Leigertwood at center back

[St. Brynjar]

LWood fit is a better DM than Guthrie or Karacan or Williams

We need a midfield STOPPER and that he does brilliantly at this level

Not sure how many goals we've conced straight thr the middle this season
but it's clear we are wide open ATM

If you're suggesting Karacan or Guthrie should be dropped I suggest you go to a Reading game. Just because L'Wood was brilliant last Championship season, it's no guarrantee he'll be able to replicate that, see Gorkss for an example.

Excellent in his day and if players fall out of favour/get injured he's reasonable cover, but nothing more.

[Snowball]

Not suggesting anybody should be dropped.

Merely saying that LWood is our best central defensive midfielder and we miss his presence and are too open

[genome]

Guys Im sorry but Leigertwood isn't good enough. My brother was in South Africa in April and was watching the game vs Arsenal in a pub, he said that the commentators claimed that it was "tactical suicide" to give Leigertwood the ball, and I know that was the PL but I don't rate him. Sorry

I'll never forgive you. It's over

[From Despair To Where?]

I'm sure someone posted this a month back, but i couldn't find it.
Given we have an embarressment of riches in center midfield, i wouldn't be suprised to see Adkins play Leigertwood at center back from now on.
Even though Adkins hasn't played him at all yet and appeared not to favour him, we kept him on while other players were let go.
A lot of defensive midfield players find themselves at center half as they get older, so it seems to be the natural progression for him too.
Either way, i'm glad he wasn't released.
That would also mean four senior center nacks at the club again, meaning we don't have to panic about suspensions/ injuries too much.

I mentioned it way back in May/June when the Pearce situation was still unresolved on the basis that he'd played there before but it was only in terms of him being a back up.

I like Leigertwood, he's a good pro who always gives 100% and seems to be a good personality to have in the squad but entirely on merit, he is 4th choice CM. The DM role under Adkins has different demands to that under McDermott and I just don't think Legs offers what Adkins wants.

[St. Brynjar]

Not suggesting anybody should be dropped.

Merely saying that LWood is our best central defensive midfielder and we miss his presence and are too open

You said he should be our current DM, and hence one of our other DMs needs to be dropped to facilitate this.