Swindon v FGR MotM Thread

[Bogus Dave]

Minturn improved a bit second half, broke well for the 2nd goal. He’s on a hiding to nothing though with that useless lump caravanning around next to him

[Batch]

Brewitt was decent on Saturday, terrible yesterday.

[Audrey]

Players - defenders - are made to look terrible as they get absolutely zero cover from the midfield. Time and again last night in the 2nd half it was 3v3 at the back.

[Nemo]

Players - defenders - are made to look terrible as they get absolutely zero cover from the midfield. Time and again last night in the 2nd half it was 3v3 at the back.

Watch their goal back - the midfield are covering and the defenders are not anywhere near the play. Our back three is Kinsella, Khan and UGM with Brewitt playing Shade's position and Minturn bizarrely even further out on our left. When the ball goes in the net Minturn is not in the box. The midfield are dropping in, but there's no defensive structure at all about it, it's just players trying their best to cover eachother randomly. Whoever coaches our defensive shape is stealing a living.

Ah I see DV has added to this in the MDT. You'd need a wider angle to see the whole shape but Shade is indeed conspicuously absent. I'm inclined not to blame any individual player here as it's clearly been an issue whoever is in the team.

[UTR]

Saw LSPod deleted their Brewitt tweet. Not sure it deserved as much flak as it got, take the pashun element away when watching Brewitt and strong heading aside (usually making up for poor positioning), it’s not an outstanding watch. Although as mentioned before, our defensive structure gives the backline no defensive cover so don’t want to be too unfair to him.

Nothing against him, he’s a very capable backup quality CB in this division and probably our best CB at the minute but for a promotion quality team you need better in my opinion. I’ve gone back and forth on him, wasn’t a fan last season, got a bit warmer to him this year but I think the reality is he’s the best of a bad bunch defensively.

One thing about him though, you can’t doubt his commitment, I like a player who’s not afraid to put his head in where it hurts or their body on the line.

*apologies to the Brewitt fan club*

[Batch]

he was fucking useless yesterday.

Saturday he was good.

thems the facts

[TheDukeOfBanbury]

Players - defenders - are made to look terrible as they get absolutely zero cover from the midfield. Time and again last night in the 2nd half it was 3v3 at the back.

Why we lost at Tranmere, no midfield cover whatsoever.
So lightweight.

[Batch]

Wimbledon - outmuscled
Barrow - outmuscled

we have gone small and technical. well guess what? you need to bully teams sometimes. Quite the shock in division 4

[Peter Venkman]

Wimbledon - outmuscled
Barrow - outmuscled

we have gone small and technical. well guess what? you need to bully teams sometimes. Quite the shock in division 4

Who would have thunk that?

L2 being more of a physical battle than a skill battle.

You learn something new every day!

[kirky69]

Saw LSPod deleted their Brewitt tweet. Not sure it deserved as much flak as it got, take the pashun element away when watching Brewitt and strong heading aside (usually making up for poor positioning), it’s not an outstanding watch. Although as mentioned before, our defensive structure gives the backline no defensive cover so don’t want to be too unfair to him.

Nothing against him, he’s a very capable backup quality CB in this division and probably our best CB at the minute but for a promotion quality team you need better in my opinion. I’ve gone back and forth on him, wasn’t a fan last season, got a bit warmer to him this year but I think the reality is he’s the best of a bad bunch defensively.

One thing about him though, you can’t doubt his commitment, I like a player who’s not afraid to put his head in where it hurts or their body on the line.

Pretty much sums up my views on Brewitt. Passion shouldn't be used to ignore shortcomings - which he definitely has - but I wish some of the others had more of it.  It certainly helps get the fans up. Yesterday though, much like Rich from LS pod said, I wished he let Kemp has his moment with the DRS on his own. Also Brewitt was poor yesterday, much the same as Minturn and Dokes, who all made individual errors.

*apologies to the Brewitt fan club*

[adje]

I've heard Brewitt criticised for many things,but celebrating a goal??? Come on.

[Jimmy Quinn]

I've heard Brewitt criticised for many things,but celebrating a goal??? Come on.

Whatever next🤣

[Jimmy Quinn]

I just think he was happy that we had won and wanted to share his emotions with the crowd.

[Kaufman]

I just think he was happy that we had won and wanted to share his emotions with the crowd.

Righto

[Costanza]

I deleted a tweet criticising Brewitt last night because I didn't want today to be busy with notifications about how passionate Brewitt is with rhetoric of 'that's all that matters' etc.

Plenty of questions emerged from the game in relation to that poor defensive display but, we won, and that's all that mattered really.

...and it wasn't in criticism of celebrating a goal either. It was because Kemp was because Kemp was applauding the DRS, for perhaps the final time, and Brewitt took over. People loved it and I didn't. I am a curmudgeon and, in hindsight, it was an opinion I could have easily kept to myself.