I’m not too worried about that. I think our defense is good enough to handle most of the teams in our league if we now have a decent left back. I’m sure we’ll still get the odd blooper or slack moment but think we should be fine for the most part.
Yes, never understand the concept of letting opposition fire in crosses and deal with them. Don’t care how good your central defenders are or even how good your goalie commands the box, as you state, if enough crosses come in then goals will follow.
He did set up Tierney when we were 3 on 2, who got a weak shot off but agree he needs better decision making on when to keep and when to lay it off. I’m still not sure about Tierney. Seems like he has had a fair number number scoring chances since arriving but not able to capitalize on them. Still, I think he may turn out to be decent.