I like Clucas, you need a player in your team with his attributes, I actually agree for once with Smartarse, that he is an up grade from Quinny.
Decent signing now he's settled. Like Quinn but better. Better technically, more adventurous, will have a go at goal or try to play someone in. Looks like he's far more versatile as well.
He obviously needed time to get used to the upgrade in quality the Championship is from League One. He looks a cracking little player, got all the attributes and is also versatile. The problem comes along when Snodgrass returns. If Snoddy is playing like his old self, where do you play Clucas? Do you play him LB and completely drop Robertson?
you would watch them both play, study their statistics and possibly even consider their fitness. that should be enough to do it I'd think
Just read this.. Hope no one else posted it,sounds a good lad I like the kid, think he could go far, seems to have the right attitude also.. At 19, most stars of this Championship season would have long been fixtures in their club side. Some attracting international attentions, others perhaps watchful glances from above. They wouldn’t be paying to play football for their local side in the parks of the Lincolnshire Senior League, that’s for sure. Yet one of the outstanding talents of the campaign’s first three months had to reach deep into his own pockets just to get a game late into his teens. Sam Clucas hasn’t taken the every-day route to the top. The Hull City winger was masterful on Tuesday night, scoring one and setting up another as the leggy left-sider’s stock continues to rise with an eye-catching and energetic display to out-muscle in-form Brentford. The story of Jamie Vardy, from Stockbridge Park Steels to a Premier League star, is undoubtedly fascinating. But the England striker’s trajectory could be equalled should Steve Bruce’s £1.3m summer signing continue his almost-weekly improvement. Just six years ago he was lacing up his boots for tiny Nettleham, who play in a league so obscure they are not actually classed as members of English football’s deep league system. For beer money? Forget it. While he wasn’t quite charged subs so his club could pay the ref, he was well and truly out of pocket for his years tackling the likes of giants CGB Humbertherm, Harvest and, not forgetting, Grantham Town Reserves. It’s Nottingham Forest, Derby County and Leeds United now. No cushy academy, just hard knocks and life-skills learned getting his hands dirty in the game’s real grass-roots. His cash came from working in Debenhams' café. Serving buns to pensioners instead of deadly crosses on a plate to the Tigers’ forward-line. Clucas, 25, told The FLP: “The last few years I have gone up a level every season – I’ve gone from the Conference to League Two, League Two to League One and in the summer from League One to the Championship – I reckon it’s written in the stars that it could be the Premier League next season! “I think playing in the Lincolnshire League at the age I did gave me a grounding. If you get life put on a plate for you early on, you’re getting big money and nice things, then you take your foot off the gas and think you’ve made it. “I had to drive to games and training and you wouldn’t even ask about expenses – it cost me a bit in the end! But that’s a part of my journey, I’ve come a long way and I’m proud of that.” His career was started by Glenn Hoddle, who days before his 20th birthday watched him trial for his academy. The England legend saw something in among 2,000 others. He took him to Spain where he played for Jerez Industrial. A year later, he got his chance in the English pro game. But it wasn’t exactly the start of the big climb. Signing for Hereford United, the club were crumbling. They were relegated out of the League and Clucas was the fall guy, hounded on social media. “I got messages on Twitter from some Hereford fans saying I was the worst player to ever play for that club and that I should quit – 18 months later I won their player of the year and they’re asking me not to leave! Football changes really quickly. “Hereford really helped me. Mansfield were also fantastic when I got the move and Chesterfield really helped set me on my way. I’m grateful to everyone. “But the Glenn Hoddle academy was always the big one. I had to move away to Spain and I would be away from my family for a long, long time. But all I wanted to do was be a footballer. If that didn’t work out it was time to try something else. I got lucky. Out of 2,000 trialists he picked me and 20 others to take to Spain. It was a life-changing moment.” Let’s be honest, if you aren’t a fan it’s not every player’s dream to play for Hull City. But Clucas has fulfilled an ambition. “I actually feel like I have been here for months, not years. I went to see Hull in the 2014 FA Cup final against Arsenal, I was invited after winning the Player of the Round from my time at Mansfield. I scored four goals against St Albans and got the VIP treatment, it was an amazing day. “I remember thinking to myself ‘I would love to be playing for one of those teams out there’ and two years later the call came!”
Drop Robbo, are you still thinking that Quill? Ok he's still learning and makes the odd mistake, like allowing Nugent his chance on Saturday, but he brings dynamism, fire, energy and passion to the team, and as for THAT tackle on Downing...
Clucas is turning out to be a real find, regarding the comparison with Carney, Clucas is a much better athlete, in fact he would seem to be a better player all round and with far greater potential.
It was more a suggestion of how to play Snoddy in the XI than anything, and of course at this moment with our current form I would say absolutely not drop anyone, just as I said on the other recent Snodgrass thread. Aye, great bit of business, been one of the standout players in the team top of the league... Clulass? Imbecile.
He knows not what he says after all he is only a Leicester Supporter who is still upset we showed them how to play football
You should be by now mind. Agreed 100%. Quinn was good for us during his time here but now SB has improved that area big time. btw, Quinn is still out injured @ Reading. Has been for a while. Just saying like.
I thought he looked good from day one against the Udders, I was surprised so many thought he wasn't good enough. As I said previous, he obviously needed a few games under his belt before he started playing to his potential, as it is a step up in class between the leagues. My faves are the one who called him Clueless on here (that's how you spell it Buzzard) and that bloke who rang up RH and called him our weak link about 3 games ago. Both have been rightly made fools of.
There are a fair few who called Clucas out as crap, and hopefully they are all glad to have been proved wrong thus far, but more of us, if not most of us (I know I did) have slagged McG off over the past 12 months and his form since Wolves has been pretty bloody good, so humble pie all round I reckon
