The End of Season progress report.

[KneeOn]

Dunk? Lua Lua? Not positives this year?!

Dunk in nearly every game he's played that I've seen this year has looked like he is ready to restart his fight for the first team. Lua Lua has been DYNAMITE. He's been our Vicente - the creative game changing lad who might not even do anything but his presence injects urgency in the squad which for a very young man who is a bit immature is quite an achievement.

Dave's struggled to find his form for what ever reason but players have off seasons. Rooney has off season every other year and is still class. Lets see what we're saying at the end of next year. Those indifferent players might turn out to win us the league next year.

 

[Freddie Goodwin.]

I don't think that anybody yet has named a 1st team regular from last season's team who has actually got better (progressed) this season.

JFC, Ince & March are welcome additions for the future but did not feature last year. I do hope we have another 3 youngsters in the development squad who can step into the 1st team next season.

 

[Acker79]

Its a difficult season to judge how we have done because we have been missing several key figures for sustained periods

Can someone post appearance stats for CMS, Orlandi, Buckley, Lua Lua (Lua Lua not fully fit most of this season??) and others who we relied upon last season to be the creatve spark in the side and make the difference between entertainment and dull

And for those with short memories, how many games we drew last season.


For us to miss those players and still be in with a good shout of reaching the play-offs has shown what a good job Garcia has done with such a handicap. Hopefully next season they will be back and fit for most if not all of the season and could mean we are more effective and more entertaining

League only

CMS
Last Season 24 starts for 2073mins, 5 sub appearances for 176mins, 1 unused sub appearance (used 29 times in 30 of 46 matchday squads)
This Season 0 starts for 0mins, 4 sub appearances for 78mins, 1 unused sub appearance. (used four times in 5/44 matchday squads)


Buckley
Last Season 28 starts for 2368mins, 8 sub appearances for 271mins, 1 unused sub appearance. (used 36 times in 37/46 matchday squads)
This Season 18 starts for 1506mins, 10 sub appearances for 333mins, 0 unused sub appearances. (used 28 times in 28/44 matchday squads)


Orlandi
Last Season 30 starts for 2472mins, 5 sub appearances for 128mins, 2 unused sub appearances. (used 35 times in 37/46 match day squads)
This Season 7 starts for 555mins, 5 sub appearances for 130mins, 2 unused sub appearances. (used 12 times in 14/44 matchday squads)



Lualua
Last Season 8 starts for 609mins, 14 sub appearances for 416mins, 14 unused sub appearances (used 22 times in 36/46 matchday squads)
This Season 11 starts for 931mins, 19 sub appearances for 569mins, 4 unused sub appearances (used 30 times in 34/44 matchday squads)


Last season
W19
D18
L9

This season
W17
D15
L12

 

[Guy Fawkes]

Interesting stuff - seems like results haven't suffered as much as would be expected wiithout some of our most creative and influencial players

Win our last 2 games and we will be just 3 points worse off than last season when they played a lot more - their creativity and ability could well have been the difference between struggling to make the play-offs and battling for automatic promotion

What could have been if they had been available ? They tend to be the types of players who can win you matches and be the difference between a draw and a win last season, imagine what they might do if here next where we press to get the ball back quicker & we go forward faster than we ever did under Poyet.

Thanks for posting those [MENTION=12595]Acker79[/MENTION]

 

[brightonmark1234]

Positives:

Crofts - looks the player he was in his first stint here, season harshly ended by injury
Mackail-Smith - back to fitness and eager to impress
Calderon - one of our only players who looks committed, seems to have a positive influence on those around him
Ward - doubts about him pre-season but seems to have proved everybody wrong, hope he signs a permanent deal in the summer
Forster-Caskey - developing this season, not hit the heights as expected being touted as England U21 material but still much more to come
Ulloa - one of our consistent performers, although did have a mid-season strop
Upson - defence looks so much better when he plays, hope he signs a new deal in the summer
March - really come on this season, looks like a star for the future. Needs to work on his vision whilst in play
Ince - started the season as Bridcutt's replacement, recently not looked so good but lots more to come from Rohan

Indifferent
Bruno - one week he looks brilliant, the next he's pony
Dunk - not made to many appearances, but in the game time he has featured he hasn't set the world alight apart from the odd game
Stephens - only seen him have one outstanding performance, seems to go missing alot
LuaLua - one week brilliant, next week disinterested
Kuszczak - pulls off the occasional brilliant save but his recent reactions have marked him down

Disapointing

Greer - slowly seems to be getting worse, maybe time for a new centre-back next season
Andrews - for a ex-Premier League box-to-box midfielder, he gives the ball away far too much
Rodriguez - obviously not worked out as hoped
Agustien - what a waste, off in the summer
Orlandi - may seem harsh but has spent 95% of his time injured this season, can't see him getting a new deal
Lopez - looks a shadow of the player he was last season, can't see him staying beyond June
Lingard - for a Man United youngster, very disappointing
Buckley - yet again may seem harsh given he has been injured a lot but Will looks a beaten man now and seems to have lost his pace. Many were happy to see him leave in January in a move which didn't materialise

No reports

Brezovan, Hoskins, Chicksen and Ankergren don't get a rating as haven't featured enough

i disagree about lingard