stevefloyd
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From Russia with love?
From Russia with love?That reminds me, my wife is back from Russia tomorrow.
No. From Russia with CovidFrom Russia with love?
I think better to come from him this season and will be a lot better next season once settled and with a full pre-season under his belt hopefully. Granted he has looked a bit rusty but it's good that we have actually signed a LWB so maybe in loan market next summer we can target areas higher up the pitch to add competition which is needed.
Remember when you did this with sheaf?Subbed
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It’s early days still, he’s not played regularly for a while and he’s getting used to how we play. His record is impressive so I’m sure he’ll be an addition to the squad. I’ve said all this before.
However, the WB roles are massively important to how we play and he doesn’t look a natural WB to me. I appreciate today he was asked to watch Bowler, but he just offers nothing offensively with his positioning.
I said it before but I worry if him and Kane start as WB’s we lose all our dynamism for wide areas. We know the crossing game will be on point, but those roles need more than that.
Again, I’m sure he’ll come good, he’s massively experienced, but if we want to play on the front foot, attack teams and be creative then Maatsen has to start.
I think the third paragraph was especially evident today. Kane and Bidwell together means our ability to play through the wing backs, and push their full backs deeper is greatly reduced.
Appreciate Kane wasn’t great today but he can offer an attacking threat through this crossing. Not sure what Bidwells “thing” is yet.
But we need the ability of a Dabo or Maatsen to keeps some dynamism and variance for the opposition to think about.
Next season Josh ried will be back up to bidwell I think.
Next season Josh ried will be back up to bidwell I think.
Maatsen had a mare at LWB today. Bidwell played better before he came off
Next season Josh ried will be back up to bidwell I think.
Maatsen had a mare at LWB today. Bidwell played better before he came off
TBF Meite was a beast and came on three mins after Maatsen moved to LWB.
Both full backs well off the pace, Bidwell needs to lose half a stone and Kane needs to go and get a colour blind eye test . We got pretty lucky today and we should have gone at them like we did at Peterborough away. Salter or Maatsen MOM for me, Reading were pretty decent 2nd half even with 10 but we made them look good. Too many errors today and the two goals were frustrating as I'm not sure Fadz would have done a better job but makes up for games when we have been outstanding and got nothing.Both wing backs were very poor today, which goes a long way to explaining why we were so lacklustre. Kane apparently isn’t fit, I’m not sure what Bidwell’s excuse is.
"Ah, two glass eyes".MR said kane is playing with a slight injury, but Bidwell is playing with 2 injuries one to each leg. i dont hold my breath he will improve either
Don’t forget the “Italy only win in Rome” as well.Remember when you did this with sheaf?
I'm not writing Bidwell off until he gets a pre-season with the team. Jamie Allen went from 'get rid ASAP' to 'valuable squad player' over last summer.
The only thing I would say SBT is that around this time last season Gyo was seen as a complete failure. Sometimes patience pays off.That’s an impressive degree of patience.
Personally if we’re going to have to ship out six or seven players just to bring in one guy in January, I think it’s only fair to expect some kind of return from him before August.
The only thing I would say SBT is that around this time last season Gyo was seen as a complete failure. Sometimes patience pays off.
I’m not sure why we couldn’t just wait til the end of the season to sign him (especially if he supposedly needs a full pre-season just to get up to speed). Instead we blew our entire January budget on a rotational player who isn’t contributing anything right now.
Gyokeres was a 22 year old who filled a position of need for us. What’s most baffling to me about the Bidwell signing is that even assuming he comes good, we don’t have a pressing need for another LWB right now - we have multiple other options there and he isn’t even the best one.
I’m not sure why we couldn’t just wait til the end of the season to sign him (especially if he supposedly needs a full pre-season just to get up to speed). Instead we blew our entire January budget on a rotational player who isn’t contributing anything right now.
Then another club may have nipped in... If that was the player they wanted (we've had no permanent LWB for 2 years & Reid is not training on), then you can see why they got him in Jan.
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