well he was up against Steven Sessegnon at RB.They had the Sessegnons coming through at the same time as Spence, which is why I guess they didn't see Spence getting enough games to justify a further contract
HE has largely played RM this season, so he will be less directly culpable for the goals, but, that doesn't mean his defending has improved, only that he has had less responsibility for defending in the red zone. Bizarrely having his defensive burden reduced hasn't allowed him to flourish from an attacking sense.He was responsible for switching off at the far post a few months back, but there are 48 other goals we've conceded this season
27 year old Fisher has had two good games since he arrived. I distrust his defensive abilities more.HE has largely played RM this season, so he will be less directly culpable for the goals, but, that doesn't mean his defending has improved, only that he has had less responsibility for defending in the red zone. Bizarrely having his defensive burden reduced hasn't allowed him to flourish from an attacking sense.
Because I've got nothing better to do today, I'll go through every goal that we've conceded which Spence has been partly at fault for.
Against Swansea, he lazily closes down his man, and then watches as the ball is passed to Dhanda, who runs off and scores.
Against Preston, for the second goal he fails to block a slow ball rolling past him, it's picked up by a Preston player who passes it to Scott Sinclair who runs on and scores, he could also have closed down Sinclair after his intial mistake. This is a game he was actually playing as a right back too, so it's less excusable.
Against Blackburn, he wanders off and leaves his original man to start marking Rothwell, disrupting our other players marking and then completely leaves him anyway to allow him to run in for a tap in.
Against Rotherham, very loosely marks Crooks to allow him a free shot from the edge of the box.
Against Swansea he deflects their opener past Bettinelli, though I don't blame him for this one whatsoever, Howson and Bola were at fault for this one.
Against Millwall, demands the ball off Akpom and immediately loses it as he paid no attention to the player behind him, they break away, the ball is in the back of our net 5 seconds later.
There's 5 goals he's been at fault for this season, plus one where he's unfortunate. These are just the ones that actually led to goals too, he's made plenty of mistakes that haven't.
Now, for most of these goals you can excuse it as he's playing as an attacking player, but then there's absolutely no contribution up the other end of the pitch to balance it out.
He's only started 21 games this season and he's spent a lot of the second half of the season on the bench, so I think 5 goals is fairly significant.
He ia far from the only player to make mistakes leading to goals, before someone again comes in with "what about when McNair or Howson did this", and I'm not trying to pretend he is and there are other players who share culpability for some of these goals.
If he's going to be an attacking player, he should be scoring and assisting. I think there's only Dijksteel of the regular starters who's been involved in fewer goals.
QPR too which Warnock called him out for post-match. So 6Because I've got nothing better to do today, I'll go through every goal that we've conceded which Spence has been partly at fault for.
Against Swansea, he lazily closes down his man, and then watches as the ball is passed to Dhanda, who runs off and scores.
Against Preston, for the second goal he fails to block a slow ball rolling past him, it's picked up by a Preston player who passes it to Scott Sinclair who runs on and scores, he could also have closed down Sinclair after his intial mistake. This is a game he was actually playing as a right back too, so it's less excusable.
Against Blackburn, he wanders off and leaves his original man to start marking Rothwell, disrupting our other players marking and then completely leaves him anyway to allow him to run in for a tap in.
Against Rotherham, very loosely marks Crooks to allow him a free shot from the edge of the box.
Against Swansea he deflects their opener past Bettinelli, though I don't blame him for this one whatsoever, Howson and Bola were at fault for this one.
Against Millwall, demands the ball off Akpom and immediately loses it as he paid no attention to the player behind him, they break away, the ball is in the back of our net 5 seconds later.
There's 5 goals he's been at fault for this season, plus one where he's unfortunate. These are just the ones that actually led to goals too, he's made plenty of mistakes that haven't.
Now, for most of these goals you can excuse it as he's playing as an attacking player, but then there's absolutely no contribution up the other end of the pitch to balance it out.
He's only started 21 games this season and he's spent a lot of the second half of the season on the bench, so I think 5 goals is fairly significant.
He ia far from the only player to make mistakes leading to goals, before someone again comes in with "what about when McNair or Howson did this", and I'm not trying to pretend he is and there are other players who share culpability for some of these goals.
If he's going to be an attacking player, he should be scoring and assisting. I think there's only Dijksteel of the regular starters who's been involved in fewer goals.
I can't believe people are still calling out Fry.
I know particularly to defend a player who's been nowhere near fry's level this season. Absolutely ridiculous.
QPR too which Warnock called him out for post-match. So 6
Last season people on here would have got rid of Fry. So just shows you have to stick with the young kids as long as possible.
Plus he's itching to get back to London,