26 Sep 2014 11:17:13
So its very much confirmed that Paddy McNair will pe playing in defence along side Rojo.
Anyone can tell us that how good is McNair at the defence because all i know is he started
as a striker in his early days.Will he be able to cope with the physical westham side?

1.) 26 Sep 2014
Yet another straw on that camels back for me, how has it come to this? No disrespect to McNair.

2.) 26 Sep 2014
He's an former midfielder who got turned into a defender 2-3 years ago, good with the ball in his feet, not scared of going forward with the ball. Quite quick to be an central defender, but still young, and it's his second season now with the under 21's. But showed great potential the entire year last season, and would probably grasp the opportunity if given. Maybe not as calm as Thorpe at times if i should compare them, but doesn't make mistakes that Thorpe does. A cynical defender.

3.) 26 Sep 2014
Brilliant technique, former midfielder, grew astonishingly fast after 16. Has done well so far. I know it isen't ideal, but the joy of seeing our young guns getting a chance, nothing trumps it. I am personally happy how folks like Perreira, Blackett and now Mcnair are getting a shot.

Deeps.

4.) 26 Sep 2014
Why have we loaned keane out ?

5.) 26 Sep 2014
26 Sep 2014 16:52:18
I think Keane was loaned out because he was unlikely to get much game time, as a result he would progress more playing first team football somewhere else rather than reserve team football with us. Even if we make it to the FA cup final we only have about 42 games left but we could have as few as 34.

So with several players infront of him he'd have been lucky to get a couple of games all season.

LvG likes to have defined roles for players and he very much splits central defence in to left side central and right side central. Evans, Smalling and Jones make up the choices for RCB, with Blackett, Rojo and Blind able to cover the LCB. So we have three players for each side, the fact that we have three injuries in one of those roles is just very unfortunate.

Its like having all three of your Goalkeepers out injured at the same time, you can't not loan out your 4/5 choice youngsters incase of injuries.

6.) 26 Sep 2014
All i know is that we are at home giants a sos so team with a150 million of investment. No excuses and don't want to hear blah blah blah about system or philosophy. Time for the manager to got off his ass and show how he can tactically deal with injuries with the wealth of talent at his disposal. If we are short of defenders, he had money to deal with it in the summer window, so no excuses and the china brigade being all out even a smart joe like me knew that they are unreliable so for someone who says he is big into analysis and stats it should not be a surprise.

Lots of manager out there with 250 million of money who will win you trophies.

7.) 26 Sep 2014
Shappy
add shaw and we have 4 to cover lb.
i think kean was ready for a some first team action unlike tyler, who has played every game.

8.) 26 Sep 2014
Also its not surprising at all that them 3 are injured

9.) 26 Sep 2014
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10.) 26 Sep 2014
At least the young lad won't have a central defensive partner who has played more football at left back than centre back recently and also doesn't have English as his first language, plus a right back next to him that although now classed as experienced is still always a moment of rashness away from getting sent off, throw in a teenage left back also making his first competitive home start, a young (although good) keeper who has not yet developed the leadership qualities of our past keepers and a player making only his third start for the club in front of them all. easy debut really.

On a serious note, hope the lad does well with his unexpected chance. It's not his fault he's in the position he's in and he'll be wearing the shirt.

I wouldn't be surprised if Fletcher doesn't start ahead of Herrara, RVP or Falcao in order to provide a bit more protection in numbers to an inexperienced back 4.