Romared Match Thoughts. Burton Albion-v-Barnsley

[Shadrack the Red]

Dunt get thi knickers in a twist

People will always get their knickers in a twist until they accept that last seasons achievements were amazing considering that the manager was thrown under the bus by being given a weaker squad than Duff had before , Clarke has been dealt a better hand and hopefully he will benefit from that , we all want him to do well but I feel defensively despite the experience which Roberts has brought we are still short and so far our new HC has had to constantly tinker with the back to try and solve the problem, bringing back inexperienced failed players will not solve anything in fact the opposite !!!

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People will always get their knickers in a twist until they accept that last seasons achievements were amazing considering that the manager was thrown under the bus by being given a weaker squad than Duff had before , Clarke has been dealt a better hand and hopefully he will benefit from that , we all want him to do well but I feel defensively despite the experience which Roberts has brought we are still short and so far our new HC has had to constantly tinker with the back to try and solve the problem, bringing back inexperienced failed players will not solve anything in fact the opposite !!!

Correct Shads. I think the point that clearly evades Nudger is the fact that our experienced players can bring much more to the table in terms of advice and educating our younger players to help try and improve them. After the away game at Lincoln, Roberts was interviewed by Radio Sheffield and he mentioned how he had told Barry Cotter to start delivering crosses into the box earlier as he was delaying or trying to perhaps unecesserliy trying to take a man on when the opportunity was there to deliver a cross earlier. Sound advice and the two combined that day to score the second goal.

Hourihane is being highly praised on Radio Sheffield or YouTube interviews by DC saying what a fantastic asset he is to have on the coaching team and that he's bringing some excellent ideas to the table.

I take the point that Roberts and Hourihane are past their best but that is to be expected at their age. However, they contribute things that some supporters perhaps don't appreciate and the examples that I've given are just two instances that are official and I'm sure there are many more contributions from them both to our players.

Had we had Roberts and Hourihane last season we wouldn't have had such a naive defence. That is what experienced players can bring to younger players. It's certainly an underestimated commodity to have in the squad.