Captain Dart
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Will he ever be 100% or has he got to a stage where his body is letting him down a bit.
Will he ever be 100% or has he got to a stage where his body is letting him down a bit.have to say though, if he’s not been 100% fit this season then it’s not totally fair to criticise too much.
This you Earlsdon
It’s an interesting stat, but you can’t take it in isolation as proof that he’s the reason we’re more successful without him.
He’s a good player at this level, and coaches will continue to utilise him. Don’t think Lampard or Robins before him would have cared much if this stat was presented to them
- Were there other players missing from the team in those games that could have influenced the results?
- Does our play style change in his absence, possibly suiting a greater number of players? For instance, our recent success seems to have come as we’ve taken a more direct approach.
- What’s the context of those games? Were they against stronger or weaker opponents?
Didn’t Gareth Bale once have stat at Tottenham, where he went a long time without even being on a winning team?
There definitely needs to be a question of how we instruct and use Sheaf given our current run of form, as I agree this season in particular he’s slowing things down and it’s not suiting us, we’re not yet an effective possession team. Is this because it’s what Sheaf does or is he told to do this? If we’ve landed on this current, more direct system then let’s see how he can adapt to it.
It’s an interesting stat, but you can’t take it in isolation as proof that he’s the reason we’re more successful without him.
He’s a good player at this level, and coaches will continue to utilise him. Don’t think Lampard or Robins before him would have cared much if this stat was presented to them
- Were there other players missing from the team in those games that could have influenced the results?
- Does our play style change in his absence, possibly suiting a greater number of players? For instance, our recent success seems to have come as we’ve taken a more direct approach.
- What’s the context of those games? Were they against stronger or weaker opponents?
Didn’t Gareth Bale once have stat at Tottenham, where he went a long time without even being on a winning team?
There definitely needs to be a question of how we instruct and use Sheaf given our current run of form, as I agree this season in particular he’s slowing things down and it’s not suiting us, we’re not yet an effective possession team. Is this because it’s what Sheaf does or is he told to do this? If we’ve landed on this current, more direct system then let’s see how he can adapt to it.
You know they're coming!Don’t make me get Philosoraptors graphs out.
CORRELATION DOES NOT EQUAL CAUSATION
This you Earlsdon
I’m not surprised at those stats to be fair - I’ve thought this recently.
We play quicker without sheaf and it’s given Torp a bit more freedom - Allen’s energy in the middle though has been a big help.
It’s obvious when he plays everyone looks for him and for every play to go through him - I liken it to when we had Gary Macallister. Everything slows down.
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Sheaf & Torp have only ever started a handful of games together. It's a shame really, we've never seen the best of them together.We play quicker without sheaf and it’s given Torp a bit more freedom - Allen’s energy in the middle though has been a big help.
Sheaf & Torp have only ever started a handful of games together. It's a shame really, we've never seen the best of them together.
I don't care who is in or out of the team.
This is what my eyes tell me:
Sheaf is a great DM who can pick a pass.
When we try and play out through him as a play maker it fails. He slows our tempo down and doesn't get us forward. If anything we go backwards into our penalty area with the opposition press on.
He is a great DM but a below par playmaker. Let's just accept him for what he is and play to his strengths and not his weaknesses.
You lot complaining about Sheaf ‘slowing us down’ are in for a real shock with Grimes.
Sheaf set Torp up for his debut goal
Oh yea he really made that goal
He's a great DM who can pick a pass but we can't play through him because he slows us down and we can't go forward.
Surely that means he can't pick a pass?
Yes, Torp would have got the ball in space in that shooting position without Sheaf having made the pass to him.Yea it was an assist on paper but he had nothing to do with the goal
He can't do it consistently enough for a playmaker. Lots of players can make good passes during a game it doesn't make them a playmaker.
A playmaker really dictates the pattern of play and gets you on the front foot.. Sheaf doesn't.
Stats for seasons gone by suggest he's quite a progressive passer. Could it be perhaps that this season he just hasn't had much of offer ahead of him?
Not that I see him as someone who should carry the playmaker title anyway, playmaker for me is more like Hamer, Torp...the higher risk players.
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