kazza » Sun Mar 15, 2026 8:30 pm wrote:We need to start asking questions about our players also. So many opportunities to put them away but we didn’t then the customary defensive error to gift the other team a goal at the death, how many times have we seen that? No leaders in the team that take control in situations like that, we have become so mentally soft.
Without being emotional,I think we need to replace Van Dyke, he will never be a great player again. He was our heart and soul and now he is just an error waiting to happen, hard to see it frankly. We will never be a top team with errors like we’ve seen in defence this year, it’s been laughable and some real Sunday league stuff, I won’t blame the manager for that. I never would have thought we would become this bad defensively but it’s happened.
Anyone that has had dogs on a farm will know that once your dog learns to kill a chicken it will always be a dog that kills chickens, you can’t unteach it. Similarly the kind of errors we have been seeing this year cannot be unlearned and would not miraculously stop with a new manager, errors like those will only increase…. Just like the dog that kills chickens. Konaté and VVD have looked very average so many times this year and made so many individual errors that led to dropped points, how can we possibly think that next year they will be top class again. We have been sh1t defensively this year and it’s mainly down to individual errors. How do you stop the dog from killing chickens? You give it away to someone that doesn’t have chickens :D because once it learns to kill chickens it becomes part of it repertoire….. just like error prone defenders.
Those errors have happened so many time now that the crowd expect it, the announcers talk about it and the players now seem resigned to it. I, like every one of us, expected that to happen at the time it happened, it was so obvious.
you just can't bring yourself to hold Slot responsible can you?
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