Oh I agree that there are plenty of players that are not performing and need a boot in the ass. As a couple of others have mentioned, in a certain game style, Sigmund fits right in. Ask him to play football and he is a nightmare. This season he has developed this thing about breaking the line trying for the intercepts. Perhaps he reads the stats and goes 'Well I'm top of the stats in intercepts, I may as well keep doing it'. Its dropping us in the shit a lot and I guess it would be easier to hide if he had a turn and pace, but he has neither so it exposes everyone.
Bertos has been solid this year but today he got caught a few times. Paston made some good saves, Durante has usually performed to the standard expected and is probably immune from most criticism this year. I thought today was the best Lochhead has looked this year. Take that for what its worth
In the middle we have a thug in Lia and Sanchez, whom made far too many unforced errors today. Boyd, Totori and Brockie were invisible, I thought Fenton took wrong options frequently. Stein... I like him but I didn't see enough to give him a shout today even though he had a good opening 20 mins. Is that cause his work rate dropped off or starvation of the ball? The same could apply to others and I guess if you are not seeing much of the ball up front, you drop a bit deeper and go find it, roll your sleeves up and help out. We showed good work rate in the 1st 40 and really pressured the back 4 for the Heart. Then it disappeared. Other than 'position specific' positioning I kinda think that the likes of Fenton, Stein, Boyd have the skill to drop a little deeper, fill in a hole and if they get it, receive and pass (or pass and receive) Those skills are universal.
Most of these guys played ok in the first half but disappeared and it was not just one or two, it was everyone. I mentioned it earlier but Paston cops a fair bit of stick and he has been solid this year sans 3-4 saves.
Why do I call for the replacement of Sigmund? Because there is an AW sitting on the bench. Its not like its a Musa/Griffiths type player. We are talking about an international. He wont have the passion that Sigmund has but right now, thats not what is missing. Its the ability to hold the line, mark up and be mindful of what is going on around you. Then. make a good pass. If he is not dropped, he is only a yellow away from a 5 card rest I think.
One thing I did notice is a lot less hoofball but I guess thats either here nor there tomorrow because the scoreboard says 2-0 regardless.