Shane Duffy

Cant believe I'm saying this .. but he makes me pine for Effe !

 

He will come good, just like the team, starting on Sunday, when we put the romancers of the wool to the sword.

 

It's early days but he's been shocking so far.

 

So we sign and pay a someone £40k a week, probably making him our highest paid defender, purely to counter the guy at Aberdeen and the guy at Hamilton? We've yet to see if he can even do that, and considering he got mugged off and out muscled a couple of times by morelos at the weekend should cast doubts over it.

Sorry your big earners are there to play in the big games, not be there to act as some kind of special team for a handful of spl games. We could have signed some lump from another spl team for that and payed them 10% of what Duffy is getting.

 

Without his vital goals we would be more points behind now though so money well spent.

 

His positional sense for the third last night was amateurish at best!! I’m desperate for him to be good as I am with all our signings. Can you imagine if we didn’t sign him and lost the goals we’ve lost from crosses so far this season!!! The board would be getting absolute pelters for not getting a “brilliant CB like Duffy”. It’s time he got his act together and start to organise the defence like an experienced international should.

 

Thank * it's just a loan based on his showing so far.

Trying to be positive, he did spend a year on the bench at Brighton before we signed him so hopefully he gets better with more games under his belt. Concerning start to his time here.

 

I have no worries about the bigman, were missing defender's for him to strike up a partnership, once we get guys back and the team confidence lifts he'll be fine.

 

Been absolutely woeful in every game he's played. Scored a couple goals to mask that at the beginning, but his decidion making, passing, defensive awareness are all shocking.

He passes it around inside our own box instead of getting it away. plays it to people who are being tightly marked, plays people onside, misses challenges, fails to mark his man, just utterly abysmal. The amount of times I have seen him try to play it out from the back and immediately inviting pressure on ourselves is unfrorgivable.

We need to go to a back 4 and get this utter donkey dropped. Embarassing the amount of people who thought a guy who couldnt get into Brighton's team was going to solve all our defensive issues. Bitton,Ajer, Welsh, Julien, are streets ahead of him.

 

Maybe injuries and covid can be fairly blamed for it, but, i feel like defence has gotten worse since he's been here and involved.

Ajer, Jullien, Elhamad all have faults sure, but the way he gets beat, taken for pace, dragged out of position I don't see that happen as often with the others.

If there is space and you have pace, Duffy is redundant, as great as he is for the rough tackles and headers, he's woeful as an actual athlete.

 

He has had a shaky start but a change to 4-2-3-1 would see him much more comfortable/effective. As it would for most in our team.

I have no doubts he will be a success for us if we move to that.

 

I can’t remember us being such a soft touch with crosses for a long time!!!! At this point I’ll be glad to see the back of him, surely he must get better?

 

My worry fir him is he looks like a carthorse blowing out his * when he's turned and there is yards of space. Looks incapable of recovery up against anyone with a slight bit of pace. Same cant be said for Ajer, Elhamed and Julien (to a lesser extent)

 

I've heard that Katie stopped replying to him on Snapchat last Friday and he's been struggling ever since. He doesn't know if it was something he said or something that he's done.

Not sure how true it is

 

If it is the difference between winning the league or not, yes.

And it's not only them anyway. What about that guy at Livingstone for example?

 

That's in part caused by opponents exploiting our 3-5-2.

The 2 wide CBs are getting pulled wide by wingers - Milan did it various times last night - and that allows them to isolate Duffy against 1 striker or attacking midfielder running at him, when he's standing still.

In the 4-2-3-1, the full backs and/or wingers are picking up those wingers and we have a sitting DM (normally Broony) who is the buffer before an attacker can run onto our CBs.

If we revert back to the 4-2-3-1 and ask him to play to his strengths in the air and simple clearances in the box then I'm positive he'll be a success for us.

I find it hard to be critical of these guys when the management are not playing to their strengths and that goes for Duffy, Taylor, Moi, Elhamed, Rogic.

 

Dykes? He's away to QPR.