Is Yeates blind

[CopenhagenBlade]

or does he believe that if he kicks the ball hard enough at someone 1 metre away that they will get out of the way? The amount of times he received the ball out wide and then proceeded to kick it against the defender was unbelievable.
Apart from that we certainly deserved the victory and I thought that we tried to play football all the way through.

 

[Houso]

Yeah, I noticed that too. On a number of occasions he actually took it onto his left foot too to cross before booting it into a defender. Strange.

 

[Mousey]

I think was probably down to the fact that he came up against a full back who was a lot quicker than him.

 

[super_pig]

or he had a bet on the number of throw ins

 

[bramptonblade]

The fact is he is utter crap and would not have made the bench in previous seasons........Premiership my arse!

 

[BornOnShorehamStreet]

Their number three was a good fullback - I'd have him at BDBL if he was available

 

[Trafford]

Sunday Mirror rated him as our best player, which I find unbelievable. As so often seems to be the case we were reliant on our full backs to get crosses into the area and, yet again, the forwards were either too slow to react or not in the right position to benefit. Henderson must have been tearing his air out in the stands - how many might he have scored on Saturday?!!

 

[judge]

if the full back in qustion was nathaniel clyne then he is very highly rated and but for injuries would have been picked up by a prem club by now
but i agree yeates seemed to hit the defender when it seemed easier to get the ball round him far too often

 

[Guesty]

Sunday Mirror rated him as our best player, which I find unbelievable. As so often seems to be the case we were reliant on our full backs to get crosses into the area and, yet again, the forwards were either too slow to react or not in the right position to benefit. Henderson must have been tearing his air out in the stands - how many might he have scored on Saturday?!!

He would probably have been sent off for a fight with Davis! But yeah, he's just the sort of forward we needed on Saturday. That said, I'll hold my hands up and say Evans played well. He looked well up for it after clattering Davis (Good on Claude to get up grinning, I thought), put himself about and was in dangerous areas for once.

 

[CopenhagenBlade]

I would like nothing more than for Evans to succeed but there were a couple of times in Saturday's game where he was so static in the box, hovering at the back post instead of making a run across the defenders and try and get in front of them. I thought his out of the box work was good and he was there to score the goal I just feel that if the trainers work on him and his workrate in the box get him to preempt rather than react to the ball then he could easily become the £90m striker (Len must be up to about this level by now) striker that we hoped that he would be.

 

[TopBoy]

Yep, I noticed this too. He's not the fastest and couldn't get round the back on pace alone so I just guess he was under instruction to 'get something', the something being a throw or corner.
On Evans I thought he was great. His workrate was good and he always wanted the ball whereas his body language in most other games I've seen has been poor.

 

[Blade]

i would disagree with most on this thread. although he did hit the full back a lot of times he looked dangerous for me most the game. did far more than either ward or cresswell in the games they've played wide.

one major disappointment was that given the missed chances from crosses and strength/size of their central defence we didn't once see either reid or yeates come inside/move towards the edge of the area and have a shot. speed needs to get these players doing this especially given that they both have great shots for this league and given that ultimately cresswell and evans are shit and bogdanovich is going to be missing. we were far too focussed on wing play.