Goals from Midfield

[Sky Blues]

The pressure is off him with you. Coventry are very similar to us, a perennial also ran with aspirations but no great expectations. He’ll want better than that, but won’t get a top job. He’ll end up with a club aspiring to the top 10 of the PL with the occasional foray into Europe.

That's why he will stay with us. He has a big chance of making a name for himself as a manager. He celebrates with our players after every game. He loves watching our players improve. He has stated that they all look forward to going in for training.

Why would he move to an also ran club in the Prem when he could easily end up getting the sack? He doesn't need the money. He needs the experience. He has a chairman that backs him. We turned down lots of offers for our players. Now nobody wants to leave. He doesn't want anyone to leave. We have money to spend in January and spaces in our squad.

How much for Hamer?

 

[Bladesince59]

We don’t score enough goals that’s obvious. However we are clearly lacking goal threat from our midfielders.

Take last season:

Peck - 2929 minutes and 0 goals
Souza - 2791 minutes and 0 goals
O’Hare - 3154 minutes and 2 goals

That’s almost 9000 minutes or 100 games of football between them for 2 goals, which is nothing short of disgraceful.

The fact that Arblaster and Davies combined for more goals (3) speaks volumes.

Take the Hecky season where we had Doyle, Berge, McAtee midfield. All capable scorers and we’ve replaced them with one dimensional players.

I think Peck has especially been given an easy ride from fans. If he needs another player (ie Souza) to defend and he can’t score then what does he do.

They're truly terrifyingly bad stats.

 

[Bladesince59]

I would love to have their manager.

Me too. Or anyone 21st Century.

 

[Kevincarterversion2.0]

We don’t score enough goals that’s obvious. However we are clearly lacking goal threat from our midfielders.

Take last season:

Peck - 2929 minutes and 0 goals
Souza - 2791 minutes and 0 goals
O’Hare - 3154 minutes and 2 goals

That’s almost 9000 minutes or 100 games of football between them for 2 goals, which is nothing short of disgraceful.

The fact that Arblaster and Davies combined for more goals (3) speaks volumes.

Take the Hecky season where we had Doyle, Berge, McAtee midfield. All capable scorers and we’ve replaced them with one dimensional players.

I think Peck has especially been given an easy ride from fans. If he needs another player (ie Souza) to defend and he can’t score then what does he do.

Totally agree. There were no (or was it one) goal from Peck and Vini last season. Not good enough, yet we added no attacking midfielders (unless Chong counts).

 

[Houston_Blade]

Luckily for us the only job that might tempt him right now is the England one. He has said being at our club is the next best thing to playing. He still needs to prove himself for a top job. Maybe promotion and then keeping us up.

No club manager in their right mind should take the England job.

It should be a job for failed club managers with a good reputation in the game (Like Southgate). They get the players for a week or so every blue moon and then have the media idiots telling them they should be pumping everyone 10-0 and winning every tournament they enter.

You wouldn’t get a credible club job after 4, 6 or 8 years managing England because the skill set required is completely different.

 

[Sportbilly /Detroit Blade]

I may be coming around to this way of thinking.

I still can’t stand him from his playing days, he’s up there with Gerrard and Terry as one of the biggest, most arrogant tossers ever to have graced the PL for me.

I always like to listen to the audio of when he called up LBC(?) radio and had a go at the presenter.

 

[JD88]

Pecks actually had 2 decent heading chances in the last 2 games, 1 of them harshly ruled out

The one that disallowed was a ridiculous decision. That said his 2 chances were from corners, Frank Lampard made a career as a midfielder of getting in the box and making forward runs, scored plenty of goals. I like Peck but it’s a massive area of improvement for him, especially of he is going to play in the league above

 

[Bergen Blade]

The one that disallowed was a ridiculous decision. That said his 2 chances were from corners, Frank Lampard made a career as a midfielder of getting in the box and making forward runs, scored plenty of goals. I like Peck but it’s a massive area of improvement for him, especially of he is going to play in the league above

If we want Peck to be more of a goal threat we could try using him in the role he played in our youth team, ie RCM.

He's being turned into a holding midfielder with instructions like "don't open that game up until i say we open that game up". It implies restricting himself and playing it safe more than he's used to, and a lot of adapting.

When I watched him for our youth teams he was a creative player. Can't quite remember his goal record though. Can anyone help with that?