Martin Crainie - is he usually this bad

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  1. Cal

    CalgaryTyke New Member

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    Or is he just overawed? Not sticking with his man. Not putting a challenge in when he needs to in the box. Very poor IMO.
     
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    CalgaryTyke New Member

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    Anyone? Another goal when Crainie should've been closer to his man. And what on earth was Etuhu (not) doing? He doesn't look interested.
     
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    Terrible defending by Crainie tonight. , We are wide open down the City left, because TuTu has been *****, maybe we will improve now he has gone off?
     
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    Tbf CT...Cranie as probably been our best, most consistent central defender since Flicker took over...fair enough, I don't think he covered himself in glory tonight, but he's normally decent...
     
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    Bet Foster gets dropped though!
     
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    That's good to hear. I don't like picking on a player, but he was definitely not doing his job of marking tightly enough - at least 2 of the goals were a direct result of him not putting in a challenge in the box. Standing off them and letting them get a shot away. Oh well, hope he keeps his head up, gets over it and puts in a decent performance on Tuesday. That's all that matters now.
     
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    Only seen the game live...from where we were Cranie seemed to have a very good game indeed,against the highest quality players around.
     
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    Cranie has been a different class to the rest of our centre half options this year, looks like a proper footballer. He let in a few today against some world class forwards but honestly he is one of the first names on the teamsheet.
     
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    Wait till you watch the match on tele !!!
     
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    Wait till you watch the match on tele !!!
     
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    Not a criticism of yourself but watch it again yourself though and reevaluate ...he made some superb tackles
     
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    He cost us 3 goals, making a couple of tackles is what he is paid for, sorry mate he was crap today !
    I cant comment on other matches , but today he was poor.
     
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    Thought he did ok! The defence were always going to struggle because we created absolutely nothing going forward .defenders were under constant pressure for 90 mins
     
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    Again, don't like to slate players, but making a few decent tackles does not make up for switching off at the critical moments. Doing 95% of it right then costing us big time for the remainder is not what I want to see from a CB. Hope it was the occasion that got to him, rather than a major flaw in his game and that he'll be back to his best on Tuesday.
     
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    Thought he did quite well considering the standard of opposition.

    Some OTT comments on here as usual.
     
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    I think you'll find the International class forwards he had facing him played a large part,rather than his own deficiencies.
     
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    Allowing a ball to run across your own penalty area (when you can cut it out) has NOTHING to do with the standard of opposition. I'm a fan of Cranie, but he won't be happy with his contribution today.
     
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    I disagree. I don't understand why he was standing off his man in the 6-yard box. He gave them far too much room. It's not like we conceded 5 world class goals - we conceded goals because we made some very, very basic defensive mistakes. Just my opinion.
     
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    I've only seen it live but IMO the difference was the fact that Carlos Tevez is world class,and showed it today
     
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