2024/25 Jarrad Branthwaite

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If Branthwaite is unfit....if.

Then I think we will play a back three of Keane, O Brien and Tarkowski.

I expect then that Garner will be right wing back , there are a couple of options for left wing back.

Has Mykolenko definitely been ruled out?
 

His injuries are becoming a big worry.

Gutting to hear this.

I just hope they can get him right, because clearly these re-occurring injuries normally mean something else underlying…

Either that or Finch Farm is like concrete!
 
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Keane looked pretty good at the end of last season, I thought. A lot of his issues will have been confidence related. He’s obviously capable when playing at his best levels.

People shouldn’t panic and insist the club forks out to cover every minor upset. I think there’s a coaching solution for Keane rather than a sudden need to spend big on a new defender.
 

bluestevon said:
Oh throw on top the issue of one injury to a defender more and we actually cannot field a senior back four.

Two injuries already a only have 6 in reality of you discount Coleman whose always injured and Patterson whose currently injured and gash.
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These are fundamental positions that should have been sorted in the first couple of weeks the summer window opened.

Tarkowski and Branthwaite have both had recent injuries and we all know Keane isn't top class at CB.

It's the same old Everton.
 
JobForTheMoyes said:
Keane looked pretty good at the end of last season, I thought. A lot of his issues will have been confidence related. He’s obviously capable when playing at his best levels.

People shouldn’t panic and insist the club forks out to cover every minor upset. I think there’s a coaching solution for Keane rather than a sudden need to spend big on a new defender.
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Wish people would stop referencing his late season form as evidence that there is some quality in there.

Easy to play well when there's a new contract on the line, your opposition are on the beach or tired after a long season, and there's little jeopardy.

Regardless of whether he's technically good enough, at this level you need more than technique. Doesn't have the physical power or speed (turning circle like a tank) nor mental capacity to make and act on decisions with the kind of clarity you need in a high profile game and when the crowd is up... disastrous player

Has shown that he doesn't have the minerals
 

ElGato said:
Wish people would stop referencing his late season form as evidence that there is some quality in there.

Easy to play well when there's a new contract on the line, your opposition are on the beach or tired after a long season, and there's little jeopardy.

Regardless of whether he's technically good enough, at this level you need more than technique. Doesn't have the physical power or speed (turning circle like a tank) nor mental capacity to make and act on decisions with the kind of clarity you need in a high profile game and when the crowd is up... disastrous player

Has shown that he doesn't have the minerals
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Nah. This is very similar for me to the Dawson situation. With good coaching Keane is very capable.
 
I would go with Keane and Tarky CB and leave O’Brien right back and let them go to a back 3 in possession with Aznou allowed a bit of license on the left, a midfield 3 of Gueye and Garner holding and KDH box to box and a front 3 of N’Diaye, Grielish and Barry.
 
ElGato said:
Wish people would stop referencing his late season form as evidence that there is some quality in there.

Easy to play well when there's a new contract on the line, your opposition are on the beach or tired after a long season, and there's little jeopardy.

Regardless of whether he's technically good enough, at this level you need more than technique. Doesn't have the physical power or speed (turning circle like a tank) nor mental capacity to make and act on decisions with the kind of clarity you need in a high profile game and when the crowd is up... disastrous player

Has shown that he doesn't have the minerals
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Agree yet here we are with him starting yet another season...de ja vu
 
JobForTheMoyes said:
Nah. This is very similar for me to the Dawson situation. With good coaching Keane is very capable.
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Dawson is a leader, Keane isn't

Had a season under Ancelotti who soon realised that we had to defend our own six yard box to minimise exposing Keane in the open field
 

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