DNB_Seagull
Dirty Northerner. For now
- Apr 27, 2014
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Scotland?
Albania? Division 8?
Scotland?
Nowhere near good enough for that.
One trick pony.
If he learns to cross a ball consistently, he's got a shout of playing top-flight football - he's certainly got the pace and the beating of a full back. But that's a big if.
Then he had better adopt a Premier League players attitude
He is actually very consistent in his crossing - it goes to one of two places: hard and low to the corner of the goal area or the one that looks like it's over-hit high past the far post. The latter one requires someone just to knock it down for an onrushing midfielder to hammer home. Unfortunately, without Crofts, we don't have anyone like that. And we have no-one with the anticipation to gamble on the space near the far post.
Surely there's a 3rd option - screwed wildly off his toe into the stand behind the goal?
Quite (very) often the ball will be passed to him and he has the opportunity to keep ahead of the defence and head into the area for shot/pass/etc., however he rarely does this. What he does when he gets the ball (either on the run or otherwise) is stop and almost wait for two defenders to be in front of him and then "try" some magic to beat them. It's a bit of a one trick pony in that respect. An experienced/good defender can deal with this pretty easily (esp at premiership level!). If he mixed things up a bit (taking the ball on the run and CARRY on forward for example) then he could be very good player. Just seems he's too obsessed about "taking out" two defenders from a static ball, i.e. showing off!
Seems some doubt that it was on Radio One - perhaps it wasn't. No, I didn't hear myself, my son phoned me to say that he had heard while having his hair cut - I am sure that he said "Radio 1" but perhaps he didn't. One thing that I do know is that he heard it - he's not likely to wind me up (about football anyway!)