White84 what it comes down to for me is this. How is he playing now? I was at the match on Saturday and saw the incident you're making so much of. To be honest from where I sat it did NOT look to me as if Boggers was going to get there and Zat felt he had to take action. Yes his header could have been better and it MIGHT have cost us on another day but it didn't. In fact from that point on we looked rock solid and Zat had Rhodes in his pocket.
I am completely with you in how he started the season but that was several months ago now.
When a player is performing well and Zat did perform well on Saturday I feel it's wrong to drop them unless they are injured or you have a very compelling reason to do so. Alan Hutton may be useful but he isn't some World Class genius who's going to lead us to glory, he's a player we borrowed from elsewhere to strengthen our squad for the remainder of this season. In my opinion we already have too many loanees and it's no way to build a team for the future which I feel we should now have one eye on as this season is already dead barring a miracle or a catastrophe.
I am interested only in how our players are performing NOW and Zat Knight is on form at the moment and should therefore keep his place. If Zat is playing badly by all means sub him off and put Hutton on but to say drop a man who's doing good work at the moment just because someone else has arrived is bad management.
We all know what happened after the Leicester game, Nat was rightly up in arms and so were many others as all three goalscorers were dropped. I was one of the many fuming with anger when Dougie announced he would NOT make changes after the drubbing we took from Reading because if ever there had been a time for people to be dropped it was after that craven and woeful display.
I am not a Zat Knight fan by any means, he's known as Knightmare with good reason most of the time but right now he's on form and I think given how the whole team performed Dougie should go with the same eleven as he used to start the match last Saturday. As the saying goes "it ain't broke so don't fix it" so why mess with a side that's winning well and has kept two clean sheets in a row while bagging six goals of our own?
I am completely with you in how he started the season but that was several months ago now.
When a player is performing well and Zat did perform well on Saturday I feel it's wrong to drop them unless they are injured or you have a very compelling reason to do so. Alan Hutton may be useful but he isn't some World Class genius who's going to lead us to glory, he's a player we borrowed from elsewhere to strengthen our squad for the remainder of this season. In my opinion we already have too many loanees and it's no way to build a team for the future which I feel we should now have one eye on as this season is already dead barring a miracle or a catastrophe.
I am interested only in how our players are performing NOW and Zat Knight is on form at the moment and should therefore keep his place. If Zat is playing badly by all means sub him off and put Hutton on but to say drop a man who's doing good work at the moment just because someone else has arrived is bad management.
We all know what happened after the Leicester game, Nat was rightly up in arms and so were many others as all three goalscorers were dropped. I was one of the many fuming with anger when Dougie announced he would NOT make changes after the drubbing we took from Reading because if ever there had been a time for people to be dropped it was after that craven and woeful display.
I am not a Zat Knight fan by any means, he's known as Knightmare with good reason most of the time but right now he's on form and I think given how the whole team performed Dougie should go with the same eleven as he used to start the match last Saturday. As the saying goes "it ain't broke so don't fix it" so why mess with a side that's winning well and has kept two clean sheets in a row while bagging six goals of our own?