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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 10:17:42 GMT
Luke Leahy was highly rated and well liked by fans at Falkirk where he spent 5 seasons prior to Walsall.
I'm with pirate and a few others on here and think he'll be very good for us under GC.
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Post by peterparker on Jul 10, 2019 10:18:29 GMT
Walsall fan in peace. Like someone commented above you probably don't give a stuff on my opinion...but I'll give it anyway. Luke Leahy is possibly the worst left back I have ever seen at Walsall in 30+ years that has played so many games. His positional sense is atrocious - he just doesn't understand where he should be on the pitch when facing an opponent or if they have possession. I can understand why he may impress from certain stats and in a trial, as technically he can strike a ball well. The crosses stat is misleading though - most go out of play or aren't anywhere near the forwards. I've never seen a player put so many free kicks straight into touch. Thats how poor our manager was that didn't recognise this and take him off duty. He did it 2 or 3 times at your place last year. Yes he was part of a poor team, that was very badly organised defensively so any organisation will help, but he was still personally and directly responsible for so many goals from unforced errors and that will still happen in a decent defence. Worse still he would then visibly blame and berate others for his mistakes and caused terrible disharmony in the squad. A egotistical bad apple based on nothing but his own opinion of himself. Having said all that, he is clearly suited to one position - wing back. If you play that and he can be taught how to cross then you may get lucky. Otherwise, good luck! I'm just glad he's gone, whatever level we are playing at. PS. He scored one penalty against his old club, but missed others by hitting them ALL weakly to the keeper's right. Look out for that if he takes one for you. If you allow defenders to take pens then they will miss more than the strikers. That’s just fact. Very few defenders make good penalty takers. Pens should be the job of the strikers trained to finish or a confident CAM that can strike the ball well. yes an no.
Any professional footballer should be able to take a free shot from 12 yards out FFS
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Post by Icegas on Jul 10, 2019 10:49:09 GMT
We nearly got relegated because we created so few chances per game last season. A lot of that was because we had Kelly and JC at fullback - how many crosses into the box per game do you reckon they got compared to Brown/Leadbitter in previous years? Your defence can be the best in the league (ours was away from home) but if you don’t have attacking intent you will draw/lose games. Just the way the modern game is. Sorry if this is an old fashioned concept; Goalkeeper - stop the ball from going in the net Defenders - defend and cut out scoring opportunities Midfield - CREATE!! Strikers - score goals
That's the bottom line. Anything else is a bonus.
100% right. Football is a very basic game that is over thought by people due to the TV world and how puntits touch there touch screen tvs and show us all these different formations! Bottom line is "soccer" is a basic sport of 11 vs 11....The managers role at any club is to try to sign the best players for his club within his budget.And get them to try and win a match. Give me a 4-4-2 attacking minded manager ( like fergie or Keegan ) anyday of the week.
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Post by Henbury Gas on Jul 10, 2019 10:53:01 GMT
Sorry if this is an old fashioned concept; Goalkeeper - stop the ball from going in the net Defenders - defend and cut out scoring opportunities Midfield - CREATE!! Strikers - score goals
That's the bottom line. Anything else is a bonus.
100% right. Football is a very basic game that is over thought by people due to the TV world and how puntits touch there touch screen tvs and show us all these different formations! Bottom line is "soccer" is a basic sport of 11 vs 11....The managers role at any club is to try to sign the best players for his club within his budget.And get them to try and win a match. Give me a 4-4-2 attacking minded manager ( like fergie or Keegan ) anyday of the week. What ever happened to the 2-3-5 formation when i played as a nipper ?
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Post by gashead1981 on Jul 10, 2019 11:47:11 GMT
If you allow defenders to take pens then they will miss more than the strikers. That’s just fact. Very few defenders make good penalty takers. Pens should be the job of the strikers trained to finish or a confident CAM that can strike the ball well. yes an no.
Any professional footballer should be able to take a free shot from 12 yards out FFS
Tell that to Stef Houghton, Gareth Southgate, Stuart Pearce... Strikers are trained to finish from 12 yards. Defenders are trained to pass 6-12 yards or hoof it to row Z. Or let me put it another way. We have a penalty, JCH and Tony Craig are arguing who is going to take it. Who would you rather? Who is most likely to score?
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Post by spiess1 on Jul 10, 2019 12:14:42 GMT
JCH has missed one for us. TC never has.
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Post by faggotygas on Jul 10, 2019 12:19:59 GMT
Sorry if this is an old fashioned concept; Goalkeeper - stop the ball from going in the net Defenders - defend and cut out scoring opportunities Midfield - CREATE!! Strikers - score goals
That's the bottom line. Anything else is a bonus.
100% right. Football is a very basic game that is over thought by people due to the TV world and how puntits touch there touch screen tvs and show us all these different formations! Bottom line is "soccer" is a basic sport of 11 vs 11....The managers role at any club is to try to sign the best players for his club within his budget.And get them to try and win a match. Give me a 4-4-2 attacking minded manager ( like fergie or Keegan ) anyday of the week. Yes, football was perfected in the 60's and nothing could have ever made it better.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 10, 2019 12:20:39 GMT
Lee Brown, very competent pen taker. Defender.
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Post by Squiffy on Jul 10, 2019 12:22:06 GMT
100% right. Football is a very basic game that is over thought by people due to the TV world and how puntits touch there touch screen tvs and show us all these different formations! Bottom line is "soccer" is a basic sport of 11 vs 11....The managers role at any club is to try to sign the best players for his club within his budget.And get them to try and win a match. Give me a 4-4-2 attacking minded manager ( like fergie or Keegan ) anyday of the week. What ever happened to the 2-3-5 formation when i played as a nipper ? Never set up Subbuteo any other way. Think it was in the rules. It was good enough for the Gas to beat Brazil (1970’s team) on many occasions.
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Post by stuartcampbell on Jul 10, 2019 13:54:41 GMT
A Walsall fan I spoke to who didn't rate him and I asked why he has so many assists and apparently the reason is he took every free kick and corner?
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Post by lastminutewinner on Jul 10, 2019 14:09:28 GMT
Funny how you rarely see a player so universally condemned by a fanbase for solely his contribution on the pitch, yet he was virtually ever-present for 2 years, and now brought in by a manager who, we've seen, actually knows about defence. Will be interesting to find out the truth.
Rob Quinn managed to squeeze out 86 appearance in 2 years.
I am a bit worried by the Walsall fans comments as they don't seem to have any ulterior motive other than his performances, which they have seen a lot more of than any of us.
Still gonna judge him by how he does for us though, obviously.
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Post by oddsongas on Jul 10, 2019 14:10:51 GMT
A Walsall fan I spoke to who didn't rate him and I asked why he has so many assists and apparently the reason is he took every free kick and corner? Must mean his deliveries from set pieces are good, as we usually only have 1 or 2 through the season taking corners and free kicks and they don’t end up with 17 assists in 2 seasons
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Post by pirate on Jul 10, 2019 14:17:22 GMT
A Walsall fan I spoke to who didn't rate him and I asked why he has so many assists and apparently the reason is he took every free kick and corner? I'm sure the fact out of all full backs in L1 last season he played highest no of progressive passes per 90 played, was in top 10 for crosses made per 90 and made 2nd highest passes into opposition penalty box, had nothing to do with it.
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Post by wilkimania on Jul 10, 2019 14:21:24 GMT
Who was the last player we had that you felt confident that a chance might be created when taking a corner?
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Post by pirate49 on Jul 10, 2019 14:22:32 GMT
A Walsall fan I spoke to who didn't rate him and I asked why he has so many assists and apparently the reason is he took every free kick and corner? I'm sure the fact out of all full backs in L1 last season he played highest no of progressive passes per 90 played, was in top 10 for crosses made per 90 and made 2nd highest passes into opposition penalty box, had nothing to do with it. And as a LB how many tackles did he win, how many times did he shepherd his opponent out of a dangerous position, how many interceptions
and how many goal line clearances did he make?
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Post by pirate on Jul 10, 2019 15:00:48 GMT
I'm sure the fact out of all full backs in L1 last season he played highest no of progressive passes per 90 played, was in top 10 for crosses made per 90 and made 2nd highest passes into opposition penalty box, had nothing to do with it. And as a LB how many tackles did he win, how many times did he shepherd his opponent out of a dangerous position, how many interceptions
and how many goal line clearances did he make?
Don't have that info available.
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Post by lastminutewinner on Jul 10, 2019 16:58:32 GMT
Who was the last player we had that you felt confident that a chance might be created when taking a corner?
Stewie Campbell I think
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Post by chewbacca on Jul 10, 2019 17:00:57 GMT
If you allow defenders to take pens then they will miss more than the strikers. That’s just fact. Very few defenders make good penalty takers. Pens should be the job of the strikers trained to finish or a confident CAM that can strike the ball well. yes an no.
Any professional footballer should be able to take a free shot from 12 yards out FFS
Best penalty taker I can remember was a defender, Graham Alexander.
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Post by gashead1981 on Jul 10, 2019 17:03:15 GMT
yes an no.
Any professional footballer should be able to take a free shot from 12 yards out FFS
Best penalty taker I can remember was a defender, Graham Alexander. And the best I can remember was Matt Le Tissier.
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Post by toddy1953 on Jul 10, 2019 17:09:30 GMT
I'm sure the fact out of all full backs in L1 last season he played highest no of progressive passes per 90 played, was in top 10 for crosses made per 90 and made 2nd highest passes into opposition penalty box, had nothing to do with it. And as a LB how many tackles did he win, how many times did he shepherd his opponent out of a dangerous position, how many interceptions
and how many goal line clearances did he make?
If he did take every free kick & corner, then his delivery into the right areas must be pretty good - hopefully we can capitalise on it. On the stats mentioned by pirate he seems to make good use of the ball when he has it too. On the rest of the stuff, I am sure our recruitment team have watched him enough to make an informed decision. S
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