Stearman: back to his....

[Bill2]

On looking at the highlights, if that is the correct word, it was a penalty, soft but a penalty. He raised his hands and pushed the forward, he left the ref with no choice. Bearing in mind that the player was not threatening the goal it was plain stupid.

[filham]

Stearman has turned out to be a late summer window panic buy, Wolves must be laughing all the way to the bank.
The other bad news is that the players that are just about holding our defence together, Madle and Ince are only on loan and no doubt will wave us good bye at the end of the season.

The only things Wolves will be is confused at how we turned yet another good player crap

He was the "Player of the Season" in the season before...

Bet they wouldn't pay money to take him back.

[snarks]

I feel sorry for Stearman, I think playing in this defence has sapped his confidence, in fact being let go by Wolves having been their player of the season for 2 years would do that too. I saw him at Leicester as a kid, and then at Wolves and thought Fulham had picked up a really good player.

As for the back 4, Madl and Amore have been the best CB pairing, I'm not even sure if Richards has started under SJ, He plays well for Wales so maybe an authoritative CB would help him.  Clearly the back 5 is a problem. As is the holding CDM's.

The most alarming thing about the defensive spine of the team on Friday was the lack of pace, O'Hara, Parker, Amore and Stearman just don't have it at all. Whilst Fredricks is quick, and Ream no Slouch, they are not that great defensively.

I really was worried from Kick off because of the lack of pace, I know it's been a problem all season, but O'Hara and Parker in CM exemplify it.

[WayneKerrins]

Excellent thread which I concur with the vast majority of.

[alfie]

On looking at the highlights, if that is the correct word, it was a penalty, soft but a penalty. He raised his hands and pushed the forward, he left the ref with no choice. Bearing in mind that the player was not threatening the goal it was plain stupid.

Of course this is all correct, but what's going on in our game now, players getting the slightest touch and they throw themselves to the ground, to me that is just out and out cheating, even the ref admitted he may well have made a mistake, but i guess the people have spoken and Stearman seems to be our latest blame all, and i suppose it has given Amore a rest.

[RaySmith]

On looking at the highlights, if that is the correct word, it was a penalty, soft but a penalty. He raised his hands and pushed the forward, he left the ref with no choice. Bearing in mind that the player was not threatening the goal it was plain stupid.

Of course this is all correct, but what's going on in our game now, players getting the slightest touch and they throw themselves to the ground, to me that is just out and out cheating, even the ref admitted he may well have made a mistake, but i guess the people have spoken and Stearman seems to be our latest blame all, and i suppose it has given Amore a rest.

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[J.Perkins]

stearman, even in the worst form of his career, is a better option at CB than bodurov, hutchinson, burn or ream.

and you can bet your left ball he's paid a lot less than amorebieta.

so unless we're planning to buy five centre backs in the summer (six if we can't keep madl, which will depend on the wording of his option) we really should be hoping stearman stays

Leicester have proven that form is everything. A lesser player on form is most likely better than a stronger player off form.

[Apprentice to the Maestro]

stearman, even in the worst form of his career, is a better option at CB than bodurov, hutchinson, burn or ream.

and you can bet your left ball he's paid a lot less than amorebieta.

so unless we're planning to buy five centre backs in the summer (six if we can't keep madl, which will depend on the wording of his option) we really should be hoping stearman stays

I would argue that Burn before this season was better than anything that we have seen from Stearman.

I have been very disappointed in Stearman. When announced it sounded as though he would be the leader our defence needed. In reality he has looked as confused, indecisive and error prone as anyone.

It shows the sorry state of our defence that we have no confidence in any of our defenders except Madl.