Put Knockaert in the number 10 role?

[BensGrandad]

Yep - and that went well.

Hughton had plenty of opportunities to do this last year and never did. On the numerous occasions Baldock was out injured he always played Murray and Hemed together which never looked or felt right either.

Ironic that Hogan murdered us that day - he would have been ideal this season.....

He is no way near good enough for us for this season and no better than we have., IMHO

 

[chaileyjem]

Izquierdo has played secondary striker/No.10 three times in the last three seasons.

He has been signed as a left winger and is an emergency option (like Skalak, Murphy, March & Knocky) in the centre when Baldock, Brown & Groß are injured or out of form.

Yep. Understood. He's another option up front/wings.

But you're right baldock, brown and gross are going to be our 2nd striker/#10 options with another striker imminently joining murray, Hemed.

 

[Nixonator]

Why don't we stick Duffy up front too?

 

[NooBHA]

Not sure what this 'no 10' role really is, we need someone up who has pace and can score goals AK has both those attributes. However I guess he is not playing because he has been seen as not fit enough.

I'm the same. I really don't know what that position constitutes. It seems to be someone who can make themselves available to a pass from defender or midfielder and be able to hold on to it, get it under control and distribute it wide or forward and bring your team into posessional play in a more advanced role.

I would like to see a physically stronger player in that role but they seem to be hard to find.

 

[chaileyjem]

Yep - and that went well.

Hughton had plenty of opportunities to do this last year and never did. On the numerous occasions Baldock was out injured he always played Murray and Hemed together which never looked or felt right either.

Ironic that Hogan murdered us that day - he would have been ideal this season.....

By the way How did murray and Hemed get on in that run of 5 games ending with Wigan at home, after baldock was injured at end of last season ?

 

[Icy Gull]

Criminal ?

PS: So what exactly have Izquierdo, Brown, and Gross been signed for do you think ?

Why do you keep insisting that Gross is a number 10? He looked completely lost and crap yesterday in that position. I am not saying he is crap btw anymore than Knockaert and March are, it's just in the number 10 position that all three are crap

We really really need a proper number 10 not a makeshift one. It may be Izquierdo, I really hope so, although he looks more like a winger to me. Izzy Brown? Hmm

 

[Icy Gull]

By the way How did murray and Hemed get on in that run of 5 games ending with Wigan at home, after baldock was injured at end of last season ?

I think how we have got in in the last five games is more relevant. How many goals have we scored?

We could well have got promoted the season before last if we had had a back up number 10 too. How many goals did we miss promotion by?

Sorry we have failed miserably in finding a back up for Baldock over three seasons. All my hopes rest with Izquierdo to end this dreadful recruitment in the number 10 position

Why can't you just hold you hand up FOR ONCE and agree that the club have not been perfect in every single aspect and have fallen down in the recruitment of a number 10? I am delighted they have got 95% right.

 

[BensGrandad]

I'm the same. I really don't know what that position constitutes. It seems to be someone who can make themselves available to a pass from defender or midfielder and be able to hold on to it, get it under control and distribute it wide or forward and bring your team into posessional play in a more advanced role.

I would like to see a physically stronger player in that role but they seem to be hard to find.

I take it to mean the man who acts on the lay offs from the target man either GM or TH as it stands and also picks up the loose balls in the 6 yd box as a poacher.

 

[London Irish]

José Izquierdo will probably be plonked there. Knockaert and March couldn't do it in the Championship so it won't work in the Premier League

It is actually criminal that we haven't addressed this problem over the last three seasons. Getting promoted brushed it under the carpet but we have been without cover, for injury prone Baldock, for that long now.

Doesn't look like Gross has the zip or trickery for 10 role. At this rate Baldock would walk back into the team, even with doubts over his physicality. Gross tried in deeper role

 

[NooBHA]

By the way How did murray and Hemed get on in that run of 5 games ending with Wigan at home, after baldock was injured at end of last season ?

I am not a massive fan of Baldock. I like him, he is a decent player but you are correct, he does seem to be the key to winning matches.

 

[Stat Brother]

I'm the same. I really don't know what that position constitutes. It seems to be someone who can make themselves available to a pass from defender or midfielder and be able to hold on to it, get it under control and distribute it wide or forward and bring your team into posessional play in a more advanced role.

My quite probably wrong take on it, (which might explain some confusion) is all of the above but with the ability to then get passed the winger/forward for the return pass in a goal type situation.

Which to me explains the toothlessness of the current attack.
The wingers are wingers, and there's been nobody to get beyond Hemed/Murray up front.

Gross and Propper are clearly capable of making the first pass, but not receiving the return.
.

 

[NooBHA]

I take it to mean the man who acts on the lay offs from the target man either GM or TH as it stands and also picks up the loose balls in the 6 yd box as a poacher.

I don't really know the answer

 

[Icy Gull]

I am not a massive fan of Baldock. I like him, he is a decent player but you are correct, he does seem to be the key to winning matches.

You may not be a fan but until we see what Izquiredo is like he is the only player we have had for three years who can play no 10.

 

[GoingUp]

Why don't we stick Duffy up front too?

And cancel Ryan's contract and bring back Casper as our No.1.

 

[NooBHA]

You may not be a fan but until we see what Izquiredo is like he is the only player we have had for three years who can play no 10.

I realise that..

I didn't say a wasn't a fan. I just said I wasn't massive fan and I did concede that when he plays there has been more success

 

[Stat Brother]

You may not be a fan but until we see what Izquiredo is like he is the only player we have had for three years who can play no 10.

Well about one and a half years!!

 

[durrington gull]

I am not a massive fan of Baldock. I like him, he is a decent player but you are correct, he does seem to be the key to winning matches.

If we are relying on Baldock coming back we're desperate im afraid, surely wont be in the 11 once we get a couple more signings??

 

[NooBHA]

If we are relying on Baldock coming back we're desperate im afraid, surely wont be in the 11 once we get a couple more signings??

I don't know but you don't play a season with 11 players. There will be injuries and suspensions an so you need to be able to rely on the back up players in the squad as well as your substitutes

 

[Lower West Stander]

By the way How did murray and Hemed get on in that run of 5 games ending with Wigan at home, after baldock was injured at end of last season ?

So you think that would work against Premier League defences? That attack was never balanced and a 2-1 home win against the might of Wigan or the reliance on a fantastic piece of skill from Pocognoli makes it justifiable?

Papered over the cracks

 

[London Irish]

My quite probably wrong take on it, (which might explain some confusion) is all of the above but with the ability to then get passed the winger/forward for the return pass in a goal type situation.

Which to me explains the toothlessness of the current attack.
The wingers are wingers, and there's been nobody to get beyond Hemed/Murray up front.

Gross and Propper are clearly capable of making the first pass, but not receiving the return.
.

Nor Stephens - a fit on form Kayal is that player so losing him was a major blow