Nice reverse angles of it here, Wes had to break stride ever so slightly but great control and vision alright. His debut iirc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diggs246
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Nice reverse angles of it here, Wes had to break stride ever so slightly but great control and vision alright. His debut iirc.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diggs246
Self-promotion is no promotion, tets :pQuote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
horrible match played better when he played deep as a holding mid...Thats were I rate him to play. Too slow. Brighton looked like Ajax Amsterdam.
Enjoying Hendrick in this deep role today. Really think this is where we would get best from him alongside McCarthy. Just does not have the guile to be our 10 it's unfair on him. Problem is neither does molumby or Browne or Cullen or knight they are all 8s or maybe 6s but not 10s ar international level. Who does that leave for a proper 10 maybe Byrne but he seems to drop deep these days, o dowda maybe as much as I hoped he is not quite at that level, Brady I tink he would be if he could ever get match fit, hourihane I think has the attributes for our level, crowley for me would be interesting but I accept things have been slow for him at Birmingham this season but I think he might be injured.
Is there anyone else ? I'm not including mcgoldrick cause of his utter and complete inability to run back , tackle or have any appreciation of the defensive side of midfield. As much as we have been praising our underage players I haven't seen any 10 type player in our underage teams in the last 10 years since we had grealish on board and nobody with a 10s ability of a crowley. I include Ronan in that who has been hood for us but I find it hard to see when he will be at the level to be a 10 at senior level.
I think Parrott is the obvious 10 once he proves he can do it at men’s level. This could be just a few months away.
Parrott looks like he is our best centre forward since robbie . He would be a good 10 but could he be a great 9? 10s in this system have such a tough job with 3 more forward luxuary players in front of them there is no chance for the 10 to be a luxuryQuote:
Originally Posted by irishfan86
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When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetsujin1979
The lesser mentioned Jeff Hendrick on here. Thinking about his move to Newcastle at the weekend and what the future holds for him, very close to going badly wrong if we view relegation as that?
A few bright performances and a lot of nothing it seems from his time on Tyneside so far, a continuation then of what went on at Burnley only in a slightly poorer team.
What next?
You have to hand it to him, he has earned an incredible amount of money relative to what he has produced in return. Probably doesn't have a relegation pay cut in his contract either given that it was a free transfer and it's Newcastle we're talking about.
Relegation might not be the worst thing for him, he's not a Premier League standard player for me, despite 150 or so appearances to his name somewhat disproving that theory. I recall him being good for Derby in the Championship, so maybe he'd find his level and some form back in that division like Hourihane has.
I was just going to say something similar. Judging by his performances for us and even in the Premiership for awhile now it looks like he is a Championship Standard Player and if you sign Championship standard players there is every chance you will end up playing in the Championship.Quote:
Originally Posted by Eirambler
As you said, fair dues to him he has been paid handsomely for what he has produced.
He's got three years left on his four year contract, and he'll be 32 when it ends. I think he made a good move to run down his contract and take the money on offer at Newcastle. If they get relegated there'll be pressure to play him or loan him out and cover a large portion of his wages. Either way he wins. I honestly don't understand why more players do this and why clubs are willing to pay any kind of a transfer fee for players at all. If I was in charge of a Premier League club, I'd simply sign out of contract players to save the transfer fee.
Pretty much what Allardyce did at Bolton
And yet Burnley didn't really come close to relegation in the four seasons he was a regular there, they even managed two top half finishes and qualified for Europe.Quote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
Perhaps they did not have enough other Championship Players ?Quote:
Originally Posted by DeLorean
The funny thing is that Burnley really are just a bunch of Championship players, but somehow Sean Dyche is able to get them to play together like a cohesive unit.
They've very much a PL quality goalkeeper and defence for a start.
Yes, being rock solid at the back can help cover for other inadequacies in a team. As a lot of Ireland teams have shown over the decades. There is a ceiling to what you can achieve with that approach though - Burnley do get absolutely taken apart from time to time by the likes of Man City whereas other Premier League teams of a similar standing seem to match up to the top sides better.
Under Kenny Ireland attempt to play out from the back with great passivity and to to no obvious effect whatever. And with players ill-suited to doing so.
It's suicidal against teams who press high and means we're ineffectually passing the ball around in front of counterattacking teams. Really nonsensical and pointless.
So what do you suggest? Stick a big man (that we dont have) up front and just hoof from the back?Quote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
There is a middle ground between the two. You don't have to either just pass it around aimlessly or hoof it long all day. In the autumn we retained possession well much of the time but we had no idea how to turn that into scoring chances. In these fixtures, particularly the Luxembourg and Qatar games, I'm looking for progress on that. Controlled possession by all means, but with an attacking threat as well and a willingness to counter attack or play a direct ball or a cross when the opportunity arises.
Come on; that's strawman stuff, and not what anybody that I'm aware of on here has even vaguely suggested. But in a situation where Kenny has determined he wants to play out from the back we do need to have some sort of cohesive game-plan on how to move up the pitch to some sort of effect and look to start creating chances. I'm just not at all certain what we are trying to do. Do we go through a playmaker? No. Do we look to get crosses into the box? No. Are we attempting to utilise pace in attacking areas? No. Are we looking to play off a targetman? No. Are we making the best of set-pieces? Again, no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Razors left peg
We look vulnerable defensively and utterly toothless in attack.
The playing resources we have at our disposal are extremely limited, especially with the injuries we've sustained, and no-one's expecting miracles. But I would at least expect for Kenny makes us difficult to play against and hard to beat, and perhaps for us to score the occasional goal.
Kenny has his team play out from the back but he's hardly a fundamentalist. England are the only team we've played who actually pressed us and, surprise, we went more direct.Quote:
Originally Posted by Trequartista20
Unused sub in Newcastle's opening game of the EPL season: a 2-4 defeat to West Ham.
Only one PL start this season; under Howe, just 10 mins on the pitch. TalkSport and Football League World suggesting today (Tues) that a move to Middlesborough is likely.
He and Robbie Brady show their caring, charitable side once more:
https://carlow-nationalist.ie/2022/0...ess-in-dublin/
Jeff's an important player for us and has done well of late under Kenny, so needs to be playing regularly really, whether that's at Boro or elsewhere.
A loan move back to Burnley until the end of the season would seem to make sense; they're short on numbers, and Dyche is obviously a fan.
Don't think Newcastle are going to loan a player to relegation rival. If I was him I'd be wary of Boro as the ones aren't pleased with the link and don't rate him. He'd need to be on his A game from minute one or face the same abuse Doherty gets from the Spurs fans.
If Newcastle are paying all his wages for any loan could look towards Blackburn who might lose Joe Rothwell to Bournemouth.
Now (8 pm, 31 Jan) reported to be signing for QPR (Football League World).
Moves to Reading on a season-ling loan deal.
https://www.readingfc.co.uk/news/202...son-long-loan/
Signs and then almost immediately scores the opening goal in their 4-0 win against Maidenhead.
Scores at home v QPR today.
Twice!Quote:
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Must have had his Weetabix!Quote:
Originally Posted by SkStu
scored a sublime volley today. a thing of beauty
This is a good angle:
https://youtu.be/TA1cGe8O08k
He has been playing well lately and scoring a few goals.
His season might be about to end in relegation. Rotherham's win today means the only team they can catch is Huddersfield who are three points ahead with a game in hand.
For Readings sake the game in hand is against Sheffield United who beat Preston 4-1 even with promotion secured so won't be easy for Huddersfield. Failure to seduce a point in that game and it comes down to Huddersfield vs Reading on the final day.
For Hendrick though he's still got one year left on his Newcastle contract so should pick himself up a loan somewhere next season in the championship.
" " seduce a point " " ~ ~ I suppose anything is worth a try ! !Quote:
Originally Posted by JR89
Hendrick told to find a new club, despite having a year left on his Newcastle deal. What does this mean? Will they pay him out the rest of the money owed?
They don't really have an alternative unless he voluntarily chooses to move on. If I was Jeff I'd do a Harry Arter and sit tight for the duration of the contract, he won't be seeing money like that coming into his account again.
We're starting to build a team of unwanted Premier League players at this point - Duffy and Clark at the back, Arter and Hendrick in midfield and Connolly up front. The five of them have been earning Premier League wages for the last year with only Duffy's token few minutes for Fulham to show in terms of actual playing time in the league. Kelleher hasn't seen a minute of action in the league either of course.
Only has a year left on his contract and will likely find himself back at another bottom half championship team with Newcastle covering his wages.