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January 24, 2019, 10:54am |
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I'm happy with Wes Thomas, although at 32 he's probably only a shortish term solution althogh his form has dropped off the last 2 or 3 weeks. To be fair, he's been living off scraps. Charles Vernam is a quality footballer, I suspect he isn't a hundred percent after a recent injury flare up and had been playing wide right of the top three where chances aren't quite as forthcoming as the central forward.
I really did like Cook, I say did as he seems to be completely out of the reckoning, but I thing there is a clever player there. Whether he is a central striker, I'm not sure. I am not at all happy with Harry Cardwell as a first team striker. His goal record is woeful and he never looks like scoring, he is slow to react and doesn't look anywhere near the required levels. My opinion of course, and I'd be delighted if he could prove me wrong. Akeem Rose, haven't seen enough of him but from what I have seen, he has pace to burn and a willingness to get behind defences. but it's clear he is raw, he's missed a couple of good headed opportunities.
Attack wise, we need a new striker who is ready to go straight into the first eleven, easier said than done of course. May have to push the boat out and sacrifice other areas but that has to be MJ's priority and he's just over a week to bring someone in permanently. I don't want to loan players as you're just putting a plaster on the wound and improving someone elses player.
Totally agree with this, wes isn't exactly getting amazing chances atm and is having to act as a hold up player, which he is not, I think we need a tall strong lad who can hold up play, and flick it on when needs be. Cardwell is tall, but doesn't seem strong enough or win anything in the air. We also lack an aerial threat from crosses and corners unless we have Davis/öhman up with us. Think Vernam is/will be very good, has pace and is not afraid to run AT his man which I wish we did more rather than passing it sideways/back when we meet a defender... Cook, I'm not sure about, hasn't really had enough chances of late, but imagine he's on a decent wage and wouldn't be surprised to see him going...
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January 24, 2019, 12:27pm |
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We are not desperate for strikers imo, we are desperate for a midfield that can create chances.
I wouldnt mind if the strikers were spurning chance after chance but they are not as the service is urine poor. We have too many mids that are pretty much the same if you take out embleton.
I do think we have a need for someone who can hold the ball up better, Thomas has been far too isolated and does not have a midfield that gets close to him, only Clifton seems to do that in any way, too much side ways and backwards.
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Matt was never ours to give away and was absolute dog in most of the 30-odd matches he played for us. Of course a bloke who’s about 6’5” is going to do well for a team that just loads everything into the box and has the players to do it with quality.
So why didn't we do that when we had him? Play to your strengths and all that! Pi**es me off seeing him & Podge scoring for fun for a team in our league.
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So while Matt was here we didn't play to his positives,e.g. lumping it into the box all the time, now we have Wes that's now how we play, seems something wrong somewhere!!!
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I think you'd have to say that the run in with endless long throws from Rose hurled into the box were pretty direct last season. Matt was a bit of a disappointment for us but I understand that his kid was badly injured at some point last year in an accident (I seem to remember some sort of a mention of him/her being scalded?). Perfectly understandable that we didn't see his best with this in mind.
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January 24, 2019, 10:34pm |
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So while Matt was here we didn't play to his positives,e.g. lumping it into the box all the time, now we have Wes that's now how we play, seems something wrong somewhere!!!
Not sure we do lump it into the box that much, lump upfield maybe but I see too many times we are in the last third and then the ball ends up back with McKeown.
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