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Which says an awful lot about the quality and ability of our current teamQuote:
Originally Posted by dandywarhol
Ralls is a very good player , can't comment on Jazz , as he is never around for judgement .
Don't rate Ralls at all, and never have. Average at best.
Been our best player this seasonQuote:
Originally Posted by tforturton
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Originally Posted by tforturton
Not a Ronaldo but easily our best and most consistent player.
Or that Ralls is a really good player at this level?Quote:
Originally Posted by DubaiDai
Ralls has been our best player this season. We are missing him.
Ralls is a good player at this level. Struggled a bit in the premier league but was one of our best and most consistent performers in the promotion season also.
Ralls is too one-paced. If he had a burst of speed about him he'd be very good at this level. As it is, I think he'd struggle to break into a lot of the top teams' midfields in this division. His passing needs to improve too. He has arguably been our best player so far this season, but in fairness, there's a lot of mediocrity in the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Ralls is very good at this level and, although he didn't find it as easy to deal with as I thought he would, didn't do as badly as many say he did in the Premier League - he always should be one of the first names on the team sheet at this level.
Agreed.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Sadly pace isn’t something that Warnock values. I’m not just talking about going forward but also at the back... we are such a slow team... and it looks like players who have a little pace are playing with lead weights in their boots
He's got a great engine, breaks up play and links up well. He's got his flaws but he's at this level for a reason. I don't understand the Joe Ralls hate. Every season Joe Ralls gets injured, everything goes tits up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Where are you getting the "hate" thingy from? Hate is too strong a word, I'm trying to be objective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
He gets an incredible amount of stick, especially considering he's greatly missed whenever he's absent. There were posts recently saying "we'll never get promoted with Ralls in CM", despite the fact he was our best CM when we got up last time. It's not directed at yourself but it's odd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
But I very much doubt he would be an automatic starter in any of the top 6 sides.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
Never really thought that pace was key for a central midfielder.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rock_Flock_of_Five
Pace is normally more associated with wingers, full backs and strikers.
Most top midfielders that come to mind for me are rated for their work rate, passing and tackling.
Very odd.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pedro de la Rosa
His record in our promotion season was superb.
He’s started this season well again and often has to play with injuries as he is so important to the team.
Even last season he had to play through the pain and struggled.
When he got fit and came back he did pretty well.
He’s an all rounder, so never likely to be everyone’s cup of tea, but there aren’t many like him around and every team ( at our level) needs one.
Given that midfielders such as Ralls are often needed to cover the back line then quickly turn defence into attack, then I’d have thought that pace would be important for them as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawnmower
He was a starter in the team that finished second with 90 points 2 years ago.Quote:
Originally Posted by DubaiDai
Whatever happened to them?Quote:
Originally Posted by Optimistic Nick
Without Ralls we look like we arent playing with a midfield .
QPR and West Brom strolled through our midfield .
Hopefully Ralls is the solution to that problem or we are in trouble.
Ralls is a top level championship midfield player, is underrated by some of our support yet is always missed when not in side and would get into the majority of the top teams in this league
Yep. Noticeable that Bacuna hasn't played as well without Ralls alongside him.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmy the Jock
I wasn't a great fan of Ralls in our promotion season. I thought he was the least able of our centre midfield players, but that squad included Bryson, Grujic, Damour, and of course Gunnarson. This season I reckon he's our stand-out player, which says a lot about our current options. I'm not jumping on the 'isn't Marlon Pack great' bandwagon just yet..Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
Agree about Pack. It just goes to show how starved of a player who can put there foot on the ball we've been over the last few years or so. Same with 30 minute Tomlin-He really is finished at this level.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
There is little doubt that our midfield needs attention but I would prefer to continue through this season and let a new manager take a look.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
I thought in our promotion season he was our best CM. Obviously Grujic is more talented. I thought he was better than Gunner but can see someones point of view he was better. But Bryson and Damour better than Ralls. Come off it. No way.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
Both Ralls and Morrison seem to be underrated/get unfair stick from portions of our fanbase. Whenever they're missing we tend to fall apart
When Morrison was out last season we got on fine without him. I believe we would have stayed up if we continued with the Bamba/Manga pairing.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
Ralls is needed in the middle though, I think he balances us out quite nicely with Bacuna and Pack next to him
No, they weren't better than Ralls, but we had a much more creative midfeld in 17/18, even by Warnock's standards. We played much, much, more football because we had players who could, and Ralls was -for want of a better word - our enforcer. This season the quality immediately around him is in my opinion poor, and consequently he's stood out..Quote:
Originally Posted by Hilts
The only one who was creative out of that lot was Grujic and he only played a small number of games and was a headless chicken for the first few.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Quiet Monkfish
In fact when he got on his game his link up with Ralls was the best we’d seen for a while.
Pity he got injured and was hardly seen.
The others played minor parts compared to Ralls who was far and away our best midfielder in our promotion season
So why do fast players always end up playing wing, full back or striker ?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Hooded Claw
By the way, over the sort of distances midfielders run Ralls is quicker than most at this level imho
This is true.Quote:
Originally Posted by City123
We fell apart when Morrison was our season before last and he started getting some credit.
Soon forgotten.
Seems odd that players like these 2 playing for a side which on paper is bang average particularly in the middle and up front seem to win such a high % of games they play in.
There was also around a month or so when he came back into the team last season where he was our top performer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lawnmower