Quote Originally Posted by baggiematt View Post
Grant criticism is unfair in my mind. He scores at a decent rate but he’ll never be a great striker. We’re lucky to have him currently as no other player consistently scores!

Townsend and Furlong are the real weaknesses of the team. Both poor on the ball and neither are strong defensively. Modern full backs really should do both well or at the very least one of the two. I see them as the main reason Val failed as they played in such key positions for his tactic.
I'd have to agree with this. Full backs have really cost us in recent history, I don't doubt their effort, I do doubt their quality.

Val's biggest problem was that in the final 3rd our final ball was always woeful, and much of that came from these two.