Well, none out of three's not bad Pooch.
For a perceptive man you can, like me, say some dumb things sometimes my friend. "Numerous" chances Ricky's had that he hasn't seized? Has some new kind of inverse statistics been developed in a parallel universe? Scoring in all the friendlies you've played, what's that, being off sick? Someone like Matt who actually saw him play, immediately thinking, he's a first choice player ........... do we forget that?
How many games did it take the whole team even to score with CO'G in it who only has 14 years league experience behind him? Fitting in up front is MUCH harder than picking up a role in the middle of the park. You work your socks off like CO'G and everybody, including me, starts shaking their heads and saying he hasn't scored and we looked impotent in front of goal ....... huge wage ......... A boy 18 or 19, and not only have you got to do what you do as well as you've ever done it, you've got to match players with years of experience and worry about opponents too. It's hard, that's why centre forwards, if you can develop one, bring a club the big bucks. That's why I'm so keen we don't ruin him. He has the power to change our club. Realistically Joe or Charlie have to hit Dele Alli level to bring us in a few million and that's unlikely, but a big strong centre forward who puts a bit of fear into centre backs .... well he'd rate several million from even Championship clubs desperate for Sky. And if he's only good enough for us, how bad is that?
Anderlecht put their faith in a big, strong 16 year old, they even played him European competitions. Would any English club take that chance on a big, strong, 16 year old? But Romelu Lukaku became a man whilst he was still a boy because he got to play! That's the model to follow. Belgium hasn't got huge or fabulously rich clubs, but they can line up young potential international players against a country likes ours which throws in vast amounts of money and potential to no better result ........
Two years ago Delial Brewster was the young forward Everton were looking to. Now we've got him. There's obviously potential there. So when its 1-1 and tight against Accrington Stanley I don't want to see GC or whoever, sit on his hands and finally risk a clownish 87th minute substitution. If Rowley's on the bench, get him on the field when he can make a difference, same for Ricky and Delial. By making a difference to the game you make a difference to the individual too. So what if it occasionally goes wrong, sitting there and doing nothing often goes wrong too. Changing your team in the last two minutes quite often fckus the team up too, so do it early. AND once Charlie, Joe and Ricky are doing it on the field, others start coming through ..... and those who thought their careers might stall like Dimaio and Brewster and maybe Bradley Barry and Binnom-Williams too - they start to believe in themselves too.
But if you create an atmosphere where a young centre-back gets hooked after 23 minutes, or a guy who scores 11 goals in under 3 weeks still doesn't get a sniff of the failingmost first team in the country........ then none of that happens. I don't care if we get promotion. I'd rather we stay up and have, by the end of the season, proper players in Rowley, Wakefield, German, Maguire, Brewster and Dimaio and big clubs are represented in the stands ........ and Jay Smith, Ofoegbu, Brownell, Parkin and a couple of the current crop are thinking, "couple of departures and that's big chances for me!" That's the way we move forward and the only legal way to finance ourselves. I don't think we can sell many tickets for a Pooch streak!
For a perceptive man you can, like me, say some dumb things sometimes my friend. "Numerous" chances Ricky's had that he hasn't seized? Has some new kind of inverse statistics been developed in a parallel universe? Scoring in all the friendlies you've played, what's that, being off sick? Someone like Matt who actually saw him play, immediately thinking, he's a first choice player ........... do we forget that?
How many games did it take the whole team even to score with CO'G in it who only has 14 years league experience behind him? Fitting in up front is MUCH harder than picking up a role in the middle of the park. You work your socks off like CO'G and everybody, including me, starts shaking their heads and saying he hasn't scored and we looked impotent in front of goal ....... huge wage ......... A boy 18 or 19, and not only have you got to do what you do as well as you've ever done it, you've got to match players with years of experience and worry about opponents too. It's hard, that's why centre forwards, if you can develop one, bring a club the big bucks. That's why I'm so keen we don't ruin him. He has the power to change our club. Realistically Joe or Charlie have to hit Dele Alli level to bring us in a few million and that's unlikely, but a big strong centre forward who puts a bit of fear into centre backs .... well he'd rate several million from even Championship clubs desperate for Sky. And if he's only good enough for us, how bad is that?
Anderlecht put their faith in a big, strong 16 year old, they even played him European competitions. Would any English club take that chance on a big, strong, 16 year old? But Romelu Lukaku became a man whilst he was still a boy because he got to play! That's the model to follow. Belgium hasn't got huge or fabulously rich clubs, but they can line up young potential international players against a country likes ours which throws in vast amounts of money and potential to no better result ........
Two years ago Delial Brewster was the young forward Everton were looking to. Now we've got him. There's obviously potential there. So when its 1-1 and tight against Accrington Stanley I don't want to see GC or whoever, sit on his hands and finally risk a clownish 87th minute substitution. If Rowley's on the bench, get him on the field when he can make a difference, same for Ricky and Delial. By making a difference to the game you make a difference to the individual too. So what if it occasionally goes wrong, sitting there and doing nothing often goes wrong too. Changing your team in the last two minutes quite often fckus the team up too, so do it early. AND once Charlie, Joe and Ricky are doing it on the field, others start coming through ..... and those who thought their careers might stall like Dimaio and Brewster and maybe Bradley Barry and Binnom-Williams too - they start to believe in themselves too.
But if you create an atmosphere where a young centre-back gets hooked after 23 minutes, or a guy who scores 11 goals in under 3 weeks still doesn't get a sniff of the failingmost first team in the country........ then none of that happens. I don't care if we get promotion. I'd rather we stay up and have, by the end of the season, proper players in Rowley, Wakefield, German, Maguire, Brewster and Dimaio and big clubs are represented in the stands ........ and Jay Smith, Ofoegbu, Brownell, Parkin and a couple of the current crop are thinking, "couple of departures and that's big chances for me!" That's the way we move forward and the only legal way to finance ourselves. I don't think we can sell many tickets for a Pooch streak!