Goals from today..

Can't see how McNulty is responsible for the first, nor does he appear solely responsible for the second.

COG's touch for Mellis' goal was impeccable, and his own finish was exemplary. 20 goals for him this season, to go with the 30 Daggers will notch.

[video=youtube;YO4cgyNkub0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO4cgyNkub0&feature=youtu.be&a[/video]

 

O'Grady at times whiteys unplayable. So big and strong to go with the neat touches. amazing. He tried plenty of things like that and they might work out 50% of the time.

 

Defence were statues for the 2nd. Awful defending.

 

McNulty was in no-mans land for the first goal.

McNulty didn't follow his man or challenge for the second goal.

We generally look a weak/nervous defensive unit when he is in the team........my opinion, bit I know a lot of REDS fans think the same.

 

Mcnulty at fault for neither goal. Amusing.

 

Are you watching a different video. AT fault for neither.

Im of the opinion however mcnulty is responsible for every member of the opposition thus if we concede he is at fault.

 

First goal . Mcnulty shouldn't have passed the big man onto Kennedy, but equally, tk was caught ball watching and wrong side of his man.

Second goal... Was it cog who didn't go with his man?

 

Two good goals from the reds but dear o dear what schoolboy defending.

 

First goal was the fault of Barnsleys No 4 who ever that was (Kennedy?)..........was just simply eased off the ball

The second goal just confirms what a few have been saying on here about Steele..........does NOT command his penalty area

Also the second goal just highlights how much we miss a tall physically strong centre back.........a younger version of Darren Moore urgently required

 

You've got to be joking? Kennedy was marking the crosser and Cranie was marking the goalscorer. How you've managed to find McNulty at fault I'll never know, he was between them where he should be. The second goal, McNulty was about the only one who kept with his man and was still goal side of him when the goal went in. It was COG that let his man run off the back of him.

People can't wait to have a pop at McNulty, give him a chance at least.

 

You would have three defenders down the left hand side? If any of the midfielders ran off their man we'd have been left with just Cranie in the middle exposed. McNulty did the right thing passing him on, letting Kennedy know he was behind him. From a throw in Kennedy should have stayed goal side.

 

Never been a pro but I did play centre half for many a year.... I would have taken responsibility for the tall player and got my shorter team mate to cover for me in the middle.

Never saw the point of passing the responsibility to someone who wasn't going to be able to the same job. You might as well give the ball to the opposition.

 

So rather than pass responsibility to the guy in the correct position youd rather be out of position along with your team mate and likely both be caught in no mans land? Fault was TK's simple as that.

 

That's how I saw it.

It wasn't good defending, and I'm sure Flicker admitted as much in his interview.

But if he or his 'friends' read this forum they must be baffled at the criticism of McNulty, again.

Was same last week, too. Did little wrong yet there were threads about him calling him McNumpty.

He's a red. Get behind him.

 

Doesn't alter the fact

Jim McNulty played poorly today, in my opinion, along with Kennedy. But there's plenty of time for him to get up to speed. There's certainly no need to panic, or go over the top with criticism of any of the players. We definitely looked far stronger at the back when Nyatanga came on. It was only a friendly today with Jim starting his first game since February, so his ring rustiness was understandable. If selected against Bordeaux, he may well put on a better display and I hope he does.

 

Before you jump down my throat, this isn't an attack on mcnulty it's more a case of how I would have dealt with it differently.

If I was playing in a back three, it didn't mean I would play exclusively down the middle or on either side, I would interchange and cover, as the need arose and I would always pick the big man up. I really don't see why mcnulty picking the big man up and pushing tk into the middle causes a bigger problem than leaving tk to try and cope with a guy 6" taller than him.

I also go back to what I first said, tk was equally responsible because he was wrong side of his man and ball watching

 

Can't see how you can possibly blame McNulty in any way for the second. He's the only one in our team marking his man. Well, I say marking, but holding, wrestling, pinning down, feighting would be more apt. When the Wolves guy nods it in, McNulty still has his man in a half nelson. It definitely wasn't McNulty's fault, someone else lost their marker. However, if McNulty continues to mark players in that manner he'll give away a hell of a lot of penalties. He's always done it and it scares me to death.

First goal McNulty is originally marking the guy who gets the cross in. But he passes him on to Kennedy and then doesn't really do anything. Taking a seat in the stands would have been as effective as the position he took up. He doesn't pick anyone else up and sort of stands in no man's land. To be honest, he may as well not be there, as he does nothing to cut out the cross or pick up an attacker. He doesn't cover himself in glory, but neither do Kennedy or Cranie who both lose their man.

 

Let us hope that we're not dissecting a defensive nightmare come 5pm on the 3rd August.

 

Mcnulty at fault for neither goals today. Can't see how anyone could blame him. Saying that, the defence looked considerably stronger once nyatanga and O'brien came on and wiseman went to centre half.

 

Andy, as nice as it is to see this, the cardinal sin of this board is to post player content, it puts admin, especially Gally in a bad position.