Saying that we used to have a quite solid defence with Joey O'Brien & George McCartney with Carlton Cole up front to get us goals...hammer1975 wrote:
Our back five for most of last season was Adrian, Tomkins, Reid, Ogbonna, Cresswell - four of whom had been drilled together under the prior manager. Not one of them played tonight for various reasons, sadly the replacements are all below the standard those 5 set last season.
Agree with you the personnel this season is not as good as that defence you mentioned above... but we did concede 4 vs Swansea , 3 vs Arsenal etc....with those players in the latter part of last season. As others have said on KUMB the warning signs were showing LAST SEASON.
Imo 'Coaching' of our squad has caused this season's downfall...not so much the personnel.