Football Heaven last night

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If you watch the left flank in an attack situation, JOC gets forward faster than Stevens, puts in better passes/crosses, than Stevens, is better in both boxes than Stevens, gets back quicker than Stevens, defends better than Stevens, keeps the ball better than Stevens, in short, he's probably doing half of Stevens job, aswell as his own, which is why we get caught out, we'd actually be better playing JOC on the left and sticking Stearman in with Bash an Egan at the back.
Stevens has done himself no favours at all, and it's beyond me why he plays every week, he brings very little to the party.

Absolutely spot on. We have a better defensive option in Lafferty warming the bench, or the potential option of putting JOC into LWB and then giving Bryan a run out at LCB, or the other way round.

That being said Chris and Alan are all over their stats, so they must be seeing something that isn't obvious to most of us. I know that Beans highlighted this in his podcasts as well when looking at last seasons stats, i.e. Stevens seems to deliver more than is immediately apparent.

 

[BigBed]

Absolutely spot on. We have a better defensive option in Lafferty warming the bench, or the potential option of putting JOC into LWB and then giving Bryan a run out at LCB, or the other way round.

That being said Chris and Alan are all over their stats, so they must be seeing something that isn't obvious to most of us. I know that Beans highlighted this in his podcasts as well when looking at last seasons stats, i.e. Stevens seems to deliver more than is immediately apparent.

Is Stevens then, the new Dean Hammond of Bramall Lane!??
Because everything he's doing right, is definitely being unseen by me!!?

 

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Is Stevens then, the new Dean Hammond of Bramall Lane!??
Because everything he's doing right, is definitely being unseen by me!!?

It would appear that way. Unseen by many of us apparently.

 

[AWetFlannel]

Would be baffled if we changed the system, it's probably the biggest reason we've overachieved like we have recently.

 

[Topplayersleave]

Just to play devil’s advocate; we did make it to the top of the table first half of last season with both Baldock and Stevens at full back...it’s a deeper lying issue than the lack of output from the wing-back positions that accounts for our dip in performance over the last 9 months.

Dead right, and it's nothing to do with teams sussing us out, and it's nothing to do with momentum either
This is about a manager who wants to take the club forward and is being prevented from doing so by the usual fuckwits in the boardroom.

Billy Sharp, just equalised...……….YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS