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fantastictigerpat said:
with diame in we seem to have lots of midfielders. meyler doesnt cut it in this class . and im sorry to say tom huddlestone doesnt either he doesnt bring no spark to the team square balls dont win points in the premiership. so i think he is now going to be at best a squad player and end up in the championship
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get back to the Tanners yard you **** shoveller
 
Thud has tweeted, two players in (so far) Does Tom know something we don't...
Little Mo will take a bit of pressure of Tom and allow him to roam. Tom Ince to play up top with Abel, in a 3-5-2 anyone?
 
Huddlestone is an interesting one. I don't like the thought of him playing as our attacking midfielder as he's simply too slow - someone in that area needs to be more agile, faster, able to twist and turn in tight spaces with the ball and get away from defenders. At the moment we have one player fitting that role and it's a certain Mr. Quinn. Huddlestone did get forward for that great goal against Sheff Utd but let's face it, their defence was a fair bit weaker (and slower) than he faces week in, week out here. Huddlestone to me is ideal sitting in the middle, collecting the ball and distributing it along with popping up outside the box for some longer range shots.

We need players around him to run with the ball more, those with the pace to do so. Livermore and Meyler haven't really offered that - they both have bags of energy but use it more defensively to close opposing players down rather than making attacking runs with the ball themselves. Brady, Quinn and Aluko can all do it in an advanced position, Elmo pretty much has his one move knocking it past fullbacks out wide and with Ince we haven't really seen what he likes to do as he's played a few different positions. Maybe Diame can be a bit more direct.
 
Duffens_Briefs said:
Thud has tweeted, two players in (so far) Does Tom know something we don't...
Little Mo will take a bit of pressure of Tom and allow him to roam. Tom Ince to play up top with Abel, in a 3-5-2 anyone?
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You'd drop Jelavic and play Ince!!! kinell. Have you met Pat?
 
CMPUNK said:
Quinn is an okay squad player but it isn't great when he is a starter especially considering he has almost left the club a few times.
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He's hardly had a chance as a starter. And he's stayed with the club despite not getting gametime. A primadonna player wouldn't have done that.
 
I think Tom and Abel might be better as a partnership..

I have never met Pat and have no desire to...
 
On a side note am I the only one who doesn't really rate Tom ince?

Skilled and speedy player but doesn't seem to offer much. Don't think he'll score or assist much. Akin to Aluko. Maybe Brucey not using him properly.
 
Groot said:
On a side note am I the only one who doesn't really rate Tom ince?

Skilled and speedy player but doesn't seem to offer much. Don't think he'll score or assist much. Akin to Aluko. Maybe Brucey not using him properly.
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I've seen nothing from him and i dont see how he fits into our system.
 
fantastictigerpat said:
with diame in we seem to have lots of midfielders. meyler doesnt cut it in this class . and im sorry to say tom huddlestone doesnt either he doesnt bring no spark to the team square balls dont win points in the premiership. so i think he is now going to be at best a squad player and end up in the championship
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Premier League. It's the Premier League.
 
bloody hell i think some of you were tempted to agree watch you dont dare object to the main group on here who love to see huddlestone square ball game. looks good on stats but does it help the team NO
 
Mr. Coat said:
Huddlestone is an interesting one. I don't like the thought of him playing as our attacking midfielder as he's simply too slow - someone in that area needs to be more agile, faster, able to twist and turn in tight spaces with the ball and get away from defenders. At the moment we have one player fitting that role and it's a certain Mr. Quinn. Huddlestone did get forward for that great goal against Sheff Utd but let's face it, their defence was a fair bit weaker (and slower) than he faces week in, week out here. Huddlestone to me is ideal sitting in the middle, collecting the ball and distributing it along with popping up outside the box for some longer range shots.

We need players around him to run with the ball more, those with the pace to do so. Livermore and Meyler haven't really offered that - they both have bags of energy but use it more defensively to close opposing players down rather than making attacking runs with the ball themselves. Brady, Quinn and Aluko can all do it in an advanced position, Elmo pretty much has his one move knocking it past fullbacks out wide and with Ince we haven't really seen what he likes to do as he's played a few different positions. Maybe Diame can be a bit more direct.
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Huddle stone just needs a little bit more urgency to his game then he'd really shine
 
and now the scooterman as woke up with some thing in his eye. if hernandez doesnt score goals it will be a long hard season unless we push huddlestone up front and he grows his hair and cant see any thing
 
Jelavic is fully capable of scoring the goals for us, we just need better service for him. If we keep playing like we did after the changes against Villa we'll be fine, if we play like the first half we'll be in for a long season.

It'll be interesting to see which formation he goes with after the new signings are here, we certainly looked lively with that 4231.
 
armchairfan said:
He's hardly had a chance as a starter. And he's stayed with the club despite not getting gametime. A primadonna player wouldn't have done that.
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If you seriously believe Quinn is the the standard of a consistent Premier League starter for us then I would suggest you are deluded and in my opinion categorically wrong. You just have to see the quality of players we have, the quality of players we are signing and the quality of players that competition teams have to see that Quinn isn't of that stature or ability.

He's a good squad player and bench player but if we are to seriously progress then he will go the same way that Boyd has gone. Put it this way, there were Championship clubs sniffing around him.
 
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