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Greaves a calamity defender 18:43 - Sep 20 with 4099 viewsonceablue

Can’t read the game and therefore always making desperate tackles and headers.

What did we pay for him.

Burgess such a better all round player
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Greaves a calamity defender on 23:55 - Sep 20 with 1215 viewsjaykay

Greaves a calamity defender on 23:17 - Sep 20 by Joey_Joe_Joe_Junior

Right, it’s not under 9s football FFS, no one is actively booing him in the stands are they, they’re commenting on a message board. He needs to step up! Went for huge money had some PL experience and hasn't look assured stepping back down a division, to a level he should be excelling at.
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greaves only played one game in the pl. or are you talking about o shea

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Greaves a calamity defender on 23:56 - Sep 20 with 1202 viewsredrickstuhaart

Greaves a calamity defender on 23:55 - Sep 20 by jaykay

greaves only played one game in the pl. or are you talking about o shea


What?
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Greaves a calamity defender on 23:58 - Sep 20 with 1182 viewsJoey_Joe_Joe_Junior

Greaves a calamity defender on 23:55 - Sep 20 by jaykay

greaves only played one game in the pl. or are you talking about o shea


No he didn’t he played many more.

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Greaves a calamity defender on 00:08 - Sep 21 with 1139 viewsSarge

Greaves a calamity defender on 19:11 - Sep 20 by bartyg

It's backed up by the stats. Had a MOTM performance at Derby and has been the better of the two CBs in most games.

Constructive comment though.


Being the better of the two CB (which itself is arguable but also not exactly a high bar) doesn’t equate to being the most consistently good player in the squad. Of the 4 CB’s we had last season it’s slightly mad to me that the two best ones aren’t here anymore.
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Greaves a calamity defender on 00:24 - Sep 21 with 1089 viewsRyorry

Greaves a calamity defender on 22:15 - Sep 20 by Nutkins_Return

He's just turn 25. BH es already better than Burgess but certainly doesn't have the maturity of Burgess yet.

Burgess amhad an absolutely torrid time when he first joined. He was considered a poor buy by just as many fans (at £750k) as Greaves is now. Almost like CBs need a bit of time to form partnerships, mature and find there best form in a team.

He's more than proven at this level. He is a championship team of the year player and was outstanding for Hull.

A quality player in the making if not the complete article yet.

I tell you what night help him.....a bit of support.


As someone said on another thread recently though, there comes a time when we should be sticking with the quality we have spent time & money developing, instead of immediately moving them on and replacing them with another 'to be developed but still raw' player.

If we want promotion again, we need points & players capable of helping us get those points for *now*, not for some hypothetical future position which with this 'business model' (I assume that's the rationale behind it) we might never achieve going along this path.

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Greaves a calamity defender on 07:16 - Sep 21 with 687 viewstownblue

Greaves a calamity defender on 21:39 - Sep 20 by FrimleyBlue

Again however, Burgess wasn't better when he first came in, he got better

If the red card doesn't happen today, no one would be moaning about greaves, he was solid up until that point.

To many wanting players to fail because they lost a favourite imo, same reason why oshea still gets moaned about despite being one of the leagues best cbs.


I love this kind of comments - "if you just ignore the things he did wrong then he had a really good game”
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Greaves a calamity defender on 07:28 - Sep 21 with 669 viewswitchdoctor

Greaves a calamity defender on 07:16 - Sep 21 by townblue

I love this kind of comments - "if you just ignore the things he did wrong then he had a really good game”


I’m well in the minority but I thought he was playing ok up until his sending off…O’Shea on the other hand looked his ponderous self…we really haven’t sorted out our play out from the back system yet have we?….nearly always a heart in the mouth sketch when they are fannying around at goal kicks etc….
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Greaves a calamity defender on 07:35 - Sep 21 with 653 viewsdirtyboy

Greaves should never have been out in that position.

When any defender is left like that rarely do they come out on top, striker got ahead, cuts across, ‘wins’ the foul. It’s easy for them.

Greaves was fine up until that point but let’s slate him shall we? Ffs.
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Greaves a calamity defender on 08:02 - Sep 21 with 608 viewsbraveblue

Hyperbole. He is suspect under a long ball but otherwise sound. Why don’t we give him and the coaching team a chance. There headlines are boring.
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Greaves a calamity defender on 09:32 - Sep 21 with 485 viewsMat

Greaves was our best player first half yesterday.
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Greaves a calamity defender on 09:43 - Sep 21 with 457 viewstownblue

Greaves a calamity defender on 07:28 - Sep 21 by witchdoctor

I’m well in the minority but I thought he was playing ok up until his sending off…O’Shea on the other hand looked his ponderous self…we really haven’t sorted out our play out from the back system yet have we?….nearly always a heart in the mouth sketch when they are fannying around at goal kicks etc….


I don't disagree that he has been playing well but he always seems to have a mad moment in each game that costs us
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Greaves a calamity defender on 09:57 - Sep 21 with 410 viewsFrimleyBlue

Greaves a calamity defender on 09:43 - Sep 21 by townblue

I don't disagree that he has been playing well but he always seems to have a mad moment in each game that costs us


Is that not perhaps the risk however with what KM is asking of him?

We've seen him at times playing as a defender making his way up to 10 position,

Like Palmer said, there will be things that will look bad, but it's what is asked of us ( something like that)

You play a highline defensively you are risking a long ball over the top, Greaves or Burgess in that position yesturday, I don't see Burgess doing anything different personally.

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Greaves a calamity defender on 10:40 - Sep 21 with 370 viewsThe_Flashing_Smile

Greaves a calamity defender on 09:57 - Sep 21 by FrimleyBlue

Is that not perhaps the risk however with what KM is asking of him?

We've seen him at times playing as a defender making his way up to 10 position,

Like Palmer said, there will be things that will look bad, but it's what is asked of us ( something like that)

You play a highline defensively you are risking a long ball over the top, Greaves or Burgess in that position yesturday, I don't see Burgess doing anything different personally.


Greaves got caught the wrong side of his man and was slow to react. No-one's asked to play like that!

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Greaves a calamity defender on 10:47 - Sep 21 with 351 viewsFrimleyBlue

Greaves a calamity defender on 10:40 - Sep 21 by The_Flashing_Smile

Greaves got caught the wrong side of his man and was slow to react. No-one's asked to play like that!


It easy to say greaves was caught the wrong side slow to react. But again we are away from home and in that moment our backline are incredibly high up the pitch where one ball over the top causes you issues. That's obviously an instruction. That's fine that's what KM wants. But it comes with risk.
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Greaves a calamity defender on 11:46 - Sep 21 with 239 viewsLeaky

Greaves a calamity defender on 10:47 - Sep 21 by FrimleyBlue

It easy to say greaves was caught the wrong side slow to react. But again we are away from home and in that moment our backline are incredibly high up the pitch where one ball over the top causes you issues. That's obviously an instruction. That's fine that's what KM wants. But it comes with risk.
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You could argue why pull the guy down, surely better to risk conceding a goal & keep 11 men on the pitch
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Greaves a calamity defender on 12:40 - Sep 21 with 152 viewsRimsy

Assuming his ban stands, I think Greaves will have a job on his hands displacing Kipre once he's back.

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