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Post by poorblue on Mar 26, 2018 11:01:04 GMT
I feel a bit for Gaffers really. He had a really good preseason and start to the campaign but was unable to nail down a place in the starting 11, mainly I believe this was due to the fact that we had paid a lot of money for Nico in the window and DC wanted to give him the opportunity to shine. If Gaffers had been allowed to build on what was really good form at the time he might have continued the scoring run he was on and helped us through the dodgy period we had before Christmas. Hindsight is a wonderful thing I suppose but I don't think Gaffers had a fair crack and DC even admitted this himself in one of his interviews. I still think Rory is a decent player and should continue to play for us next season. Surely if Gaffers was good enough he'd have "nailed down a place"? Not really sure what's happened to his game as he seems to be getting worse rather than improving, although so his Nichols, but Telford who's found form hardly gets any game time. What's DC got to lose starting him alongside Ellis v bottom of the table Bury? What makes a good striker. The obvious answer is one that scores goals. I do not understand the fine technical points of how they get into the scoring position but for me this is how I see the current strikers at the club. Harrison get first start as he plays a large part in defending headers as the centre backs are short except for Broadbent. He has little ball control as a target man up front. Previously he fell over at every tackle but this season now stands up a lot stronger and guess what his score rate has "shot up". Gaffney mainly third or second choice but is an asset up front and controls and holds the ball up well bringing others into to play with layoffs. Not sure DC plays him to his best attributes. Nichols mainly second choice. Proven goal scoring striker at this level. Appears to be technically good but wasted where he is asked to play. This is acknowledged by DC. What's missing, a 6' 3" striker? Remind me as I cannot recall a game where any of the above 3 players stood anywhere near each other in the opposition box in the mould of Smash and Grab. I'm suggesting it's not these strikers abilities but DC systems not suitable to the players picked. I rate DC but will he pick systems to suit his players or change those players to suit his system? I recall a previous manager who had a team of misfits who picked systems to the players strengths and got us to the Championship. Gerry Francis. |
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Post by pirate on Mar 26, 2018 11:13:41 GMT
Surely if Gaffers was good enough he'd have "nailed down a place"? Not really sure what's happened to his game as he seems to be getting worse rather than improving, although so his Nichols, but Telford who's found form hardly gets any game time. What's DC got to lose starting him alongside Ellis v bottom of the table Bury? What makes a good striker. The obvious answer is one that scores goals. I do not understand the fine technical points of how they get into the scoring position but for me this is how I see the current strikers at the club. Harrison get first start as he plays a large part in defending headers as the centre backs are short except for Broadbent. He has little ball control as a target man up front. Previously he fell over at every tackle but this season now stands up a lot stronger and guess what his score rate has "shot up". Gaffney mainly third or second choice but is an asset up front and controls and holds the ball up well bringing others into to play with layoffs. Not sure DC plays him to his best attributes. Nichols mainly second choice. Proven goal scoring striker at this level. Appears to be technically good but wasted where he is asked to play. This is acknowledged by DC. What's missing, a 6' 3" striker? Remind me as I cannot recall a game where any of the above 3 players stood anywhere near each other in the opposition box in the mould of Smash and Grab. I'm suggesting it's not these strikers abilities but DC systems not suitable to the players picked. I rate DC but will he pick systems to suit his players or change those players to suit his system? I recall a previous manager who had a team of misfits who picked systems to the players strengths and got us to the Championship. Gerry Francis. Nichols a proven goal scoring striker at this level? |
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Post by Gas Go Marching In on Mar 26, 2018 11:15:35 GMT
What makes a good striker. The obvious answer is one that scores goals. I do not understand the fine technical points of how they get into the scoring position but for me this is how I see the current strikers at the club. Harrison get first start as he plays a large part in defending headers as the centre backs are short except for Broadbent. He has little ball control as a target man up front. Previously he fell over at every tackle but this season now stands up a lot stronger and guess what his score rate has "shot up". Gaffney mainly third or second choice but is an asset up front and controls and holds the ball up well bringing others into to play with layoffs. Not sure DC plays him to his best attributes. Nichols mainly second choice. Proven goal scoring striker at this level. Appears to be technically good but wasted where he is asked to play. This is acknowledged by DC. What's missing, a 6' 3" striker? Remind me as I cannot recall a game where any of the above 3 players stood anywhere near each other in the opposition box in the mould of Smash and Grab. I'm suggesting it's not these strikers abilities but DC systems not suitable to the players picked. I rate DC but will he pick systems to suit his players or change those players to suit his system? I recall a previous manager who had a team of misfits who picked systems to the players strengths and got us to the Championship. Gerry Francis. Nichols a proven goal scoring striker at this level? My argument is more about where he is being asked to play. He's been given minutes up front and still hasn't produced. Also when him and Telford are playing in the development games, it is Telford who is banging them in. |
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Post by RD on Mar 26, 2018 11:50:52 GMT
Said at the beginning of the season we didn’t have enough up front and needed to sign a decent centre forward. That’s not changed. Hopefully we go out and spend the cash needed which in my opinion is about 500k to get the right player. It has. We sold Bodin  |
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Post by rememberhalifax on Mar 26, 2018 19:26:01 GMT
How old is James Spruce,just signed pro forms?assume he be 18 next season,been banging in goals for fun, bit like Zamora used to, so now we be camped twixt 12th and 8th , and unless we win next 3 games which would give us a shout at 6th, give the lad a few games and see what he can do!
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Post by pirate on Mar 26, 2018 20:00:14 GMT
How old is James Spruce,just signed pro forms?assume he be 18 next season,been banging in goals for fun, bit like Zamora used to, so now we be camped twixt 12th and 8th , and unless we win next 3 games which would give us a shout at 6th, give the lad a few games and see what he can do! I don't think the lad is ready for the first team yet. He made a couple of appearances for Farnborough without scoring, 7 appearances from the bench for Larkhall without scoring and a few appearances for Cinderford scoring once. He needs to keep developing and scoring in the development side and his chance will come in the future when he is ready. |
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Post by singupgas on Mar 27, 2018 8:24:00 GMT
The board again need to back DC to rebuild the squad, another striker or 2 will again be a priority. If Ellis goes, make that 3 players.
We probaly need some full backs, a cm.
I hope we have our targets early, probably end up signing players in the last couple weeks of the window followed by the same excuses.
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Post by BelieveItWhenIAmSatInIt on Mar 27, 2018 8:27:03 GMT
I've just signed Oztuhmer from Walsall for 2 mil on Fifa with the gas. So it is doable.
Not really sure what DC is actually doing to be honest?!
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