2023/24 Ashley Young

[blueblue]

Coleman and Young between them probably played in nearly every league game last season.
Our defensive record was very good... so how bad can they have been ?

They are here because of our financial situation and keeping them in the squad will allow whatever money we have to be spent on younger players that can improve.

 

[Nymzee]

Coleman and Young between them probably played in nearly every league game last season.
Our defensive record was very good... so how bad can they have been ?

They are here because of our financial situation and keeping them in the squad will allow whatever money we have to be spent on younger players that can improve.

Bad?

 

[blueblue]

Bad?

Yet we have a good defensive record..

 

[Simon Buttle]

Coleman and Young between them probably played in nearly every league game last season.
Our defensive record was very good... so how bad can they have been ?

They are here because of our financial situation and keeping them in the squad will allow whatever money we have to be spent on younger players that can improve.

Our actual defensive record was very good but some of the actual defending was very last ditch stuff at times and quite frantic.

 

[Nymzee]

Yet we have a good defensive record..

Probably because we're ultra defensive and Pickford, Tarkowski & Myko were all great.

 

[MACCA75]

We had a good defensive record because we play an incredibly dated defensive game. Not because we have the best individual defenders. (As good as Tarks and Jarrad are)

 

[MikeH72]

Yet we have a good defensive record..

In one of the games we kept a clean sheet in Ashley Young should’ve given away 3 penalties.

 

[Nymzee]

Are we really trying to suggest this guy is good because we kept some clean sheets as a team with him in it?

 

[Blast_of_Cannock]

In one of the games we kept a clean sheet in Ashley Young should’ve given away 3 penalties.

He must have some dirt on whoever was the VAR bloke during that game. Only explanation for it.

 

[Sean Ashley]

Are we really trying to suggest this guy is good because we kept some clean sheets as a team with him in it?

I'm not suggesting we should keep playing him regularly.

But he did keep 9 clean sheets last season and only Coleman had a better clean sheet per 90 record from all our defenders.

 

[Nymzee]

I'm not suggesting we should keep playing him regularly.

But he did keep 9 clean sheets last season and only Coleman had a better clean sheet per 90 record from all our defenders.

 

[Sean Ashley]

Yeah that's why I said not to play him regularly, but as a bench option him and Coleman are useful to have.

 

[blueblue]

Probably because we're ultra defensive and Pickford, Tarkowski & Myko were all great.

In the premiership any weak links will be exposed very quickly.

I want young players that we can develop in the team as much as anyone but both Coleman and Young played their part in a solid defence as much as any other.

We all know that if finances allowed that Ashley Young would never have been brought to the club, Seamus would almost definitely have been kept for last season but I would not be so sure about next season.

 

[Joey66]

Our we - starting a walking football team for the over 35s?

 

[Osamabindiesel]

I think this guy would be very useful as a sub. He can fit into a lot of positions and he is fairly two-footed. He just can’t handle the 90 at his age anymore on a consistent basis. Same as Coleman.