Yuki Sugawara

[Dark Munster]

35 minutes ago, Suhari said:

Guessing it was tactical: with them down to 10, and likely to sit deep, bringing on a more tricky attacker did make sense. Although I'd have preferred taking off a CB.

Agreed though: I thought he was excellent. Really encouraging debut. Looks very good indeed.

Agreed. The second half screamed to have a CB replaced by Tall Paul.

Oh wait, he wasn't even on the bench. 

[Suhari]

Just now, Dark Munster said:

Agreed. The second half screamed to have a CB replaced by Tall Paul.

Oh wait, he wasn't even on the bench. 

The lack of variety in our attack second was shocking. We made it easy for them.

Exactly the type of game where TP would have made a massive difference.

[Lighthouse]

He's sh*te. One calamity after another. What the f**k he thought he was doing for Brentford's fifth I can't fathom.

[AlexLaw76]

Farking terrible player. Amazing how many celebrated his signing in the summer

[beatlesaint]

7 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

He's sh*te. One calamity after another. What the f**k he thought he was doing for Brentford's fifth I can't fathom.

Another who will look decent in the Championship no doubt 

[OttawaSaint]

You what? Beautiful headed assist for their 5th yesterday.

[Harry_SFC]

20 minutes ago, Lighthouse said:

He's sh*te. One calamity after another. What the f**k he thought he was doing for Brentford's fifth I can't fathom.

It is staggering to me that we're not playing KWP on the right and Manning on the left. 

[danjosaint]

19 minutes ago, OttawaSaint said:

You what? Beautiful headed assist for their 5th yesterday.

I agree but wtf was THB doing, nearly took out Suga and probably the reason he fucked his header back, very similar to when THB clattered into Wood allowing Duran to score against us. I've defended THB in the past but that was one of the worst performances of a cb I've ever seen, maybe being in a 3 they don't know who's doing what

Edited January 5 by danjosaint

[Harry_SFC]

1 minute ago, danjosaint said:

I agree but wtf was THB doing, nearly took out Suga and probably the reason he fucked his header back, very similar to when THB clattered into Wood allowing Duran to score against us. I've defended THB in the past but that was one of the worst performances of a cb I've ever seen, maybe being in a 3 they don't know who's doing what

THB is not a premier league defender. No doubt he could be one day - at the moment he's nowhere near the required level. 

The fact that Bednarek is still our best centre back after these last 3-4 years is laughable. 

Edited January 5 by Harry_SFC

[madge]

Everyone around me was calling for manning to be on the pitch.. shows where we are.. to be fair at least manning appears to be bothered

[IFHP]

1 hour ago, beatlesaint said:

Another who will look decent in the Championship no doubt 

I’m not so sure he will. I can’t ever remember a saints player making as many silly mistakes that led to a goal as Sugawara has. The fact he’s only made a handful of appearances is even worse. 

[Falkirk Saint]

Good going forward. Prone to mistakes

 

[HarvSFC]

Hopefully he goes back to Europe in the summer. We've had plenty of good full-backs over the years - KWP on his day, Bertrand, Shaw, Clyne, Bale, Bridge. Probably an obvious one I'm missing. He's not one of them.

[Patrick Bateman]

4 hours ago, HarvSFC said:

Hopefully he goes back to Europe in the summer. We've had plenty of good full-backs over the years - KWP on his day, Bertrand, Shaw, Clyne, Bale, Bridge. Probably an obvious one I'm missing. He's not one of them.

This, he'll go to the Dutch or French league and be reasonable. Everyone will say "shouldn't have let him go" as his 20 year old cart horse replacement leaves players unmarked and heads the ball into their goal bound path ... 

[OnceaSaintalwaysaSaint]

15 hours ago, Lighthouse said:

He's sh*te. One calamity after another. What the f**k he thought he was doing for Brentford's fifth I can't fathom.

He was all over the place on Saturday. Someone needs to go through the basics with him and show him where he should be defensively. We don't mind him going forward as a wing back, but make sure you get back quickly. He was ambling like the rest of the team.

[saintwbu]

Started great first couple of games but has been so poor for a few months now - but i’m still really surprised he hasn’t been the wing back of choice under Juric because I don’t see the intention with Bree out there. If you play 5 at the back you surely need the wing backs to provide the width and attacking support, Bree won’t be doing that. I also think THB is just as culpable for the header to the Brentford player on Saturday, why does he always get so close to our players with the ball - same issue for the Villa goal a few weeks back, follows the ball like a 10 year old. 

[Appy]

16 hours ago, Falkirk Saint said:

Good going forward. Prone to mistakes

 

Is he good going forward?

[miserableoldgit]

34 minutes ago, saintwbu said:

Started great first couple of games but has been so poor for a few months now - but i’m still really surprised he hasn’t been the wing back of choice under Juric because I don’t see the intention with Bree out there. If you play 5 at the back you surely need the wing backs to provide the width and attacking support, Bree won’t be doing that. I also think THB is just as culpable for the header to the Brentford player on Saturday, why does he always get so close to our players with the ball - same issue for the Villa goal a few weeks back, follows the ball like a 10 year old. 

I genuinely think that he has something about him, but I think that even Lionel Messi in his prime would struggle to look good in our current team/situation.