Mattyc55
Well-Known Member
Absolutely awful and baffling that he came back into the side over García. I can’t even work out what he’s good at and he loses pretty much every single header he goes up for.
Better than Otamendi still but defending has never been Stones' strong point.
He let us down again today but we need to stick with him.
Look ok early on when we were dominating and he had nothing to do. As soon as he’s asked to do some defending it all goes to shit.
I like the lad, and have been willing him to rediscover his form from the Centurion season.
Seems like injuries and off field problems have fucked with his head.
I would take Otamendi over this fraud every single day of the week. Stones could play until he is 100 and he will never have a season like 17/18 Otamendi.
He did have defending to do and he did it well in both halves. Then the goal happened and his legs turned to jelly again.
I've seen people calling him a League One defender but I don't even think he has the mental strength for that. Just can't be trusted when the going gets the slightest bit tough and that's absolutely imperative in the quality of player we need.