Swindon Town FC v Walsall FC Official Matchday Thread

[Bob's Orange]

JMac has this annoying habit of being shit at the moment

Can't really argue with that. From being an International left back (only Scotland I know) he has really disappointed me. Perhaps my hopes were too high, based on the fact he has played internatinal football.

Lukas Magera anyone?

[Honkytonk]

Jmac has been shit for ages, it's just not been so obvious with the rest of the team doing well.

Time to get a little self-righteous as I said this ages ago.

[Batch]

I think Jmac is a good player, but he's not been on form since his injury really. its the distribution that has gone to pot.

He did have a good 15 or 20 minutes later in the game on Saturday though.

[jayohaitchenn]

He suffers from the defensive left full back curse. Because he isn't that good at going forward and getting crosses in everyone thinks he is shit. He is a brilliant defender.

[Bogus Dave]

Yeah, that's a decent point.

[ChalkyWhiteIsGod]

He suffers from the defensive left full back curse. Because he isn't that good at going forward and getting crosses in everyone thinks he is shit. He is a brilliant defender.

He's a full back though, he needs to be able to do both or technically he is pretty shit. It's not 1958

[Abrahammer]

Probably why he is a league 1 defender

[jayohaitchenn]

He's a full back though, he needs to be able to do both or technically he is pretty shit. It's not 1958

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Due to a shortage of left-footed players, the natural left footers tend to be much higher up the pyramid than their right-footed counterparts.

Case in point: Stuart Downing.

[sonicyouth]

He suffers from the defensive left full back curse. Because he isn't that good at going forward and getting crosses in everyone thinks he is shit. He is a brilliant defender.

also known as the Jamie Vincent effect

[dalumpimunki]

also known as the Jamie Vincent effect

Which itself is just a complication of Nigel Winterburn disease ...

[BruceChatwin]

He suffers from the defensive left full back curse. Because he isn't that good at going forward and getting crosses in everyone thinks he is shit. He is a brilliant defender.

I couldn't disagree more, I think he's our biggest defensive liability by far.

Lacks concentration and commitment, almost NEVER puts in a challenge like Thompson one on one to win the ball against a winger, just backs off and lets them deliver a cross whenever they want (seen this so many times away from home, and that's only in the half i can see properly when it's down our end), plays under hit suicide passes back to Wes from ridiculous positions, has a bad attitude to ref's that gets him unnecessary bookings, never aware of where attacking players are coming into the box around him at the far post, but the most criminal thing by far in my opinion is that out of all our players, like Sheehan and Rose before him, he looks like one of those players who just doesn't care, shrugging off his sloppy passes and fuck ups and making the same errors of basic concentration and footballing good sense again and again before shouting at his fellow defenders to pass on the blame.

It genuinely worries me based on what we've seen this season that some of our fans think he's a good defender, as I think this is the position that most urgently needs addressing by Mack the Knife in the loan market.

[jayohaitchenn]

I couldn't disagree more, I think he's our biggest defensive liability by far.

The biggest defensive liability in the team with arguable the best defense in the Football League? I'll take that.

[Berniman]

He has nobody to compete against him in the squad though, knows he's gonna get picked whatever.  Was better when he had competition snapping at his heals or keeping him out of the team...

[Flashheart]

He has nobody to compete against him in the squad though, knows he's gonna get picked whatever.  Was better when he had competition snapping at his heals or keeping him out of the team...

You're saying he's better when he isn't playing then? 

[ronnie21]

Just reading the report in the Adver - I really must go to Specsavers asap, they say it was Luke Rooney who came on for Collins and compound it with his picture!!  Now just where did I put my specs?