Riou
In The Winchester, Waiting For This To Blow Over
Country: Northern Ireland
Player:Gabriel
It’s hard to compare. I look back at the period from around 2009 to circa 2015 and I remember that nearly every team we played sat back in deep banks and never pressed. It wasn’t until Swansea came along that we started seeing change from the smaller clubs. When you have so much space and time on the ball the midfield looks much better than it is.
Teams were kinda still terrified of us at that point though, even if we had dropped from a 1st/2nd place to a 3rd/4th place team, we still had some really talented players during that period...still had periods were we could get physically beaten away every now and then, but at home we could easily stick a few past even the best teams...the midfield especially is killing us now imo, nothing to really fear about us now.