Great at kick & rush, moving in straight lines. Sadly, little end product. Yet another at the club who is woeful at passing.
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There were a lot of poor performances yesterday and NML was amongst the worst.
He couldn't control the ball, he couldn't hold on to the ball and when he did have a chance to do something - he didn't.
What is the point of playing him if he is not going to try to get past defenders?
Great at kick & rush, moving in straight lines. Sadly, little end product. Yet another at the club who is woeful at passing.
Old Mendez. There's a fundamental problem with him, he doesn't even know what he's going to do with the ball. I've actually seen him leave the ball behind and run it into touch. When it works it's brilliant, more often than not it doesn't. He needs three touches to set himself.
To me Mendez-Laing should be a striker, he doesnt do enough to play on the wing and leaves the full back so exposed at times.
I would pay good money to watch Mendez Laing play up front on his own, trying to hold the ball up and bring others into play. It'd be footballs version of Pin Ball. The only way the ball would stick is if we wrapped him in velcro and played the game with a tennis ball from Hyper Value.
He was injured for the majority of the second half but agree first half wasn't great from him like the rest of our midfield.
Should never have been on the pitch, still carrying an injury. Brought back too soon, could be out for a month now. Picking an injured player before Murphy shows what confidence he has. To be honest he should have come off instead of creating more damage to the injury.
NML like Junior Hoillett are both good on their day.
Unfortunately their good days are far outweighed by their bad days.
Yesterday they were both very poor.
I was saying something similar lst season when some people were saying that alot of our players will slip into the chmpionship with ease, afterall, we were runners up the season before, it was the natural order of things. Not so in my opinion, sport doesn't work like the average workplace. In theory, most of those players have peaked, it isn't going to get any better for Peltier, Morrisson, Ralls, Bennett, Patterson,Bamba Hoilett,Ward etc or any of the other original promotion line up, Etheridge-probably-Murphy-Maybe. So om that basis we only really have one player from the original promotion aquad tht is on the up, and one debatable, the others have peaked and are on there way back down. It doesn't matter what level a player is at, if he's not getting better or sustaining a level of performance then the tem will not prosper.
The only way to offset a decline in player performance is to add players who are performing or who are on the upward spiral. I'll let others decide if that's wht Warnock hs done.
Ralls is only 25. He has some improvement left in him. Paterson's 24, but I've never really worked him out. I'd say the rest have probably peaked, though.
I can't see where Ralls can improve,He's played nearly 250 first class games already, if he is going to become a better player then he needs to get a shift on. Paterson actually looked a better player initially, seems that any natural ability he possessed has been rinsed out of him.
Mendez-Laing looked injured and not over his recent absence. If he wasn't over it why was he picked when we had Whyte and Murphy to chose from. Also Paterson still looks out of sorts, so why bring him on? Warnock had to use one sub to cover for Pack's injury and then used up the next two at half time. We now have Etheridge, Bamba and Pack out injured and it looks like ML and Paterson are not fit. Add Jazz Richards to the list too and the squad has no cover in most positions except goalkeeper and striker. Oh and Peltier is out too.
I'll be interesting to see who Neil picks on Wednesday, the thought of Bacuna trying to play in midfield should be interesting.
I've got a new tactic, I don't know why any of them hadn't thought of it, but why doesn't one of the wingers or full backs cross the ball in just infront of the six foot six striker, and then he could head the ball into the net?
Genius yes?