How is it Jones' fault that Smalling started to play like crap?
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You telling me that you haven't noticed how much more nervous our defence is when Jones is there?!
If not, watch the next time he starts
Smalling looked like a donkey from minute one lol, stop making excuses for him.
I'm not really a fan of Jones, and think Smalling is the better defender, but Smalling was clearly just off his game against Arsenal. It's games like this that he needs to cut out if he's to be a long-term fixture. As for Jones, the positive to take away at this point is that he's still young. I'm not optimistic, but you never know.
Man Utd 3:0 Tottenham
This boy can't play a simple pass 
Seriously. Can we sell him yet?! This is fecking embarrassing watching this lad play for us.
Imagine if that went in after Valencia's bungle in the last match, would have been absurd
I don't understand, McNair or Blackett are 100 times better than him.
Shush, don't be silly mate. McNair is terrible compared to the mighty Jones. How could a lad from N.Ireland match England's great hope?
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There must be somebody who can make a video of all the suicidal passes we've tried this season. Evans, Jones, Blind and Smalling must've done half a dozen each. Not to mention McNair and Valencia.
To be fair he's improved as the game has went on. Still can't be forgotten he could have cost us a goal early on quite easily. Liability but thankfully he's doing a better job now.
Started like a bundle of nerves but has been fine since
He's been one of our best players today you gimps.
Since the backpass he has not let Spurs get a sniff. Great match for all of the defense so far.
Take it you missed his whoppers early on?
Looked nervy being pressed on his weaker foot but had grown into the game well.
Looks a lot better next to Smalling than he does with Rojo imo.
You really think many would give him a chance to recover after a nervous opening 90 secounds.
Yeah but if you forget them and only focus on the good bits....
Phil Jonesesque on 55 seconds.
I think Smalling Jones is our best partnership still.
Yup and I always have done
He's been pretty good overall today except that 1 backpass.
His passing seems to have regressed but he clearly has potential to be great. Still plenty of time for him to improve although it might be better if we swapped Smalling to the left and Jones to his preferred right side.
2 minutes > 44 minutes
And I am, hence my post towards the end of the first half saying he had improved.
Still can't be having a centre back playing like that at the start of matches though.
Isn't that basically the case for every single one of Jones, Rojo and Evans?
Some short memories. Blackett has legitimately been awful after his first couple of games and not long ago, McNair was getting hauled off before HT vs Soton.
He is the biggest worry in the back IMO.
I still think Smalling / Rojo is our best partnership
Definitely is for the first two anyway imo, mainly because they're too similar to be a great partnership.
Been decent since his errors.
But still don't think he's good enough though.
But still don't think he's good enough though.
Apart from his sloppy pass back to De Gea, he's been solid.
Means feck all if he cost us a goal in those two minutes (Valencia against Arsenal comes to mind). Don't even try to suggest to me it's irrelevant. He'll be a liability until he stops that nonsense.
Every time he gets the ball in our own final third, he immediately looks to De Gea to see if the back pass is on.
Very impressive 2nd half. Well done Jones and Smalling today
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Dominated the match after the brain fart early on.
Wonder what the kneejerkers will say? He was very good, and is probably our best CB after Smalling.
Agreed. Made some very decisive tackles, especially towards the end when Spurs were pressing for a consolation goal. I thought he and Smalling dealt with Kane very well.