Kongolo

[bobjimwilly]

Agree, Kongolo has played well the last few matches.

[RTID!!!]

I disagree completely without him and cops we are nothing

[drfchound]

I know to some this will sound strange but I thought we went to pieces after Rodney came off. We lost our shape down the right ad Whiteman seemed to go into a 2nd defensive position alongside Houghton rather than wide right, and as for Alfies performance when he came on well enough has been said.

At the time when Rodders came off we said that it was a move to shore up the defence by bringing Ben on.
We expected him to drop in alongside Houghton.
Whiteman was never going to play wide right.

[ravenrover]

I know to some this will sound strange but I thought we went to pieces after Rodney came off. We lost our shape down the right ad Whiteman seemed to go into a 2nd defensive position alongside Houghton rather than wide right, and as for Alfies performance when he came on well enough has been said.

At the time when Rodders came off we said that it was a move to shore up the defence by bringing Ben on.
We expected him to drop in alongside Houghton.
Whiteman was never going to play wide right.

agree Hound and that is my point, when the system is working why change it? Like for like yes but to change it as he did, cost us the extra 2 points. Marquis and May, sadly, were forced into tracking back and we all know the rest jmho

[Alan Southstand]

All very valid points, guys, and it is why we need a different animal on our left side rather than have Rowe there. Tommy would be better employed behind JM. A new left wing back sort of loanee until the end of the season cures our left side and our better, more experienced, partner for JM.

[Bezza]

we went downhill when Kongola came off, big improvement from him in last two games.

[GazLaz]

Klopp made changes in the Liverpool City game on Sunday to try and tighten things up and it halted their momentum. Had the opposite affect.

[drfchound]

We have seen it happens many times at DRFC, SoD was a great exponent of bringing defenders on with time running out and invariably we conceded.