ball playing defenders, playing it out from the back, etc.

If we need to hit row Z then let's do it, if we need to put our head in where it hurts then let's do it, if we need to bo11ock a team mate then let's do it, if we need to take a booking to avoid a goal being socred then let's do it.

We need a cynical, big, ugly, dirty bar steward of a defender in the same mould as Gerry Taggart.

 

Re: Defensively yesterday

Whilst generally a believer in what Hill is trying to achieve here,I have to agree with everything you say,unless we fetch another specialist in, Crainie / Foster/Hassell are the best we have.

 

Foster, McNulty AND Wiseman are alll decent defenders
However, there's only Foster that is able to deal with high balls into the box...........and he's not really big enough

So we are DESPERATE for a strong, tall cammanding centre back in the Shi.ttu mold that can do this.
If we had that then the other defenders would look better

 

Cammanding? You turning into a scouser there Nudge.

 

Yet the best manager we've ever had refuses to see this.....

mmmmmmmmm

 

Doesn't take much footballing nouse to see this does it Redstar?

Keith probably can see it...........but the key thing is to act on it...........which he has yet to do and maybe well be his ultimate down-fall?

 

I think he recognises that we need someone.................hence the approach for the Brighton player earlier in the season
Problem is that Keith is putting out fires in other areas of the team........e.g. the strike force

So lets hope he can plug the gap in central defence before its too late