Mile Jedinak - Released

[LukeJames]

You can when he fucks up in most of those 'snippets', for the record I'm a huge fan and think we are much better with him in the team.

That's like saying Hogan had a magnificent 90 minutes.

That is an awful comparison.

[UK Redsox]

didn't miss a header today

Just wish that he could direct them in the vague direction of a team mate

I think that Jedi is wasted at centre back and it needlessly weakens the midfield.

I'm no fan of Mad Tom or the remains of what was Micah Richards but one of them should have started today

[LeeB]

didn't miss a header today

Just wish that he could direct them in the vague direction of a team mate

I think that Jedi is wasted at centre back and it needlessly weakens the midfield.

I'm no fan of Mad Tom or the remains of what was Micah Richards but one of them should have started today

I agree we miss him badly in the middle, but disagree about starting either of those before him. They're car crashes, you're giving the opposition a goal start and that usually does for us. I said after about 10 minutes it would be scrappy and tight for an hour, and then the space would open up, and as long as we were level at that point we'd go on to win.
Keeping it tight at the back is priority for us.

[Toronto Villa]

You can when he fucks up in most of those 'snippets', for the record I'm a huge fan and think we are much better with him in the team.

That's like saying Hogan had a magnificent 90 minutes.

That is an awful comparison.

Why is it? My point being that you can't judge an entire performance of a player based on select moments or highlights someone else has chosen to provide us with.

[Ads]

A few have asked if Jedinak had a bad game based on the highlights. The blind back pass aside, he was excellent.

We missed his presence in the midfield as Gardner is no replacement for him.

Midfield was too deep and pedestrian in the first half. We didn't need six defenders on the park.

The injection of Lansbury and Hogan made a difference. The second goal was a rare moment of quality, while Hourihane puts in a mean delivery again for the first. Job done.

We never looked like conceding, which is becoming a theme. This is the sort of form that we need going into next season. Only some.minor tinkering is needed for the new campaign.

I'm confident that if we continue like this then we will go up. The football could be much better, hugely frustrating at times, but we look incredibly difficult to play and score against, while we have a couple of 20 goal of season forwards. Winning is becoming a habit.

[brian green]

Agree on all points.  We are going back but not via the scenic route.  Bruce knows the road past the gasworks.

[Mister E]

didn't miss a header today

Just wish that he could direct them in the vague direction of a team mate

I think that Jedi is wasted at centre back and it needlessly weakens the midfield.

I'm no fan of Mad Tom or the remains of what was Micah Richards but one of them should have started today

with Jedi in the DMF role, wouldn't Hutton be a better choice at replacement CB?

[PeterWithe]

Echo what's already been said, he looked very assured and a real leader. I think their forward would have given Tom a real test but Jedinak bullied him.

Fantastic name by the way, Omar Bogle.

[peter w]

A few have asked if Jedinak had a bad game based on the highlights. The blind back pass aside, he was excellent.

We missed his presence in the midfield as Gardner is no replacement for him.

Midfield was too deep and pedestrian in the first half. We didn't need six defenders on the park.

The injection of Lansbury and Hogan made a difference. The second goal was a rare moment of quality, while Hourihane puts in a mean delivery again for the first. Job done.

We never looked like conceding, which is becoming a theme. This is the sort of form that we need going into next season. Only some.minor tinkering is needed for the new campaign.

I'm confident that if we continue like this then we will go up. The football could be much better, hugely frustrating at times, but we look incredibly difficult to play and score against, while we have a couple of 20 goal of season forwards. Winning is becoming a habit.

But if that one on one had have been scored and where he chose to not close a player who has 5 yards from goal we should really have seen ourselves 2 down. but for their inability to take advantage of two very presentable chances no-one would be saying how excellent he was no matter how dominant he may or may not otherwise have been. Football, just like everything, its about making the right decisions and the right time. Jedinak in the briefest of highlights got two big decisions wrong. One was poor and one was him not thinking naturally as a defender. Now it's possible to argue that he could learn this, but I'd argue the other way.

[LeeB]

A few have asked if Jedinak had a bad game based on the highlights. The blind back pass aside, he was excellent.

We missed his presence in the midfield as Gardner is no replacement for him.

Midfield was too deep and pedestrian in the first half. We didn't need six defenders on the park.

The injection of Lansbury and Hogan made a difference. The second goal was a rare moment of quality, while Hourihane puts in a mean delivery again for the first. Job done.

We never looked like conceding, which is becoming a theme. This is the sort of form that we need going into next season. Only some.minor tinkering is needed for the new campaign.

I'm confident that if we continue like this then we will go up. The football could be much better, hugely frustrating at times, but we look incredibly difficult to play and score against, while we have a couple of 20 goal of season forwards. Winning is becoming a habit.

But if that one on one had have been scored and where he chose to not close a player who has 5 yards from goal we should really have seen ourselves 2 down. but for their inability to take advantage of two very presentable chances no-one would be saying how excellent he was no matter how dominant he may or may not otherwise have been. Football, just like everything, its about making the right decisions and the right time. Jedinak in the briefest of highlights got two big decisions wrong. One was poor and one was him not thinking naturally as a defender. Now it's possible to argue that he could learn this, but I'd argue the other way.

Gregnash would be proud.

[peter w]

Just watched the highlights again to see if I'm being overly harsh. But just look at his positioning for the ball across the goal just before our 2 nd. He allows the Wigan player to get between him and the cross. Terrible positioning and defending. 2 in the space of one minute? I'm not really counting the bad back pass because that's irrelevant to his position on the pitch. But, no, he's no central defender. That he is the 3rd best we have says a lot about Elphick and Richards and where we should be concentrating on in the summer.

What do you think greg?

Yeah, he agrees and he also said that you lot can fuck off.

I think that's a bit strong greg. They weren't even asking you.

[LeeB]

*facepalm*

[Brend'Watkins]

A few have asked if Jedinak had a bad game based on the highlights. The blind back pass aside, he was excellent.

We missed his presence in the midfield as Gardner is no replacement for him.

Midfield was too deep and pedestrian in the first half. We didn't need six defenders on the park.

The injection of Lansbury and Hogan made a difference. The second goal was a rare moment of quality, while Hourihane puts in a mean delivery again for the first. Job done.

We never looked like conceding, which is becoming a theme. This is the sort of form that we need going into next season. Only some.minor tinkering is needed for the new campaign.

I'm confident that if we continue like this then we will go up. The football could be much better, hugely frustrating at times, but we look incredibly difficult to play and score against, while we have a couple of 20 goal of season forwards. Winning is becoming a habit.

But if that one on one had have been scored and where he chose to not close a player who has 5 yards from goal we should really have seen ourselves 2 down. but for their inability to take advantage of two very presentable chances no-one would be saying how excellent he was no matter how dominant he may or may not otherwise have been. Football, just like everything, its about making the right decisions and the right time. Jedinak in the briefest of highlights got two big decisions wrong. One was poor and one was him not thinking naturally as a defender. Now it's possible to argue that he could learn this, but I'd argue the other way.

Gregnash would be proud.

He would. However, peter w is correct. Against any half decent side those errors would have been punished. Jed is good enough at this level for where we are now as a stand in CB and that is all.

[SoccerHQ]

One of the most important players we have.

Baffled me the criticism he's had on here bar the dodgy first 4-5 games.

[UK Redsox]

Echo what's already been said, he looked very assured and a real leader. I think their forward would have given Tom a real test but Jedinak bullied him.

Fantastic name by the way, Omar Bogle.

If Bruce won't play Mad Tom / Micah against Wigan and a striker as poor as Bogle but prefers to significantly weaken the midfield by playing Jedi in defence, that really shows how badly he thinks of those too.