Plymouth Match Thread

Is Dixon the new scapegoat now that Summerfield is having a good run?

Quoted from ginnywings

Is Dixon the new scapegoat now that Summerfield is having a good run?

He's not the new scapegoat, he's been useless all season.

Quoted from ginnywings

Is Dixon the new scapegoat now that Summerfield is having a good run?

He comes in for quite a bit of unfair flack for me. I actually think he'll get better as the season goes on. He hasn't played a lot last couple of years.

I thought Dixon was our MOM in the first game of the season at Chesterfield.
He's a steady enough League Two defender for me.

The stick him and Woolford get is way OTT and maybe stems from the "FIFA generation" were some believe you have to have pace to be any good. I said after last week him or Woolford would be ok on that left side with a more athletic player with them (think Townsend overlapping Monkhouse) but both of them together doesn't do then any favours.

For the goal today, Dixon dives in and commits himself but where is the next man applying pressure? Woolford and Berrett both stand and watch him waltz into the box and shoot. I don't get from those highlights that Dixon had a shocker, couple of errors but also looked like he was left on his own 1v1 with Carey far too often with no cover, which shouldn't be happening.

Aye. It's a grand old Grimsby tradition, scapegoating. We must be one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

The other players looked leaden when Carey waltzed past them.

Scapegoat ?
Is it coincidence that when the away side causes us issues its usually down our left side ?
This has been the case for most of the season.

He really isnt good enough, far too one footed,  distribution is poor, gets caught square too often making it easy for players to drift past him and is too slow to offer anything going forward ( not that this is my main requirement of a full back ) and gets stripped by any pacey winger.

Not scapegoating..just pointing out his shortcomings. He does have the benefit by having left sided Danny Collins to cover across which he regularly has to do.

However...its not his fault we havnt any cover for left back.

Maybe Collins could drop there with K Osbourn coming into the centre berth.

Quoted from KingstonMariner

Aye. It's a grand old Grimsby tradition, scapegoating. We must be one of the Lost Tribes of Israel.

The other players looked leaden when Carey waltzed past them.

Yup. Purely Grimsby. No other player at any other team has had stick.  Fans of every other team in the country are always 100% behind all their players and management whatever happens !!


Whether or not the criticism is justified (personally I think he is the weak link) is one thing.  But calling it a ‘Grimsby’ or a ‘fishy’ trait is total bollox.  It happens at nearly every team worldwide.

He is weak, and for some reason, management have decided that we shall have no other left back in the squad, so we are stuck with his limitations and he has no pressure on him for his place.

I am puzzled by Dixon, he's got a decent pedigree, only a few seasons ago he was a regular in the championship in a decent Huddersfield team, got 4 international caps for Scotland but yet he comes here and he looks extremely poor in my opinion, considering he is supposed to have a wand of a left foot I don't think he has, why is his career in a big downward spiral at 30.

Quoted from Tommy

I thought Dixon was our MOM in the first game of the season at Chesterfield.
He's a steady enough League Two defender for me.

The stick him and Woolford get is way OTT and maybe stems from the "FIFA generation" were some believe you have to have pace to be any good. I said after last week him or Woolford would be ok on that left side with a more athletic player with them (think Townsend overlapping Monkhouse) but both of them together doesn't do then any favours.

For the goal today, Dixon dives in and commits himself but where is the next man applying pressure? Woolford and Berrett both stand and watch him waltz into the box and shoot. I don't get from those highlights that Dixon had a shocker, couple of errors but also looked like he was left on his own 1v1 with Carey far too often with no cover, which shouldn't be happening.

Im to old to be in the FIFA generation.
Our left side is as bad as we have had in the last 10 seasons.
Dixon is a bad defender and hopeless going forward.
Woolford has a good football brain but not the body to go with it thats why I call him the slug.
These two get in the side because they drop into the manager negative footballing ethos.
Im not scapegoating them its just that they are not good enough, we seem to be getting hammed defensively and have no threat offensively down that side.