Yeah Pooch I know YOU compared Mottley-Henry and Ahearne-Grant and I thought that was fair enough, because MH obviously didn't have much of a game, A-G clearly was very good ........ and when you look at the background of the players you can see why. A-G is over-ready for first team football, M-H is getting his foot on the first rung of the ladder. It showed the very different recruitment approaches between the two clubs .......... so I thought your comment made real sense. It didn't just destroy M-H ....... it put him in context. And he is a very young inexperienced player, maybe he can give more and be a success with us, maybe he can't. If he plays crap he can't moan that people say he was rubbish, but it is pretty impossible to say after one game he has no future.
Bob's Board just destroyed him. As Matt says they hardly wait for a player to have a game before they have a go at him, or in JBW's case they raised massive, impossible expectations of the guy before he stepped onto the field for us in a proper game. Kyle Walker and Danny Rose were in a panic whether they could keep him out of the England side! And then when he didn't eat the opposition he became prick of the week .....
All I'd say for three at the back is these three are about fifty times more likely to succeed with it than anything we've had, because we've three centre backs, quick enough and one has experience at right back and the other is happy at left back. And we do have potential wing backs too. But it could be a disaster. I don't go any further than a suggestion.
And yes I too wonder why Jack hasn't tried a simple 4-4-2, but I'm not sure how Dennis fires up alongside any partner ..... which had me wondering whether selling him might have had unexpectedly positive results. I also wondered about the four in midfield - two wide men? Play more of a diamond? Keep playing Rowley out wide? Bring him inside and drop McCourt? Where's Weir figure in this? Drop Rowley? Bring in experience around Reed, Like Weir, Coke and McCourt?
Can't say I'd really picked up much on Roman Numeral's prickishness. He writes well, so probably the snob in me deadened my critical faculties .......... At least he fleshes out arguments, there are others on there who come up with two lines of obllocks and conclude they've solved Fermat's Last Theorem despite having missed the point entirely.
Bob's Board just destroyed him. As Matt says they hardly wait for a player to have a game before they have a go at him, or in JBW's case they raised massive, impossible expectations of the guy before he stepped onto the field for us in a proper game. Kyle Walker and Danny Rose were in a panic whether they could keep him out of the England side! And then when he didn't eat the opposition he became prick of the week .....
All I'd say for three at the back is these three are about fifty times more likely to succeed with it than anything we've had, because we've three centre backs, quick enough and one has experience at right back and the other is happy at left back. And we do have potential wing backs too. But it could be a disaster. I don't go any further than a suggestion.
And yes I too wonder why Jack hasn't tried a simple 4-4-2, but I'm not sure how Dennis fires up alongside any partner ..... which had me wondering whether selling him might have had unexpectedly positive results. I also wondered about the four in midfield - two wide men? Play more of a diamond? Keep playing Rowley out wide? Bring him inside and drop McCourt? Where's Weir figure in this? Drop Rowley? Bring in experience around Reed, Like Weir, Coke and McCourt?
Can't say I'd really picked up much on Roman Numeral's prickishness. He writes well, so probably the snob in me deadened my critical faculties .......... At least he fleshes out arguments, there are others on there who come up with two lines of obllocks and conclude they've solved Fermat's Last Theorem despite having missed the point entirely.