No he’s not. He’s deceptively quicker than that, as is the case with many long striding players.
In a poor team White has been one of those who have impressed me more than others, particularly in the way he brings the ball out of defence.
No he’s not. He’s deceptively quicker than that, as is the case with many long striding players.
In a poor team White has been one of those who have impressed me more than others, particularly in the way he brings the ball out of defence.
I’m pretty sure that Clarke tried that.
He’d be better if he didn’t dribble with the ball ten yards in front of him all the time.
Hi I what I said was the defence would be slow without him. The rest of the defenders are slower than him in comparison leaving us exposed.
Just to clarify np with your views or comments
Neither lavery or Gordon are at there best as lone striker was the line
Thanks for the clarification Acuman. I agree with you.
Not saying that it would be the case with either of these 2, but we’ve had several example of players asked to do the lone striker role who looked absolutely lost when they first took it on but over time blossomed - so it might just be a question of time being needed (although I am aware that these days quite a lot of fans seem to expect instant results and aren’t prepared to allow long enough before they jump in).
Will Grigg springs to mind as one - I think he learned a lot from playing alongside Jon Macken (who was quite good in the LS role) but still took him quite a few games before he was able to hold his own after Macken left.
More recently, last season (and even in the early part of this one) Ayli definitely couldn’t handle the job but he was looking more the part before he left.
And actually Flash did make a fist of it when he had to do it all on his own when the Cookie monster was suspended the season before last so it’s not like he can’t do it. Admittedly he hasn’t looked the same since he’s been back from injury but again that is often a time thing.
Not so sure about Lavery but that might be more to do with my second point about lone strikers - some fans seem to think they should always be the spearhead and leading goal scorer when actually sometimes their job is not so much to get themselves into goal scoring situations but more to hold the play up for others to get in there instead after it’s been hoofed upfield (and hence their own goal return is not as high as some people expect). Colin isn’t the worst I’ve seen doing this (by no means the best!) but what doesn’t help him is our current midfield don’t get up in support fast enough or into decent positions to be played in. When he takes it on himself, his shot to goal conversion rate is actually better than Ayli’s was - but he doesn’t get himself into those positions as often so his return is worse.
With our current way of playing, Lavery is going to look worse than he actually is because he isn’t as quick or awkward as he needs to be to create enough of his own chances, and while he is actually OK at holding up the ball no one comes up fast enough to help him out.
I think that the main problem we’ve got is not that we don’t put away enough of the chances we get but that we don’t create enough of them to start with - which is down to midfielders, wingers and fullbacks not getting the ball intro danger areas for strikers to get on to, rather than solely down to the strikers being unable to force their way through and create their own chances after it’s been lumped up to them with their backs to goal.
Sorry my friend, I completely missread that line…thought it said ‘are at their best’ reading too quickly, and missed the word neither’!!..apologies.
All your points were indeed very valid.
Np mate all done it