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Message: [QUOTE="rnabokov, post: 3095327, member: 1847"] I am unsure of the point you are trying to make in reply to my post. My point is that our defence out wide, particularly on the right side, was rubbish, and that the job of a coach is to sort it out once the problems become apparent, and that is in any one match. That is, if the defence is crap in any particular game, you deal with it at the next, and subsequent coaching sessions until it is sorted. On this score, Seibold failed, and the players in question failed him. A basic sliding defence is not rocket science. It's irrelevant that say Turps was a hooker playing out of position. It is schoolboy footballing nous to know how to slide and how to be part of a sliding defensive structure, and, it is the coach's job to make sure highly paid professionals earn their money in such simple matters as an effective sliding defence that ought to have been part and parcel of a footballer's basic skills development since school boy days. I just don't buy the argument that ... "oh, he was playing out of position" to explain fundamental, simple, schoolboy level defensive deficiencies. Yes, defence wins matches and we lost so many games because our defence was crap, separate to our shitty attack. For me, it is also less important to look at points conceded than to look at how many times our defence was breached because of poor structures and individual performances. It was and is up to the coach to fix this ASAP. [/QUOTE]

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