Agreed, I initially had the feeling that we’d eventually move to FBT at LB and Johnson at LCB but think we need to try and keep McCarthy and FBT at CB as long as we can, blood Johnson in with cameo’s at LB for Kokolo when we need to be more secure.
Back to the same old issues when Brewitt came on
I’ve been supportive of Brewitt because I genuinely felt in the back 3 under Flynn he was exposed massively & given an insurmountable job to do. Almost defending on his own at times - so could fully understand why all his defending was erratic last minute reactive defending. He’d been dealt a bad hand.
…the issue is today - in a completely different back line that’s a lot more solid & organised he bought that band hand with him to the table. He was still erratic and reactive & it just lead to a bit of panic setting in throughout the team.
On that showing - if he’s always going to defend in that manner then he doesn’t get in this team and I’d rather see Minturn before him. The elusive Tom Clayton too…
It might be knee jerk but that performance fully convinced me that Brewitt will always be Brewitt regardless of personnel, tactics & formation. Very Ifilesque but you at least saw improvement in Ifil with the right partner next to him.
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