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ISZA ⚔️ said:
Neither of them possess the ability to receive the ball and turn like top midfielders do. They both play it backwards or sideways.
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I’d say that 80% of the time, Peck turns to receive passes, facing his own goal. That tells you all you need to know. He can’t drive us forwards if the resulting passes are backwards or sideways.
 
CornwallBlade said:
I’d say that 80% of the time, Peck turns to receive passes, facing his own goal. That tells you all you need to know. He can’t drive us forwards if the resulting passes are backwards or sideways.
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Nonsense. He shields the ball really well and rarely gives up possession. He also anticipates how an opposition player will move or turn and he invariably makes a movement to where the player turns.
Perkins positive but he’s looking to retain possession
 
3Cheers4Ramirez said:
He shouldn't start more than another 3 games this season

Just get through it without re-injury, and gradually build back up

Wilder fucked up by starting him tonight, and it contributed to Boro cutting through us at will in the first half, basically from the start
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Wilder is on record saying not to judge Blaster lately and I agree.

That said surely we have the midfielders now that means we can rest him and let him actually get match fit not just a bit fit. If he gets another injury then it's all on Wilder and it will have echoes of JOC about it.
 
Peck does an awful lot of good things. Shielding being one. But he doesn’t have the ability to drive forward, glide past, charging one-twos and those sort of things. It’s just not in his game.
 
Fairly obvious they cannot play effectively together at this moment in time. Peck and JR/KP/JR and possibly even DS, but not OA.
It’s 4 months since he returned from injury and looks no better tonight than in his first game back. Slow, loses the ball easily, no creativity, not getting his foot in, and the game passes him by. In fact he offers nothing at all at the moment, I fear he is getting the sympathy vote, and not getting his place on his performances, because if he is someone needs to get to specsavers!

I always thought that you got match fit by playing matches, not training. Well after 4 months I see no improvement in his match fitness, but more alarming I see nothing that justifies his place in the team.

I genuinely hope that he can get back to being the prospect we all thought he was, but at the moment he looks like league 1 standard at best. Should not play again this season. Let’s see what next season brings,
 
Wilder annoyed me with his comment the other week that was along the lines of "I'll tell you what, I'll tell Blaster he can't play yet and he needs to do a month in the U23s first to get back up to speed shall I?"

YES!! That's exactly how he should have been managed ffs. Wilder has done him no favours at all by throwing him in like he has.
If Phillips wasn't fit enough to do the first 45 mins tonight then it should have been Soumare starting. Peck and Arblaster can not play together, even more so against a midfield with the quality and movement of Boro.
 
You have three options. You change the personel, you play more numbers in there or you have deeper starting positions so you aren't outnumbered as much (particularly O'Hare and Hamer who couldn't effect the game in defensive transitions when they broke our press at will).

The pattern was 6-7 United players in the Boro half. 4-5 routinely taken out of the game leaving us at most with the back four and Arblaster/Peck outnumbered 2/3 to one. A modern manager would blame our useless high press as the trouble is sourced there. I would change and admit it wasn't working.

Boro's extreme high line wasn't exploited first half with the exception of a wonder ball from Hamer and a few other bits. They gave us a telephone box to play in and we persisted in trying to do it when you could have parked six double deckers behind their defensive line. When United did this second half they were flapping like a fish on a slab. As poor as we were we had a lot of excellent chances/moments which underlines how exploitable it was. Our set pieces were pretty poor again.
 
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HOT CURRIE 10 said:
Olly should definitely been hooked after 25 minutes and replaced by Phillips or Phillips should have started the match and had 60 minutes. Boro lost their energy after 65 minutes but a ridiculous challenge by a player who had not played all season gave it to them. Disappointed with Wilders lineup tonight and plan B as they had 4 very mobile midfielders and front men,but how many times did we cough up possession.
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Yet another example of Wilder being bemused/inactive , when obvious change is needed.
He just cannot compute what's in front of his eyes.
Blaster trotting slowly around like a lost sheep whilst Peck trying to do the job of 2 men and Boro cutting straight through us at will.
Boro should have been 4-0 up at HT and game over but Wilder waits till HT and miraculously they're only 2-0 up.
 
I can't believe anyone would think that Soumare is the answer to any problem. He's an absolute bomb scare in possession, and a sending off waiting to happen, even against lesser teams.

I think the criticism of our players tonight is all a bit unnecessary to be honest. We were schooled, especially in the first half, by the best team I've seen at BDTBL since we were in the Premier League. They were excellent and brilliantly coached. Even Luke Ayling looked like a good player FFS!

We've been great at BL for the last few months but we more than met our match tonight. Our start to the season has condemned us, it's not Peck's fault and Arblaster is not ready yet.

If we want a team that play as well as Boro' did tonight, especially with their midfield running, passing, movement and dominance, we need a better coach imo. Wilder has done a good job this season and we are a tough prospect at BL, but he'll never coach a team to be as good on the ball as Boro' were tonight imo.

utb
 



FredZeppelin said:
I can't believe anyone would think that Soumare is the answer to any problem. He's an absolute bomb scare in possession, and a sending off waiting to happen, even against lesser teams.

I think the criticism of our players tonight is all a bit unnecessary to be honest. We were schooled, especially in the first half, by the best team I've seen at BDTBL since we were in the Premier League. They were excellent and brilliantly coached. Even Luke Ayling looked like a good player FFS!

We've been great at BL for the last few months but we more than met our match tonight. Our start to the season has condemned us, it's not Peck's fault and Arblaster is not ready yet.

If we want a team that play as well as Boro' did tonight, especially with their midfield running, passing, movement and dominance, we need a better coach imo. Wilder has done a good job this season and we are a tough prospect at BL, but he'll never coach a team to be as good on the ball as Boro' were tonight imo.

utb
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There’s daft moments all add up.

Soumaré’s bamby like clumsiness cost us what felt like an inevitable 3 points against Charlton and tonight we were starting to look good for 2-2 when Rothwell committed such a rash challenge.

You can talk about all permutations under the sun but stick 4 points on just from that and you’re looking well in the mix.

Once more however we find a way to shoot ourselves in the foot when the door has been left open for us.

You add the total lack of professionalism away at Wrexham and we’d be pretty much top 6 already.
 
The number of times our midfield turned over/ lost possession was scary, very limited composure.

Riedewald with Peck would have been a completely different result as would a 3 with either Davies, Peck, Phillips or Phillips (potentially at the expense of O'Hare unfortunately). Boro completely dominated midfield. However it's probably the last time we'll face opposition of that quality for the rest of the season so I'm not too concerned.
 
Keen Blade said:
Yet another example of Wilder being bemused/inactive , when obvious change is needed.
He just cannot compute what's in front of his eyes.
Blaster trotting slowly around like a lost sheep whilst Peck trying to do the job of 2 men and Boro cutting straight through us at will.
Boro should have been 4-0 up at HT and game over but Wilder waits till HT and miraculously they're only 2-0 up.
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To be fair,we should have had 2 in the first half,they should have had another,so pretty much chances for both. I’ve seen in too often where we have a good first 10 minutes,the opposition manager tweaks it with Hackney,Morris and Mcgree shuffling across and Wilder can’t respond,we start going long and cough it up time after time. We needed a change but the owners fucked up royally. Look what a different manager has turned Boro into. We cannot get away from the Sheffield United way.
Wilder has done well considering,but he is limited.
 
Yes, like many on here I feel Blaster and Sydie in the same line up doesn’t do either of them any favours. In fairness they are both great prospects, but they certainly aren’t the double act we need in the middle of the park.…It’s like having two Debbie McGee’s without a Paul Daniels.
 
ATL Recs said:
Was Arblaster really that good prior to injury
I think not in the 12 games he played in the z championship last season he was none existent in 4 of them in the others carried by Souza
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Only 4? I said this last season been saying it for a while he is now well into the territory of having had more non existent/ none effective championship games than ones he has influenced, very over rated
 
Keen Blade said:
Yet another example of Wilder being bemused/inactive , when obvious change is needed.
He just cannot compute what's in front of his eyes.
Blaster trotting slowly around like a lost sheep whilst Peck trying to do the job of 2 men and Boro cutting straight through us at will.
Boro should have been 4-0 up at HT and game over but Wilder waits till HT and miraculously they're only 2-0 up.
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Spot on 👏
 
Assuming Phillips and soumare go back, Tom Davies is released and matos is sold - that would leave centre midfield next year of blaster peck rothwell Jairo. Add one more who can do what jairo does and I don’t hate that
 
Jon B said:
I doubt whether anything off field is relevant.

We know Arblaster's quality, after an injury as serious as he suffered it was bound to take time for him to get back to speed.

We've had to play him more than we'd have wanted during his recovery. In time he'll be back to where he was before being injured.
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Out of the 12 championship games he played before injury he was none existent in 4 and the midfield was being carried by Souza who was at the top of his game
 
Champagneblade said:
There’s daft moments all add up.

Soumaré’s bamby like clumsiness cost us what felt like an inevitable 3 points against Charlton and tonight we were starting to look good for 2-2 when Rothwell committed such a rash challenge.

You can talk about all permutations under the sun but stick 4 points on just from that and you’re looking well in the mix.

Once more however we find a way to shoot ourselves in the foot when the door has been left open for us.

You add the total lack of professionalism away at Wrexham and we’d be pretty much top 6 already.
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And dont forget Preston where we should have taken a win too. Coulda, shoulda, woulda I know but the shit show of a summer and the giving away of points is costing us dearly in the worst championship quality wise for a long time.
 
John Street West Terrace said:
Pecks form came back when Reidewald was at the side of him , Arblaster still way off full fitness . As a pairing it’s no as they are too similar players . As said above they both need experience at the side of them , Philips likely to be that man now ⚔️
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yeah agree wilder cannot play these 2 together for the rest of the season they play the same role anyway if peck is still here in august it has to be one or the other next season
 
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