john o"shea

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been a great servant and player to the club,and I dont wan"t to keep knocking him,but I shit myself when I see his name on thre teamsheet,,,,I just wish he could learn to pass it to a teammate and not the opposition,wonder if hes cross eyed......
 

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been a great servant and player to the club,and I dont wan"t to keep knocking him,but I shit myself when I see his name on thre teamsheet,,,,I just wish he could learn to pass it to a teammate and not the opposition,wonder if hes cross eyed......
With such poor grammar, one wonders who is the one that is really cross-eyed?
 

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He was solid defensively but his passing has to be one of the worst in the PL. If he's not pumping the ball forward he's either giving it to the opponent or hitting it out :lol:
 

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Yes he can not pass well, his attacking prowess is lacking, he most of the time puts us under pressure due to careless passes, but I tell you what. If he was evra in that position with the game on the line, he would have buried that chance and not mishit it for Chicho to direct it in. So for all his faults, he is clutch as well.
 

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I never understand why O'Shea gets shit since he plays a limited defensive role for you in a variety of positions and never gets much wrong (like today). Other more fancy Dans like Rafael who couldn't defend a kids' raid on a party table or Anderson who's always raiding the fridge, seem to be flavour of the moth.
 

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I never understand why O'Shea gets shit since he plays a limited defensive role for you in a variety of positions and never gets much wrong (like today). Other more fancy Dans like Rafael who couldn't defend a kids' raid on a party table or Anderson who's always raiding the fridge, seem to be flavour of the moth.
Have you even watched him play this season?
 

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I never understand why O'Shea gets shit since he plays a limited defensive role for you in a variety of positions and never gets much wrong (like today). Other more fancy Dans like Rafael who couldn't defend a kids' raid on a party table or Anderson who's always raiding the fridge, seem to be flavour of the moth.
A sort of dry, dusty taste?
 

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Why wasn't he playing today exactly?
Because we were playing stoke and fergie wanted defenders who could deal with stokes long balls. Even evra didn't play at left back.

Rafael is young so is a bit inconsistent but when he's good he's fantastic. He's already put out some very good performances against some very good attackers. One of top talents around imo.
 

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I'm sure someone on here showed some stats which proved that O'Shea has the worst pass completion ratio of any of our players recently.

Now, I know that that in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing (someone's got to be the worst) but there was a little spell today where he gave the ball away three times within about a minute, it was literally pass after pass after pass and he wasn't exactly attempting anything particularly spectacular... just routine passes.
 

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He seems to have picked up the skill of passing the ball with one foot directly on to his standing leg.
 

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I'm sure someone on here showed some stats which proved that O'Shea has the worst pass completion ratio of any of our players recently.

Now, I know that that in and of itself is not necessarily a bad thing (someone's got to be the worst) but there was a little spell today where he gave the ball away three times within about a minute, it was literally pass after pass after pass and he wasn't exactly attempting anything particularly spectacular... just routine passes.
so was Paul Scholes
 

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He's saying Scholes did the same thing but people just jump on OShea. Scholes had a bit of a mare at times but it doesn't get mentioned. OShea was largely solid but then started to have a bit of a passing spac attack and because that happened last people just remember that and come on here to slag him off.

Who's shockingly bad pass led to their goal? Scholes.

Who gets the crap on the caf? Sheasy.