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Post by completewingback on Jan 24, 2019 8:34:48 GMT
Hard disagree. Lockyer is one of our best players, has a strong relationship with the rest of the team, and is one of the lone survivors of the 2013/14 season squad alongside Ollie Clarke. Long-serving (mind, he's had good season after good season after good season until this one), quality, what else is needed from a captain? Like someone else said, does being a captain = barking needlessly at players?
We do have a bit of a leadership vacuum, and I'd strip Lockyer of the armband if it wasn't the case, but as it stands now he's our best choice for captaincy. And I'm sure we have more pressing issues to worry about.
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 24, 2019 8:54:25 GMT
Bit of a puzzle is our centre back position. Firstly they looked more stable with introduction of Craig which offered a bit of leadership but seems to have dropped away. Is this because he's being overlooked as captain and wonders what he has to do to get the role. Introduction of Bonham improved things which - IMO - was more to do with the backline having confidence in what was behind them regardless of whether he's a good keeper or not. Again, that has seemed to drop away. Locks always comes back to pick up the ball. Fair play for that but if the forward pass is more than 20 yards it either goes out or to the opponents, doesn't matter how good the defence is if you keep giving the ball away. Broadbent could pass a ball but never knew when it was best to clear into row z..... sorry d, we haven't that many rows. Seemed to have a couple of games last year when there seemed to be respect between him and opponents he was marking and ref left them to get on with it. From Memory MK and the original dons (As I said, from memory) That equals captain material.... or did. THD. Looks a potential Paul McGrath. If we can get that out of him and have him playing more advanced that will do me. I've not answered the question have I? Pretty sure in the past we used our FB's to bring the ball forward, or Lines would drop back, now it's just route one, mainly to the crowd! Interesting that we reverted back to that style of play on v PV, was that a deliberate game plan by GC or did PV just allow us to use our FB's whereas Div 1 sides don't? I just can't see Locks is a leader of men, I wonder if he wasn't an international if he would even be considered captain material. although as other posters say whether it makes any difference is anybody's guess and removing the captaincy now would be a risky move whilst Lock is still our first choice CB.
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Post by Rod1883 on Jan 24, 2019 9:08:58 GMT
Hard disagree. Lockyer is one of our best players, has a strong relationship with the rest of the team, and is one of the lone survivors of the 2013/14 season squad alongside Ollie Clarke. Long-serving (mind, he's had good season after good season after good season until this one), quality, what else is needed from a captain? Like someone else said, does being a captain = barking needlessly at players? We do have a bit of a leadership vacuum, and I'd strip Lockyer of the armband if it wasn't the case, but as it stands now he's our best choice for captaincy. And I'm sure we have more pressing issues to worry about. Club Captain, yes - for the reasons you give Matchday Captain, no - when heads go down around him he just doesn't seem to be the man to get everyone going again and re-organise on field when things aren't going well.
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Post by 2nd May 1990 on Jan 24, 2019 9:31:26 GMT
Locks - bona fide club legend. Love the man. I hope he’s here captaining the club for many years to come. If he is we’ll be doing well as a club, in my opinion.
As a club we have lots of problems but him being captain is not one of them.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 24, 2019 9:45:23 GMT
As someone asked, my lack of admiration for Lockyer comes from the fact his passing game is absolutely atrocious. No one can argue that. He can be so so frustrating. Yes, I realise that is why he is playing league one. Can’t fault his professionalism or effort, but the amount of misplaced passes he plays in a game is just appalling.
Inb4 he’s a defender why does he need to be able to pass
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 24, 2019 10:25:51 GMT
As someone asked, my lack of admiration for Lockyer comes from the fact his passing game is absolutely atrocious. No one can argue that. He can be so so frustrating. Yes, I realise that is why he is playing league one. Can’t fault his professionalism or effort, but the amount of misplaced passes he plays in a game is just appalling. Inb4 he’s a defender why does he need to be able to pass He didn't on Tuesday as we reverted back to the style I mentioned early on in the thread of using FB's & Lines to bring the ball forward.
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Post by lastminutewinner on Jan 24, 2019 16:44:40 GMT
As someone asked, my lack of admiration for Lockyer comes from the fact his passing game is absolutely atrocious. No one can argue that. He can be so so frustrating. Yes, I realise that is why he is playing league one. Can’t fault his professionalism or effort, but the amount of misplaced passes he plays in a game is just appalling. Inb4 he’s a defender why does he need to be able to pass
IMO there is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be able to pass a football 15 yards to a teammate, even goalkeeper's.
The only possible weak argument to that is that a lot of our players are static, but he is the captain so he should tell them to f**king find space.
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Post by Topper Gas on Jan 24, 2019 17:58:03 GMT
As someone asked, my lack of admiration for Lockyer comes from the fact his passing game is absolutely atrocious. No one can argue that. He can be so so frustrating. Yes, I realise that is why he is playing league one. Can’t fault his professionalism or effort, but the amount of misplaced passes he plays in a game is just appalling. Inb4 he’s a defender why does he need to be able to pass
IMO there is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be able to pass a football 15 yards to a teammate, even goalkeeper's.
The only possible weak argument to that is that a lot of our players are static, but he is the captain so he should tell them to f**king find space.
When as Locks ever failed to do that on a regular basis, his problem is when he's forced into hitting 50/100 yard passes to Payne, who then doesn't even attempt to jump to win the ball.
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Post by toobluee on Jan 24, 2019 19:25:03 GMT
Hard disagree. Lockyer is one of our best players, has a strong relationship with the rest of the team, and is one of the lone survivors of the 2013/14 season squad alongside Ollie Clarke. Long-serving (mind, he's had good season after good season after good season until this one), quality, what else is needed from a captain? Like someone else said, does being a captain = barking needlessly at players? We do have a bit of a leadership vacuum, and I'd strip Lockyer of the armband if it wasn't the case, but as it stands now he's our best choice for captaincy. And I'm sure we have more pressing issues to worry about. first line of your statement... hard disagree.
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