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Good shout but do we drop Dorrans or move Dorrans into the middle and drop Morrison ?
We have the 5th highest goal scorer in the Premiership last year (15 Prem goals), our all time ever Premiership top goalscorer, someone who has a lot more to his game than just goals too. However, as a reward, the following season from pretty much the start, we ask him play in another position from last year, shackle his game, to accommodate a striker from the Championship who's largely looking of that quality so far.
Sure, Odemwingie didn't have the greatest of games today, but to me he looked like one of our few attacking threats despite not putting away his chance. It was a chance which would not have not existed had it not been for his pace and positioning off the shoulder of the last man (credit to Mulumbu too for the pass).
If the guy had a run of about 4 or 5 games doing terribly this season, playing where he played last year, I could quite understand a change, a shunting of him out to the wing, however, I'm really failing to see what Long offers that he doesn't.
It wasn't broke, I'm not sure we have tried to fix it.
At a guess, I doubt he's too happy about it either and that will show through in his game; and in a way I could kind of understand that too, after the amazing season he had up top for us last year.
What about grind away and silky smooth at home
The only centre half's outside the top 4 I'd swap Olsson for are Shawcross , Cahill , Jagielka and Hangelaand, I rate him that highly
Can't fault Long after his first few performances. 100% effort, a couple of goals and he doesn't give centre-halves an easy game. He's only young and is still learning but the potential is definitely there. A fully fit and firing Odemwingie could help him massively this season.
Absolutely no striker this season will enjoy playing against Jonas. I think he just about stays on the right side of the law with his physicality. He really is a top top defender, I think he is really going to enjoy this season and will come out of it with a big reputation as one of the best defenders in the league. Hes no nonsense, hes so good in the air, hes great with his left foot.
4 games in and he has kept every striker hes played against quiet
Personally im tired of hard luck stories but there is a middle ground to be found imo,Sunday wasnt great to watch and neither was the Stoke game.All im saying is we need to give this time,its a new system and style that the players have to get used to and we've probably only really tried it the last two games.Imo Roy is trying to build from the back and given our god awful reputation for giving soft goals away its going to take time,certainly Fulham under him were decent to watch with Davies/Duff/Zamora and Dempsey not to mention Gera. Give it time folks.
I seriously don't know why people don't smash it towards a top corner... say a foot inside. They all should be capable of hitting a taget from there and there is zero chance of the keeper stopping it....
unless your hitting the inside netting at speed your asking for trouble should the keeper guess the right way when its 1-4 feet from the ground.
I am in a way, provided we look at ways to make our midfield more active in games.
We know for the first time in years we are lethal up front and that can have a big effect in you staying up, as seen by Odemwingie's great goal yesterday. Long is also very strong and wins so many headers and I think in time he could find a great understanding with Odemwingie but I think first we need to get the midfield supporting them else they will be feeding off scraps.