I just think the key issue basically since January is not knowing our best line up. No coincidence our last great performance (in my opinion) is either the Southampton win or Millwall loss where in both we had Joseph starting and full of energy on the wing. Joseph then got a goal and assist against Wednesday and has had one start since and barely any minutes.
Millar was a threat tonight but not squaring the ball was ****ing irritating and they then banged 2 in .
I do think there's an obvious answer though, he just isn't as skillful as the players we have available now. Which is what people were complaining about when he was starting games because he was the best we had. Koumas like a lot of January loan signings has become a bit of a target but he has more quality than Joseph and I think Sergej tries to get as much quality in attack on the pitch as possible. You can disagree with it but I think it's daft to make out there's no explanation for it at all. If Joseph was starting it'd probably still be going the same and people would be asking why did we sign these players if we're just going to play Joseph.
He has nowhere near the quality of Joseph
All the injuries this season are due to whatever goes on at Cottingham as well, I’m sure of it. Piss-poor conditioning and recovery is probably at the heart of it. I’d wager the individual training sessions are really intense but then the recovery is poor and that’s leading to all the muscle injuries and fatigue late in games.
I think there's a large helping of recency bias at play there. Nobody was praising Joseph's quality when he was starting.
Never been Josephs biggest fan PLT, BUT there is no doubt he has improved as an individual as the season progressed and improved the team when on the pitch.
Professionalism comes in different guises, but you're essentially right.
Lets not pretend Jak and Rosey have had the same set of circumstances. He’s vastly out performed Rosey given the squad depth, injuries, embargo etc.
True but Koumas comes from a Premier League academy and can’t dribble properly or control a ball and doesn’t look up. He dribbles whilst looking at the ball instead of what’s around him and still manages to get it caught in his feet.
Agree to disagree, his skill has never been an issue, mainly his finishing. Go watch his highlights against Millwall where he had their full back on toast or his finishes against soton and Wednesday and tell me he's not skilfull.
Yes they were. Said very early in the season that he looked miles better than the season before and perhaps bringing him into a relegation threatened side from a league below was probably naive to expect too much from him previously. I also said he was a very key part of how we were going about picking up points despite him not being the one scoring all the goals.
