Karanka v MON & Keane

[BadDog]

With a similar defence we were slaughtered under warbs defensively as we committed more players players forward.

I always found it amusing that we once used to criticise TD for always being caught out defensively, because he was to far up field (some even suggested trying him as a winger instead), but that more recently he's been more criticised for his fear to get forward.

I also found it amusing that in the summer some praised up Dias, as the new Superman, for his desire to take on his man & run at the opposition, but as he walks out the door he's criticised for his refusal to take on his man & his desire to try & cut in instead.

Remember Hildeberto Pereira? Had bags of talent & potential, but failed here, failed in Poland, even failed at Northampton, because for all that talent you just couldn't tell him what to do & he'd run off, wherever he wanted, whenever he wanted, to do whatever he wanted.

Sometimes it's the opposite, sometimes it's not the player, sometimes it's their instructions, or to rigid instructions.

After the pain of the last X years, & fuelled by the optimism that came from regime change, some of us more saw what we wanted to see this season, rather than what we really did see this season.

Some of it was smoke & mirrors.

Berto is actually doing very well in Portugal on the right wing.

The big clubs are once again circling around him, one the most talented players we have had in a long time, just still too raw he's finding himself now though.