What we are lacking..

[Waiters' Flat Cap]

It seems to me that a major gap in our armoury is (and has been for a long time) someone who can deliver telling set pieces.

Whenever we have a free kick in a dangerous position or corner, somehow we never seem to capitalise.

Garbutt has threatened in occasions but otherwise....?

Surely the MMc style needs threatening delivery?

 

[585 = never give up]

A nasty, creative, combative midfielder who can take set pieces.

 

[midfield general]

It seems to me that a major gap in our armoury is (and has been for a long time) someone who can deliver telling set pieces.

Whenever we have a free kick in a dangerous position or corner, somehow we never seem to capitalise.

Garbutt has threatened in occasions but otherwise....?

Surely the MMc style needs threatening delivery?

I thought Lyon's set play's were much better than we are accustomed to.

A nasty, creative, combative midfielder who can take set pieces.

Who is also 6ft.5 and can play in goal?

 

[BFC76]

It seems to me that a major gap in our armoury is (and has been for a long time) someone who can deliver telling set pieces.

Been saying it all season .. and if anything we've actually got worse in that area. Love to see the stats - our set pieces compared to goals.

 

[CGP1]

Full agree, and hopefully the fat he's got Lyons taking some of them means MM's already seen it too and is trying alternatives.

 

[Hazi]

Lyon’s and Charlie taking them isn’t a bad option, how we are taught in training to deliver them and how we attack the box will be a big difference to. For all sour Apples 433 attacking formation we barely had anyone in the box when a ball came in. MM and TC will sort that.

 

[Cable Cat]

The biggest annoyance for me under Appleton, which must now change, is the long floaty ball to the back post and the over reliance of Gary Madine to knock its back in. Get it in the mix - there is always so much confusion from a set piece that it does give a 50.50 chance of it reaching one of your players.

 

[Waiters' Flat Cap]

I think it's all about understanding the runs of players and hitting them accurately and with pace

 

[voyeur]

A nasty, creative, combative midfielder who can take set pieces.

I'm struggling to think of any footballer who has ever lived who fits that description.

 

[seasidepete]

I'm struggling to think of any footballer who has ever lived who fits that description.

Paul Scholes

 

[Sooty59]

Variation from corners is key along with players gambling on where they think the ball will end up. What about the near post flick on now & again, it usually creates havoc.

 

[Cuthbert]

A lack of unity on and off the pitch?

 

[1966_and_all_that]

A lack of unity on and off the pitch?

Not now, surely?

 

[Wizaard]

Paul Scholes

Johnny Giles

 

[Atletico_Seasider]

I'm struggling to think of any footballer who has ever lived who fits that description.

Prince Charlie Adam? How we could do with someone like him now. A leader, creative with ability to run with the ball and his set pieces alone were worth 10M. He also had a nasty side to his game as Wellens and Bale know all about....

 

[Waiters' Flat Cap]

Charlie Adam....now there's a free kick that lives long in the memory

 

[Doc]

A David Vaughan play maker
A Keith Southern knuckle man
A Charlie Adam that bit of everything and more

 

[Camberwell1]

It seems to me that a major gap in our armoury is (and has been for a long time) someone who can deliver telling set pieces.

Whenever we have a free kick in a dangerous position or corner, somehow we never seem to capitalise.

Garbutt has threatened in occasions but otherwise....?

Surely the MMc style needs threatening delivery?

1. Clean sheets
2 goals
3. Decent regular home attendances (Forest !!)
4. Points
5. Less disciplinary seasons; And
6. A miracle

 

[Micky Walsh]

Lacking positivity all round, never known such moany bunch.

 

[Phil_bfc deux]

We are lacking an owner who has enough money to fund a Championship football club

 

[Eternaloptimist]

It seems to me that a major gap in our armoury is (and has been for a long time) someone who can deliver telling set pieces.

Whenever we have a free kick in a dangerous position or corner, somehow we never seem to capitalise.

Garbutt has threatened in occasions but otherwise....?

Surely the MMc style needs threatening delivery?

Agree with what you are saying but, most importantly, we need a striker on the end of those deliveries to put the ball in the net. In other words a 20 goal a season player. When did we last have that?
Someone made an earlier reference about Madine being at the back post to head the ball back across but surely his role is an out and out striker which unfortunately he isn’t fitting the bill.
I had a lot of time for Madine but as the season has gone on I am really concerned that he is not suited to that role.
Yes, he can hold the ball up and yes, he is a handful for defenders, but sadly he lacks where it matters most....................putting the ball in the net.
He has fluffed quite a few chances where a good striker would probably have succeeded.
Maybe, as some have alluded to on here a few times, he was teachers pet with Appleton, because he became a regular starter. Let’s see what MM thinks of him.
I live in Bolton and they refer to him as Gary Madine the washing machine and say he was a ladies man, which, when again, you read posters on here, he does like to go out (and I am only quoting what I have read do on here.)
To me that is not a professional attitude and perhaps he needs to pull his finger out and concentrate more on his game.

 

[Poolster]

Apter - one ten minute appearance, one corner taken, headed in by Simms against Wigan.

Scored from a superb direct free kick when at Bamber Bridge. Has a wand of a left foot and a decent right foot.

Give him some time on the pitch, in an attacking role, not full back where the previous duck-egg played him in the friendlies. I despair at our development policy for young players. In the FA Cup we were 4-0 up but still didn't give the youngsters on the bench some time on the pitch. Sunderland brought on a fifteen-year old, for Christ's sake

 

[Matesrates]

I’m lacking a few quid and my youth

 

[SwannDangerous]

It seems to me that a major gap in our armoury is (and has been for a long time) someone who can deliver telling set pieces.

Whenever we have a free kick in a dangerous position or corner, somehow we never seem to capitalise.

Garbutt has threatened in occasions but otherwise....?

Surely the MMc style needs threatening delivery?

Points? Wins? Goals?

 

[AngelBFC]

A fan base with reasonable expectations

 

[Simonized]

Some of our fans growing a spine perhaps.....

 

[Wizzerboy]

In answer to the title of the post.

POINTS

 

[Olliesoffhistrolley]

I thought Lyon's set play's were much better than we are accustomed to.

Who is also 6ft.5 and can play in goal?

Yes I thought Lyon’s set play’s were good .
Kirk’s were very good and yet many couldn’t see his value .

 

[20togo]

Agree with what you are saying but, most importantly, we need a striker on the end of those deliveries to put the ball in the net. In other words a 20 goal a season player. When did we last have that?
Someone made an earlier reference about Madine being at the back post to head the ball back across but surely his role is an out and out striker which unfortunately he isn’t fitting the bill.
I had a lot of time for Madine but as the season has gone on I am really concerned that he is not suited to that role.
Yes, he can hold the ball up and yes, he is a handful for defenders, but sadly he lacks where it matters most....................putting the ball in the net.
He has fluffed quite a few chances where a good striker would probably have succeeded.
Maybe, as some have alluded to on here a few times, he was teachers pet with Appleton, because he became a regular starter. Let’s see what MM thinks of him.
I live in Bolton and they refer to him as Gary Madine the washing machine and say he was a ladies man, which, when again, you read posters on here, he does like to go out (and I am only quoting what I have read do on here.)
To me that is not a professional attitude and perhaps he needs to pull his finger out and concentrate more on his game.

no,no,no, Madine's role isn't and never has been as an out and out striker. He's a centre forward who'more often than not plays with his back to goal. Strikers have mobility, Madine has none. He's a target man that's all.

 

[Fields-Of-Gold]

A owner and board with team vision for starters.