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Think we badly need another centre half- Flint is good but is still learning and we do not seem to have anyone organising us at the back. Goals conceded from set pieces says it all

I hate to single players out for criticism, but you can't hide from the fact that Devera cost us two goals today. Wasn't he at fault at Cheltenham too? Not good.

Definitely need one. Devera is shite.

I just can't see where we're going to get one though.

Reckon we badly need one- it is an area where we look really weak and cant believe that it has not been addressed already

Has everyone forgotten Comazzi exists?

I'm pretty sure he'll come in for Devera once fit.

Devera is awful. Can't remember a worse centre back. At least the likes of Ifil had good games occasionally.

As mentioned in the other thread, we need a CB to play with Flint. Devera is shit. Perhaps we can get someone in on loan.

It would appear so.

I think my Nan would do a better job than Devera.

Out injured, suprisingly

Seems like it. How long is he out for?

Alot of the foreign players seem to be picking up injuries.

Said exactly the same thing earlier.  Not sure if this means they weren't fully fit when bought or we've just been unlucky?

Thankfully you never had the honour of seeing Terry (wifebeater) Fenwick at the back for us even Devera made him look good & Fenwick of was an England International :-\

Comazzi was fit enough until Daggers, Cibocchi I have no idea, Kerrouch got a knock today which has nothing to do with being fit, Lanzano is back...

Think its just the way its gone really. Nothing to be worried about long term.

I think we need an experienced, 28+ talkative defensive leader and captain.

De Ja Vu, much?

There - I fucking said it.

Comazzi.... that is all

Thats the point. It is all. An ageing, injury prone center back. He's out and we're left with mr. no mark at the back

Yea he's had an injury already, doesn't make him injury prone though, I guess we will soon find out, but in Paolo we trust

We only have 3 cb's. Enough reason to get one, even if all 3 were world class.

Oh yea, we have alot of depth in all areas apart from Centre Back, Risser might do a job there, but will be better to bring in a commanding experienced centre back that knows all about what league two strikers are like and can organise the defence well. The concern with Comazzi is that he is only 5 foot 10, not gonna do well against target men to be honest.

Agree we need a commanding centre half

It was your fucking thread I'd expect you to agree.

Anyone mentioned we need a CB ??

Nothing like writing off Devera after he has played 3 games, Barnet fans rated him and i'll trust their judgement over our much shorter period of watching him.

We've got one he's called Aden Flint.

You do know that we haven't conceded a goal in open play so far don't you..

He made a mistake against Crewe and was pretty crap today too.

I've seen enough.

We need a centre back.i

Play Risser at CB he is probably more suited to that rule.

And your point is? We've conceded more from set plays which makes it even more obvious

People keep mentioning Risser as centre back but surely if he was going to play there then he would have when Comazzi was injured v Dagenham rather than Paul Caddis?!

Flint is awesome imo and will only get better. Devera not as shit as he was at Crewe today I thought? I had a lot of lager though so probably not the best judge..

flint did well. The other one was awful.
Duberry was immense for them and i'd love him in our team.

It was dissapointing that Duberry didn't put a foot wrong, shows what experience can do for you.

 

Duberry was a class above today.  A player like that next to Flint and we'd be sorted back there.

No we don't, Flint fits that bill perfectly. Aside from his age of course but that's just a number.

They created 1 chance from open play? I would say tactics need sorting re set pieces rather than a new face altogether

Dont rate Devera, i'd like an experienced CB along side flint. And two players for every position and we only have 3 cb's! we dont even have full backs who can really cover

Devera has 100+ experience at this level.

Comazzi will be Di Canio's answer to what many are calling for.

Yes but he's injured. Surely your not saying Devera should start the next game?

the only other CB we have is Will Evans and I can't see him coming in next week so unless Comazzi recovers or we get a loan player in it has to be Devera again - perhaps Paolo can use his contact with Harry to get someone from Spurs.

I am, assuming he is our only fit CB then it makes no sense to ditch him and play someone else out of position.

We cant ditch the bloke after 3 games.

With Comazzi injured, Devera has to play (unfortunately)... Risser isn't going to be a viable option i don't think. It does highlight our lack of options though, for which PdC has to take some stick for his squad building policy.

At this early stage of the season I'd rather try Evans or get a loan player in, to be honest. Devera is the weak link in the team.

Its ironic isn't it?The Centre Half(and Capt) sitting joint top of the division is the guy we all thought was shite when he was here.

Depending on how much you value Tuesday's match, i see it as opportunity for him to find some form & work on the basics of marking without costing us any points.

I don't think he was shite for us - the defence was a lot more solid after he arrived but unfortunately we peristed in cocking things up at the other end of the field.

Last 2 games have seen the opposition with 5 shots on target including a penalty and the 2 set pieces today.On the flip side in those two games we have created 16 shots on target and scored 1 goal.

In open play we are solid(the stats show that) we seriously need to sort the set pieces out and get our strikers scoring because i dont give a fuck what people say if we had taken our chances we wouldnt be highlighting these errors tonight.

Strikers need to accept some of the blame here aswell

I didn't offer Comazzi as the solution for Bristol City or Shrewsbury but ultimately he is here as the 'experienced head'.

I would keep Devera in for Bristol City... They have to work on him as opposed to simply going 'let's bring another player in'.

It's too early to say, but as people have said we have still only conceded goals from set plays.  To me, this is something that can improved in training.

Devera arrived with a decent reputation.  You don't become a bad player overnight.  He was one of the players I was most excited about when he joined.

Three centre backs probably isn't enough, but I'd rather we signed the right players rather than just bodies.

Di Canio previously didn't sign enough strikers.  Now we have an abundance of strikers with another looking set to join, he's being criticised for signing anonymous foreigners who aren't able to cut it in this division.  The man can't win.

Considering we've had bad experience of signing established English players on big wages (Ruddock, Cureton, Thorpe, Prutton, Viveash to name five), I appreciate di Canio is doing something knew.  Whether or not it'll work, only time will tell.

Loans seem to happen at the close of the transfer window, so I imagine di Canio will pull the strings to get a couple of loanees then.  I like the fact he's built a big squad, a luxury we've not had for a while, although the lack of centre half cover is slightly concerning.  That said, I don't want to write off Devera and certainly don't think Will Evans would be a better prospect - he's terrible on Football Manager!!

set plays killed us with regards to conceeding, but ours up the other end were decent on the whole. Kennedy's deliveries especially were top notch.

Our midfield is our biggest problem on that showing without any doubt. 3 out of 4 of them were utter shite today. How Rikky otto stayed on that long i'l never know? Matey did more in the last 15 mins than he did in the previous 75.

More creativity in midfield and we would have won today. A high scoring game but we would have had enough i think

Devera was part of a Barnet side that struggled against relegation- make of that what you will.

We do have a good footballing side, much better than the scum. However the issue is that you do not get out of league 2 signing up a team of footballers- you need physicality or you will get found out especially away from home.

Di Canio has made a lot of mistakes so far in my opinion. Bit of a risk having 3 CBs but I guess he is planning on bringing one in on loan. Having said that he hasn't really done Devera's confidence much good in my opinion. Dropping him from the squad one game and then starting him the next. I guess he had no choice but to me that isn't going to help the lads confidence at all and it goes back to the point of not having enough CBs. Putting Caddis to CB against Dagenham was an error as well. I'm not claiming Risser can be a good CB but surely it's worth a go much more so than Caddis. It's clear that we have plenty of cover for CM so why not? It was the obvious choice in that game.

On the striker front why oh why does he persist with De Vita? He's done nothing. Start Connell who's looked lively every time he has come on. I dont get it. Tactically we haven't really seen much of him yet but the set piece defending isn't great. Sure that can be sorted but hopefully sooner rather than later. He needs to start playing a settled side. I feel that way we can start to come together more as a team.

i'm going to disagree with you as i thought poxford passed the ball better than us. We lumped it forward to Clarke and had good set plays but apart from that not alot at all really for a team at home.
for all that training they've had i felt we were a bit behind oxford to be honest. It was all to comfortable for them in the second half.

Some piss-stained cunt's been at it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aden_Flint

Cant see anything on there SCM ....

On the right hand side someone's changed his name to "Aden cocksucker Flint"

You think 'cocksucker' his genuinely his middle name?

Totally missed the cocksucker part, nice to see he is infact 6 foot 8 on there too  :beers:

I think it's been changed

????

Im not being funny but you need to give devera a chance, he's only played 3 games. yes agreed he does look rusty but comazzi didnt exactly look sharp when he played at daggers. Maybe an experienced been there done it Cb on a short loan just to let the players settle.

At times maybe, but Gabilondo tore two successive right backs to shreds when he came on, Clarke should have scored one chance and was wrongly given offside for another, their keeper made a good save from Ritchie... they didn't have it easy at all

As for the passing... there was a lot of long ball, but we did make much more of an attempt to bring it out from the back, and we did stretch the play to the wings more, with caddis bombing forward and Ferry looking to move the ball about more than any of the other CMs has done so far this year

ferry was shit,and i've already said Gabi did more in 15 than rikki otto did in 75.
They did have it easy as they sat back and were pretty untroubled second half. Routine save from Ritchie(easily our best midfielder)but granted Clarke should have scored

Agree about Ferry,he looks half the player we got when he signed.

Totally agree with this.  Some of his decisions have been strange and we can only hope it's naievity and he's learning from them?   The policy of starting a player then dropping them out of the squad completelye and then restarting them is no good for player or team morale.  The Timlin situation is not good either - is he still training even?

Unfortunately with players out injured, I don't think we'll see Di Canio's first choice  11 for a while, so in the meantime he needs to decide on his makeshift 11 and try and get some consistency.

Caddis looked a decent player - good runs. He was wearing 7 but playing RB, is he naturally a midfielder?

De Vita was utter shite and Connell looked much more dangerous.

Agree on all counts. I don't think even Caddis knows whether he's a defender or midfielder. I prefer him in midfield as we have a perfectly good right back in Kevin Amankwaah but he's done a Milan Misun.

What it shows me is that if a player is poor he will drop them,we have the squad now so unlike last season we have players to step in now...Lando,Kerouche looked hungry.
Timlin is piss poor Joe and is lucky to be here....he has had four years to get his act together and i can count on one hand his good games,you can't diss the manager.
As for Connell looking lively?...think i might have missed something there as i think De Vita is a better player myself at the present time.
His decisions will not seem so strange when we get the results.

I don't think caddis's delivery is good enough to be a winger

Agree with all of that... and we've been saying the same about De Vita and Connell for the past 3 games. Can't see De Vita starting against City.

No, he isnt.

It seems our defence lacks a leader - just like last season. Comazzi was suppose to the be the answer to this but he's injured. Hopefully he does the job - if he cant, then thats still the piece of the puzzle we are missing.

been saying that for three games as well! his run needs to come to an end, he offers very little.

Yeah but everyone knows a squad needs 4 CB's. Not 3.

I think a few of us have. But having been taken off at half time yesterday, I don't see how Di Canio could choose to start him.

Where is Milan Misun?

Who knows?

I supose he would know lukas magera......

Good point, didn't think of that! He was highly rated when he joined Celtic but i don't think he has actually played a competitive game since he did?

He's not real

con job.

Wikipedia (The ever accurate source of all factual truths) states he is still at Celtic as he never officially signed a contract.. The BBC say he is under contract with Town but injured for a season +

I'm glad this forum exists to put to bed all rumours and confirm he doesnt exist!

I spoke to him at the County Ground back in May and all he said he was injured and hoped to be back in October. But he isnt in the team photo is he ? Or has a squad number ?

Sounds like we could have one in by end of the week a young lad from the PL. :clap:

The club should always run anagram checker to get the true picture of who they are signing. If they had then they would have known they would be 'minus il man'

Michael Timlin = mini male itch
Kevin Amankawah = Heman wank a Vika

Based on this theory, we've just signed A Real Ska Mug

Will be a loanee from Spurs - Chris Ramsey is the assistant to Spurs youth team and I reckon he will sort out a good 2nd year trainee for us - William Ekong or Ramil Sheriff if I was a betting man

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