Quote Originally Posted by boingy View Post
Weird assessment in my book. I see Townsend and Furlong as Premier league players. They really held their own in the Premier league......
Sorry Boingy but I think you need to put your book down and watch more of the game. Townsend did better than I expected in the Prem' but his form's dropped off that previous scale in recent months.

Furlong had about two or three decent games in the Prem' top wack. Despite occasional last gap lunges he's not very good defensively and his positioning is generally awful.

Gets in the team by virtue of being a good athlete with the ability to run. A lot. And that's about it really given his throwing has lost it's effectiveness and his crossing is mostly dreadful. Don't get me started with his finishing earlier in the season.

Furlong is a Championship level squad player. He most definitely isn't and wasn't a Premier League standard defender by any metric in my book beyond having been lucky enough to have got there with us.

He played really well against Coventry, or at least better than I expected. Premier League defenders are consistently good. In the Premier League. He isn't even consistently good in the Championship.