How bad Williams is doesn't have any impact on my view of Mori. It's a shame to see how far we've gone from having a partnership like Jags and Lescott down the years to this.
Like Jagielka wasn't our resident accident waiting to happen in that partnership.
Mori is as good a centre half as we have got, and it's a real shame he's injured as I think him and Keane together would have the makings of a good partnership.
Mori suffers from an all too familiar flaw in his game that other players have suffered from recently. Frustrating thing is, It's not a flaw he can work on in training. It's not something that will eradicate with age and experience.
The flaw is that he was signed by Martinez, and that's enough for some to label him as not good enough regardless of how he plays.
The way I see it, he is big, aggressive, enthusiastic, plays with a bit of passion, all things Jagielka and Williams have never been.
He can play a bit too (maybe sometimes a bit too much), and his passing is decent, nowhere near as bad as people make out. I mean, people criticise him yet praise Moyes era Jagielka? Because of passing? Seriously?
And he's better in the air than Jagielka and Williams are or have ever been.
It genuinely baffles me how people criticise Mori and go on about how good a Centre Half Jagielka has been, when the reality is, he's been an average nice guy who played alongside 2 excellent partners (Lescott and Distin) in teams that were set out to defend and be hard to beat.
I have genuinely lost count over the years of how many of our goals conceded were deflected in off Jagielkas despairing last minute lunge because he wasn't positioned well in the 1st place.
Or how many times he tried to emulate Heitingas superior passing skills by launching another aimless diagonal pass out for a goal kick. If he wasn't doing that, he was invariably turning on the half way line to pass back to Howard.
They then criticise Mori for attempting to bring the ball out of defence, something Jagielka has never, ever been able to do.
"Just Give it to Baines" they say, but criticise Williams (who is more of a crab than Jagielka) for constantly giving the ball to Baines and getting it straight back because Backwards Baines hasn't been interested or up to scratch for years.
"Baines only gives it back to Williams because there's no movement in front of him" they say... No, Baines gives it backwards because there's no PIENAAR in front of him, and Mori suffered the same fate.
But when he actually tried to make something happen himself, he gets crucified for it. He should just play it simple. To Baines. Who will give him it straight back to him under increasing pressure.
Compare that to Jagielka who has had the pleasure of Coleman in front of him, a willing runner, someone who pulls players away, creates space, will chase any and every aimless pass down the wing like it was his last.
The fact is, Baines and Jagielka have both needed replacing for some time now, and because they haven't, we are now seeing the wheels fall off, and the newer, younger, fitter players are taking the blame because of what they accomplished best part of a decade ago.
But they weren't signed by Martinez, so they get a free pass. No matter how bad they are.
