08-09-2017, 16:31
Pooch, your optimism knows no bounds. You are expecting 6 players to equal or sometimes massively exceed anything they've ever shown.
Joe Rowley may become our best-ever player but he wasn't a big scorer even with the Juniors. Jordan Sinnott only managed to play 10 games last season and wasn't in our starting eleven on Saturday. Diego has never quite been able to put fitness issues behind him following the cruciate. Will Gozie, CO'G and Kristian be together often enough to reach those totals?
I'd forgotten Connor Dimaio and have added him, but though I think he has a goal in him he's only on 1 so far.
As it seems we'll play Lou Reed whenever he's fit we need him to do something he's never done before - SCORE. Not only is he not much good to us if he's not aiming for 5 this season, he's also not going to have much of a career at Championship level and above. Even a deep midfielder like Kante carries the threat of the occasional goal when he pushes forward. Lou has to start scoring and not on The Wild Side, like the real Lou.
The very noticeable thing when I started looking at our players' records is that once you take out the very experienced core of Wiseman, Evatt, Hird, Weir and O'Grady, all of whom are having questions asked about their performance, we have a whole load of players with way less than two full seasons of games behind them. So, like Pooch, you can either view this as leaving massive scope for improvement, or you could sit with me and be worried to death that we are expecting something very few of these lads have proved they can do at any level.
One other thing I thought I'd mention - I seem to remember Laurence Maguire featuring pretty regularly amongst the goalscorers at lower levels. I'm wondering if enthusiastic young defenders like him and Zak Jules might pose a real threat at dead ball situations. Sometimes too much experience can lead to too little ambition and enthusiasm when that ball is swinging into the area ......... and the keeper doesn't quite know whether to come out or stay on his line ..... A lot of goals come from dead ball situations, which makes me wonder why with O'Grady and Ugwu and a couple of big defenders to throw forward we aren't causing the opposition more problems.
Joe Rowley may become our best-ever player but he wasn't a big scorer even with the Juniors. Jordan Sinnott only managed to play 10 games last season and wasn't in our starting eleven on Saturday. Diego has never quite been able to put fitness issues behind him following the cruciate. Will Gozie, CO'G and Kristian be together often enough to reach those totals?
I'd forgotten Connor Dimaio and have added him, but though I think he has a goal in him he's only on 1 so far.
As it seems we'll play Lou Reed whenever he's fit we need him to do something he's never done before - SCORE. Not only is he not much good to us if he's not aiming for 5 this season, he's also not going to have much of a career at Championship level and above. Even a deep midfielder like Kante carries the threat of the occasional goal when he pushes forward. Lou has to start scoring and not on The Wild Side, like the real Lou.
The very noticeable thing when I started looking at our players' records is that once you take out the very experienced core of Wiseman, Evatt, Hird, Weir and O'Grady, all of whom are having questions asked about their performance, we have a whole load of players with way less than two full seasons of games behind them. So, like Pooch, you can either view this as leaving massive scope for improvement, or you could sit with me and be worried to death that we are expecting something very few of these lads have proved they can do at any level.
One other thing I thought I'd mention - I seem to remember Laurence Maguire featuring pretty regularly amongst the goalscorers at lower levels. I'm wondering if enthusiastic young defenders like him and Zak Jules might pose a real threat at dead ball situations. Sometimes too much experience can lead to too little ambition and enthusiasm when that ball is swinging into the area ......... and the keeper doesn't quite know whether to come out or stay on his line ..... A lot of goals come from dead ball situations, which makes me wonder why with O'Grady and Ugwu and a couple of big defenders to throw forward we aren't causing the opposition more problems.