| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. 17:37 - Oct 31 with 2680 views | The_Romford_Blue |
..when the striker is bearing down on goal is really starting to grate on me.
That equaliser today reminded me of Charlton at home last year. Absolutely diabolical defending. |  |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 20:57 - Oct 31 with 672 views | fallyblue |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 20:47 - Oct 31 by ITFC_84 |
This.
The guy’s got real history of it. Charlton and Wrexham just in the last 12 months. I can not believe a professional footballer, for a number of years, would defend like that while a player is bearing down on goal.
A shocker. |
He should have just came across and wiped him out and took a booking for the team, but then again he went all last season without a booking so I guess he’s not going to start now |  | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 21:00 - Oct 31 with 653 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 20:57 - Oct 31 by fallyblue |
He should have just came across and wiped him out and took a booking for the team, but then again he went all last season without a booking so I guess he’s not going to start now |
No booking required, just close the angles. If you are beaten and he shoots well, so be it. But a free run and shot when we have a spare defender in the box, is awful. | |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 21:36 - Oct 31 with 596 views | Adams |
It was one of the worst bits of defending I've ever seen. It's not like he didn't have plenty of time to think about it, and it's basic stuff. I have no idea what was going through his head. Bizarre. | | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 01:10 - Nov 1 with 522 views | reusersfreekicks |
What in earth was he thinking,
Just irrational behaviour |  | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 04:54 - Nov 1 with 442 views | StevieH |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 01:10 - Nov 1 by reusersfreekicks |
What in earth was he thinking,
Just irrational behaviour |
A mate of mine sums it up perfectly
Just watched it back again. Dara O'Shea is like a character in video game from 1995 with the opponent level set on the lowest setting. He just gets stuck on the wrong part of the screen. |  | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 04:58 - Nov 1 with 423 views | Benters |
I’ve watched it time and time again I don’t get it either. |  |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 06:33 - Nov 1 with 382 views | WolfieAtTheBack |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 17:42 - Oct 31 by StockholmBlue |
Yes he needs to go for the most dangerous player (in this case the player with the ball) and while doing it try to minimize the angels for a pass. Instead he stays in central position and seems to only try to block the pass into the middle. Wrong decision making. |
I have watched it back a few times and not entirely sure what he was thinking, did he think the player was going to cross, no idea.
Strange goal to concede at this level. |  | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 06:53 - Nov 1 with 371 views | franz_tyson |
Just had a revisit on the highlights. Absolute bizarre. Just let the lad walk in.
If he was worried about cover behind... there must come a point where he thought 'f#ck it'.. I've got to challenge him'. But he didn't. He must have had remarkable faith in Walton to let him handle a 1 on 1. Absolute gift.
Sometimes with modern day defending, I think they're being too clever. Especially at PL level. It's like it's beneath them to just block and boot the ball away. | | | |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 07:34 - Nov 1 with 315 views | cressi |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 17:44 - Oct 31 by redrickstuhaart |
Possibly a good decision IF there was a free man in the middle. He looks behind, and there is not one... |
Nothing good about it, if there was a man in the middle give the man on the ball a decision to make, don't let him get 10 yds from goal a free shot. | | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 07:59 - Nov 1 with 275 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 07:34 - Nov 1 by cressi |
Nothing good about it, if there was a man in the middle give the man on the ball a decision to make, don't let him get 10 yds from goal a free shot. |
Bizarrely there was a man in the middle but there was an Ipswich player covering him. |  |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 08:06 - Nov 1 with 264 views | Blue_Heath |
Been a bug bear of mine for ages tbh
He does a lot of good things but when someone runs at him..... | |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 08:21 - Nov 1 with 246 views | _CliveBaker_ |
Thought he was poor last week as well, cocked up for Forest’s goal and then for the Diop yellow.
I rate DOS, I do think he’s PL quality but after a pretty strong start to the season IMO he hasn’t covered himself in glory these last 2 games. He’s not the only one, but it’s a concern. His decision making for that Hull equaliser is such a head scratcher, just have no idea why he didn’t go to the ball in that situation, feels absolutely bonkers to me.
The point is OK, if we can take 4 points off the likes of Palace,Hull, Cov, Fulham, Sunderland that’s 20 points that will go a long way to keeping us up. On track for that so far, 4 from 4. Arguably ahead of track with the away win at Palace. Probably need 5 wins elsewhere if we do that, they’re going to be harder to come by but we’ve shown we can compete. Can’t help but feel we dropped 2 points yesterday though given how we dominated that 1st half, also can’t help but think we could and should’ve been 2-0 up at half time and the officials mugged us twice. |  | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 08:35 - Nov 1 with 211 views | nrb1985 |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 08:21 - Nov 1 by _CliveBaker_ |
Thought he was poor last week as well, cocked up for Forest’s goal and then for the Diop yellow.
I rate DOS, I do think he’s PL quality but after a pretty strong start to the season IMO he hasn’t covered himself in glory these last 2 games. He’s not the only one, but it’s a concern. His decision making for that Hull equaliser is such a head scratcher, just have no idea why he didn’t go to the ball in that situation, feels absolutely bonkers to me.
The point is OK, if we can take 4 points off the likes of Palace,Hull, Cov, Fulham, Sunderland that’s 20 points that will go a long way to keeping us up. On track for that so far, 4 from 4. Arguably ahead of track with the away win at Palace. Probably need 5 wins elsewhere if we do that, they’re going to be harder to come by but we’ve shown we can compete. Can’t help but feel we dropped 2 points yesterday though given how we dominated that 1st half, also can’t help but think we could and should’ve been 2-0 up at half time and the officials mugged us twice. |
Throwing himself to the ground for Forest’s goal last week was equally ridiculous.
Problem is, Greaves is equally prone to losing his head or making rash decisions under pressure also. Saw that enough times last season in the Chamionship.
Maybe solution is to move to a back 3. | | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 08:38 - Nov 1 with 194 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 18:04 - Oct 31 by Scuzzer |
Which brings you to the fact of...where the heck were Diop and Davis? |
Diop jumps out of position to try and win the ball and gets nowhere near it.
Leif is marking the man he is supposed to. |  |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 08:57 - Nov 1 with 148 views | RobTheMonk |
It looked like corrupt Italian defending!
(Not saying DoS is corrupt) |  | | |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 09:03 - Nov 1 with 140 views | StokieBlue |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 06:33 - Nov 1 by WolfieAtTheBack |
I have watched it back a few times and not entirely sure what he was thinking, did he think the player was going to cross, no idea.
Strange goal to concede at this level. |
But he looked over his shoulder 2 or 3 times, there was no attacker there and Diop was there covering.
There doesn't seem to be a sensible reason why he did what he did.
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 09:16 - Nov 1 with 114 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 09:03 - Nov 1 by StokieBlue |
But he looked over his shoulder 2 or 3 times, there was no attacker there and Diop was there covering.
There doesn't seem to be a sensible reason why he did what he did.
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The only explanation has to be he thought walton would come out and Oshea would cover the shot to far post or clean up a lofted affort.
There doesnt seem to be any other reason. |  |
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 09:19 - Nov 1 with 105 views | StokieBlue |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 09:16 - Nov 1 by FrimleyBlue |
The only explanation has to be he thought walton would come out and Oshea would cover the shot to far post or clean up a lofted affort.
There doesnt seem to be any other reason. |
Maybe, although I don't think it's on Walton to come out there.
Just looked like he panicked, like a rabbit in the headlights.
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| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 09:38 - Nov 1 with 67 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Dara’s habit of backing off and off and off and off and off.. on 09:19 - Nov 1 by StokieBlue |
Maybe, although I don't think it's on Walton to come out there.
Just looked like he panicked, like a rabbit in the headlights.
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Neither do i tbh but thinking of why oshea did what he did that to me is the only pirential reason nothing else makes sense. | |
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