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Warburton not the problem
at 20:19 13 Dec 2020

I realise that I have a minority view about Dickie but to say that he has not been terrible at all ignores his disastrous pull back against Barnsley and his weak pass against Bristol City that led to the deciding goal. My point was that despite these and other less obvious errors, he is not consistently poor in the way that, for example, Joel Lynch was. However, the defence is easy to score against and Dickie must take some of the responsibility for this. We urgently need a dominant centre back with pace and/or positional sense to help in this regard and he is not the answer in my opinion.

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Warburton not the problem
at 19:29 13 Dec 2020

I broadly agree with Stainrod’s Elbow’s analysis, In particular that Rob Dickie is not the answer to our central defence problem. Dickie is competent at attacking high forward passes and can seem solid in backs to the wall, aerial bombardments. However he is slow and this leaves Kakay/Kane short of cover when caught forward by a counter attack. He steps back rather than filling the gap as a quicker defender would do. In addition when facing attackers he often can’t turn quickly enough to be effective without the aid of a tug back. Playing alongside Barbet is not ideal as his weaknesses are not compensated by any of Barbet’s strengths. His distribution is poor at best He often underhits forward passes out of defence. However he seems to be popular as he has some of the the attributes of the sort of tall, dominant defender that we need. He hasn’t been consistently terrible and I wouldn’t write him off as he may improve in a better organised defence where his weaknesses are less exposed. At the moment he is a problem in my opinion and our recruitment in January should have this in mind.

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