A case for Defence (is it really all Zats Fault?)

[boltonboris]

I like the fact that some people have excused him for being utterly shit, because some other players are pretty shit too..

Nice one.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

My vote is he's a liability. And I'm flabbergasted by the captaincy.

[malcd1]

It is no good playing OK for 89 minutes if you make a mistake and cost us a goal. That is Zat Knight.

Not a really shit defender but liable to make one bad mistake every game and will costs us a lot of points over the season.

[a1]

dont think he's let a last minute goal in..

wheater's gone terrible in a wierdly fast way. and mills is toss. i'd play three at the back, so its all down to him. he getting stick anyway. when he were playing with dawson they barely put a foot wrong.

yeah

[Lost Leopard Spot]

dont think he's let a last minute goal in..

wheater's gone terrible in a wierdly fast way. and mills is toss. i'd play three at the back, so its all down to him. he getting stick anyway. when he were playing with dawson they barely put a foot wrong.

yeah

If he were to blame for last minute goals then I guarantee that there'd be a stewards enquiry as to whether or not he was backpocketting wads of cash from dodgy Far Eastern gambling syndicates. The mistakes he makes look that bleeding blatant at times. His only saving grace is that so far the team has had the opportunity to make up for the glaring cock-ups (not that the team has managed much in the way of compensation recently).

[malcd1]

dont think he's let a last minute goal in..

wheater's gone terrible in a wierdly fast way. and mills is toss. i'd play three at the back, so its all down to him. he getting stick anyway. when he were playing with dawson they barely put a foot wrong.

yeah

I wasn't meaning the actual last minute of every game. It doesn't matter where the lapse in concentration is in the match, if it costs us a goal then we will struggle. It could be the 5th minute or the 75th minute. It just isn't good enough from Knight.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

I wasn't meaning the actual last minute of every game. It doesn't matter where the lapse in concentration is in the match, if it costs us a goal then we will struggle. It could be the 5th minute or the 75th minute. It just isn't good enough from Knight.

Quite. Shortly before the QPR game, I posted this:

Some required reading for Knight and Wheater – from The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach:

Baseball was an art, but to excel at it you had to become a machine. It didn’t matter how beautifully you performed sometimes, what you did on your best day, how many spectacular plays you made. You weren’t a painter or a writer - you didn’t work in private and discard your mistakes, and it wasn’t just your masterpieces that counted. What mattered, as for any machine, was repeatability. Moments of inspiration were nothing compared to elimination of error.

[TANGODANCER]

After watching Gary Cahill's brilliant defensive display last night, I sighed and wished for times past but not forgotten.

[malcd1]

Can we all agree that Zat Knight really is crap. I know the first goal was not all his fault but he has to take a large chunk of the blame. The second is a typical Knightmare mistake.

[plymouth wanderer]

How the fvck he's captain I'll never know

If he was was anymore laid back he'd be horizontal

[officer_dibble]

Lackadaisical c*nt

Hope he gets run over in the euxton car park!

[bobo the clown]

A case for Defence (is it really all Zats Fault?)

A bloody lot of it is, yes.

[Lord Kangana]

I think OD's comment in the other thread is pertinent here. Dougie dropped a massive bollock making him captain, and now needs an easy 'out' as they say. I don't wish serious injury on any player, and I won't now, but I can't see how dougie can backtrack on this decision without it having detrimental repercussions on his reputation with the squad, and it'll end up looking like a massive climbdown. A little niggly one might keep him out for long enough for someone to take that awkward decision out of his hands.

[officer_dibble]

I think OD's comment in the other thread is pertinent here. Dougie dropped a massive bollock making him captain, and now needs an easy 'out' as they say. I don't wish serious injury on any player, and I won't now, but I can't see how dougie can backtrack on this decision without it having detrimental repercussions on his reputation with the squad, and it'll end up looking like a massive climbdown. A little niggly one might keep him out for long enough for someone to take that awkward decision out of his hands.

I've had a few beers and i don't like...can't stand the fella...but i wouldn't wish injury on anyone. I guess!

[jaffka]

He is crap but wishing injury on him...no, that is not on.

Don't go down the same path as some by classing people as cancer.

[CrazyHorse]

Maybe. Just maybe Dougie hopes that by making a big deal of publically putting his faith in Zat and making him captain might just pull the wool over the eyes of an unsuspecting lower Premier League club who'll swoop in and offer us six million quid for the useless sack of shite.

Maybe. Just maybe.

[thebish]

Maybe. Just maybe Dougie hopes that by making a big deal of publically putting his faith in Zat and making him captain might just pull the wool over the eyes of an unsuspecting lower Premier League club who'll swoop in and offer us six million quid for the useless sack of shite.

Maybe. Just maybe.

[Abdoulaye's Twin]

He may have made Knight captain but there are a few ways he can drop him for a game or 2 and save face.

1. Get the science geeks to doctor the numbers and make it look like he needs a break or he'll get an injury.
2. Have an adult chat with him and explain that we need to try something different. You're still captain, but I'm going to sit you out a couple of games to try something.

In both cases he doesn't have to put him back in if there is a big improvement as he has his justification.

Anyway. Even if it upsets a few in the squad, they need some upsetting right now.

[Hoboh]

I suspect Knights attitude is causing the malaise in the dressing room!

[officer_dibble]

On the bench for the reserves or whatever they are called.

Hope its the beginning of the end for the prick. Stole a living from this club for far too long.