Quote Originally Posted by Hilts View Post
I may be in a minority of 1 but I thought v Coventry Eli King looked like potentially a very good player and was far from out of his depth.

Guilty of too many over simple passes and backward passes but playing in a game where the opposition dominated possession , full home debut i thought it was a promising display.

Look forward to seeing more of him.
I don’t think anyone’s saying he’s out of his depth but he’s not a number 8 for me. He plays in the Wintle position for U23s. As you said it was all backwards and didnt really offer anything going forward when he had the ball. A lot was made of the Hugill fo Watters substitution but it was the Doyle for King substitution that changed that game. Doyle got us on the front foot. End of the day we were home to a Coventry we should be trying to impose our game on them not sit back and be so defensive as we were before Doyle replaced King.

Morrison talks about not putting square pegs in round holes but King at 8 / RHS of midfield was exactly that for me.