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Is Sakamoto a wingback yet? (2 Viewers)

  • Thread starter shmmeee
  • Start date Oct 7, 2023
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shmmeee

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Grendel

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Well he’s a left wing back if MVE is on tbe right to balance it out
 

slowpoke

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  • Oct 7, 2023
  • #3
He’s a winger and a bloody good one.
 
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Earlsdon_Skyblue1

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  • Oct 7, 2023
  • #4
He would be much more effective higher up the pitch. Wasted at the silly position which is wing back.
 
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Samo

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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No he isn't
 
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ptr

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Dunno but he’s a bloody good player.
 
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SBT

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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He did well there today but I was surprised Norwich didn’t attack much down the wings at all. Or attack in general really.
 

pusbccfc

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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He's wasted in a defensive role. When Sheaf is back, let him run free behind the strikers.
 
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slowpoke

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Samo said:
No he isn't
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Not what ?
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Brilliant player
 
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procdoc

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  • Oct 7, 2023
  • #11
He played well
 

ExmouthNeil

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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slowpoke said:
Not what ?
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What? Not...
 
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napolimp

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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He's a player that doesn't really fit into our system .
 
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PVA

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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He can certainly play wing back, I would like to see more of him at AM though
 

pusbccfc

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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napolimp said:
He's a player that doesn't really fit into our system .
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He does, if Robins plays him as an attacking midfielder. A role he's played exactly 50 times in his career.
 
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DannyThomas_1981

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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napolimp said:
He's a player that doesn't really fit into our system .
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Love the guy. Think he could play in the front 2 of the box.
 

shmmeee

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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pusbccfc said:
He does, if Robins plays him as an attacking midfielder. A role he's played exactly 50 times in his career.
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Or wingback. Where he’s played 80 odd times…
 

Grendel

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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The OP we could of course ask - can Alken play in DM and can and should godden start and not have Wright and simms as a partnership
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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As someone else said, get him beefed up a bit and we really could have some player. Looks as good with either foot which you just don’t see and is a nightmare for defenders
 

pusbccfc

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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shmmeee said:
Or wingback. Where he’s played 80 odd times…
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Has he?
 

covcity4life

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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shmmeee said:
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You asking yourself? You been on both sides of the argument after all
 

lordsummerisle

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Had a really good game bit " Charles " Charlie" Charles at times, but generally effective.
 

AFCCOVENTRY

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Robins needs to find him a place on the team. Works hard, great close control, disciplined, attacking threat. Looked much better on the left side and balanced out well with MVE. I like JDS defensively but he’s attacking threat isn’t that good.
 
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SBT

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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RIP Jake Bidwell
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Grendel said:
can Alken play in DM
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Think @Alkhen played in a GMK game once, but unsure where
 
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Deleted member 5849

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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CCFCSteve said:
As someone else said, get him beefed up a bit and we really could have some player.
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When we tried that with Huckerby he turned shite and slow!
 

COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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pusbccfc said:
He does, if Robins plays him as an attacking midfielder. A role he's played exactly 50 times in his career.
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Sakamoto performance today will give Mark Robins something to think about and he now has 2 weeks to decide, left, right or attacking midfield.
 
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Alkhen

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Deleted member 5849 said:
Think @Alkhen played in a GMK game once, but unsure where
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Just call me Jamie Alkhen... Tenacious, effective but with obvious shortcomings (just ask my wife)

Was on GMK but never lived local enough to Coventry to play 5-side
 

Essexrobbie

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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When he put the ball between the two defenders and went to step through and they just blocked him off, obstruction all day long, unless you were this useless twat of a referee.
 
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AiS86

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Just don't think he'd be anywhere near as effective in an AM role. His strength is stopping the ball, using feints then going past players. Can't really do that in the middle, and he's a too lightweight to hold off players behind him
 
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BlueSkiesForever

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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Saka was incredible today, put in an absolute shift, easily man of the match for me.
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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AiS86 said:
Just don't think he'd be anywhere near as effective in an AM role. His strength is stopping the ball, using feints then going past players. Can't really do that in the middle, and he's a too lightweight to hold off players behind him
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Played there loads before.

The problem is, we're asking him to defend. He's consuming energy getting back. Imagine having him at full speed going forward playing one-twos with O'Hare/Ayari/Sheaf etc.
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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His selection is wasted in whatever position when it becomes apparent that the referee's grandfather was forced into labour on the Burmese railway during WW2.
 
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oscillatewildly

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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BlueSkiesForever said:
Saka was incredible today, put in an absolute shift, easily man of the match for me.
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Their defensive number 24 was beyond MOM.
 

AiS86

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  • Oct 7, 2023
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pusbccfc said:
Played there loads before.

The problem is, we're asking him to defend. He's consuming energy getting back. Imagine having him at full speed going forward playing one-twos with O'Hare/Ayari/Sheaf etc.
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Not saying he can't, just a very different role to what we've (me anyway) seen him doing. In a box mid he could always drift out wide. I'd be disappointed not seeing him doing the classic fake cross with the left and shift it onto his right
 
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