What type of midfielder is Peck?

[dc_blade]

His career is stalling because of the roll he is being asked to play.

I agree. That and the style of play of the team as a whole.

 

[jt64]

Why do people have this absurd need to try to pigeonhole all footballers into some kind of narrow box? Why can't we just say that he's a footballer and trust the coaching staff (ok second part is a stretch) to best use what he is good at?

 

[Sean Thornton]

I don’t even think it is that too be honest.

He seems to be weak in the tackle, doesn’t seem to know how to create half a yard of space to look up and pick a positive pass, or able to make a driving run from midfield

There is a footballer in there but I don’t know if it is a lack of confidence or experience that is holding in back so badly at the minute

He’s just not as dynamic as he was before. But if he’s going to play at a decent level for the rest of his career he needs to be improving.

 

[Greystones Blade]

I get the point, but I think its also more of a what midfielder is he being asked to be.

He clearly has some talent but in the same way Vini never really contributed assists or goals in his time with us either.

I get the feeling he wants to be a bit further forward than he currently is, seem to remember some lovely forward passes last season, which if not assists, were assists of assists!

assists of assists. In Dutch football, they are called ‘fore-assists’ so it says in a weekend article about Robin Van Persie at Feynoord.

 

[dexter101]

assists of assists. In Dutch football, they are called ‘fore-assists’ so it says in a weekend article about Robin Van Persie at Feynoord.

In the modern world of tracking stats it would make sense. I wonder what Sydie's stats are?

I wonder if there is also "aft-assists" which is when someone scores and someone else runs up and boots the ball back into the net!

 

[gordoncharles]

It's very unfair to write him off as a Championship or possible Premier League player, he did enough last season to show he has a lot of virtues.

But he should still be benched now, for the same reason that Burrows has been.

It's pretty clear, and not just from his lack of goal contributions, that his best position is as a DM/ Numbet 6/ Pivote, call it what you will, but it's not how he's being used. If he's allowed to keep it simple; get it from a defender or the keeper and, to paraphrase Clough Senior "give it to someone who can play", then he has a good career ahead of him.

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

There was a moment against Derby in the 1st half, where he got the ball in the final 3rd towards the right, and he pivotted away and passed it straight back to the center back on the half way line.

These are the times where I want him to gamble either via dribbling or a forward pass to try and make something happen.

I think 50% of it is the coaching, about how we need to 'move the team from side to side' and 50% a confidence thing. He clearly has ability to pass and control the ball.

 

[AnstonBlade1]

A crap one