Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:29 pm  

Sam Buca wrote:

Played in the same team as each other for how long?

Not long, but that's the problem.

We haven't had chance to get a settled back four. An unsettled back four, with players playing out of position, especially putting CM at CB should in reality make us more exposed, and give the chance for us to conceed more goals.

I don't think we've played the same back 5 in two/three consecutive games all season.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:30 pm  

Friedel and Given are the best keepers in the Prem IMO.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:31 pm  

Bevan Wire wrote:

makes no difference when forming a back four...PMSL.

So 4 players who have played together for 3 or 4 years dont have a better understanding of each other's game than players who have just arrived at the club a la Johnson, That greek bloke, Insua etc etc.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:35 pm  

I cant believe how many people rate Glen Johnson

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:35 pm  

SFW wrote:

Friedel and Given are the best keepers in the Prem IMO.

Friedel has been the best keeper around for quite some time. I just wish Liverpool would've kept him on or he signed for another big club.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:37 pm  

Nemanja wrote:

Not long, but that's the problem.

The names i mentioned have been in the team for quite some time now. Go back 3 years i'd say and they're all there in the team apart from Carrick. Even Evans was in the squad back then.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:39 pm  

Sam Buca wrote:

The names i mentioned have been in the team for quite some time now. Go back 3 years i'd say and they're all there in the team apart from Carrick. Even Evans was in the squad back then.

He was at Sunderland... prior to that he wasn't near it as Pique was the back up defender or Silvestre, Brown, O'Shea.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:41 pm  

Sam Buca wrote:

So 4 players who have played together for 3 or 4 years dont have a better understanding of each other's game than players who have just arrived at the club a la Johnson, That greek bloke, Insua etc etc.

God know's how these players cope with international call-ups.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:42 pm  

Sam Buca wrote:

The names i mentioned have been in the team for quite some time now. Go back 3 years i'd say and they're all there in the team apart from Carrick. Even Evans was in the squad back then.

I thought you mentioned the new lads because you were talking about an unsettled back 4, that's the reason I mentioned all of them that'd played at the back this season for us.

Re: More Football Chat : Thu Dec 10, 2009 3:43 pm  

Bevan Wire wrote:

He was at Sunderland... prior to that he wasn't near it as Pique was the back up defender or Silvestre, Brown, O'Shea.

On loan for 6months was it? Still was in the squad before that.