Ryan Giles

It's the same referee as Sheffield United away last season.

And it made me laugh because when I realised that after, there was a point early in the first half where, believe me, I tried to play a pass out to Ryan Giles and the referee got in the way and I thought, why is he in the way? And then I remembered, oh, it's the referee from Sheffield United that got in the way of every single pass and then famously got in the way of the ball before he sent off John Lundström and he's not got any better at getting out of the way of play.

And that was particularly frustrating because at that point, City were playing well.

They played through Brentford.

They'd got Brentford out of position and they'd got momentum.

And, you know, Bellumi was pressing down.

He was flinging the ball out to Giles.

It was in acres of space down the left-hand side.

They'll change some things up here and there.

Ryan Giles could be out as a wingback.

He did not start in the last game.

I put him back in.

Maybe not.

Everyone else is 5K or cheaper.

Ryan Giles, we've already seen him get subbed off early.

So I'm going to bench.

Recently, Alfie Doughty, not necessarily the quickest, but, you know, got the shift done going forward and coming backwards.

Ryan Giles in amongst all of that as well.

Amari Bell being another one.

It's just a different thing to get used to, but we're so ingrained with up and down left backs that, you know, he's being judged on them rather than himself.

Brooks Norton-Cuffey, what did the manager say to you, Baz, after the game in terms of the selection?

He said it was partly because he didn't think Ryan Giles played well against Everton.

I think if you remember back to the Dewsbury Hall goal, Giles was caught sleeping.

Dewsbury Hall ran off the back of him and got on the end of Niles' cross fairly comfortably.

And ultimately, the players didn't do the job.

Yeah, obviously the manager felt like the team needed to be changing that situation.

Going back to Ryan Giles, obviously I was at the game last week at Everton and he wasn't full for that goal.

But I think from a player's point of view, he obviously realised that he made a mistake.

I think Cosby Dubry is a much better... out-of-possession player than what Morgan Whitaker was, so he's less exposed.

I think if you flip that to a few seasons ago under Michael Carrick with Ryan Giles and Riley McGree, where McGree would come in more centrally, that full-back is always exposed to two players and there's always overloads.

I think it's really difficult for defenders to defend against that when there's more people around you.

It's so hard to to get the tackles right or try and position yourself in the right place.

He's been okay mostly.

He just isn't at the level that we kinda saw, like, two seasons ago from him when he had, what did he have, 10 assists in a season? Ryan Giles I think is fine.

A little worried that he got subbed off at 64 minutes.

I think it was for Elliot Stroud last week, so that one isn't helpful.