ROTTERDAM1982 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Clark gives the ball away cheapley, then not once does Richards look to see where Howson is. The fact is that having always played RB, he doesn't think like a CH.Okores is our best CH, we have to find someone to play alongside him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon_c Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 One of the worst centrebacks, positionally, I have seen in a long time. Bombs forward and then waddles back down the pitch when he loses the ball. I would absolutely loath playing alongside him if I was his defensive partner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lexicon Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I've literally being saying that for months jon and took a lot of shit for it. Hopefully people are waking up to it. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sexbelowsound Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I don't trust him defensively anymore. If he wants to be more attacking then he needs to go back to right back but his positional awareness is shocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 RB pretending to be a CB gets caught out of position shock horror Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Just play him at RB whether he likes it or not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 He was truly abysmal for the goal . . . He actually played moderately well apart from that, but it was such an embarrassment that it eliminates all credit no matter what. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 28, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2015 Well I thought he was pretty good for 89 minutes today. Unfortunately that 1 minute was their first goal for which he was poor. It all came about from an awful Clark clearance though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 28 minutes ago, lexicon said: I've literally being saying that for months jon and took a lot of shit for it. Hopefully people are waking up to it. He's shite, he has no clue about how to defend, his positioning and ability to read the game is appalling. He should either be at right back or not in the team at all. Like you, I said this when he signed, so I'm absolutely not surprised that he was out there today costing us another goal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StefanAVFC Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 No composure. Okore/Lescott are better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 34 minutes ago, lexicon said: I've literally being saying that for months jon and took a lot of shit for it. Hopefully people are waking up to it. Ditto. He is constantly looking to try and intercept which pulls him out of position. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 It's not hard to see why he was benched at Fiorentina. Total liability, all gusto and no composure or positional sense Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJT123 Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 It's so blatantly obvious that he should be played RB. Positionally, he is not good enough to play CB, so why not put him at RB, where he has played most of his career, so he can use his strength of going forward. He'd be so much better than Hutton. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshVilla Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 5 minutes ago, sne said: It's not hard to see why he was benched at Fiorentina. Total liability, all gusto and no composure or positional sense He was only ever played at the back in a 3 at Fiorentina Probably so when he went rampaging forward he didn't leave as much space in behind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 Just now, AshVilla said: He was only ever played at the back in a 3 at Fiorentina Probably so when he went rampaging forward he didn't leave as much space in behind From what i gathered from a few Fiorentina forums when we signed him they all said the big problem with him was that he liked to go along in the attacks, but always failed to track back, leaving them a man short in defense. They thought he'd be more suited to the less tactical, more gung ho PL than the Serie A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 1 hour ago, PaulC said: Just play him at RB whether he likes it or not ^This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GasGasGas Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 I would say a great deal of our current position has been down to the fact that we have this guy as supposedly our main central defender. Defender who can't even get the basics of defending right. Look at his non existent marking for the goal. He has been doing that (or not doing that, depending on which way you look) all season. How many goals have we shipped due to him having absolutely no clue as a defender? He is something like a poor man's David Luiz - rash, frequently out of position, always attracted to the ball / attacking and not even bothering to defend, no clue what he's doing... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spray Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 We tried Richards at CB and it's been a resounding fail. If we keep persisting with it, we'll just continue to lose and get the occasional draw here and there till May. He is one of the main reasons why we consistently don't pick up any points when he plays. Captain? Do me a f**king favour! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyBM Posted December 28, 2015 Share Posted December 28, 2015 this must be one of the most tiring topics ever relating to villa in a long time. i would like to say though that i do agree with most of you richards has said on record that he wants to play centre back because he feels he cant manage at right back anymore, this i kind of respect him for, hes not as young and energetic as he was, despite the fact that he is still only in his mid 20s, clearly his fitness level has took a knock with his season loan in italy. so in short, he cant play right back anymore and is useless at centre back, so erm, why did we sign him? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lichfield Dean Posted December 28, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted December 28, 2015 So I have been criticising Lescott a lot this season. Take Micah out and suddenly he improved and the team looked better. Put Micah back in and we lose. Guess I was blaming the wrong guy? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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