Matchday Thread: Bolton v Derby

[swaledale]

Well I’m glad you take such consolation in us not being Newcastle, Swale...but yes, our defence is an area of concern.
We’ve conceded as many goals as bottom club Cheltenham (admittedly they’ve yet to score!).
That’s not great...more importantly I suspect it’s worse than this time last year and seeing as we’ve retained most of last season’s defensive personnel it does raise ‘concerns’ about formation and selection.

We have a new set of defensive personnel with "some" from last year retained, though some of those weren't regular performers i.e. Rooney.

How is it more important that our defensive record is worse than this time last year? Its irrelevant, unless your intent on your crusade to prove your assertion that Rosenior was better than Warne? Its a new season, different players, different team, different set up, it bears no relation to last year, all that matter is that we get enough pts to finish top 6 or above. Didn't The owls ahve a record pts total last year but still finish 3rd?

Yesterday we lost Rooney to injury, Cashin was left out due to unwelcome last minute attention by Brighton, 2 of the right wing backs brought in are missing through injury. Sonny Bradley who on paper should be a good defender is having a terrible run of form and is currently error prone, Wildsmith got sent off and their winning goal was a wicked deflection.

Yes we have shipped a few goals, but at least 4 of those can be put down to unusual errors/mistakes, it happens, especially in a team where the central defenders haven't played together much. I'm not sure there is any pattern as yet but your pessimism is duly noted.