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Box to box hard midfielder who doesn't bottle the challenge and would get this stuttering engine firing again...
...oh, and he can score goals.
...oh, and he can score goals.
Funnily enough this is how I view Dale Stephens as a player, an ideal replacement for Crofts, but he's not getting picked at the moment (ill or unfit? )
Box to box hard midfielder who doesn't bottle the challenge and would get this stuttering engine firing again...
...oh, and he can score goals.
I think the team generally lacks bite at the moment. Even Ince looked a bit lightweight yesterday.
Crofts is sorely missed. Barnes too, in my opinion, and El Abd. These are players who fight for the team (sometimes literally). Yesterday we just seemed so meek and bland.
Box to box hard midfielder who doesn't bottle the challenge and would get this stuttering engine firing again...
...oh, and he can score goals.
We are also missing Bridcutt in a different way. At times the back 4 had no options to feed the ball into midfield as neither Andrews or Ince were available.
Whilst its a lack of goals which is our problem at the moment, there is no fluidity in our play and that's where Bridcutt and Kishishev before him were so good. Ince was just about our best player yesterday, but he doesn't read the game or settle things down as much as Bridcutt.
Andrews played ok but I'm still not sure what his role is? Is he a holding midfielder or is he supposed to break ahead of the ball? If its the later he really doesn't have the legs to fulfill that role.
Agree with all that. Normally when we've lost games or underperformed in recent years you could at least look at the way the team is playing and understand what it is they're trying to do. Yesterday it was just too muddled. Bridcutt has a good footballing brain and we miss that a lot.
Ince was just about our best player yesterday, but he doesn't read the game or settle things down as much as Bridcutt.
Andrews played ok but I'm still not sure what his role is? Is he a holding midfielder or is he supposed to break ahead of the ball? If its the later he really doesn't have the legs to fulfill that role.
Which game did you go to yesterday as perhaps I should have gone to the same one instead of BHA vs Middlesbro. In the game I saw Ince was poor in comparison to usual and was totally overshadowed by Andrews.
As I said we must have watched different games and different Ince cos the 1 I saw was a poor immitation if the previous one and on that performance would be dropped Tuesday if we had another player to play his role.Ince and Ward were the only two players to come out of the game with a semblance of credit. Andrews was ok and certainly undeserving of the stick on other threads but Ince was much improved after a poor display against Ipswich.
As I said we must have watched different games and different Ince cos the 1 I saw was a poor immitation if the previous one and on thst performance woukd be dropped Tuesday if we had another player to play his role.
Ince is the big black geezer built like a brick shit house.