You are right. However this being the first game of the season I can understand why the communication between Paston and Durante (and the rest of the defence) was lacking. Next game we are going to see a better defence against a stronger side. You heard it here first.
1: Well after that defensive display of course they are going to be better because they couldn't possibly have played much worse. Christ thats hardly rocket science WPF. Paston wasn't to blame for the goals on this occasion. The 6 in front of him were but I'll touch on that below.
The back 6 (sans McKain on occasions) were poor and unlike last year
where we bagged our front 4, its the reverse so far. I hope that a week and a
'wake up the season has started' slap in the face will prompt them to consider their effort. Plus only league placings over the course of the season will tell whether Melbourne > Newcastle this year so thats just pure speculation, much like most of the league think we will finish bottom and the Phoenix fans disagree - speculation. After Thursdays effort, Melbourne looked old and their time has come to an end (again could be 1 poor game)
2: You can't help yourself. You just can't see when you are beaten and can't let the last word go to someone else and I'm sure you'll respond to this one as well telling me I'm wrong. You can throw up facts and football knowledge and 'I know better than you' but you are a minority of 1 telling the world of the virtues of Paston over Moss.
This really a dead issue because Moss don't hang his boots here but your words are coming back to bite you in the ass and Pastons' supposed superior defensive organisation skills that make him so much better than other keepers (specifically Moss, the All Whites No 1 for the sake of this argument) were exposed in light of that fact that its a defensive back 4 he played with many times last year and trained with this year.
To me, if he was that good at organising his back 4, the 3rd goal would never have been scored because he would have been yelling at Lockhead to watch the trailing man rather than stay nailed to the deck and say 'please come down the middle and head it in'. Prior to that, he would have given Durante and Sigmund a rocket and things would have tightened up so that Lockhead wouldn't have had to stay nailed to the deck. He may not have been responsible for the goals but I didn't see this organisation nor did I see Paston even give his back 4 a spray. He is not a superior defensive organiser and his hands are not as good as other keepers although I am willing to accept that is only one game and after that performance, we really can only get better because it was just A League inept.
I'll ask you this: If the back 4 are that disjointed again, are you still going to claim that Paston has excellent organisational skills?
Jeff Vader2009-08-11 18:51:46
