23 May 2016 23:27:02
I see Tav's getting a lot of stick just now. Think we should give the gut a break. Fair to say defending isn't his strong point, but if he could defend as well as he gets forward we wouldn't have lured him to play in the Championship in the first place!

If we had at least one quality centre back mopping up in our defence then every error he makes wouldn't be punished. Let's not forget how many important goals he has scored this season, and let's not forget how many of those goals were straight out the top drawer.

Think we need to appreciate the boy a bit more.

1.) 24 May 2016
24 May 2016 06:04:40
So what your saying is because he can get forward as you put it then we should forget he is a right back whose main job is to be a defender and you point out how many goals he has scored and credit to him for them but no mention of how many he gave away by poor defending and I hope I am wrong but I can only see that increasing in the league this season. He has got to improve his defensive skills.

2.) 24 May 2016
24 May 2016 08:05:27
Surely then u play him right midfield and get another right back?

3.) 24 May 2016
24 May 2016 09:03:04
I'm not saying he doesn't need to cut out some defensive mistakes but people are going overboard.

Part and parcel of playing with attacking full backs is that other players have to drop in and cover when they bomb forward. They players immediately around him aren't doing that and the buck seems to be stopping with Tav.

If his defending was as good as people here expect he would be playing week in, week out at the Camp Nou!

4.) 24 May 2016
24 May 2016 08:44:56
BT61, what lwdawson is saying is some of our fans are far too fickle and go way over the top at times like in this case with tav, cut the guy some slack for god's sake, he's performed brilliantly for us in many games this season and fans tend to forget that, of course defending is not tav's strong point and you'll find this deficiency in a lot of the more talented modern day full backs of today.

lwdawson is correct in stating we haven't got the good, fast centre halfs to cover that area when tav is moving forward, trust the manager to fix this and maybe we will see tav playing one position further forward next season just like mcleish did with fernando ricksen!

5.) 24 May 2016
24 May 2016 12:12:02
Utter garbage- he's been hopeless for the last half of the season. He was immense in early part until he got figured out.

People are rightly having a dig at him, but I guess some people can't accept any criticism.