Originally Posted by
the other bob wilson
It wasn't a winger, it was a centre orward who was playing for Leyton Orient in the Conference last season. Flint has his limitations, but the point is that all of our defenders do this year - even Peltier, our best out and out defender, was skinned by the young substitute winger Charlton brought on in the closing minutes. Sorry for sounding like a stuck record with this, but our defence, particularly through the middle, is going.to struggle to contain the sort of forwards favoured by many Championship sides these days because they have slow reactions, large turning circles, are heavy legged and won't keep up with most of the players they have to mark in a foot race - we needed a Danny Gabbidon or Matt Connolly type centre back in the summer and signed Flint!
Nelson had his poorest league match so far for me and was, arguably, lucky to stay on the pitch after a kick on the player who beat him and Bennett for the first goal and, as mentioned earlier, our midfield was found out when it came to tracking runners - I agree, we need three central midfielders because we're going nowhere this season if we keep on conceding two goals per game on our travels.
As for Sol Bamba, I heard an interview with Simon Jordan last weekend when he talked about Neil Harris' appointment and he said he'd heard that there was an issue in the dressing room about players who are not prepared to accept that they cannot cut it at this level any more - no names were mentioned, but there are certain players that spring to mind reading that aren't there.