[Albion] Solly March - now's the time

[schmunk]

For £15m you could get a vastly better player than Solly March, easily. Trossard was around that, and he's head an shoulders above. Bissouma cost around that too.

I can't for the life of me figure out what on earth Everton are thinking if they genuinely do want to drop £15m on Solly March.

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Solly does have the advantage of being a HGP, but other than this your point stands.

 

[Bladders]

I’m firmly in the Solly March fan club. Best crosser at the club by a country mile and one of few that can beat a player but we don’t often play to his strengths which doesn’t help his confidence. Works bloody hard too.

Marvellous


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[Bladders]

You clearly weren’t at the West Ham away game. He’s the best crosser of the ball at the club but needs us to play with Glenn or another target man

Wow , he managed a cross in a match

SING him to a 10 year contract


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[Bladders]

I’m firmly in the Solly March fan club. Best crosser at the club by a country mile and one of few that can beat a player but we don’t often play to his strengths which doesn’t help his confidence. Works bloody hard too.

Apologies, I thought this was a comedy post but now realise you’re serious

Solly is the best crosser at the club?


I want what you’re smoking fella


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[Stat Brother]

Solly does have the advantage of being a HGP, but other than this your point stands.

I don't think the squad is as enslaved to that as it once was, unlike other teams.


I wish Solly 'kicked on' here, I hope he does kick on elsewhere in the Premier League.


If something comes of this speculation, upon his return to the AMEX, they'll be a big cheer for him in the ESL.

Not to mention, for old time sake, a 'I think Solly's grown a little over the Summer'.

 

[Icy Gull]

You clearly weren’t at the West Ham away game. He’s the best crosser of the ball at the club but needs us to play with Glenn or another target man

Wrong, Ali J is by far the best crosser of the ball at the club. He even gets the opposition to score for us

If March and Glenn are the answer next season we are going down, bottom of the division

 

[Bladders]

Wrong, Ali J is by far the best crosser of the ball at the club. He even gets the opposition to score for us

I’m a better crosser of the ball than March


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[midnight_rendezvous]

I’ve seen March be untouchable in games (albeit mostly at Championship level) and I’ve also seen him be anonymous. I often think, and he’s said it himself I believe, that he hasn’t been the same since he was injured (knee injury in 2015 I think) seemingly playing within himself because he’s worried about the risk of getting injured again. I think it was in the Argus but I couldn’t tell you when...

Anyway, I like Solly. He’s a local lad and I want him to succeed so I’m happy for him to be a squad player or given time to make the left wing back position his, if that is indeed Potter’s plan.

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

I think Solly is slowly dropping down the pecking order .

I know this wont sit well with the same group of posters who religiously lick the arse of any player who wears a Brighton shirt , but at 26 he seems to have reached his level

He’s quick , but that’s all I can say that’s positive

He’s no winger , he can’t take a premier league quality full back on , has no real tricks , he can’t cross a ball to save his life , he doesn’t create and doesn’t score .


I touted him like others to look to move to LWB in Potters system , Hughton making Solly defend from the wing every week for 3 years has helped his defensive qualities ten fold

However as a LWB you need winger attributes too and as said above , he just doesn’t have them

I’d love him to prove me wrong and hope he gets one more season to impress but im not holding my breath


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The Premier League is not a bad level to have reached.

 

[symyjym]

I’ve seen March be untouchable in games (albeit mostly at Championship level) and I’ve also seen him be anonymous. I often think, and he’s said it himself I believe, that he hasn’t been the same since he was injured (knee injury in 2015 I think) seemingly playing within himself because he’s worried about the risk of getting injured again. I think it was in the Argus but I couldn’t tell you when...

Anyway, I like Solly. He’s a local lad and I want him to succeed so I’m happy for him to be a squad player or given time to make the left wing back position his, if that is indeed Potter’s plan.

If a footballer is playing within themselves, they are not enjoying football and should retire because they are a let down to their team mates, I mean why bother even passing the ball to them?

 

[Bladders]

The Premier League is not a bad level to have reached.

Agreed , rarely used at a bottom 6 club is still not a bad level

However the clubs sights are higher , and March won’t be going with them imo


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[Skaville]

Wrong, Ali J is by far the best crosser of the ball at the club. He even gets the opposition to score for us

If March and Glenn are the answer next season we are going down, bottom of the division

I didn’t say that March and Glenn were the answer, but if we signed a player like Glenn and wanted to get balls in the box to him, Solly would start, plain and simple. Murray starts against Southampton and low and behold, there’s Solly too.

Why are Everton linked? Supply to Richarlison. Newcastle? Same thing with Joelinton and Carroll, plain and simple and as for Ali J?! Do me a favour.

 

[macbeth]

You clearly weren’t at the West Ham away game. He’s the best crosser of the ball at the club but needs us to play with Glenn or another target man

I actually think he's a decent crosser, but I don't think you can blame the type of striker we've had up front for his lack of contribution this season. We've played with Glenn upfront for 3 season and in that time he's assisted him ONCE in that time (against Man United, out of 49 league goals), excluding penalties won. Most of his assists come from set pieces, but I wouldn't say he has anywhere near the quality of delivery of Groß or Mooy. As the squad has got better and better he's become less and less important to the way the team functions and what he can bring to the way we play. That's why he's gone from someone we were happy to see starting (such as in the 2017/18 season), to someone that rarely starts now and is mostly a benchwarmer. He managed six assists last season which was very decent, but his finishing remains woeful, and in a team that's routinely lambasted for being wasteful in front of goal, I'm not sure a 26 year old who likely won't improve much more in that regard will be a key fixture of that team. Now, whether that means we get rid or not, I'm not sure. I still think the club will keep him in the squad due to his character and HGP staus, particularly as a 'local lad', but I think in the conversation about out highest-quality, most able player, he is far from being included. We know he can produce, but the level of performances we've seen from him so often this season (games like West Ham excluded) have been so below par, I think he is teetering on the edge of becoming deadwood. I think if we're offered anything over £10M, selling him does seem like a good option, though I can't see Potter doing so.

 

[Icy Gull]

I didn’t say that March and Glenn were the answer, but if we signed a player like Glenn and wanted to get balls in the box to him, Solly would start, plain and simple. Murray starts against Southampton and low and behold, there’s Solly too.

Why are Everton linked? Supply to Richarlison. Newcastle? Same thing with Joelinton and Carroll, plain and simple and as for Ali J?! Do me a favour.

I wish GP would do me a favour and give Ali J as much game time as he has given SM

Sadly we’ll never know

 

[Badger Boy]

All the talk about Solly March is a bit silly. He's been here a long, long time. If he was going to develop, he would have done by now. He has one or two good games a season and the rest he's either "not let the side down" or been so anonymous he's impossible to rate because all he did was put in a shift and maybe put in a good delivery.

That's not good enough in the Premier League. Like Bong being reasonably good defensively, it's not good enough at this standard. People talk about wanting to break into the top 10, but they also want to keep players well below the required standard.

 

[Skaville]

I wish GP would do me a favour and give Ali J as much game time as he has given SM

Sadly we’ll never know

Chris Hughton did. Where did it get us?

 

[Icy Gull]

Chris Hughton did. Where did it get us?

Big big difference in how the team set up. March was one of our best players during that dreadful run last season,,,,,but as a defender.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

I actually think he's a decent crosser, but I don't think you can blame the type of striker we've had up front for his lack of contribution this season. We've played with Glenn upfront for 3 season and in that time he's assisted him ONCE in that time (against Man United, out of 49 league goals), excluding penalties won. Most of his assists come from set pieces, but I wouldn't say he has anywhere near the quality of delivery of Groß or Mooy. As the squad has got better and better he's become less and less important to the way the team functions and what he can bring to the way we play. That's why he's gone from someone we were happy to see starting (such as in the 2017/18 season), to someone that rarely starts now and is mostly a benchwarmer. He managed six assists last season which was very decent, but his finishing remains woeful, and in a team that's routinely lambasted for being wasteful in front of goal, I'm not sure a 26 year old who likely won't improve much more in that regard will be a key fixture of that team. Now, whether that means we get rid or not, I'm not sure. I still think the club will keep him in the squad due to his character and HGP staus, particularly as a 'local lad', but I think in the conversation about out highest-quality, most able player, he is far from being included. We know he can produce, but the level of performances we've seen from him so often this season (games like West Ham excluded) have been so below par, I think he is teetering on the edge of becoming deadwood. I think if we're offered anything over £10M, selling him does seem like a good option, though I can't see Potter doing so.

I agree with much of what you say.

Except this!!
The problem with Solly isn't that he is often below par.
The problem is he is rarely massively above par.

Solid, dependable, does a job, but doesn't excite anyone.
That's the problem.

For many he is taking up the place of an exciting flair winger who gets people off their seats.
That doesn't make him deadwood. Rumours linking him 3 other Premier League teams indicate he is anything but.

 

[Skaville]

For many he is taking up the place of an exciting flair winger who gets people off their seats.
That doesn't make him deadwood. Rumours linking him 3 other Premier League teams indicate he is anything but.

Shhh! The hatchet men of NSC know best! Better than Hughton, Potter and allegedly Bruce, Bielsa and Ancellotti.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Agreed , rarely used at a bottom 6 club is still not a bad level

However the clubs sights are higher , and March won’t be going with them imo

He’s made 90 Premier League appearances in three seasons. You have a different definition of ‘rare’ to most.