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Keanes made more than his fair share of fuck up's down the years, Paul and while I can sympathise with the mans mental health problems. I don't believe it should be taken into consideration when judging the players performance. Once he has declared himself fit. Fans can only judge on what they see. That said. Although he's been far from perfect this season. He has been comfortably our best defender. I think people have their favourites, Some are even biased due to the players nationality, but despite my ancestry I will not be viewing O'Brien through green tinted glasses. We've had enough of that shite for with Seamus. O'Brien has been poor this season. Sometimes very poor. The claim that he is playing out of position will only carry so much water. Playing out of position may not get the best out of a player, but it doesnt make him repeatedly lose concentration, or his man, It doesnt make him give the ball away repeatedly. It doesnt make him stop/start like he did for the Wolves goal (unforgivable). It doesnt make you think you are a volleyball player and it certainly doesnt exonerate you from running up a charge sheet like your team mates. As you say. The decision will make itself fot the next three games and I would like to think a JOB/Tarkowski partnership can tighten up a very poor defence. Although those who think JOB will drag Tarkowski up the pitch are totally deluding themselves. Moyes has a reputation for his great defence. A decent amount of clean sheets would support that perception, but anybody who watches this team regularly knows how easily it capitulates when the opponents smell blood. Our defenders have been way short of the adequate this season. Age. speed. Players out of position and poor tactics can all be used as excuses. The simple fact is they have all individually been gash.

Hope you\'re well Darren mate. Not an option for 3 games, but O\'Brien/Keane in the middle, Tarkowski on the bench. We might disagree about the hair-gate episode Darren, but Keane has been more reliable than JT and scores. Keane gets so much flak. Eve his courage to reveal his mental health issues was berated. Now I think he was dumb v Brentford, but overall he\'s a more solid option than Tarkowski, except when O\'Brien was shifted to the middle at Forest. Perhaps the key thig here is not JK or MK in the middle but shit tall Jake there?

\"Got to agree with Keane's critics. He clearly pulls his Pony tail pulling his head back to prevent him heading the ball\" Nope. Looked all over every website and have'nt seen anyone say he tried to prevent him heading the ball. This debate is best left to the people who witnessed the incident rather than those who picked it up when trading nasty gossip with like minded people two days later The referee sent him off for violent conduct. Not because he won the ball unfairly. Although I do appreciate how that would be seen as violent conduct down the baggy. Paul Couldnt agree more. Been calling for Tarkowski to be dropped for weeks. He's been doing it for two seasons and people have been buying it. I even wrote after the Brentford game on here that the more mistakes he makes. The greater the call for Keane to be dropped

My reaction when I saw it was that it was a bit daft from Keane, and a yellow card would have been sufficient. As Tony @ 6 said, once Kavanagh in the VAR booth intervened then the pressure on a young referee was immense. VAR as currently used is too intrusive and interventionist; it disempowers the referee and puts too big a spotlight on physical challenges like these. For a start, the VAR team should not be talking real-time when the ball is in play. They should intervene on offside and penalty incidents only. It should be up to the referee to invite them to look at other incidents he/she wants a second opinion on.

Another thing Mr. Tarkowski, it\'s hardly in the style of a proper captain to blame your teammates for your mistakes, is it? Well done Jordan on calling him out for it.