Kalvin Phillips

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"Drewmanc, post: 16501606, member: 31082"]
Anyone who sugar coats that performance is living in cloud cuckoo land. Bad touches, hiding from the ball, mistiming jumps for headers, no clue how to keep the ball. Awful player who will cost us at some point.
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Talking shite, whilst he certainly wasn't at the level of Rodri, I thought he had a decent game. He put himself about a bit and didn't let the team down.

 

[bluemonkey71]

He should play cup games till we can shift him. We need an engine in midfield and he hasn’t got one.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

He should play cup games till we can shift him. We need an engine in midfield and he hasn’t got one.

Hard to say if you haven't seen that much of him, unless it is just your opinion ?

 

[Cityfan]

I've not been a supporter and have reckoned he should go.
However today he was decent and put in a shift, shoring up a midfield under strain without Rodri. We improved when he came on.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

I've not been a supporter and have reckoned he should go.
However today he was decent and put in a shift, shoring up a midfield under strain without Rodri. We improved when he came on.

You'll have a few frothing with this post.

 

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Because of the stick he's received since he's been here, a number of posters have now taken it upon themselves to go into overdrive defending him at every turn, regardless of what he does when on the pitch. You can't criticise him now without a backlash from a handful with their blinkers on.

He's slow, lethargic, off the pace, hides, doesn't make himself available often enough to receive the ball from the back line, isn't good with it in tight spaces when he does, makes too many wrong decisions. For whatever reason, he just does not work in our team, and this is exactly why Pep is reluctant to play him. No one, I repeat no one, expects him to be Rodri or close to Rodri.

If Kovacic is fit, he's gonna play.

Hides? Certainly didn't hide today.

 

[bluemonkey71]

Hard to say if you haven't seen that much of him, unless it is just your opinion ?

Just my opinion.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Hides? Certainly didn't hide today.

They just can't help themselves - they will die on that hill to try and justify their opinions.

 

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They just can't help themselves - they will die on that hill to try and justify their opinions.

Unfortunately, some posters will find fault in everything he does.

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Unfortunately, some posters will find fault in everything he does.

Exactly. There is always somebody they find fault with - it's in the culture sadly.