loyalroyal4lifeSvlad CjelliWest Stand Man Anyone who seriously believes that captaincy is unimportant clearly hasn't played football or any other sport at a decent level.
It's important - but not important enough to make you choose an inferior player who is a good captain ahead of a superior player.
What like Alex Pearce?
The Goat was fed Slightly going off on a tangent...but I was a massive hater of Alex Pearce, but he had pretty much won me around by the time he got injured. In all honesty, I think I was guilty of being overly harsh because he looks like a slow motion robot when he plays. He has zero tekkers.
Individually, my two favourite centre-backs at the club now are Zurab and Pearce, but that is a frightfully slow back line.
Mills is brilliant on his day, but so gash off his day it's impossible to like him.
Ian Royal Mills strikes as a player who's always been really good and never had to work very hard at it, so isn't really up to it mentally and is too cocky.
Sarah StarIan Royal Mills strikes as a player who's always been really good and never had to work very hard at it, so isn't really up to it mentally and is too cocky.
Interesting idea, but surely there must be quite a few players who've always been really good and never had to work very hard and have still risen to the challenge (the Champions League must be full of them), so what's their secret? Can't we get Mills to overcome this supposed deficit in his character like they have?
.andrew1957 Having reflected on this I think I would bring back Fed for the Coventry game and the play offs.
He has let in slightly less frequently than McCarthy (see below) but the overriding issue is that Fed's distribution is miles ahead and that could be key in a tight match against Swansea.
Fed 31.67 games and 35 goals conceded at 1.105 per match against McCarthy 12.33 games and 15 conceded at 1.216 per match.
McCarthy has done brilliantly and I am sure he will go on to be a great keeper, but I do expect to see Fed in goal on Saturday.
andrew1957 Hi Snowball
I don't disagree that McCarthy's stats are as good. I was really making the point that they are similar to Federici's.
The key points to me are Fed's greater experience and better distribution.
In any case it is Brian's call. I think he will either bring back Federici on Saturday as he has an excuse to do so after the defeat or else stick with McCarthy throughout.
Hoop Blah Two points,
1) Their stats are so similar it's not worth comparing them with a mind to picking one over the other.
2) You can't use those kind of stats to suggest one is better than the other as the stats don't tell you enough about the games and the difficulty of the saves their making or, perhaps more importantly, the ones they aren't.
Please don't turn this into another statfest!
Svlad Cjelliandrew1957 Hi Snowball
I don't disagree that McCarthy's stats are as good. I was really making the point that they are similar to Federici's.
The key points to me are Fed's greater experience and better distribution.
In any case it is Brian's call. I think he will either bring back Federici on Saturday as he has an excuse to do so after the defeat or else stick with McCarthy throughout.
I'd counter the "greater experience" with the fact that someone who'd been playing continuouslyy is bound to be in better form and confidence than someone coming in cold after not playing for the best part of 3 months.
I'd also argue with the claim of "better distribution" - I just don't buy it at all.
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