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Never knowingly met the lad.
I just don't think he hides, he's nearly always available for a pass.

There's only one player who doesn't hide but i think he avoids taking responsibility near the opposition box and that's Larsson. Ive witnessed him check back a few times, with and without the ball, to avoid the pointy end. That's the only time it's ever been noticeable to me.
Obviously, there's a big difference between hiding and having top defenders trying to deny a pass.

Yet when Colback does this you say ''its his role he's asked to play etc'' or ''you dont know what instructions he's under from poyet''.
 

Are you saying Colback doesn't check back?[/QUOTE]

No he does but there have been a few circumstances when i felt Larsson had crossed the line between retaining possession and avoiding responsibility.
Purely my opinion and it's not one i accuse players of without good reason. To me it was very noticeable to the point it couldn't be easily explained.
 
I think it was Arsenal at home, he put someone in with a pass that was class, if anyone else had done it they would have been raving about it. Because it was Cattermole it went unnoticed.


He's been here almost 5 years years man and you can remember one pass....:lol:
 
He's been here almost 5 years years man and you can remember one pass....:lol:
I can remember a few occasions this season where he has shown vision none of our other midfielders have shown.

Even at Hull, where he imploded, he produced a great pass outwide after chesting it down. His long passing is very decent.
 
As I say its not clear cut chances, can you remember Bridcutt making a defence splitting pass?
Thats not a dig at Bridcutt mind, I think he looks a decent player.

Bridcutt terrifies me when everyone bombs up for a corner and he's the last man. It's not his fault, they've obviously been told to do it, but he looks absolutely f***ing tiny in that position. Other than that, I think he looks decent and definitely worth a run in the team.
 
Key passes those. Can mean anything.[DOUBLEPOST=1395224008][/DOUBLEPOST]
Accepting it and excusing it are 2 totally different things.


By accepting something negative you normally have to excuse it's impact so not totally different at all, but seeing as you're the master of pedantry and minutiae we'll just leave it at that as I don't want to spend my whole day off discussing semantics......;)
 
That above post relates directly to Colback and Larsson. Not just Seb.

There have been a few times when ive been close enough to the action to think Larsson didn't want to be where he was.
Colback makes forward runs often but i don't think he's a particularly natural attacker. Sometimes they look a bit forced and out of context with the game, but he never looks like he bottles it.

Cattermole on the other hand rarely gets forward so he avoids any criticism whatsoever. He's a specialist defensive midfielder. His job is to make sure the opposition don't get soft goals.:):)
 
There have been a few times when ive been close enough to the action to think Larsson didn't want to be where he was.
Colback makes forward runs often but i don't think he's a particularly natural attacker. Sometimes they look a bit forced and out of context with the game, but he never looks like he bottles it.

Cattermole on the other hand rarely gets forward so he avoids any criticism whatsoever. He's a specialist defensive midfielder. His job is to make sure the opposition don't get soft goals.:):)

You are a weird weird fella
 
No reason why he can't play in a five man midfield with Bridcutt as the anchor and Borini up top, it need not be an either or with Bridcutt.

agreed, bridcutt & cattermole sitting deep, borini, ki, johnson supporting the striker, which i guess is altidore, not been convinced by the 433/4141 it's hardly working wonders
 
By accepting something negative you normally have to excuse it's impact so not totally different at all, but seeing as you're the master of pedantry and minutiae we'll just leave it at that as I don't want to spend my whole day off discussing semantics......;)
He'll always make mistakes, I don't like it and don't make excuses why it happens. I do though accept it will happen.

Two different things.
 
Probably. I'd keep him, Colback, Bridcutt and then try add 1-2 more with a bit quality going forward.

IF we stay up i would do everything within power to sign the lads we have on loan, alonso, ki, borini, ustari - this would probably use up our entire budget however and leave us with the same team as this year so the improvements would, once again, be based on who we could get in on loan.
 
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