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Bruno was marking Austin for the second goal at QPR yes (and was rightly lambusted for his awful attempts at defending that corner), but not the first goal that caused us to lose our cool from then on - that was Greer. You're right, Greer is surrounded by a newly returning CB partner and an out...

Unfortunately the crosses do come in fairly easily at corners. You're right about it being a collective issue, but when your captain is setting such a bad example you're in trouble already. Look at the Derby game - he dived in recklessly (whether he got the man or not, he gave the ref a chance...

The problem with positioning and marking for centre-backs is they're the two things you can't make into a statistic. And they're the two things Greer got completely wrong yesterday.

So you wanted us to be playing 4-5-0 yesterday?

I agree with the things you said apart from this. His performances have dropped since he's had a wrong footed full back behind him. That's because he's an inverted winger... he needs decoy runs to be truly effective. Calderon crowds his space, offers him no outlet on the outside and is...

You know what, I forgot about that. I'd raise his rating in the game for that alone - it was beautiful.

In fairness, out of all of our players, it probably was either him or Kayal.

Stockdale - 6 No chance with the goals. Made a couple of saves. I pity him to be honest. Bruno - 6 Had an average game. Their left winger was a decent player who kept going at Bruno who in turn handled him fairly well. Quite why he wasn't closing down the winger for their first goal rather than...