..at present …? He was poor most of last season. I just don’t think he’s the right man for the way Critch wants to do things sadly.Eki is a liability at present. He is not going to get any better or more confident in our first team. No point playing in dev team and I think we have decent cover without him. Worth sending out on loan for a fresh start? What do we think.
At the moment why would you pick Marv ahead of Casey?Maybe alongside Penny would work in a back 4. Penny could be a similar steadying influence to Keogh. Get the best out of Marv.
You just said it his distribution is pants but the laboured w ay we move the ball and lack of movement midfield doesn't help.Marv is probably our best defender ,but his distribution is pants and he makes too many mistakes . So when we have possession at the back ,why not get Marv to move to the right or the left temparerally and let someone else move to the middle that is better at distribution , then move back once the midfield or attack have good possession. He would not be under as much pressure then he is at the moment.
Go back to playing a flat back 4 and stop with the sideways and backwards passing and I think Marv would do just fine defending. He’s probably doing what critchley is telling him to do which doesn’t work. I admit he’s been terrible lately but that’s more down to formation and tactics imo. 532 or 352 does NOT work for us as we haven’t got the players to play as inverted wing backs and playing cj and lyons on the wrong sides is pathetic from critchley
Get back to 442 or 433 and I bet winning results would happen. Only my opinion of course
yes, I agree it would relieve a lot of the pressure Marv is under. Will Critchley do it, don't think so. Not yet anyway. And do we have the quality of two wide players in the midfield 4? Again not sure.Playing 442 would take a lot of pressure off Marv as he wouldn't be the only main man to take the ball off Grimmy to bring it out. Reduce the bad part of his game and keep what he's very good at. He's too good to discard.
Cos he’s our best defender when with a steadying partner. I want to c him back to his best and it looks like critch has gone with those two tonight. Good time to do yurt imo.At the moment why would you pick Marv ahead of Casey?