| Ronald 18:54 - Jan 1 with 1136 views | union_jack |
I’ve been his greatest critic on here but let’s not take anything away from the part he played in Fulton’s goal. A really good tackle taking the ball off the opponent’s foot and into the path of Fulton who finished brilliantly. |  |
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| Ronald on 19:03 - Jan 1 with 1093 views | Fireboy2 |
He did alot more defensive work besides that challenge.
Its just some dont see the defensive side of the game, they only look at attack.
Our defence is one thing that matos has come concentrated on.
Its probably the biggest reason that ronald is in the first 11 and stays on for the full 90 mins. |  | | |
| Ronald on 19:09 - Jan 1 with 1068 views | Whiterockin |
He also laid a brilliant ball off for Galbraith to run onto but Galbraith couldn't quite get to it. |  | | |
| Ronald on 21:01 - Jan 1 with 901 views | builthjack |
I have said for the last 18 months that he is great at defensive work. He has been cleaning up for Key for the whole of that period. |  |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Ronald on 21:05 - Jan 1 with 908 views | Whiterockin |
| Ronald on 21:01 - Jan 1 by builthjack |
I have said for the last 18 months that he is great at defensive work. He has been cleaning up for Key for the whole of that period. |
It seems he is one of the first names on the team sheet, those who can't understand why need to watch our games more carefully. | | | |
| Ronald on 21:09 - Jan 1 with 897 views | Fireboy2 |
| Ronald on 21:05 - Jan 1 by Whiterockin |
It seems he is one of the first names on the team sheet, those who can't understand why need to watch our games more carefully. |
Tell that to CJ. | | | |
| Ronald on 21:16 - Jan 1 with 881 views | Whiterockin |
| Ronald on 21:09 - Jan 1 by Fireboy2 |
Tell that to CJ. |
It's not my problem mate if someone can't see or understand, everyone is entitled to their opinion even if it is misguided. | | | |
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| Ronald on 22:15 - Jan 1 with 819 views | RichardO |
What I don't really get is the fact that Ronald is causing defenders problems when we get the ball quickly to his feet and then support him, he was causing Bidwell problems and today similarly the fullback got a booking but then we stopped getting balls to feet, we played a number over the top but it seems as if we couldn't mix it up. Galbraith came on and gets the ball moving nicely bit it seemed as if in that second half we didn't want to play to the wingers feet, Eom didn't see a lot of the ball when he came on, yes WBA changed tactics but I didn't see the point of veering away from using ball to feet especially when fullbacks with booking as still on the pitch.
A win is a win but we do seem to making it harder for ourselves. |  | | |
| Ronald on 01:42 - Jan 2 with 674 views | Swans9 |
I think our wingers this season haven't cut the mustard bring back Dyer. Ronald rolls around every challenge. Chuffed with the win but one swallow doesn't make a summer. Bang average wingers this season. | | | |
| Ronald on 02:00 - Jan 2 with 662 views | GVJack |
| Ronald on 19:03 - Jan 1 by Fireboy2 |
He did alot more defensive work besides that challenge.
Its just some dont see the defensive side of the game, they only look at attack.
Our defence is one thing that matos has come concentrated on.
Its probably the biggest reason that ronald is in the first 11 and stays on for the full 90 mins. |
Perhaps he should be converted to a RB or RWB? | | | |
| Ronald on 07:37 - Jan 2 with 560 views | builthjack |
| Ronald on 01:42 - Jan 2 by Swans9 |
I think our wingers this season haven't cut the mustard bring back Dyer. Ronald rolls around every challenge. Chuffed with the win but one swallow doesn't make a summer. Bang average wingers this season. |
Do you think he could still do it at 38? | |
| Swansea Indepenent Poster Of The Year 2021. Dr P / Mart66 / Roathie / Parlay / E20/ Duffle was 2nd, but he is deluded and thinks in his little twisted brain that he won. Poor sod. We let him win this year, as he has cried for a whole year. His 14 usernames, bless his cotton socks.
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| Ronald on 09:40 - Jan 2 with 505 views | RichardO |
| Ronald on 07:37 - Jan 2 by builthjack |
Do you think he could still do it at 38? |
A lot of people complained about Dyers crossing abilities, we have to remember a full backs job is to stop wingers from having the ball and be able to stop wingers crossing the ball into dangerous areas of the pitch. That is harder to do on a booking, don't think we exploit that fact and revert back to getting balls down to our wingers feet enough. [Post edited 2 Jan 10:00]
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| Ronald on 10:26 - Jan 2 with 432 views | jack247 |
| Ronald on 09:40 - Jan 2 by RichardO |
A lot of people complained about Dyers crossing abilities, we have to remember a full backs job is to stop wingers from having the ball and be able to stop wingers crossing the ball into dangerous areas of the pitch. That is harder to do on a booking, don't think we exploit that fact and revert back to getting balls down to our wingers feet enough. [Post edited 2 Jan 10:00]
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Both their full backs and one of their wingers were booked in the first half.
I agree with you, I thought we’d run at them hard in the second half. | | | |
| Ronald on 10:47 - Jan 2 with 415 views | RichardO |
| Ronald on 10:26 - Jan 2 by jack247 |
Both their full backs and one of their wingers were booked in the first half.
I agree with you, I thought we’d run at them hard in the second half. |
A ploy used by so many managers in the past of changing wingers on the 60-70 min mark because wing play can be very demanding because of the number of sprints needed to beat defenders which takes more toll especially from a standing start, we have seen Parker cause fullbacks problems and we know he is capable as a defender so could cover Galbraith runs. We bought on Eom but didn't get the ball to him, did think a number of our clearances from defence became rush and panicked just handed possession back to WBA. | | | |
| Ronald on 10:59 - Jan 2 with 396 views | Fireboy2 |
| Ronald on 10:47 - Jan 2 by RichardO |
A ploy used by so many managers in the past of changing wingers on the 60-70 min mark because wing play can be very demanding because of the number of sprints needed to beat defenders which takes more toll especially from a standing start, we have seen Parker cause fullbacks problems and we know he is capable as a defender so could cover Galbraith runs. We bought on Eom but didn't get the ball to him, did think a number of our clearances from defence became rush and panicked just handed possession back to WBA. |
That was because of ours and their substitutions.
Melker did a sterling job as a false 9 but ateotd he isnt a natural goalscorer, he was put there to disrupt, when he was taken off and vip went up front the intensity of our press dropped allowing WBA to push forward.
Even though it was a fantastic goal, we were lucky in a way to win the game, if that shot hadn't have gone in I suspect they could have pushed on and created more chances, the goal seemed to knock the stuffing out of them and iirc they didnt create much after our goal, in fact it was us who looked more likely to score. | | | |
| Ronald on 21:48 - Jan 2 with 235 views | ncswan |
| Ronald on 02:00 - Jan 2 by GVJack |
Perhaps he should be converted to a RB or RWB? |
I stated the same about 3-4 weeks ago when everyone was piling on Key. Give him a go with an Eom or Inoussa in front of him, where they can do some creative overlapping. He's young enough to learn that position. Would probably increase his value as well. | | | |
| Ronald on 22:16 - Jan 2 with 216 views | wwcigne |
| Ronald on 21:48 - Jan 2 by ncswan |
I stated the same about 3-4 weeks ago when everyone was piling on Key. Give him a go with an Eom or Inoussa in front of him, where they can do some creative overlapping. He's young enough to learn that position. Would probably increase his value as well. |
Ronald is a good defensive option,he gets on the right side of attackers when covering and is a good tackler | | | |
| Ronald on 22:55 - Jan 2 with 180 views | RichardO |
Ronald did a good job at fullback when Key wasn't available cannot remember against who but he stopped the winger from getting time on the ball, getting a foot in and attacked the ball in the air, he did chase the ball on one occasion closing the ball down but Cabango was slow to react to close the man recieving the ball fouling him on the edge of the box near the dead ball line and they scored from the free kick I tjink for the winning goal, but the type of pressing Ronald did as a fullback seems to be what Matos is looking for and he would expect everyone to close down any player around them, we gained a goal against WBA from Ronald challenge. | | | |
| Ronald on 22:58 - Jan 2 with 179 views | Luther27 |
So…what do you really mean? 😂😂 | | | |
| Ronald on 07:12 - Jan 3 with 125 views | jack247 |
Ronald isn’t and won’t be a fullback.
Yes, he’s our best winger defensively, is positionally aware and works hard tracking back.
But, he’d get minced by an actual winger running at him. Parker is a much better option. | | | |
| Ronald on 08:11 - Jan 3 with 114 views | RichardO |
| Ronald on 07:12 - Jan 3 by jack247 |
Ronald isn’t and won’t be a fullback.
Yes, he’s our best winger defensively, is positionally aware and works hard tracking back.
But, he’d get minced by an actual winger running at him. Parker is a much better option. |
But he didn't let wingers run at him, he got a challenge in first and even as the winger tried to go past him got his body in-between the winger and the ball and the winger couldn't push him off the ball, Parker was able to do the same, Ronald left himself or us exposedby chasing the ball down which if we marked as a team wouldn't be a problem as runners off the wingers should be picked up quickly, hard to do as against WBA as they picked the pace up but eventually with tighter marking the player on the ball runs out of options, takes too long on the ball and gets caught in possession, which resulted in our goal how many times have we had players on the ball run out of options and either took the wrong option or got caught on the ball in the middle of the park leaving us vulnerable to stupid throw away goals.
Not saying Ronald or Parker are the answer to the fullback problem and against good wingers fullbacks need help, it was noticeable that Inoussa didn't track back quick enough, against Stoke I think, to help close their winger who cut back and whipped a cross in which Burgess deflected in.
For me Key doesn't get the ball forward enough to Ronald be it to feet, down the channels or over the top in behind the opposition resulting in Ronald now being pretty inert when Key is playing the understand between them is poor and has often lead to the ball being given away cheaply due to misunderstanding. Key in attempt to keep the ball in play gets caught in possession in the wrong areas of the pitch while being put under pressure, we saw Darling similarly get caught but after learning to take the easy option was dropped by Martin for giving throw ins away, throw ins I may add, that let us regroup in our defensive positions.
Key saved a goal against WBA tracking back well to intercept the crossfield ball deep in our penalty box wasn't the best clearance but under pressure got the ball out of a dangerous situation.
Key, and Ronald are good players and from what little we have seen of Parker so is he. Confidence and the right team support and set up needed to get them playing to the best of their abilities. Sometimes players need to learn with the help of good coaching. | | | |
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