honeybradger

How does Cartwright compare to Baybrooke?

Defending isn't just the backline. Barnes barely tracked back at all that season and kept losing the ball which exposed our left back who was already struggling. Most of his goals that season were when we were already winning, often comfortably. The stats behind Barnes's 22/23 season are misleading, if you look at the player ratings and the post match discussions from that season on here there were many matches where Barnes was among our worst performers and didnt offer enough going forward or defensively.

It's a shame that we favoured Barnes over him. If we sold Barnes that summer and bought Lookman we dont go down.

There have been plenty of times where managers haven't fancied young players and the player has gone on to do well elsewhere. At least here he would be ahead of Golding and Cartwright as backup for Choudhury/Skipp on the weekend.

With all our midfielders out Baybrooke might actually have had a better chance of featuring in our next game than he does at Dundee. Awful loan for him sadly.

Please god no more expensive players. The reason we got relegated in the first place is because we only bought players for £15mil+ and couldnt shift them if they didnt work out. I'm not sure the £20mil market is actually better than the £10mil market either.

No one with any sense was.

Early on in his time here he just didnt put in the effort to track runners or cover the defence. The criticism was warranted because we couldn't rely on him. Now he is getting the plaudits because he is putting the work in and fighting for the team.

Barring injury he will be one of the best midfielders of the next decade. He is that good. Now all he needs are some good wingers in front of him.

I thought he did quite well at turning and driving with the ball sometimes but his defensive workrate just wasnt there.

You know it's bad when you're in the singing section but you cant sing along because you cant hear the current song. Not a knock on the rows that are trying to lead the singing by the way, more of a knock on the rows between us.

I think the swathes of people leaving ironically had a positive effect because the people who were left behind realised we had to rally behind the team in spite of half our home support being fairweather.

I found him quite exciting on Tuesday vs West Ham.

Not sure about Ayew, slows the play down too much.

Is he actually good,

There's a huge gap in ability between Casemiro and Winks/Skipp/Ndidi (as of recent years), less of a gap between him and Ndidi if Ndidi rediscovers his old self. If this guy sits somewhere between Casemiro and Winks/Skipp then he's worth looking at.

Wow

Winks is good on the ball but not good enough defensively. Skipp is ok on the ball and ok defensively but if you add it all up you dont get a PL level player. Ndidi is good defensively and bad on the ball. If this lad is both good on the ball and good defensively then he's worth picking up, a well rounded DM would do wonders for this team.

Rodgers, Smith and Maresca couldn't play him because of the ACL (Maresca probs could have played him last game of last season) or being too young in Rodgers case. Cooper is the only one to have him available and ready and choose to not play him.

I've found Buonanotte very frustrating recently. After being our best player at the start he's now trying to dribble by himself too much and it's making him one of our worst. Hopefully he can gain some confidence back in the rest of the team and stop trying to take on the world.

You have to factor in that Vardy has been struggling with an issue with his hip since 2020 which is arguably down to his age. That's almost half his top flight career where he's been in and out of the team and had to push through it when it was acting up. If he was 5 years younger and you put him in the exact same situation without any additional seasons he would probably have 50 extra PL goals alone since 2020, especially if you consider that we dont get relegated with a fit Vardy in the team.

Were you sat on the same row as me? Felt like i was standing for more of the game than i was sitting and it was usually the same guys going past. I just assumed they must have had the bladders of a 2 year old.

Leaving early on a weekday at the end is understandable but what is up with people going in for beer and food 40 minutes in? Final 5 minutes of one of the biggest halves of our season and the stands were emptying out.

Long term partner for Okoli. Faes and Okoli are birds of a feather, decent defensive attributes but will fall asleep and pass the ball straight to the opposition. If we are to stay in this league we need those two to be bench options at best.

I think he stopped a lot more attacks the other night than he let through. Considering how much stick he gets for losing his runner (I am guilty of this as well), lets give him some praise for the way he put his all in to stopping attackers from getting past him last night.