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Post by Topper Gas on Feb 25, 2019 18:27:15 GMT
I suspect Sercombe cant be bothered because he already has a club lined up. after all they said Portsmouth were looking and if they don't go up, that's where he will go. Meanwhile, Lines has a range of passes which is good, but he doesn't tackle, a bit tippy tappy round the ankles is what you get. Ollie Clarke on his day is ok, buts that it just "OK". Upson relegated with MK Dons, who then decided they didn't want him, and so Clarke gets him in. On his day, a bit ok. Meanwhile up front we have a new player who can jump and head the ball, a player that is strong and can run with the ball a player who is technically ok but cannot hit a barn door and another who is ok but needs the ball at his FEET. And there you have it, the legacy that is Daryl Clarke Why is everything in your eyes still DC's fault, he didn't sign a striker who can't hit a barn door?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 18:31:59 GMT
I suspect Sercombe cant be bothered because he already has a club lined up. after all they said Portsmouth were looking and if they don't go up, that's where he will go. Meanwhile, Lines has a range of passes which is good, but he doesn't tackle, a bit tippy tappy round the ankles is what you get. Ollie Clarke on his day is ok, buts that it just "OK". Upson relegated with MK Dons, who then decided they didn't want him, and so Clarke gets him in. On his day, a bit ok. Meanwhile up front we have a new player who can jump and head the ball, a player that is strong and can run with the ball a player who is technically ok but cannot hit a barn door and another who is ok but needs the ball at his FEET. And there you have it, the legacy that is Daryl Clarke Why is everything in your eyes still DC's fault, he didn't sign a striker who can't hit a barn door? No he signed 3 who couldn’t lol
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Post by CrispPusher on Feb 25, 2019 20:29:57 GMT
in my opinion he should be starting every game. We'd never have guessed 😂
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Post by socrates on Feb 25, 2019 20:42:41 GMT
Why is everything in your eyes still DC's fault, he didn't sign a striker who can't hit a barn door? No he signed 3 who couldn’t lol He also signed Taylor and bodin. Thing is if your constantly signing free transfers in league 1 and 2 then your probably going to sign more duds than great ones. Nichols is only our big striker signing at 300k or whatever it was and he’s flopped because he hasn’t scored enough but he is probably our best techniqely gifted player bar maybe Sercombe (100k ?) . The rest have all been frees pretty much and that’s because they hadn’t done much else where and probably weren’t going to do much for us. I still think if we’d started off the season with a 20 man squad rather than a 30 man squad the money could have been spent on quality not quantity and we wouldn’t have all these players that are more like league 2 than league 1 standard. Cogs pretty said as much himself when he signed. If only we could have swapped three of our poor players who are probably on 2 grand a week for one quality player on 6 grand a week we might be 6 or 7 points better off and mid table.
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Post by z1zou on Feb 25, 2019 20:59:23 GMT
If a child fails to put an actual square peg in a circular hole, would you tell them to discard the peg or put it where it bloody belongs.
Ridiculous thread imo, sercombe is one of our better players who has been misused since returning from injury.
We knew we'd signed too many central midfielders and not enough wingers and strikers since August, yet why is sercombe the one that has to play wide? Because he's the only centre mid that is capable. Because he's a DECENT player.
As someone has already said. With the squad we have we should be playing 3 in midfield. It worked in the conference, it worked in league 2, and it worked last season... 2 battlers and a creative influence that therefore has a certain amount of freedom.
Clearly we don't have strikers that can conjure miracles, we've lacked creativity all season and part of that is sercombe not playing through the middle of the pitch.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 21:47:53 GMT
If a child fails to put an actual square peg in a circular hole, would you tell them to discard the peg or put it where it bloody belongs. Ridiculous thread imo, sercombe is one of our better players who has been misused since returning from injury. We knew we'd signed too many central midfielders and not enough wingers and strikers since August, yet why is sercombe the one that has to play wide? Because he's the only centre mid that is capable. Because he's a DECENT player. As someone has already said. With the squad we have we should be playing 3 in midfield. It worked in the conference, it worked in league 2, and it worked last season... 2 battlers and a creative influence that therefore has a certain amount of freedom. Clearly we don't have strikers that can conjure miracles, we've lacked creativity all season and part of that is sercombe not playing through the middle of the pitch. Interesting. For all his undoubted quality as a goalscoring midfielder, I've never seen Sercombe as creative. Lines is the creative one, with Sercombe a great foil for him when played centrally and in form, provided there is a battler in the Clarke, Sinclair mould alongside. As you say, we need to get back to three in the middle and start passing the ball to them rather than bypassing them.
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Post by WeAreTheGas on Feb 25, 2019 22:14:29 GMT
If a child fails to put an actual square peg in a circular hole, would you tell them to discard the peg or put it where it bloody belongs. Ridiculous thread imo, sercombe is one of our better players who has been misused since returning from injury. We knew we'd signed too many central midfielders and not enough wingers and strikers since August, yet why is sercombe the one that has to play wide? Because he's the only centre mid that is capable. Because he's a DECENT player. As someone has already said. With the squad we have we should be playing 3 in midfield. It worked in the conference, it worked in league 2, and it worked last season... 2 battlers and a creative influence that therefore has a certain amount of freedom. Clearly we don't have strikers that can conjure miracles, we've lacked creativity all season and part of that is sercombe not playing through the middle of the pitch. Interesting. For all his undoubted quality as a goalscoring midfielder, I've never seen Sercombe as creative. Lines is the creative one, with Sercombe a great foil for him when played centrally and in form, provided there is a battler in the Clarke, Sinclair mould alongside. As you say, we need to get back to three in the middle and start passing the ball to them rather than bypassing them. IMO having Lines in the team helps us to pass ‘through the thirds’ more as a team, as he picks the ball up off the CBs to start our attacks. 3-5-2 or 4-2-3-1 is the way to go with our squad, for me.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 22:37:06 GMT
Interesting. For all his undoubted quality as a goalscoring midfielder, I've never seen Sercombe as creative. Lines is the creative one, with Sercombe a great foil for him when played centrally and in form, provided there is a battler in the Clarke, Sinclair mould alongside. As you say, we need to get back to three in the middle and start passing the ball to them rather than bypassing them. IMO having Lines in the team helps us to pass ‘through the thirds’ more as a team, as he picks the ball up off the CBs to start our attacks. 3-5-2 or 4-2-3-1 is the way to go with our squad, for me. Exactly.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 25, 2019 23:48:23 GMT
Pathetic thread, he is our best player by far and the only one left worth paying to go and watch. Our squad is so devoid of quality it’s laughable. Suppose the OP would prefer a team of Sinclairs running around like headless chickens, everything that is wrong with this club, so much stems from the fanbase. The problem is that the gifted footballers like sercombe,lines,rodman and bennett havnt turned up this season. Just having ability and everyone knowing you have it isnt enough,you have to actually perform to that known ability most of the time. Which home games was sercombe worth paying just to watch him. In my view about 20 minutes of the gillingham match.
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Post by socrates on Feb 26, 2019 0:23:30 GMT
If a child fails to put an actual square peg in a circular hole, would you tell them to discard the peg or put it where it bloody belongs. Ridiculous thread imo, sercombe is one of our better players who has been misused since returning from injury. We knew we'd signed too many central midfielders and not enough wingers and strikers since August, yet why is sercombe the one that has to play wide? Because he's the only centre mid that is capable. Because he's a DECENT player. As someone has already said. With the squad we have we should be playing 3 in midfield. It worked in the conference, it worked in league 2, and it worked last season... 2 battlers and a creative influence that therefore has a certain amount of freedom. Clearly we don't have strikers that can conjure miracles, we've lacked creativity all season and part of that is sercombe not playing through the middle of the pitch. Except DC played mainly 4-4-2 in his first three seasons switching to mainly 4-3-3 last season. I agree with the rest though.
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Post by lpgas on Feb 26, 2019 18:58:56 GMT
I suspect Sercombe cant be bothered because he already has a club lined up. after all they said Portsmouth were looking and if they don't go up, that's where he will go. Meanwhile, Lines has a range of passes which is good, but he doesn't tackle, a bit tippy tappy round the ankles is what you get. Ollie Clarke on his day is ok, buts that it just "OK". Upson relegated with MK Dons, who then decided they didn't want him, and so Clarke gets him in. On his day, a bit ok. Meanwhile up front we have a new player who can jump and head the ball, a player that is strong and can run with the ball a player who is technically ok but cannot hit a barn door and another who is ok but needs the ball at his FEET. And there you have it, the legacy that is Daryl Clarke Why is everything in your eyes still DC's fault, he didn't sign a striker who can't hit a barn door? Because my friend it was Clarke who signed Payne, Upson, Barn Door Nichols, Reilly and Rodman. The latter is perhaps the only one to make a positive contribution. but the rest are to a large extent responsible for us being in the bottom area of the table. In some ways this mirrors the Holloway era, a few good seasons followed by crap signings followed by the sack followed by relegation.
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Post by rosssgb on Mar 2, 2019 19:03:41 GMT
Humble pie for you bluebutterfly, showed again today he is top quality when played centrally.
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Post by socrates on Mar 2, 2019 19:08:41 GMT
Our second best player today absolutely outstanding in his favourite central position. We’ve been saying for the last two years Nichols needs a target man to play off well sercombe certainly benefitted from have Harris and Nichols bringing him in today.
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Post by Topper Gas on Mar 2, 2019 19:09:58 GMT
Humble pie for you bluebutterfly, showed again today he is top quality when played centrally. Perhaps this was a great motivational post by the OP? "Sercs have you seen what this #### has said about you on Gaschat?"
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Post by socrates on Mar 2, 2019 19:44:19 GMT
Why is everything in your eyes still DC's fault, he didn't sign a striker who can't hit a barn door? Because my friend it was Clarke who signed Payne, Upson, Barn Door Nichols, Reilly and Rodman. The latter is perhaps the only one to make a positive contribution. but the rest are to a large extent responsible for us being in the bottom area of the table. In some ways this mirrors the Holloway era, a few good seasons followed by crap signings followed by the sack followed by relegation. The legacy that is Darrel Clarke is 2 great seasons 2 good ones and half a bad one. It’s in the history books you can’t argue with history. It’s written.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2019 19:47:45 GMT
Sercs well and truly showed up today! Played just behind the strikers and appeared to have been given a free role. Kept turning up all over the pitch and was a constant worry for Blackpool. Lost count of the number of times he was fouled.
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Post by socrates on Mar 2, 2019 19:49:38 GMT
Sercs well and truly showed up today! Played just behind the strikers and appeared to have been given a free role. Kept turning up all over the pitch and was a constant worry for Blackpool. Lost count of the number of times he was fouled. Yeah covered every blade of grass in the opposition half . One minute he was left then right , mostly in the middle where he’s best. His movement off the ball to create space for himself was first class.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2019 19:53:17 GMT
Much better from Sercs today. I thought today he showed the class he showed last season which, to be fair, he hasn't shown even when played centrally this season.
A fit and in form Liam Sercombe will be crucial in determining the outcome of our season. Today, he was excellent.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2019 19:55:47 GMT
Today he was awesome!!! Was very driven and involved in everything! 👏 maybe he saw the criticism and it got that extra bit of motivation out of him! Something clicked anyway. Happy days!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 2, 2019 19:55:53 GMT
Humble pie for you bluebutterfly, showed again today he is top quality when played centrally. Not everything came off for him but he certainly played well today. The same issue still applies though. Will any manager pick him as one of a midfield central 2 in a 4-4-2 formation with 2 wide players? I predict a future post or thread bemoaning the dreaded diamond midfield with no width. Strange thing is that in my view the team played in the exact way dc planned for us to play this season. Ie a narrow midfield with overlapping full backs and with harrison/payne as the target man.
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