I posted on another thread a few weeks back that McInnes hadn't sorted out the defence from last season, the replies were basically Considine and Reynolds are above average SPFL defenders and are fine against most sides.To me if you are happy with them 2 you are going to have to accept results like last night.
Considine has improved a lot since McInnes came here,he was atrocious under Calderwood, McGhee and Brown and ok under McInnes but he has never been good enough.
Reynolds was good when he was playing alongside Anderson a few years back but he has never looked the same since his injury and his pace is gone now as well.
McInnes should have been more ruthless and moved them both on but he has a loyalty to certain players who have done well for him in the past which will come back to bite him if he isn't careful.
If the manager doesn't know, how the feck will we know?
He clearly doesn't.
There are so many deficiencies in the squad it's hard to know where to start.
We seem better at 4-2-3-1 when we don't d1ck about with tombolas
with that formation in mind, I'll go with and caveat at the end;
Lewis
Logan O'Connor Arnason Considine
Tansey Shinnie
Stewart Christie Wright
May
Rogers, Ball, Reynolds, McLean, Rooney, GMS, Maynard.
The caveats being;
We need a pacey centre half that is good in the air - good luck with that.
Considine needs replaced at LB.
Stewart is a lazy unfit sod, but on the basis GMS is a weasel, then he gets in.
Stop faffing around with 3 at the back
GMS is a bit of a lightweight and Stewart is really slow but do you not think half the problem is they are not getting a decent run in the team?
I don't think either of them playing one week and being dropped the next game is doing them or us any good,Hayes was in and out of the team at the beginning of his time with us and he looked pysh as well.
He wasn't being asked to play left back though was he?
It was the same against Kilmarnock.
He was being asked to play in some weird formation which meant he was far to far up the park.
I admit that I give Consi a fair bit more leeway than most, given that he was donsdaft jnr's best pal at school.
He's had a great career with the Dons, perhaps better than he would have had if all things were as we would have liked it to be.
He's a decent enough left back though.
The problem is that managers think they have world class players capable of following complicated instructions.