captainchris

Man of the match pole ! :-))))

No you are not alone - he was terrible in the Championship too....

I'm sorry but clutching at straws there I'm afraid. Fox did not get better as the game went on. He was really poor in both halves. Why do people take it on themselves to be personally affronted when a player is scrutinised and found to be wanting by fans? It is by and large nothing to do with abuse it's objective opinion and many fans think that he is poor and often describe in some detail why... That is their right and in this case he certainly is diabolical and burying your head in the sand does nobody any favours least of all Fox who appears to make the same basic errors every single time he plays and it's time he learnt. A 'squad' player should be one who is capable of breaking into the first team. Not one who should be playing in a different league.

I see eight members of Fox's family read this forum .... -))

Yes - For Eastleigh perhaps! -

Sadly you are mistaken. He was equally poor in the Championship, it's just that he got way with more there. Why do footballers who earn very good money deserve respect for playing poorly. Respect as a person yes, I can agree with that, however respect as football player no. I am afraid he is blatantly not good enough and never has been - even in the Championship.... As a human being - I don't know him but very happy to give him every respect for that.......As footballer - The Guardian are correct - it has nothing to do with respect for a person as a human being. The more worrying aspect of the Danny Fox debate for me is that MP continues to play him - this is baffling almost to the point of bewilderment and whist discussing this topic the same question might be asked of the decision to bring Gully on today instead of Cork. The previous last time i saw Gully play was against Bristol City and was quite poor against them and one would have to venture that he probably hasn't had a good game for about two seasons. He is quite similar to Fox in many ways in that he is very slow of thought and suffers from ball watching. Anyway again lots of respect as a person but none for taking the money and basically being largely carp.

Fox you numpty, he was your man and you ran away....

Why are we so blinkin deep?

I know there are lots of happy clappy Fox lovers on here but my God, he is terrible and shouldn't be within a million miles of the team...

This is about the most predictable tactic of the game. Every one knows Fox is a daydreamer. He must be good in the showers or something ?

Eh ..... Whether this is true or not do you seriously think this is anything to with us being unable to hold on to him in favour of Bolton Wanderers!!! I can assure you that if he moves it will be our decision not anyone else's .... Plus he's very lucky indeed to be with us in the first place. Because to be totally honest he really isn't that good.

Almost getting to the point with Osvaldo where I just don't get it and wondering what the point was/is...... To be honest it ain't working and as yet he ain't that good either....

Well I'm glad someone else thinks so...!!! We have four up front in a line and it is not working and hasn't all season...

Can anyone explain how Osvaldo and Lambert together is making the team better?

St Goerge is the more accurate here. Also 'most' people were shocked but not necessarily totally against the idea........

Well everyone seems to want to go with the same team..... Not sure yet if the two - come four up front is working. Personally, for team balance I would put Davis in for Osvaldo or possibly Rickie and revert to one up front. No way at the moment that Rimirez is up to the first team so it's Davis for me who provides balance to the team.

Made up hypothetical nonsense and not worth discussing.....at this point in time...

An agenda is when you object to those with an opinion having the right to it if it doesn't fit with your 'agenda'

Well said. I find it peculiar that people expect to go in a football forum and read no opinions. Very odd.... There are lots of happy clappies on here who seem shocked whenever a player receives even the slightest critism....hello it's a forum - you get both sides of the story here .....

On a more positive note for Gaston.... If some of us think he is quite a way short of the first team right now where does that leave poor Guly Du Prado one would venture??? The poor fella was so so out of it.... He really needs to be playing in a lower division now... Oh, I almost forgot we were actually playing a lower league team, who by the way I thougt were a half decent passing side and probably deserved a goal...

Yes fair comment.... Although had you watched a live match coverage it would have been probably more obvious of players with the ball losing possession ....

An interesting point but not sure how on earth you could know that.... Also bizarrely Gaston doesn't even play 'often' so what difference would attending 'often' make to fans opinions? These days there are good live streams and TV coverage anyway for every game so really, is there much difference in what the opinions are worth whether being there or not....... I think you have a red herring there.... I would say its more a case of there are fans who watch matches overall and look at scorelines and goal Scorers and there are fans who watch games below the surface too. Some fans look at a few highlights some look at the whole match brick by brick. A 'highlight' fan will praise Gaston and a brick by brick fan may have different ideas..... One thing I would say is that the analogy that some are drawing of Gaston to Le Tiss is a very very long way wide of the mark.

Your the sad one mate. You only ever come on here to criticise posters and don't have comments to make on the games or the team - that's what football forums are for you know - football opinions not your miserable psyco analysis of posters... Just for your information I love football but that doesn't stop me watching a game for good things and those that in my opinion could be different. Try watching a game more thoroughly yourself and then we can hear your opinion and call you sad ...... Otherwise use a forum that has nothing to do with football and leave people to discuss football matters in peace and keep your cheap personal vindictive opinions on posters to yourself.

A very accurate summary of Gaston. He either lost possession or gave the ball away so many times. we were counting at one stage first half and eight of ten times he had possession he lost it! A good goal yes and a nice through ball for Lee but really other than that he was quite quite poor...

Well just back from the game...... We were pretty average and Bristol City could well have nicked a couple of goals second half. Feel the result papers over a few cracks. Ok it was our second string but one or two have aspirations to be first choice in the first team. Gaston for me was poor. Watch him closely he gives away possession or gets caught in possession continuously and just doesn't perform like a 12m player should. Nowhere near a first team place at the moment. Fox - never been a fan but tonight was half decent though still insists on allowing his man to put a cross in without engaging him. Why? Has Guly had his last chance tonight? Almost feel for him but tonight he was truly well off the pace and just looks - to be blunt not good enough. Surely it's time to say enough is enough for him. Lee looked pretty good and had some pace and but for a very good save could have scored. Considering his lack of game time he looked sharp and showed he offers a different dimension. More game time could see him as an impact sub for the first team. Chambers had a good game and could well make it as we have seen this year. JWP a good game as did Davies but this brings me to MP who I thought allowed the midfield to drop far too deep second half inviting them on to us for quite a period. This symptom happens often to us. From what i have seen, when we have the ball we have too many players rushing too far forward leaving us short in midfield. When we don't have the ball we drop very deep at times inviting attacks and forget to press. This happened lots in the second half and could have cost us dearly. Indeed the midfield were far too close to the back four tonight quite a lot of the time when we were not in possession giving City lots of room to pass it around in our half and create danger. The result suggests an easy win but City had some decent chances and could have easily knocked one or two in...