WestRoyalIan Royal Gunter is a good player with a lot of potential. He's good defensively and he's very good going forward. However, he has a big problem with lapses in concentration / casualness that means he'll make two or three dangerous mistakes most weeks. And they really are simple basic errors mostly. Loose passes to the opposition, passes into trouble, tripping over the ball, poor positioning. Making a foul throw yesterday for example.
In his defence he often doesn't get a lot of help from the player infront of him. McCleary, HRK and Obita are not great defensively. Drenthe could be a lot better too. Our fullbacks miss that side of McAnuff and Kebe's game sometimes.
Kelly is a better right back by some way. But he's not as pacey and attacking. It's clear Adkins prefers Gunter's style of attacking full back to Kelly's more reserved nature.
Gunter is improving all the time and long may it continue, great attitude. Having a marauding fullback to contend with as well as a winger will always cause problems, creates space and takes a game to the opposition.
Haha PS I love the shrewd opportunism to promote Jobi and demote his rival wingers. Very subtleIts becoming quite predictable now, everyone agreed Jobi played well when he came on. I thought all the wingers who played yesterday put in a shift to help out defensively
But of all of our wingers McAnuff is the most adept defensively. He has his lapses but he provides a lot more support than the others who are more attacking.
