Quote Originally Posted by queenslandpie View Post
So broadly because he is being asked to do too much he keeps slipping over? But yes as has been mused a million times on this board finding ball playing defenders in league 2 is no mean feat.
His slipping is more likely to be the fact that his mind is muddled. He knows he need to keep possession, but he also knows he's being closed down. If he has no options in front of him, he either needs to make a turn (whilst under pressure hence a slip) or make a blind pass, hence the under hit pass backs we tend to do. I've said before, the loss of Palmer to take the ball from the defenders mean they're being asked to do a job they aren't quite capable of doing leaving the keeper exposed. If Palmer loses the ball, there are defenders covering.

Don't get me wrong, we still made mistakes with Palmer in the team but we didn't make as many