Bruce - Bardsley first choice left back


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Don't be a tit - if you can't see that Bardsley did a perfectly good job for us at left back last season then you're either wilfully blinkered or you simply don't know what you're talking about.

It's got fuck all to do with Philip Lahm or any of the other top left backs who are/were right footed - it's all about recognising that he can do the job and has done the job in the past.

Bit of both mate.
 
A natural left back will give us something Bardsley can't, balance.

We need to be realistic? to expect us to sign a player in a position we're short in :confused:

I agree we do need to look at signing someone, but its pisses me off all the negative people of here. If we dont sign anyone Bardo will do a job, and give his all.
 
I agree we do need to look at signing someone, but its pisses me off all the negative people of here. If we dont sign anyone Bardo will do a job, and give his all.

He will do an honest job and give his all. People just want to see us progress and a natural left back is needed to do that. We can't have people filling in doing 'a job'.
 
Obvioulsy they've got to be premier league level. I thought that would be understood, obviously I underestimated the stupidity on here.

I just haven't seen many top-class, balance-bringing fullbacks actually named on this thread - all I am reading is that Bardsley unbalances us because he is right footed, and that we are "desperate" for an unnamed replacement, which is of course bullshit.

We would all like to see players come in that are better than what we've got, that goes for every position on the pitch, but to make out that starting the season with Bardsley at LB would be some sort of disaster is ridiculous.
 
I agree we do need to look at signing someone, but its pisses me off all the negative people of here. If we dont sign anyone Bardo will do a job, and give his all.

Im still pretty confident that Bruce isnt a total f***ing idiot, and if we dont sign a left back, Richardson will be playing there. Or O'shea.
 
I just haven't seen many top-class, balance-bringing fullbacks actually named on this thread - all I am reading is that Bardsley unbalances us because he is right footed, and that we are "desperate" for an unnamed replacement, which is of course bullshit.

We would all like to see players come in that are better than what we've got, that goes for every position on the pitch, but to make out that starting the season with Bardsley at LB would be some sort of disaster is ridiculous.

I'd have Stephen Warnock here in a heartbeat, a better left back than Bardsley.
 
I just haven't seen many top-class, balance-bringing fullbacks actually named on this thread - all I am reading is that Bardsley unbalances us because he is right footed, and that we are "desperate" for an unnamed replacement, which is of course bullshit.

We would all like to see players come in that are better than what we've got, that goes for every position on the pitch, but to make out that starting the season with Bardsley at LB would be some sort of disaster is ridiculous.

Would you really not play Richardson at LB ahead of Bardsley? :neutral:

Im not sure if people actually think that Bardsley is better than Richardson there or not....
 
Im still pretty confident that Bruce isnt a total f***ing idiot, and if we dont sign a left back, Richardson will be playing there. Or O'shea.

Yup, replace a lad who done a good job there last season with a lad who might do a good job there this season. Progress. :lol:
 
I just haven't seen many top-class, balance-bringing fullbacks actually named on this thread - all I am reading is that Bardsley unbalances us because he is right footed, and that we are "desperate" for an unnamed replacement, which is of course bullshit.

We would all like to see players come in that are better than what we've got, that goes for every position on the pitch, but to make out that starting the season with Bardsley at LB would be some sort of disaster is ridiculous.
Most of us have already suggested Richardson should play there.

And if not then someone like Stephen Warnock would be ideal for us. And of course Bruce will have had his scouts out all over Europe searching for players, there has to be a left back out there better then Phil 'Honest' Bardsley.
 
I'd play Richardson at left back ahead of Bardsley.

Yup, replace a lad who done a good job there last season with a lad who might do a good job there this season. Progress. :lol:

Richardson started the season very well at left back last season. I'd be comfortable with him playing there again.
 
Would you really not play Richardson at LB ahead of Bardsley? :neutral:

Im not sure if people actually think that Bardsley is better than Richardson there or not....

I would play Ricco ahead of Bardsley if both were fully fit, but I'm not a fan of this sneering over Bardsley's ability.
I'm sure some actually want players to fail just so they can say I told you so.
It's like he's actually getting it held against him that he won the player of the season award, not like it was voted for by the fans or anything. If people don't like it take it out on the fans, not the player.
 
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I'd have Stephen Warnock here in a heartbeat, a better left back than Bardsley.

We were interested in Warnock but perhaps things have changed now McLeish is there.

Richardson is a decent shout at left back and he is already at the club.

Other than that, its not our responsibility to find a full back, its the club's. As fans who watch the games though, we have a right to analyse and judge the team, and many of us see the left side of the pitch as a weakness, and with good reason. I can't see how Bruce wouldn't notice that almost all of our attacks came down the right hand side and that we had a very lopsided shape to the side.
 
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