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His decision-making was atrocious. Kept taking touches when he should just be clearing it. Kept letting players get too close and allowing himself to get closed down.
I got the impression he was trying to make up for earlier mistakes by trying to attack and use the ball smartly, but he just ended up making it worse.
Tosi was absolutely furious with him after their goal and rightly so.
At one stage McDonald literally grabbed him and started shaking him on the sideline. Whatever about him anyway you can't have a performance like Dean Clarke had in second half and not start the next game.
He's not a right full. Shoehorned in there unfairly and tries his best. The experts labelled Dave O'Connor as one of the worst players we had when he was played out of position. Dean Clarke isn't a right full either. He got ripped apart for the first ten minutes that he came on, grew in to the game then. I'd start him next week but let's see how he does when he has a fresh Sadlier running at him. Both full backs need to do better stopping the cross next week, Ogbene covered back well but Kenny needs to do more for his right full.
El Pietro seems to have gone missing from the site the last few days. Wonder why.
Agree with this. He's a serious athlete but naeve to an astonishing level. He'll be a serious player in time. Hopefully McDonald the man to get the best out of him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Treaty Gooner
Dave o'connor is a limited player but hes an organizer and was very good one at UCD.
Cotter is an athlete, cotter is v good defending off his right, but off his left (the cross from our left being an example) he cant defend. So he came to the club as a striker, but ended up at CH and played his schoolboy at RB in clare. So this shoehorning to RB might be a total of his limitations.
In fairness, Sadlier destroyed us in Sligo when we lost 3 zip. For the goal, should have got a body on him but again what a finish. I thought for the last 25 mins he defended well but the main problem was when Cotter got the ball where the majority of time he got us in trouble. Deano simply shoved him inside anytime he was 1 on 1 where Sadlier got bottled up.
Think Crowe should be brought into the team in the right back position. Looks like he can play ball a bit more than Dave O'Connor and would be better suited to that task of marking sadlier.
I don't know why it has taken us all year to come by our strongest back 5. From not playing Brendan Clarke initially to playing Dave O'Connor out of position and not starting with a recognised left back in Shane Tracy. It beggars believe that these players hadn't played together once in this system until September.
Hats off to Hery. For me easily our player of the season and without his performances in midfield we'd be right down there with Drogheda.