Reece Brown has gone

I think it's a shame. If he'd put a bloody tackle in I reckon he could have become a decent player, but he just refused to do it.

 

Terrible footballer with a poor attitude. Never been good enough. Unfortunatley we have several of his kind. Product of our late recruitment policy at the start of the season. One of the worst defenders ive ever seen ere.

 

Never had a problem with his attitude. Was nowhere near good enough as a right back and we will never know if he was good enough as a centre back.

Mistakes will be made, but well done to Danny and the board for cutting their losses on this one and Treacy.

 

deadwood....another bit gone.

pity the bbs cannot have a clear out....no folks not thereev, thereev is irreplaceable

hth

 

How do you know they've cut their losses? In my opinion our football club has recently shown a tendency to chuck money around in a way that would have been unthinkable for most of the years I've supported the club. Think Frimpong for example. Not sure I'd be offering congratulations to people whose decision making is so clearly questionable. I certainly wouldn't keep my job if I was so wasteful of precious resources.

 

Well i don't, but im making assumptions based on the fact that there is no logical reason to release them if if was more cost effective to keep them? A lot of managers would drag their heels and not want to admit they have made a mistake so we have to put up with weeks and months of players who are not up to scratch before they are finally moved on or the manager leaves. Danny has admitted he made mistakes and the board have agreed to get rid and use the money for other targets.

Mistakes will be made all we can ask for is that there are more good than bad.

 

Never played in his correct position, so we will never know how good he could have been. Why the manager is allowed to spend money to bring someone in, only to never give them a chance in their proper position I never know. Our latest accounts showed a big loss and with another player paid off the next accounts will look horrible too.

 

The best of luck to him, but it's no exaggeration when I say he's probably the worst defender I've seen at Oakwell.

Regardless of whether he was played in his favoured position, the absolute basic trait that EVERY defender has to have is to know when to put a tackle in and when to back off. But Reece just backed off, and backed off, and turned his back, and backed off to let his man have a shot, cross or pass every time.

Some absolute soft-**** on facebook has claimed he was "scape-goated" and "abused" from the start. Well as far as I'm aware, to be a scapegoat the criticism has to be wholly unmerited. Reece was at fault for plenty of goals in games, and could have been responsible for many more had the opposition been more clinical. I don't recall him receiving much abuse at games at all, but any criticism he received for refusing to put in a tackle, in my opinion, was merited.

Good luck Reece, but you will certainly not be missed.

 

When you watch a team/player regularly and you pick up on a blatant floor in their game it is the most frustrating thing seeing them doing it over and over and OVER again! Brown was not a right back and didn't know how to deal with wingers running at him.

I'm not saying he is a good centre back either (we will never know), but centre backs do not have wingers running at them. It is a completely different skill.

Wiseman was the last player I remember getting that frustrated with as he didn't know where to put himself. Tuck in, mark his man, stand somewhere in between, useless!

 

Tbh I would have liked to have seen him at CB, as for all his flaws he did win his fair share of headers and had a bit more pace than the average CB. Really don't know why him and Cranie couldn't have swapped positions once or twice.

But it didn't happen, and he showed no signs of learning from his mistakes so I'm not exactly grieving over his departure. Wiseman was deeply frustrating. He had a bit of pace, was decent on the ball but so slack at marking his man and cost us countless goals. I'd still have him at RB over Brown though.

 

Yeah that's pretty much how I feel about the whole thing. He might sign for someone else and be a cracking centre back. Oh well we move on.

Really? Wiseman? Not sure I can bring myself to agree. Thankfully we don't have to watch either in a reds shirt again.

 

On the whole RB / CB thing. I could be wrong but I can't remember him or Wilson stating that he's a natural centre back. I think RB's the position he's played all of his career at & that we've just assumed he's playing out of position because of his size & how uncomfortable he looks at full back

 

He played centre half at Oldham and gave me kittens. Also, would you play him in front of Cranie/Nyatanga/Ramage & BFJ? No.

He was signed as a defender who could play RB, he couldn't he's gone.

 

Glad u brought that up, I reckon (and this is no more than an educated guess) that he was scouted and brought in as a right back.
Not good enough in said position, get rid lets move on.

 

As I said earlier, whether we have 'cut our losses' or not is merely an assumption. Previous regimes (including Danny the first time) would have been required to be far more careful with the cash. Still can't get over the Frimpong thing which, allegedly, cost the club £300K.

 

I agree and only Danny knows why he never got a run in the side as a centre half. He must have been rank bad in training considering we've been playing the walking disaster 'Mvoto' ahead of him in that position.

 

You didn't reply to my comment though..?

We had sign a new squad in the summer. There were bound to be a few dud ones in there. Most have worked out well. The ones that haven't have been moved on at the earliest opportunity. Not sure what else Danny can do other than not make any mistakes at all in the transfer market..?