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[Albion] Lewis Dunk.



Tom Hark Preston Park

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Was Dunk under orders to play endless meaningless 10 yard passes back and forth across the halfway line to, in this case, Baleba, or was he just saving his legs? Either way it gave the Leicester defence plenty of time to regroup and reset. They'd happily let him do that all day long. It's been the same sad story all season
 




Guinness Boy

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Han Solo said:
People here are very f***ing condescending towards this legend. Plenty of people like scapegoating and ganging up on people and then try to sell the story that they didn't want to.

If Lewis Dunk was judged like others, almost every single player would have their thread bumped and flooded with "too bad, we need to get rid" today. Same last week. But that doesn't happen does it? Because the wind flows in the direction of "get rid of him" and many people follow the wind. It is no different from when Sanchez, Webster, Connolly or some other individual gets 90% of the critisism after we don't win a game.

Obviously people don't want to consider themselves as someone who always swims in whatever direction the water is going but its an irreversible fact that many people function like that, and this imo is the cause why we can miss a dozen good chances and 90% of the "he's shite/finished/too slow/too unfocused/has no leadership" shit is spammed in this thread and not in some of the other 10 threads where it as it least equally deserved.

People pretend to be "sad" and maybe that goes for one or two in this gangbang, but most of are smug entitled scavengers.
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Dunk’s not fit and has been going backwards for a year or so. That’s just a fact. It gives no one here any pleasure. 99% of NSC would class him as a legend. But it’s time to start ringing in the new, centre back wise.
 


Stumpy Tim

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Han Solo said:
I remember Pascal Gross being "finished" every year for the last five years or so of his Brighton career. Not expecting anyone to learn from that though.
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You've literally opened up numerous threads just to say various players are awful, you condescending nobhead.
 


Uh_huh_him

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Tom Hark Preston Park said:
Was Dunk under orders to play endless meaningless 10 yard passes back and forth across the halfway line to, in this case, Baleba, or was he just saving his legs? Either way it gave the Leicester defence plenty of time to regroup and reset. They'd happily let him do that all day long. It's been the same sad story all season
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Yeah

It was OK, when he would eventually play a perfectly weighted pass over the top for Mitoma or Mrch to run onto, but he's over hitting them now and just giving possession away.

No point him playing any more games this season.

Let's give Cashin a chance to see if there's anything worth developing there and reassess the squad in preseason.
 


Weststander

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Han Solo said:
People here are very f***ing condescending towards this legend. Plenty of people like scapegoating and ganging up on people and then try to sell the story that they didn't want to.

If Lewis Dunk was judged like others, almost every single player would have their thread bumped and flooded with "too bad, we need to get rid" today. Same last week. But that doesn't happen does it? Because the wind flows in the direction of "get rid of him" and many people follow the wind. It is no different from when Sanchez, Webster, Connolly or some other individual gets 90% of the critisism after we don't win a game.

Obviously people don't want to consider themselves as someone who always swims in whatever direction the water is going but its an irreversible fact that many people function like that, and this imo is the cause why we can miss a dozen good chances and 90% of the "he's shite/finished/too slow/too unfocused/has no leadership" shit is spammed in this thread and not in some of the other 10 threads where it as it least equally deserved.

People pretend to be "sad" and maybe that goes for one or two in this gangbang, but most of are smug entitled scavengers.
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He’s adored.

But for quite a while now it’s clear at games that his even slower lack of pace is a huge vulnerability to the team. He’s targeted by opponents, obviously in their coaches game plans. This was obvious by the time he got his last England call up, it was mad, Southgate ignored him for years, then that when past his best.

Lifelong Albion supporters can make this assessment, without being personal or nasty. The PL is unforgiving.

Ironically he’d have a longer first team career under a Nuno, Dyche or Moyes. Our pushed up to the half way line cruelly exposes his achilles heel.
 




studio150

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Fully expect Van Hecke and Baleba to start as the central defensive pairing at Brentford.

Dunk is currently making too many mistakes, lacks the pace to recover, and when he does sprint back 50 yards, he needs a breather for five minutes or so, so is happy to just pass the ball to another defender or back to the keeper.

A clear indication of not being fully fit, but playing as there aren't other quality central defenders available.
 




PILTDOWN MAN

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Guinness Boy said:
Dunk’s not fit and has been going backwards for a year or so. That’s just a fact. It gives no one here any pleasure. 99% of NSC would class him as a legend. But it’s time to start ringing in the new, centre back wise.
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Agree and the slow death on the pitch will harm the history.

Baleba as an understudy CB today was 3x the player Dunk was. Problem was Hinsh was covering for him most of the time meaning he wasn't able to cover the wide area.
 




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studio150 said:
Fully expect Van Hecke and Baleba to start as the central defensive pairing at Brentford.

Dunk is currently making too many mistakes, lacks the pace to recover, and when he does sprint back 50 yards, he needs a breather for five minutes or so, so is happy to just pass the ball to another defender or back to the keeper.

A clear indication of not being fully fit, but playing as there aren't other quality central defenders available.
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We badly missed Carlos in midfield, as good as he was at CB, we need him bullying teams in the centre of the park. Had FH moved him there when Horse face made his subs I think we would have held on.
 




willalbion

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Tom Hark Preston Park said:
Was Dunk under orders to play endless meaningless 10 yard passes back and forth across the halfway line to, in this case, Baleba, or was he just saving his legs? Either way it gave the Leicester defence plenty of time to regroup and reset. They'd happily let him do that all day long. It's been the same sad story all season
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I don’t think you can lay that on Lewis, our slow passing & build up play has been going on for some time. We are so predictable and slow as a team. We are, as they say ‘in a bad moment’
 




zefarelly

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P.C. Beard said:
Not a chance in hell would Hurzeler do this.
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He bloody well needs to.

Dunk is a liability, and it's costing us . . . . points and prizes

Having said that, we're not ready for europe and are very much a squad in transition . . . We're hardly in a relegation scrap.
 




Nobby Cybergoat

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That was an alarming performance from Dunky

Is it a lack of fitness? Is he just on the slide? Is it the tactics don't suit him? Is it just that he's having a poor spell and will come through it?

Probably there's a bit of truth in all of them
 


Jeremiah

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Poor old Dunkie - he's having a sad time at the moment. A really poor performance and was caught twice hanging his leg out in a weak attempt at a tackle and was left for dead. I expect this might be his last season.
 




The Fits

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Zeus said:
He’s a total legend but it’s becoming painful watching him degrade in front of our eyes. The most worrying thing for me is the total lack of visible leadership from our captain out on the field when the chips are down.
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Same. He’s obviously really struggling physically but it’s really f***ed with his mental game too. I don’t think Webster would have allowed performances like today and Palace.
 




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