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2 hours ago, Mounts Kipper said:

At least he can run and defend unlike Taylor.  

I’d strongly question that he can do either of those things. Taylor is no world beater, in fact he’s pretty shite but Beevers is a poor centre back with absolutely none of the qualities to play left back, luckily I don’t think it’s even a possibility that he will play there.

Olkowski Wheater Hobbs Taylor - is a strong enough back 4 to stay up (although I reckon we’ll get a left back in Jan), just not when they are facing attack after attack for 90 minutes like they have been over the past 10 games.

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15 hours ago, Casino said:

Remember the season, the top 4 scorers were whatmore and Taylor of the whites and 2 Chelsea strikers

Finnieston, I think

And somebody else

By the time we got up, they'd been replaced by gowling and frank

I wonder if we will ever have a goalscoring partnership again in our lifetimes. Or even 2 strikers both scoring in the same game from open play.

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1 hour ago, ZicoKelly said:

nah, he's our only whiff of a threat

drop him for someone like vela and you've just got an extra body running around looking busy

Agreed. It comes to something when a player who can potentially score and create is considered a luxury. Absolute necessity to me if we want to score a goal, along with Ameobi.

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1 hour ago, ZicoKelly said:

involved in 2 of our 3 chances shown here, shit shot for one admittedly, but good cross for that hobbs one off the line

wouldn't surprised me if he was dropped though tomorrow with ameobi back, PP loved flair down the middle like Coyle loved a tackler

he needs games though, otherwise he's going to waste

 

Maybe. But highlights are totally misleading. They don’t show the 25 mins in the second half where he barely got near the ball. 

I’d love him to prove me wrong though 

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Just now, mickbrown said:

Maybe. But highlights are totally misleading. They don’t show the 25 mins in the second half where he barely got near the ball. 

I’d love him to prove me wrong though 

yeah, I get that, and we probably created fuck all of note in that 25 mins as well - we had plenty of the ball last week but fuck all happened in the final third more often than not

there's a reason we're bottom (or top) of the tables relating to goals, shots, chances etc - but it's not because we're carrying him or anything like that, we'd probably be worse off in that sense

I guess the counter argument is if you are going to have 30% percent possession you're better off with someone who can tackle and press more, win it back then give it to a winger to hoof it in, not fer me though

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Olkowski Wheater Hobbs Taylor

Lowe Williams

Ameobi Oztumer Donaldson

Doidge 

I’m not convinced that Donaldson is the right pick there but he’s played ok lately and links fairly well with Doidge, you could also shift that formation pretty quickly to a 442 and ask Oztumer to fill in on the left - gives some flexibility. There’s an argument to say Magennis should start up top but I just have a feeling that Doidge will come good given a run of games.

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8 hours ago, CumbrianWhite said:

He’s also our top scorer, works extremely hard and has usually been one of our better performers. You can’t really expect a lot more from any of our strikers given the piss poor service they seem to get week in week out.

I just don't get the love in with Magennis, I would like to see more of doidge but parkys constant chopping and changing is becoming more and more frustrating. 

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1 hour ago, darrener said:

I just don't get the love in with Magennis, I would like to see more of doidge but parkys constant chopping and changing is becoming more and more frustrating. 

Spot on. He needs a run in the team. Ten minute cameos and a start every 10 games aren't going to do it

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1 hour ago, darrener said:

I just don't get the love in with Magennis, I would like to see more of doidge but parkys constant chopping and changing is becoming more and more frustrating. 

I just don't get the love in with Doidge. Magennis is head and shoulders a better player as things stand. Hopefully they both improve as the season goes on.

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3 minutes ago, Farrelli said:

I just don't get the love in with Doidge. Magennis is head and shoulders a better player as things stand. Hopefully they both improve as the season goes on.

We haven't seen enough of doidge to form too much of an opinion, apart from an excellent goal at Rotherham, I've seen plenty of Magennis though. 

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8 hours ago, Traf said:

Magennis harasses defenders and runs himself into the ground.

Defence starts upfront and whilst he's not as good as Kevin Davies was at it, he's the most likely to do it of the attacking options we have.

Imo Donaldson holds the Ball up a lot better, Magennis does harass but for a big lad gets pushed about easily 

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Data courtesy of Marc Iles 

Wanderers this season...

Score first: W4 D2 L0

Opponents score first: W0 D2 L8

 

Wanderers last season...

Score first: W10 D5 L1

Opponents score first: W0 D5 L22

 

cue mass walk out on 9min when Swansea score 

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