24-07-2019, 16:26
It's no surprise to me Scott Boden looked nothing against Sheff Utd. Not only is he not as good as ANY of their players, but we had no one alongside him capable of providing enough threat to compromise the opposition's organisation. Unless the ball dropped at Boden's feet from a Will Evans challenge at a corner he was never going to score last night, or look like it. I once saw him play for us at Exeter under Sheridan and he looked 54 (years old).
It's not so much that Boden needs help to be a goalscorer - he is one - it's that he needs to be part of what we used to call a forward line. He doesn't have any physical gifts, he isn't specially skillful, he isn't powerful, or all that tricky or quick ........ But he does know where to be to score and how to get free and do it (mostly when the opposition is struggling to hold the attack).
As for Shaw, he's lost the confidence to score. We can't play him, because scoring is what he does. What he has needed all along is goals in the reserve team ..... which we haven't got. Goalscorers do stop scoring though. Ricky Miller scored 45 when Dover finished runners-up in the National. He's done nothing at Peterborough and Port Vale ...... but if he was going to line up for us I'd be backing him for 20+. Lee Shaw may only be able to score goals in a team playing at the level he was at against defenders with the weaknesses of players at that level .......... I dunno the answer to him, but it does seem to me it was never going to be playing him out of position so that the one big ability he has ever displayed was never going to be used.
It's not so much that Boden needs help to be a goalscorer - he is one - it's that he needs to be part of what we used to call a forward line. He doesn't have any physical gifts, he isn't specially skillful, he isn't powerful, or all that tricky or quick ........ But he does know where to be to score and how to get free and do it (mostly when the opposition is struggling to hold the attack).
As for Shaw, he's lost the confidence to score. We can't play him, because scoring is what he does. What he has needed all along is goals in the reserve team ..... which we haven't got. Goalscorers do stop scoring though. Ricky Miller scored 45 when Dover finished runners-up in the National. He's done nothing at Peterborough and Port Vale ...... but if he was going to line up for us I'd be backing him for 20+. Lee Shaw may only be able to score goals in a team playing at the level he was at against defenders with the weaknesses of players at that level .......... I dunno the answer to him, but it does seem to me it was never going to be playing him out of position so that the one big ability he has ever displayed was never going to be used.