Exactly, he bails out his performances with a goal every now and again (more than you can say of the others atm tbf) but he offers so little against the defenders. No physicality and why Wilson ever goes long to him I have to idea as he'll never out sprint anyone either.Playing Godden as a lone striker is one of the most batshit mental posts I've seen on here in a while. And there's plenty of competition.
There speaks a guy who didnt watch the game. He wasnt abysmal at all. I thought he played well. He cant suddenly become Sheaf and develop new skills overnight can he? He even had probably our best effort on goal in open playRobins needs to come up with a plan for the next 2 months. Kelly abysmal tonight, just gave the ball away and fouled the opposition all night
I think fans are confusing not being able to land their midfield targets, and not trying too.I'm still fuming about that midfield, using this place as a vent. That defence was fantastic and that's with 2 other very good defenders on the bench ready to come in and keep it ticking over. But the midfield... fucking hell, I mean what is there? Such a lack of creativity.
Kelly was actually OK, him individually I thought for what he is he was pretty close to the best version of him, but its not good enough is it really for a team that's had this investment to completely neglect such a vital part of the pitch.
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Incompetence then?I think fans are confusing not being able to land their midfield targets, and not trying too.
we tried several options but failed, that isn’t neglect.
Yeh I think that's probably the best way to go as things stand.O'Hare's return will go some way to solve lack of creativity. I think Wright will come good, he's got too many good attributes not to. Eventually I think we will revert to box midfield with Ayari and O'Hare behind him as lone striker.
There's still over £10 million left isn't there?There’s an awful lot of expectation on COH to make midfield and attack work significantly better. A massive ask.
The biggest worry is it looks like we’ve pissed away most the transfer money on a sub par front two (and not got anywhere with the ‘hamer issue’)
Seriously how many goals are Wright, Simms gonna score in the league between them this season?
In theory. But the broken window at Ryton needs doing.There's still over £10 million left isn't there?
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Stick Wright up top with a couple of creative midfielders in the box behind him and I think he'd do well. For me he's shown enough to think he will still come good, although obviously strikers live and die by their goal tallies.What concerns me is that we’ve spent heavily on 2 strikers and become wedded to a system that I don’t think works as well as the 3421 we were playing for the majority of last season. Not sure I’m keen on 2 up top as we don’t have the personnel to keep control of the midfield without the extra man. It’s also why I didn’t massively understand the Wright signing.
Wouldn't be that hard to dig out posts questioning Gyokeres' signing, saying Hamer was a liability, and that Fadz should be binned about 4 seasons ago. All wrong in hindsight. Let's wait and see.There’s an awful lot of expectation on COH to make midfield and attack work significantly better. A massive ask.
The biggest worry is it looks like we’ve pissed away most the transfer money on a sub par front two (and not got anywhere with the ‘hamer issue’)
Seriously how many goals are Wright, Simms gonna score in the league between them this season?
Stick Wright up top with a couple of creative midfielders in the box behind him and I think he'd do well. For me he's shown enough to think he will still come good, although obviously strikers live and die by their goal tallies.
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That’s not how football works.Incompetence then?
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The midfield would have been a lot more solid and capable of more creativity if we'd played one up top and an extra midfielder. That should be the shape away from home, especially against the better teams.I'm still fuming about that midfield, using this place as a vent. That defence was fantastic and that's with 2 other very good defenders on the bench ready to come in and keep it ticking over. But the midfield... fucking hell, I mean what is there? Such a lack of creativity.
Kelly was actually OK, him individually I thought for what he is he was pretty close to the best version of him, but its not good enough is it really for a team that's had this investment to completely neglect such a vital part of the pitch.
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I think 'that's not how football works' is a massive cop out for the failure to prepare for the moving on of Hamer tbh. But I think I should stop going on about it now and hope that it is sorted to some extent in January.That’s not how football works.
You can have your targets but there are many reasons for not landing them ….
club don’t want to sell
Club do want to sell but not until they have their replacement in
Other clubs want him and the player chooses one of them
Player wants to come but we can’t meet his wage demands
Player gets injured in training / match
Don’t get me wrong I would have preferred we had signed an 8 but given the window we have had I don’t doubt that we tried incredibly hard to do so.
The midfield would have been a lot more solid and capable of more creativity if we'd played one up top and an extra midfielder. That should be the shape away from home, especially against the better teams.
Ayari and Sakamoto are capable of killer passes and MVE's pace will cause plenty of problems.
Simms up top for me.
Sakemoto was good in that position at Swansea and I'm really unsure what he's done to not get further opportunities to play there.Palmer is never going to be an impact sub. The most you will get with him coming on cold is the risk of an injury.
Sakamoto had to come on. Robins has to get past his favourites thing.
I think 'that's not how football works' is a massive cop out for the failure to prepare for the moving on of Hamer tbh. But I think I should stop going on about it now and hope that it is sorted to some extent in January.
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And the League Cup game.Just about enough from-Swansea, was it? to suggest he can adapt. If he plays that role though I want us getting him in wide positions when we can.
I agree, everyone seemed to be in agreement on that then for some reason kept walking back what we needed until not only did we not need an understudy, we didn't even need a replacement. I still think we need 2 more in there.Its not just him leaving. We needed an understudy anyway.
Why do I feel like this whole post exists to have a subtle dig at SheafAll those advocating for one up front, who on earth from the midfield is going to contribute to enough goals? We have a couple of average games and people are looking to rip everything up.
Kelly was one of our best players, despite us being told we would get hammered because we would miss Sheaf. Colour me shocked, Sky Blues Talk was wrong again. Don't get me started on some of the other shit that is being said either. Honestly the last 12/24 hours on here has been embarrasing.
We really aren't far away from winning these games. It just needs a bit more killer instinct, and the eradication of a few mistakes. Both of which I think will come. The start to this season is much better than last, and look where that ended up. Let's all just chill a bit.
Why do I feel like this whole post exists to have a subtle dig at Sheaf
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Kelly and Eccles were exactly what we worried about. Good at nipping in and getting a foot on the ball, useless on the ball with most balls a five years pass backwards. When Ayari went off we lost anyone able to play the ball forwards.
Eccles has got the range to do it, and has played AM for the reserves and ended up top scorer. Don’t know if it’s a confidence issue or a talent issue but as we’ve got no options I’d like to see him be a bit braver and look forwards more.
I'm just messing with you, we all have our thing, yours is Sheaf so you may as well own it.Because you aren't capable of responding to any of my other points?
In all seriousness though, there was a lot of talk of us getting hammered because he wasn't playing. It was embarrassing to write us off like that.
One up front when we went ahead was common sense.All those advocating for one up front, who on earth from the midfield is going to contribute to enough goals? We have a couple of average games and people are looking to rip everything up.
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