Cant agree with the scapegoating of Seddon, he is being asked to predominantly be an attacking full back therefore will often be 'the wrong side of the ball' he also has not had a stable left sided centre back to work with. Also his winger always tends to be our less defensive one eg Holland or Whyte whereas Long tends to get Williams or Sykes in front who always track back. Without knowing the stats I would imagine Seddons goals/assists far outway the RB position.
As someone who has been critical of Seddon, there has been no ‘scapegoating’ of him, apart from in this strange forum meaning of the word where if a player plays badly and more than one person comments on it, suddenly it’s a ‘witch-hunt’ and they’ve been scapegoated. No, it’s just people recognising when someone isn’t playing well, which is allowed surely?!
Steve Seddon has quite clearly been off form in the last few games and has made a number of errors resulting in goals (and nearly gave away a penalty) - it’s not just that he’s been exposed or not supported, he’s also made unforced errors, giving the ball away from simple passes, not tracking his man and generally being poor - including in an attacking sense. His good attacking stats are mainly from earlier in the season when he was on a good run, so aren’t really relevant when talking about his current form. He’s not adding much to the team going forwards at the moment, and is an absolute liability defensively. Often it seems most of teams attacks come down our left hand side in games.
Radio Oxford have noticed it as well, so it’s not just a forum thing. You have to say if we had a half decent backup he’d surely be out of the team? Put it this way, if a winger or central midfielder was playing at the level he is, putting in that quality of performance for 2, 3, 4 games in a row, would they still be in the side now? Definitely not! Marcus McGuane has been streets ahead of Seddon in every one of his last few games and he’s still in and out of the team and constantly being questioned on here! ‘McGuane should do more’ - Ok, maybe Seddon should stop giving goals away?! Should drop back into left back every now and then?
Watching again, you are absolutely right - I should learn to stop trusting the word of Jerome & Nathan as gospel!
So my humblest apologies to Ciaron Brown.
And that's Exhibit Z to stick in the file entitled "Why Steven Seddon is not a defender"
I genuinely think that if you looked at say the last 10 goals Oxford have conceded, no player would be at fault for more of them than Seddon. He’s also not contributing much in all round play
currently (he has done previously in the season, when he was in good form).
Again, this isn’t bashing him, as I say he’s been good for us before and I’m sure will be again, but in any other position he’d have had a spell out of the side and a chance to regain some form. I feel sorry for him more than anything, at times he looks like his confidence is shot to pieces but he just plays and plays 90 minutes week in, week out. He absolutely needs and deserves to be dropped.
