The defence

[Happy Fox]

I agree with the post about Kasper. He is a decent shot stopper but he can be hesitant at times.

That is what happens when Mike Stowell is your coach we must be the only club in the country to employ a a goalkeeping coach as attacking coach, surely with the money we have now we can afford a proper coaching set up?

[ozleicester]

We have 4 defenders that are internationals... they should be good enough to cut it in this league. If they arent, i put it down to not being organised and understanding their role, that, i put down to the manager.

you see, what we should have done was position ourselves better and mark their players more closely

[martin7]

Feel the defence problems stem from lack of work rate in midfelid. i.e wellens

[Burmesefox]

Yeah ****ing yeah.

The defence is shit - Wellens fault.

The front two aren't scoring - Wellens fault

Andy King is a big fairy ballet dancer - Wellens fault

Gally cant cross a dead ball - Wellens fault

Sven misspent- Wellens fault

Mandy is a tax dodging crook - Wellens fault

Tunch's injury - Wellens fault

The economic downturn - Wellens fault

Al Quaida - Wellens fault

The state of the NHS - Wellens fault

The shooting of innocent Jews in Toulouse - Wellens fault

My flabby gut - Wellens fault

I cant play footie anymore as I'm too slow - Wellens fault

The Mrs used to be a right goer but now I'm lucky if I get a quick shag once a week - Wellens fault

[_Fatboyslow_]

As I have said else where you can not fix something that didn't work.

[marbelladave]

I think NFP has 'issues' with the defence and wants rid of most of it soonest.

Why else would he not address the more obvious problems in a simple and direct way........

For example, stop Peltier from rampaging forward and getting caught out, 'stay in your own half and defend', not hard is it?

And take one of our midfield players (Drinkwater or Danns) and get him to play a deeper role, covering the defense, 'stay deep and cut out the quick counter', once again not hard is it?

Simple fixes for our 2 major weaknesses defensively, but neither have even been attempted.........

[Happy Fox]

The only ones safe atm in defense is Konchesky and Morgan, the rest I don't think NP is too keen on.

[Guest Col city fan]

The only ones safe atm in defense is Konchesky and Morgan, the rest I don't think NP is too keen on.

And you base this on.....?

[Heskey2011]

Peltier has concerned me from the start tbh. I saw him for a few games and his positioning seemed very iffy, prone to ball watching as well. I didn't see much of him when people were saying he was our best player so I have nothing to go on. Another one that peoples' opinion seems split on though.

Bamba is the other concern. He seems to have become a worse player. I didn't see him get caught out of position this much last season, although the poor decision making was apparent. Still think he can do a job but if we were to have our current defence next season I would have Mills and St Leger as my starting pair.

I know it's not a massive achievement but sol worked really well in the Africa cup of nations, don't think Ivory coast conceeded, so the quality is there, he just needs a solid partner

[Iwan Roberts]

How many goals have we conceded from crosses/ set pieces recently? Thats what worries me we seem to struggle with any cross into the box and if it is cleared it only goes a yard out of the box before coming straight back in. Its alright saying we should defend more as a team but its the full backs job to stop crosses and the centre halves job to clear it away from our area to allow the rest of the team a chance to defend higher up, isn't it?.

I haven't seen too many goals conceded by us from one on ones or teams passing through us.