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I thought Doughty had a fairly good game - and reading through the GameDay thread it seems that most people agree with me. Petrenko, on the other hand, was almost anyonymous - other than that spectacular pass to Walker.Yes...and I see that Mick Doughty has escaped your ire after an equally (if not more) underwhelming preseason and opening game (Champion Data have Dogga a mere three points up on Petrenko).
I guess they're in the the exact same place in the pecking order huh?
I've never shied away from the fact that Doughty had a poor pre-season. I wasn't particularly concerned, given that he's played 200+ games and knows what's important and what isn't (the MMC most definitely isn't). He's since returned to form and your comment here is the only time anyone has called his position into question for R2.
At the very least I'd play the ball, rather than the man.. which is better than 80% of the posters in this thread.Thankfully.
Using statistics isn't the best approach if you are trying to convert people to the dark side (as in against Petrenko) as statistics can be used to prove almost anything - as shown in previous posts. If someone who's whipping boy is Doughty or Douglas (For the record, I am not against either of them being in the team-Just used for example) made a thread trying to suggest reasons why they shouldn't be in the team (seen many posts on the issue), how would you respond to them? I would get the feeling the threads on those players position in the team would get locked.
I'd argue why I think they should have been retained, noting my previous comments about Doughty being given 6 weeks to show something and the fact that Douglas was playing his first game back from injury, having missed most of the MMC as a result.
Petrenko on the other hand played in the MMC and underwhelmed. Unlike Doughty though, he has carried his underwhelming form into the H&A season.