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If Mousset can’t be bothered to get fit due to him eating junk food we should get rid
 
The high level of fitness required of first team players has paid dividends in the lack of injuries players have suffered from..
It also helps the less skilled players deal with players who have a higher skill set than they do.
Berge has a good engine, but his skill set is so high he looks like he’s walking, when his team mates are running hard to keep up with him.
The big Norge lad must annoy some of his team mates, because he exudes such class, making the above average look ordinary.
Not a stick you want to be beating him with, just because he can do more, with less, and make it look easy.
Lundstram has taken longer to understand the system, and his PL work ethic now makes the most of his basic skills. He is seen as a hard working grafter, which makes him popular with fans.
Players are either naturally skilled at the game, or they get to the top based on graft and decent basic skills.
How many can remember Mick Jones and Alan Clarke playing up front together for Leeds. Clarke was lazy but gifted and instinctive in the box, with extraordinary finishing skills. Mick Jones was a grafter who honed his finishing skills to match the hard work he had to put in as a striker.
I hope Sander Berge is the first of many cultured footballers we see at the lane. We will still need hard men with good skills, like Egan and Fleck, but mixed with naturally talented players like Berge and Norwood, McGoldrick, Coutts, Duffy etc.
The challenge will be for CWAK to blend the right players in the right areas, without losing the team spirit they have built, to get the team where they are today.
 
Our wide overload system of play has been found out in recent games Brighton won't be the last to do a job on us. We are no longer breaking quickly down the wings and finding early low crosses , instead taking too long and then hopeful high crosses when defence is set that all of our strikers except Mcburnie are below average in winning and turning into downward headers. Stevens strike was a wonder goal.
 
Charlieblade said:
The high level of fitness required of first team players has paid dividends in the lack of injuries players have suffered from..
It also helps the less skilled players deal with players who have a higher skill set than they do.
Berge has a good engine, but his skill set is so high he looks like he’s walking, when his team mates are running hard to keep up with him.
The big Norge lad must annoy some of his team mates, because he exudes such class, making the above average look ordinary.
Not a stick you want to be beating him with, just because he can do more, with less, and make it look easy.
Lundstram has taken longer to understand the system, and his PL work ethic now makes the most of his basic skills. He is seen as a hard working grafter, which makes him popular with fans.
Players are either naturally skilled at the game, or they get to the top based on graft and decent basic skills.
How many can remember Mick Jones and Alan Clarke playing up front together for Leeds. Clarke was lazy but gifted and instinctive in the box, with extraordinary finishing skills. Mick Jones was a grafter who honed his finishing skills to match the hard work he had to put in as a striker.
I hope Sander Berge is the first of many cultured footballers we see at the lane. We will still need hard men with good skills, like Egan and Fleck, but mixed with naturally talented players like Berge and Norwood, McGoldrick, Coutts, Duffy etc.
The challenge will be for CWAK to blend the right players in the right areas, without losing the team spirit they have built, to get the team where they are today.
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Which bit of that is unpopular?
 
lakedistblade said:
Our wide overload system of play has been found out in recent games Brighton won't be the last to do a job on us. We are no longer breaking quickly down the wings and finding early low crosses , instead taking too long and then hopeful high crosses when defence is set that all of our strikers except Mcburnie are below average in winning and turning into downward headers. Stevens strike was a wonder goal.
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Not sure it's been found out. Camping on the edge of your own box nullifies it, but it totally takes away your own attacking threat.

Brighton were fortunate, they relied on their set piece monsters to get something from the game and they did. Despite that, we still created enough to win the match despite being 'found out'.
 

It's up there with Bruce's tactical masterclass against us :confused: :confused: :confused:
 
We did create chances to win the match, but it's not like Ryan had to play an absolute blinder to keep the scores level. We need to be both more creative and more clinical.
 
Guesty said:
We did create chances to win the match, but it's not like Ryan had to play an absolute blinder to keep the scores level. We need to be both more creative and more clinical.
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He made one unbelievable save and one very good, brave one. Force opposition keepers to do that every week and United will win more than they lose
 
Johnnyblade said:
If Mousset can’t be bothered to get fit due to him eating junk food we should get rid
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Do you think that’s the reason or do you think it might be that for three years at Bournemouth he hardly played a full 90 minutes in a competitive game?
Or, let me put it another way, do you think that if he wasn’t making some kind of effort to improve his fitness, Wilder would still be playing him?
 
He hasn't scored for three months. He's made some key contributions in that time but he's not getting noticeably better than he was at the start of the season.
 
Ricky said:
If Mousset comes back for pre season in poor shape then he's finished here.

No doubt about that for me.

I don't think Wilder's too pleased with him recently considering Sharp is starting ahead of him.
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Agree with that. He absolutely needs to do what Baldock and Lunny did last pre-season and seriously work on his fitness. There are enough possible reasons for him struggling a bit this season but a player who can’t do more than an hour is no use to us going forward.
 
Mousset can afford a live-in chef/nutritionist. Unfortunately he can also afford JustEat.
 
Bladesman said:
I didn't want to say it but it seems that way unless we are playing one of the big clubs at home.
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You just wait until we're challenging for the title, that will make all the difference 👍
 
Nigel Adkins deserves credit for keeping that team that Clough left him in League One, and he was up against it from the start with a squad of mediocre journeyman and professional piss takers , very little money to spend and little room for manouvere in the transfer market, and a fanbase full of supporters who by that point already had enough of League One and whose patience had worn thin. I still think he is a half decent manager, as evidenced by a half decent spell at Hull City, although some of his methods meant that he was the wrong man at the wrong club at the wrong time when he was here

For his very poor signings of Woolford and Hammond it is forgotten that the one player who spent money on didn't do too badly at all.
 
And another one following on from the last one. If Jose Baxter had kept his head down, worked hard and not failed a drug test he would still be here now, finally fulfilling his potential playing in the Duffy role.
 

brownie said:
Nigel Adkins deserves credit for keeping that team that Clough left him in League One, and he was up against it from the start with a squad of mediocre journeyman and professional piss takers , very little money to spend and little room for manouvere in the transfer market, and a fanbase full of supporters who by that point already had enough of League One and whose patience had worn thin. I still think he is a half decent manager, as evidenced by a half decent spell at Hull City, although some of his methods meant that he was the wrong man at the wrong club at the wrong time when he was here

For his very poor signings of Woolford and Hammond it is forgotten that the one player who spent money on didn't do too badly at all.
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‘Nigel Adkins deserves credit for keeping that team that Clough left him in League One, and he was up against it from the start with a squad of mediocre journeyman and professional piss takers , very little money to spend and little room for manouvere in the transfer market,’

That makes no logical sense. You say he deserved credit for keeping the side together but then immediately follow it by saying the side he kept together was full of wankers and he had no money to buy new players. So what exactly does he deserve credit for?
 
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