Neither Cadden nor Williams are defensively astute, and are often caught out of position, Kitchen needs another strong centre back alongside him and is no way a ‘captain’. The midfield have very little speed or aggression, Cole runs, Watters doesn’t, on the bright side Keeper looks good and Cotter is promising. Room for improvement in my very humble opinion.
Saturday is must win. Easy to gloss over early midweek cup defeats and league games where ground half empty. Saturday is bread and butter where floaters turn up to be entertained.
Respectfully disagree. I would argue Williams and Cadden have been our best players up to now. Cadden was maybe caught out a couple of times in the 2nd half but he was having to do the work of 2 men when Shaw came on! I like Kitch but agree that captaincy doesn’t appear to suit him. Early days of course.
I'd say Cadden is the most defensively astute out of the 3 wing backs you mention. Mael De Gevigney will probably come in for Williams now, which solves both that, although I thought Williams played well for the most part tonight. But Gevigney is likely to slot in next to Kitching. I do think Kitching makes a good captain, but it's a newish team, with a new manager who are still transitioning. Agree too with Cole and Watters. The former does a lot off the ball which warrants his place in the side. I struggle to see what Watters is offering though. Roberts is a great shot stopper for certain.
Kitching’s been diabolical in the two home games. It gets forgotten because he took his goal really well but he was the worst player on the pitch in the first half against Port Vale. Should’ve conceded a pen at 0-0 & got caught in possession several times including once in his own area. I think everyone can see how bad he was tonight & there’s no goal to cover up his mistakes. I couldn’t believe people were saying £5m for him earlier in the week. He was the weakest member of our back 5 last season. I’d be amazed if a manager like Mark Robins would spend £3m+ on a defender that struggles to defend.
Must admit he's been pretty awful. I'm putting it down to him missing Mads, but if he doesn't quickly get over that then us turning down £2.5 million for him is the worst bit of business we've ever done. However, I do believe it's a blip and he'll get back on track.
He’s still a work in progress. A lot of them are. Any central defender would struggle if they lost their two partners in Anderson and Thomas. Of course we look poor defensively. We are at the moment and it will take time to sort. It always does after our annual re-shuffle.
I do agree but he’s got to take some responsibility. He’s now club captain & should be the one organising.
Roll on 1st September when 3/4 of em aren’t here and we’ve either left it too late to replace them or have fetched 1/2 in from Park rd club and Lundwood ex servicemen
