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Genuine question, but who deemed Caddis past it? Given he was our best defender, most consistent player and for me POTY. I’ve been told he didn’t want to play L2 but classic Gary style he even started Mellor in front of Caddis at the back end of last season didn’t he!

 

I know he was poor but harsh to pick him out of them all. They was all below par tonight & blame lies collectively

 

I completely agree that Caddis was consistent for us and would still be doing an excellent job for us. As to "the past it" that was an assumption on my part as I can find no other reason for not offering him a contract. As to him thinking that he was too good for L2 then this cannot be a view held by other people as he is still not attached to ANY league club.

 

Have a look at these screen shots and tell me the goal was down to Devine ball watching he tried to challenge for the ball although BRE was favorite to win it.

 

No they weren't.

 

And I got slated for calling him dog shit earlier in the season.

 

I'm not bothered what everyone else did or said Devine and BRE are the only players around, you can clearly see Devine is trying to play the ball if anyone should have picked up Atkinson run it was Mellor.
You watch again.

 

I definitely wasnt critisising AOC who was the pick of the bunch again but there were numerous times even he had to resort to the hoof because there was just no movement in front of him

 

Fordy,
I get Mellor is a GB fav, given the choice he’d keep him all day rather than Caddis, I’d say mainly because he can play across the back line rather than being a one trick pony full back, I still think Riley would have made the position his own had he not suffered the injury, but we will never find out, maybe your right maybe not!! Let’s see if Henley gets the nod on Saturday.

 

Agree. But he was bad on Tuesday. The ball full in the face at the end summed it up.

 

You can clearly see in the pictures Devine is trying to help BRE tackle the player with the ball, Mellor was the player who could seen Atkinsons run.
One thing I believe we can agree on is our defence have gone from a unit that dominated in the air earlier in the season to one that is far from dominant.

 

I’d prefer him to be able to play his preferred position to an acceptable standard before we even think about playing him elsewhere in the back line. The lad really has to up his game, his basics have been poor for a league 2 right back.

 

so what was that first half performance then? not one of them had a good first 45 mins.

 

A match is ninety minutes not 45. Over the 90 everyone played their part bar O’Donnell, who had feck all to do, and Mellor had pretty much had a stinker.

 

How can they play their part iover 90 minutes if they didn't in the first 45 minutes?!

Mellor, Devine, Akpan, Ismail all poor. We grew into it in the second half but we weren't fluent or great and not to make changes was criminal considering we didn't have many clear cut chances.