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Originally Posted by DeLorean
Sorry lads, I was joking. TOWK used to call Richard Keogh for saying similar, citing wanting to play all the time as evidence of entitlement. In my mind it was more like evidence of delusion :)
'Sometimes your face doesn't fit and mine doesn't at the moment,' says Wolves defender Matt Doherty
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Originally Posted by Fixer82
Article on the42.ie
I really don’t like his last comment in the article
It's very silly. He's only playing in the PL a wet week. Christie has earned a lot of goodwill with MON. We all know how good Coleman is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
Personally, I'd fancy us playing 3-5-2 with Doherty at wing back and Coleman in beside Duffy and Clark/Long. But this won't do him any favours.
I think too much is being read into what he said. Doherty should be in the team, his face fits how I think we could be playing. The fact that our players play worse for us than they do at a (higher) club level reflects on the management of the team. I'd more suspect that players in the team are being asked to play a game that they are not being coached properly to play and therefore they look worse when it looks shapeless.
The Sunday Indo framed the Doherty interview as a story on the basis that he could claim for the Netherlands as his mother is Dutch and he hasnt okayed competitively for us. Christ.
Assisted the only goal of the match for Wolves today againsf Burnley and earned man of the match in the process.
Special attention on MOTD2 tonight for his performance.
Nice problem for MON to have. He’s not short of problems, not many nice ones though
Matt Doherty is playing too well . He needs to slip in to mediocrity or below . Roy can indulge himself and Martin can recount the long ago good old days without the inconvenience of Irish Players playing well .
I understand his frustration completely, he should have been given a lot more game time by now, but performances like yesterday is the way to heap pressure on O'Neill to pick him, not little digs via the media.
I never knew Matt Doherty was eligible for Holland (Dutch mum). Looking at their current squad - he'd probably get a game if he keeps going the way he is.
Now that would be funny, if Doherty went off and played for Holland. He dismissed it previously as being if i cant get into ireland whats the point in trying holland as though they are better.
Interesting to see what oneill would do , he would probably do his softly softly approach like in the media. It would be very funny actually. "we cant guarantee players playing time, they have to want to play for us", "we'll have a word with Matt and find out his intentions" "but as i say the player has to want to play for us".
This would be a simple one. He'll be in the next squad as he's a fixture now and MON just needs to cap him for a few mins without losing face. I'd attribute zero chance to Matt going Dutch.
Somewhere on foot.nl, Shtutts88 is weighing up whether this Matt Doherty character passes his gut tesht.
Munchen88 more likely or, dare I say, Gelsen88 :(
Another goal today and Man of the Match performance according to the BBC. Involved in 3 goals now in the last 4 games, with two previous assists.
Has come on leaps and bounds under Nuno, voted for this month’s fans player of the month and recognised widely by fans as one of the Players of the Season so far.
Absolute travesty that he has been denied by O’Neill to date. Heard his reasoning was that he wants Doherty to run in straight lines, rather than cut inside and one-two. Playing more as a winger in a 3-4-3 (a system that would suit our current personnel with an abundance of centre halves and more wingers than strikers playing off the lone front man). Would love to see him as a winger working in tandem with Coleman if we are going to persist with a 4-4-2. Think they’d overlap brilliantly.
Scored the only goal of the game away to Crystal Palace today.
Two good articles here on Doherty’s rise this season. Has to play based upon form - tragic waste of a very good player to date.
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport...rm-of-my-life/
https://www.expressandstar.com/sport...-matt-doherty/
Matt Doherty's goal is the fifth Premier League goal scored by an Irish player this season, more than scored at this point in the last two seasons - four in 2016/17 and three in 2017/18
Ireland's Doherty wins player of the month award as superb form with Wolves continues http://the42.ie/4273806
Take him up to 15th in the stats, 2 in the top 30 now, Duffy at 27th not much outside that.
Best player in England in September. Coupled with Shearer criticising Christie’s role in the Arsenal defeat (didn’t see the match myself) must mean Doherty will start.
Something wrong if he doesn't start against Denmark.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
He has the ability to run at a defence and he can defend a bit also.
Has a bit more about him that does Christie.
That's either intended or unintended sarcasm.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
A fair bit of the criticism was justified, some was OTT in my opinion. Christie actually put in some of Fulham’s most dangerous crosses and was involved in some of their better periods of play. Just for the sake of balance. I’d pick Doherty first myself.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixer82
yes, club form must count here and doherty should start.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stuttgart88
there was talk of doherty starting on the left but we should play our form players in their best positions
Dancing with Wolves and their three unheralded heroes
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And then there’s Matt Doherty, whose previous top-flight experience consisted of 44 minutes for Wolves in 2011/12 and 13 Scottish Premier League appearances on loan at Hibs in the same season. Supporters at Molineux would happily have taken ten minutes of your summer to wax lyrical about their wonderful attacking right wing-back, but few of them predicted this impact. No defender in the league has had more touches in the opposition penalty area. Doherty beat Eden Hazard to be named the PFA’s Premier League Player of the Month for September.
Doherty should start on the right in this game. But in the event of both Doherty and Coleman being fit, then I'd see one of them (either Doherty or Coleman) as being a suitable shoe in for the left back position.Quote:
Originally Posted by jbyrne
Doherty played plenty of games on the left, although left wing back mostly I think. I'm not sure Coleman would be suited to playing there.
Third goal of the season (and second game-winner) for Doherty against Newcastle. Should he be considered ahead of Coleman for the right-back position or should he be shoe-horned into a right side of midfield or left-back role? https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/46416287
I think he should play rigth back with Coleman in the advanced role. Coleman is excellent going forward. On the otherside i would have stevens left full with Brady in the advanced postion.Quote:
Originally Posted by samhaydenjr
Coleman is much better facing the play he has been quite sloppy in possession in recent games. Let him play in his best position not recreate another Christie fiasco. We are not going to be playing a traditional 442 anyway Mick said that time has passed so I can't see where he fits in unless it's right full or maybe right of a three if we play five at the back. Doherty to play left full for me use that ability to cut in and have a shot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Diggs246
Which of the two is impressing more going forward recently ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diggs246
Doherty has been playing as a wing back and often is playing so far forward he’s basically a winger. I’d be open to playing him as a right winger or a left fullback for us and leaving Coleman at right full.
The Christe comparison isnt correctQuote:
Originally Posted by liamoo11
Coleman started as a right winger for Everton and played there at times for blackpool. I would play 4-5-1 and i think he will, using McGoldrick at the 10
Could Doherty play in the right side of a Back Three ? He has that bit of Height that can be useful in that position .
Alex Scott even referred to him as a winger on MOTD2 last night. I agree with Diggs that 4-5-1 might be our best bet, I'd go with Doherty as the winger though and leave Coleman RB.Quote:
Originally Posted by irishfan86
I'd be more inclined towards putting Coleman into a back 3. He's not as tall but it hardly matters in international football.Quote:
Originally Posted by seanfhear
Coleman was a right full at sligo and went to everton as a right full. He played right midfield for a couple of seasons cause everton didn't think he could defend. He has lost pace and mobility unfortunately sine his horror injury and that will be even more exposed wide right where he is supposed to link with the front man and create. He was poor tonight and could find it difficult to keep his place at everton in the new year but hopefully he will turn it roundQuote:
Originally Posted by Diggs246