Has he? Well, I would take that. Whatever it takes to win the game.
If TM believes we can win the game without him, then so be it and I'm sure he does need a rest at some point.
Be a bit odd though if he was just resting him now, because we then don't have a game for two weeks.
Agree I'm sure he means more for a few weeks time when we have the Saturday, Tuesday Saturday games start again.
No excuses not to have the strongest 11 starting tomorrow giving their all with the prospect of 2 weeks match free!
I suppose he could rest AA over the Easter period, oh wait he's playing in another one of those mid season U19's tournaments!
I would play play him in every game we need before that under 19 rubbish starts and I don't care if he gets there tired, if he is tired they can rest him, players who are in first teams shouldn't be pissing around in under 19 games it's a total waste of time.
Southend are away at Scunthorpe. They are just two points behind us.
4 pages about our next game, and numerous pages about a wank SCG group and numerous about a shite court case.... says it all that is wrong with this forum.
Yeah probably back to 4-2-3-1. Not sure where rose fits in now we have both fleck and vince back?
Why not?Yeah probably back to 4-2-3-1. Not sure where rose fits in now we have both fleck and vince back?
Why not?
I can see a midfield and striker line-up like this working:
Vincelot Fleck
Murphy Rose Cole
Armstrong
What's wrong with that? And you can make Murphy and Rose a fluid two, so they can interchange.
He's not though. According to TM he is a box to box midfielder.I wouldn't drop maddison and play rose. I think rose is more of a defensive minded player than a CAM
I would have O'Brien over them bothI would play Rose instead of Maddison.
I would have O'Brien over them both
Okay, steady on now.Me too. In fact if I was manager he would be the first name on the team sheet. Love him.
An in-form JOB, yes, but he's been oddly out of form for the most part this season.
Difference is, Murphy has been scoring goals.So has Murphy, but people seem to get upset when the suggestion he needs to be dropped comes across.
I don't disagree with you that he's been out of form, but believe the lack of form for players such as O'Brien, Lameiras et al is largely part to being in and out of the team at TM's irrational disposal. I'm not sure the lack of consistency helps the players if I'm honest.
<snip> just play your best side week in week out, especially when our form is like it is.
The problem is no-one is best from week to week. Everyone's performances are up and down.
Difference is, Murphy has been scoring goals.
He's only scored in about six games this season, and been absent for nearly all of the remaining. Not quite the talisman people are led to believe.
Up until the Port Vale game where he scored (and did nothing for the other 89 minutes), he was one of the worst, if not the worst player on the pitch for the previous 3 matches barring the injury.
O'Brien can't play more than one game in a row before being dropped, even when he has been one of the better and most effective players on the pitch, which has happened on many occasions.
The chopping and changing only seems to benefit Murphy, because he's the only one not getting dropped regardless of how many half hearted performances he puts in.
I truly believe we would score more goals with him not in the team, blunting the attack in over 20 of the games he's played, and a major contributor to the reason Armstrong isn't getting any service.
Armchair punditry if ever I saw it.
I've been to almost every game this season, so at the very least you could have granted me the padded seat. My opinion isn't formed from other people's comments on here, or telegraph write ups.
I suppose if you had any decent counter arguments you would have used them by now anyway.
Touchy.
The idea that an attacking player is, by default, ineffective or guilty of 'blunting the attack' in games he doesn't score in is absurd.
Murphy has played well and contributed in a number of games where he hasn't found the net. He has had some poor games too and is on a bad run of form. He is that type of player. Inconsistent yes, but also raw and exciting. Rather than than some plodding up and down wide player who is consistently mediocre.
I wouldn't flatter yourself.
The argument that he is blunting the attack (in nearly all) the games he hasn't scored in is not absurd at all. He constantly hogs the ball, shoots from unreasonable distance, and almost never passes to team mates when someone makes a good run.
If you're not scoring, and you're not creating chances for other players when you're one of four attacking players then what are you doing? Blunting the attack, and the shirt would be better used elsewhere.
The statement that he has played well
In games he hasn't scored in isn't true on almost any level either, so I would actually question if you go to any of the games. He hasn't had just a few poor matches, he has had many, and the argument that he is just out of form when he blatantly isn't making any where near the effort required from someone who is supposed to be a professional doesn't quite wash.
It's the same with the fascination of Ryan Kent. Some of our fans would rather see a player skin a man and it come to nothing than an effective team work together and win a game. If that's what you'd rather pay your money for (if you do actually go to the games) then fair enough, but sadly it's a little bit circus like.
If you want to turn it into a dick measuring exercise about who has been to the most games, well I have only missed Millwall, Bradford and Fleetwood all season. Not that it means anything.
You're right about Ryan Kent, people made the same lame arguments about him before he left, and how well have we done since then? Does we look more or less threatening going forward? Players who run at defenders create uncertainty and create space for others. We miss him. Get over it.
And I take it you missed the Peterborough game. Murphy ran riot in that second half. Did he score? No. Must have 'blunted' the attack then. Your last post should win some sort of award.
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