Juke going a potential godsend? (1 Viewer)

Really rate the bloke but what we had with him was what we had with Clinton Morrison, and that is him being all over the pitch, on the wings, chasing the ball and not being where we want him to be half the time, namely in and around the box.

What you get with Platt is a more rigid structure of a player holding his position, therefore Nimely could play much closer to his strike partner and was able to sniff out the knock on's and little flicks.

As I say, I rated Juke, but he never truly gelled alongside any strike partner. Okay, sure we didn't have Nimely, but I do think it is all about strike partners playing much tighter and closer together and when Platt and Juke played together there wasn't the cohesion and understanding we had today.

Maybe this indeed could be a godsend.

With Juke our shape was all over the place as he would be drifting out to the wings and leaving us bereft in the middle. Platt holds the line. We could do with another in the same mold.

Yeah. Though Thorn got just about everything spot-on. The Deegan thing was the right decision and playing 3 up front I think caught Boro on the back foot.

I too would have liked to see a further sub to counteract their 3. If nothing else, it gave their team 3 sets of fresh legs and helped them maintain the tempo for them.