Santos Laguna 4 Colorado Rapids 1 - Earls before swine (Palguta too)

Can i ask “UZ” what is your issue with Danny Earls, you never have a good word to say about the player. Looking through of the comments you seem to have a gripe against Earls in particular which is bordering on an obsession.

This is a player who featured in the first 16 games of last season has now become public enemy no. 1 from your perspective. Your lack of basic football knowledge is unfathomable, how you cannot credit Earls as one of the better performers at Fridays game away to Galaxy leads me to believe that your basic football knowledge is on par with my grandmothers. You have a platform to express your obvious ignorance to anything that remotely resembles football analysis and basically spout out tripe that has now ryme or reason. You Sir need a new hobby.

To be fair Earls was a solid consistent performer for the first 16 games of last years championship seaon. He lost form and was dropped – no issue there thats football. He has not just turned into a bad player overnight. His performance against Galaxy was mature and solid. His ball retention and range of passing was alot better than the majority of this team mates and he grew in confidence as the game wore on- no player especially in a defensive postion can be expected to come in and out of a team and perform to there optimum – i.e. consistency/run of games is required. An example of this would be Drew Moore’s performace last night. Moore, an excellent player it has to be said, did not enjoy one of his better games. He has been out of action and therefore was not up to match speed. – This is what any good team is built on – whereby the defence back four play regularly and form a consistent back line whom can read each others game. This was blatanly not the case last night – but is more a collective poor display than any individual player.

There are times in football where distribution largely depends on the the runs and first touch of players around. If you “UZ” were to analyse Fridays game at Galaxy from a educated footballers viewpoint you would note that Earls was one of the more positive performers on the night – but unfortunately basic football knowledge would be hard for yourself to comprehend.

As i played against Earls at underage level,I have followed this players progress in depth from his signing at Aston Villa and have found when utilised and embraced by fans and management alike Earls is an excellent player with a professional and astute attitude to go with it.

This young player has bags of talent (terrific left foot, excellent football brain and a willingless to improve) which had clubs from Aston Villa, Sunderland, Cardiff City and Fulham vying for his signature as a 17 year old. Appearances for Republic of Ireland underage up to U-19 level aswel as numerous premier league reserve and youth championship medals with AVFC.

As an Irish person i am obviously going to stand up for one of our own, but i assure you that there is no biase within my above statement – i just feel that the critisism aimed at Earls through this forum is way too far over the top.

If you embrace players like this and promote improvement and success, as in any walk of life, you could become a set a fans from which a club can be built around. A set of fans who stick with players through thick and thin who strive for an excellent brand of pure football. Unfortunately with your ignorance and poor football knowledge this ideology seems a long way off.

Unfortunately where a club has fans like yourself sir, who needs enemies!