Sat Feb 17, 2007 2:32 pm
I'm afraid Wright was awful in my book, truly awful. Yes Fox was terrible, Dobson had a mare, and Keates was ineffective, but Wright was truly awful.
It's funny, because it's what the anti-MWAS lot said, that once the going gets tough, Wright becomes worse than useless. He shirks challenges, ducks out of headers, can't run with it, and last night, his performance was epitomised by the instant when he beat his man thanks to a westwood overlap taking the defenders attention elsewhere, got in to the box, and with 3 men to aim for, he crossed it straight in to the hands of the keeper, thats utterly terrible, how the hell he can call himself a winger is beyond me. When was Wrights last assist?
He's a wimp, he's techincally very poor, he's weak, he's slow, and last night, on top of all that he was lazy, at one point we won the ball back after they had broken from a Walsall corner, he'd ended up on the left, and even though we'd won possession he was just walking back towards the right wing, after 3 or 4 passes, the ball had gone out wide to westwood, and wright was still in the middle of the pitch strolling across to the right wing, then he realised "oh sh!t, I should be over there" and jogged it, but too late.
I'm prepared to give every player praise when they play well, but Mark Wright brings nothing whatsoever to our team, and the same can be said for Danny Fox. Lack of technical ability and physical attributes can be made up for with urgency and lots of energy, [see Dean Keates] but Fox and Wright just can't be arsed. Why? Possibly because all season they've had no competition for their position.
If it was up to me, I'd sign a right winger, a left winger, and another central midfielder with some height about him.
Neil was damn right in his report [regardless of my dislike of Wright] the whole midfield last night was shocking, truly shocking, but it's been coming since before December, so why haven't we strengthened?