He’ll be ok when Tubby Ashley is back to use his experience to guide and mentor him.
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He’ll be ok when Tubby Ashley is back to use his experience to guide and mentor him.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
God , what a combination,Tubby and Snail. That Fatty Koeman and Gormless Walsh really did put the skids under our club, didn't they?.
Charles Hawtrey
Player Valuation: £40m
I hear that Williams Fellow at Swansea is a good defender.....
Remember the back 3 of them and Capt Jags? LOL that’s a real thing that happened a couple of times.
deipnosophist
Player Valuation: £80m
That's a painful memory I thought I'd lost forever.
dannyboy
Player Valuation: £60m
Pennington, Williams and Jagielka in a Derby at Anfield. Some memory.
Jamalio Danubio DiCanio
Player Valuation: £950k
Duffy and Dunk are both good centre backs in Brighton's system.
Michael Keane was a very good centre back in Burnley's system.
The key with with getting the best out of defenders is the system they are employed in. The 3 players above will alll excel in a defence that plays a deeper line with full backs that hardly cross the halfway line and with a midfield in front of them that packs the middle and forces teams wide. In essence force teams to cross against you a lot and use your organisation and 2 grocks at centre back to clear stuff and head things out.
Under Silva, the defensive line in higher than what Brighton or Burnley play. There's more licence for the the ful backs to go forward. There's less protection for the centre backs. They are also forced to worry more about the space behind them. Poor positioning or a lack of pace will be exploited more readily in Silva's defensive system than Hughton's or Dyche's.
One alternative is to change the defensive line. Play deeper and play to your centre backs strengths. Problem is that weakens other parts of team. You negate the ability of the full backs to get forward. You bring Gomes 10 yards closer to your own goal when you want him to be pulling the strings closer to the opposition goal. Same with Sigurdsson.
Defending deeper forces the team to play on the counter attack or look for goals off set pieces. If you are going to play counter attacking football you also need to play a centre forward who has great hold up play. That allows you to relive the pressure, gain territorial advantage and spring counter attacks with players joining the play. That completely changes the way we play and changes the way we brought Silva in to play.
I've gone round the houses to provide my main point. Duffy and Dunk aren't the answer. 1 of them might work if they were next to a Rolls Royce centre back who had covering pace etc.. The 2 of them together in this system would be the same car crash as Michale Keane. A square peg in a round hole.
Can’t belive people are seriously discussing Dunk and Duffy 
messymascot
Player Valuation: £35m
I think Keane would be ok as a middle centre back in a 3. Problem is I also said this about Mina so if the system changed it would be a straight choice between the 2. If he stays in a 4 he needs someone with pace alongside but better awareness and less mistakes than Zouma. Ultimately I think he is competing with Mina rather than complimentry.
ijjysmith
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Can’t belive people are seriously discussing Dunk and Duffy
Dunk is alright....
...but in the same way Keane was alright at Burnley.
Basically I’m scared of us buying another player ever again.
Steve Walsh has gone, it’s safe to come out now
ijjysmith
Calm
Andre Gomes’ dramatic loss of form/confidence/sexiness concerns me.
Cool_Blue
Player Valuation: £35m
Sorry I mentioned them. Must be just me then that would have either instead of mousemanCan’t belive people are seriously discussing Dunk and Duffy
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