Greer

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I'm not a Greer slagger. He's played a pivotal role in a very MINGY defence over the last few seasons, but today he had an absolute shocker. Not so much in the equaliser - that was a well delivered ball at pace that was always going to be difficult to defend. But he spent the entire 1st half launching balls into their half towards, well, nobody. And TWICE put us in severe peril with abysmal passes, under no pressure whatsoever. The first, a 10 yard pass to Stephens, who had to lunge to reach it and missed, putting them right in on our back 4. And again, when he inexplicably rolled it straight to a Leeds player just outside the box. Neither resulted in goals, but holy shit.

There are various reports of illness etc. I'm not sure I buy it. He was simply cack today, and it was a major relief when he got binned off because he was an accident waiting to happen. Hopefully he's not been drastically infected by the Scotch national team, because I like him as a player and a captain. But today....crikey.

 

RM-Taylor

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He didn't look injured when he went off which is what was originally reported on Twitter and then went straight down the tunnel followed by Nathan Jones. I wonder if he got hauled off by Hughton or if he was actually ill? I'll guess we shall find out on Tuesday.

Who took the captains armband when he went off, I presume it was Bruno

 

JC Footy Genius

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Every player has an off day we only need to worry if this performance is replicated in the next few matches.

 

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sdmartin1

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I think, sadly the rigours of the Championship are beginning to catch up with him. I remember thinking he was very poor towards the end of last season in certain games. After the Summer break he looked fresh and assured again, but today you are right, too many aimless hoofs which put us under needless pressure. I think Greer will still have a big role to play this season, but today's performance reinforces the fact that we were right to sign Goldson as I think Greer will be fazed out of the first team after this season . What a servant for the club he has been though.

 

jonny.rainbow

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Yet it was Dunk who lost his man for their goal...

 

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severnside gull

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jonny.rainbow said:

Yet it was Dunk who lost his man for their goal...

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Sadly (and I am a great admirer of his) Dunk continues to make one mistake a game which so often gets heavily punished.
I think it's about concentration and I'm not convinced it's going to change. Shame because otherwise he is massively impressive.

 

RM-Taylor

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jonny.rainbow said:

Yet it was Dunk who lost his man for their goal...

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severnside gull said:

Sadly (and I am a great admirer of his) Dunk continues to make one mistake a game which so often gets heavily punished.
I think it's about concentration and I'm not convinced it's going to change. Shame because otherwise he is massively impressive.

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I think Dunk was marking Wood wasn't he in the box? I think their defender ran free from Hemed but can't be 100% sure

 

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jonny.rainbow said:

Yet it was Dunk who lost his man for their goal...

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I'm not blaming Greer for their goal. But I found myself swearing an awful lot this afternoon, and it was largely down to Greer.

He was subbed 10 minutes before half time when there was quite clearly nothing "wrong" with him in a physical sense. All credit to CH, because he was absolutely going to cost us, and the fact we have a top quality CB in Hunemeir sat there in the wings made his decision that much easier. Still brave, but the right decision.

Greer needs to get his shit together. As it stands, I'd expect Dunk and the Hun to be starting on Tuesday.

 

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severnside gull said:

Sadly (and I am a great admirer of his) Dunk continues to make one mistake a game which so often gets heavily punished.
I think it's about concentration and I'm not convinced it's going to change. Shame because otherwise he is massively impressive.

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I think you might find it was Bong's man, but that first half was our worst collective defensive display for some time. I think a good few players had off days. Still, i think we have earned a bit of luck over the last few games, so onwards and upwards.

 

bn1&bn3 Albion

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jonny.rainbow said:

Yet it was Dunk who lost his man for their goal...

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I thought it was Bong? Or am I confusing that with Wood's chance? Either way, our marking from set pieces was poor!

 

Skaville

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It seemed that Dunk and Bong were culpable for the goal and wood's golden opportunity. I do think Greer gets an incredible amount of flack considering how reliable he usually is.

 

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We need Greer and him playing decently. It is as simple as that. Replacements may have the odd decent game or two but we very much rely on him.

 

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Jimmy Skaville said:

It seemed that Dunk and Bong were culpable for the goal and wood's golden opportunity. I do think Greer gets an incredible amount of flack considering how reliable he usually is.

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Like I say, I'm not a Greer slagger, because on the whole he is very reliable. But today, through his distribution, he was either gifting it pointlessly back to them, or putting us bang in trouble time and time again.

Can't have that. And Chris was absolutely right to do something about it before it cost us.

 

The Wizard

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Easy 10 said:

I'm not blaming Greer for their goal. But I found myself swearing an awful lot this afternoon, and it was largely down to Greer.

He was subbed 10 minutes before half time when there was quite clearly nothing "wrong" with him in a physical sense. All credit to CH, because he was absolutely going to cost us, and the fact we have a top quality CB in Hunemeir sat there in the wings made his decision that much easier. Still brave, but the right decision.

Greer needs to get his shit together. As it stands, I'd expect Dunk and the Hun to be starting on Tuesday.

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Don't you just love how everyone points the finger at Greer, the entire team was utterly woeful in the first half, Dunk was worse than Greer he gave away countless free kicks and did an equal amount of hoofing it aimlessly, Dunk pulled it together second half granted but it's just typical of folk on here Greer will always be the first scapegoat, usually followed by Stockdale.

 

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RM-Taylor said:

Who took the captains armband when he went off, I presume it was Bruno

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yep, Bruno did

 

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Just before Greer was substituted, the second physio spent a long time talking to Greer just on the pitch whilst Bruno (I think) was bing treated in the middle of the pitch. Greer was bent over and I thought they were discussing his upper leg, but it could easily have been his stomach or head! The second physio then went on to help Bruno, and Uwe started to get stripped immediately after.

 

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The Wizard said:

Don't you just love how everyone points the finger at Greer, the entire team was utterly woeful in the first half, Dunk was worse than Greer he gave away countless free kicks and did an equal amount of hoofing it aimlessly, Dunk pulled it together second half granted but it's just typical of folk on here Greer will always be the first scapegoat, usually followed by Stockdale.

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Sake. I've already said I'm not a Greer slagger - find a post of mine where I have.

But today he had a truly SHOCKING half an hour, and I'm glad we had a manager who had the balls to do something about it before it cost us.

 

jonny.rainbow

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bn1&bn3 Albion said:

I thought it was Bong? Or am I confusing that with Wood's chance? Either way, our marking from set pieces was poor!

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Looks like Dunk's man to me. Unless Bong is marking him by standing ball side.

 

LowKarate

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Greer has had good games and bad games all the time. I've never been convinced that we couldn't do better and I've wanted to see Dunk and Hunemeier together for a while now to test that.

It's certainly good to have options.

 

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We have played 11 games without defeat, Greer has played in them all, sometimes with Uwe and sometimes with Dunk, perhaps it is a bit early to write him off. He seems to be cack when he comes back from being with the Scotland squad. Might just have been an off day, but would be nice if Uwe and Dunk do well together, today they did.