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Post by rickyfullerbeer on Jul 24, 2019 17:41:53 GMT
He'll start the season on the left of the diamond with Etebo absent So he gets bombed out immediately Etebo is fit. More than likely but I think he'll do a more than decent job and if it wasn't for Mr Must Start on the other side of the diamond he'd be starting much more. He'll get plenty of minutes this season and rightly so. As 'utility' players go, he's real high quality. |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jul 24, 2019 17:43:41 GMT
So he gets bombed out immediately Etebo is fit. As 'utility' players go, he's real high quality.Bit OTT on the evidence so far, that. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2019 17:45:12 GMT
I think he's another one that might surprise a few. I sound like a stuck record on this one but he's yet another one that looks super fit too.
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Jul 24, 2019 17:47:07 GMT
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Post by GeneralFaye on Jul 24, 2019 17:47:07 GMT
I think he's another one that might surprise a few. I sound like a stuck record on this one but he's yet another one that looks super fit too. He also didn't have a pre season last year and was forever playing catch up, that's why I gave him the benefit of the doubt. |
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Jul 24, 2019 17:47:56 GMT
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Post by Clem Fandango on Jul 24, 2019 17:47:56 GMT
To be honest I thought he was a bit shit last season and was a bit mystified as what game people were watching. That said he’d not had a preseason and hadn’t played much football so got higher hopes for him this season.
I’ve got a history of looking like a dick and I hope he's another one that once again proves “I know nothing”.
*also most of the above can apply to Tom Ince
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Jul 24, 2019 17:48:07 GMT
Post by rickyfullerbeer on Jul 24, 2019 17:48:07 GMT
As 'utility' players go, he's real high quality.Bit OTT on the evidence so far, that. He had some real horror shows last year but I've no doubt he'll be quality this season. Such an obvious Nathan Jones player, as are most of the squad now. |
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Jul 24, 2019 17:50:18 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 24, 2019 17:50:18 GMT
I think he's another one that might surprise a few. I sound like a stuck record on this one but he's yet another one that looks super fit too. He also didn't have a pre season last year and was forever playing catch up, that's why I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I'd have razed him from the squad after the QPR fiasco so I guess I'm not one to judge from here on in. It was obvious after that, the manager really rates him. So far though he looks razor sharp, like quite a few of them and he's always had a bit about him. |
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Jul 24, 2019 17:55:59 GMT
Post by sheikhmomo on Jul 24, 2019 17:55:59 GMT
Bit OTT on the evidence so far, that. Such an obvious Nathan Jones player, as are most of the squad now. I suppose that's true |
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 24, 2019 18:39:36 GMT
If should be him and one of Etebo and Allen for me.
Allen and Etebo are too similar, Etebo being the far superior.
Clucas offers way more going forward than either and drifting left can cover McClean’s deficiencies with delivery.
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Jul 24, 2019 21:40:07 GMT
Post by tony1234 on Jul 24, 2019 21:40:07 GMT
Predict Clucas will be a good outside bet for player of the season. He has attributes Stokie's like.
... Couple of dilemmas in the squad just now:
Sell Allen - or demote him - and Clucas can thrive with Etebo
Don't buy Gayle, and Campbell gets a good chance.
Sell BMI to give Collins a good chance of a real breakthrough season.
Its the high risk, high return strategy though. Clucas and Etebo could boss midfields and Etebo becomes a 20m player; if Campbell realises his potential, we have our own Dwight Gayle; If Collins establishes himself, we have a 10m+ CB and growing in a year's time.
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Jul 24, 2019 22:00:28 GMT
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Post by franklin66 on Jul 24, 2019 22:00:28 GMT
Predict Clucas will be a good outside bet for player of the season. He has attributes Stokie's like. ... Couple of dilemmas in the squad just now: Sell Allen - or demote him - and Clucas can thrive with Etebo Don't buy Gayle, and Campbell gets a good chance. Sell BMI to give Collins a good chance of a real breakthrough season. Its the high risk, high return strategy though. Clucas and Etebo could boss midfields and Etebo becomes a 20m player; if Campbell realises his potential, we have our own Dwight Gayle; If Collins establishes himself, we have a 10m+ CB and growing in a year's time. It is indeed a conundrum, one I'm looking forward to see how it works out. |
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Jul 24, 2019 22:02:43 GMT
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Post by GeneralFaye on Jul 24, 2019 22:02:43 GMT
If should be him and one of Etebo and Allen for me. Allen and Etebo are too similar, Etebo being the far superior. Clucas offers way more going forward than either and drifting left can cover McClean’s deficiencies with delivery. Clucas has been playing on the right though hasn't he? Same with Ince in that Leek game. Looks like the tactic is to get the wide midfielders into "inside forward" positions where they can cut instead either shoot or create with the fullbacks outside them. |
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Jul 24, 2019 22:05:43 GMT
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Post by bayernoatcake on Jul 24, 2019 22:05:43 GMT
If should be him and one of Etebo and Allen for me. Allen and Etebo are too similar, Etebo being the far superior. Clucas offers way more going forward than either and drifting left can cover McClean’s deficiencies with delivery. Clucas has been playing on the right though hasn't he? Same with Ince in that Leek game. Looks like the tactic is to get the wide midfielders into "inside forward" positions where they can cut instead either shoot or create with the fullbacks outside them. No idea not watched any of it due to our wonderful media dept. Make sense if you’ve got full backs that can cross so we’re ok on the right with the two there. The left though..... |
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Jul 24, 2019 22:09:49 GMT
Post by Gods on Jul 24, 2019 22:09:49 GMT
So he gets bombed out immediately Etebo is fit. More than likely but I think he'll do a more than decent job and if it wasn't for Mr Must Start on the other side of the diamond he'd be starting much more. He'll get plenty of minutes this season and rightly so. As 'utility' players go, he's real high quality.He looks like an absolute carthorse of a player to me. He reminds me of Brynjar Gunnarsson although I suppose in fairness Brynjar did a job of a sort for us in league 3 in his own socks rolled down loping way so perhaps it can still work out. |
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Jul 24, 2019 22:16:46 GMT
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Post by GeneralFaye on Jul 24, 2019 22:16:46 GMT
Clucas has been playing on the right though hasn't he? Same with Ince in that Leek game. Looks like the tactic is to get the wide midfielders into "inside forward" positions where they can cut instead either shoot or create with the fullbacks outside them. No idea not watched any of it due to our wonderful media dept. Make sense if you’ve got full backs that can cross so we’re ok on the right with the two there. The left though..... Yeah, slight sticking point that.. Jones thinks McClean can cross a ball, that's on him. |
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Post by pistol on Jul 24, 2019 22:33:52 GMT
More than likely but I think he'll do a more than decent job and if it wasn't for Mr Must Start on the other side of the diamond he'd be starting much more. He'll get plenty of minutes this season and rightly so. As 'utility' players go, he's real high quality.He looks like an absolute carthorse of a player to me. He reminds me of Brynjar Gunnarsson although I suppose in fairness Brynjar did a job of a sort for us in league 3 in his own socks rolled down loping way so perhaps it can still work out. Brynjar was a top notch player. A real stalwart for us. Don’t be slating him |
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Jul 24, 2019 22:45:52 GMT
Post by Gods on Jul 24, 2019 22:45:52 GMT
He looks like an absolute carthorse of a player to me. He reminds me of Brynjar Gunnarsson although I suppose in fairness Brynjar did a job of a sort for us in league 3 in his own socks rolled down loping way so perhaps it can still work out. Brynjar was a top notch player. A real stalwart for us. Don’t be slating him That's exactly why I was offering him up as evidence that Clucas could yet work out despite his ungainly style. |
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Jul 24, 2019 23:21:23 GMT
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Post by ParaPsych on Jul 24, 2019 23:21:23 GMT
Brynjar was a top notch player. A real stalwart for us. Don’t be slating him That's exactly why I was offering him up as evidence that Clucas could yet work out despite his ungainly style. After we moved Brynjar to midfield we wouldn't have needed the playoffs if he'd stayed fit. He was also great in the Championship for us and went on to play 2 seasons in the Premier League with Reading before we ever got there. It used take him ages to get back up speed with things after injury though so had those spells where he looked a bit hopeless. When fully fit though he was great. He played in that Reading team that got promoted to the Premier with 106 points. Just imagine having 106 points. |
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Jul 25, 2019 7:25:18 GMT
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Post by Gods on Jul 25, 2019 7:25:18 GMT
That's exactly why I was offering him up as evidence that Clucas could yet work out despite his ungainly style. After we moved Brynjar to midfield we wouldn't have needed the playoffs if he'd stayed fit. He was also great in the Championship for us and went on to play 2 seasons in the Premier League with Reading before we ever got there. It used take him ages to get back up speed with things after injury though so had those spells where he looked a bit hopeless. When fully fit though he was great. He played in that Reading team that got promoted to the Premier with 106 points. Just imagine having 106 points. He certainly cut a heroic figure, I picture him socks rolled down, legs caked in mud, driving forward with that loping stride. Quicksilver he wasn't, but a real job in hander. Clucas is never going to look great either but perhaps if he can marry up his awkward style with a general stiffening of the fibres we might just have something, who knows. |
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Jul 25, 2019 8:17:24 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jul 25, 2019 8:17:24 GMT
He's a Jones favourite, he'll be shoehorned in somewhere
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Post by The Toxic Avenger on Jul 25, 2019 8:18:44 GMT
He'll start the season on the left of the diamond with Etebo absent So he gets bombed out immediately Etebo is fit. Not if he’s in good form I wouldn’t have thought? |
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Post by sheikhmomo on Jul 25, 2019 8:44:45 GMT
So he gets bombed out immediately Etebo is fit. Not if he’s in good form I wouldn’t have thought? On last years evidence, I don't think form really comes into it a great deal with Nath, does it? |
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Post by uskstokie on Jul 25, 2019 9:05:21 GMT
Predict Clucas will be a good outside bet for player of the season. He has attributes Stokie's like. ... Couple of dilemmas in the squad just now: Sell Allen - or demote him - and Clucas can thrive with Etebo Don't buy Gayle, and Campbell gets a good chance. Sell BMI to give Collins a good chance of a real breakthrough season. Its the high risk, high return strategy though. Clucas and Etebo could boss midfields and Etebo becomes a 20m player; if Campbell realises his potential, we have our own Dwight Gayle; If Collins establishes himself, we have a 10m+ CB and growing in a year's time. It is indeed a conundrum, one I'm looking forward to see how it works out. It’s better to have selection headaches it’s true ☺️ |
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Jul 25, 2019 9:16:28 GMT
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Post by franklin66 on Jul 25, 2019 9:16:28 GMT
It is indeed a conundrum, one I'm looking forward to see how it works out. It’s better to have selection headaches it’s true ☺️ It is mate look what self picking teams did for us. |
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