He kept promising the club he was happy to sign a new contract and strung the club along, was offered improved terms, yet had apparently already agreed to sign for the mags. He got a good deal because he left on a free, the mags loved him when he first signed however soon changed their mind when they realised he only went sideways
Wonder where you can get his running stats. They’ll know in the club like. Definitely impacted on very little, though was it him who fed Ba when he did that carefully placed shot into the side netting? Could have had an assist with that one.
He doesn't get the credit he deserves, he s a very good player at CB. He makes the odd mistake but so do all defenders.
Its worth a try, with Seelt getting played out of position or worse still left out after top class performances, I don't want to see either Seelt or O/9 marginalised , both should be in our starting eleven, if it backfires, use the subs ., Midfield 3 of Ekwah. O/9, and Neil looks good to me..
I rhinknwe tend to have a better shape when Neil plays the holding role and not Ekwah as I think Neil is always on the turn looking forward and seems more able to engineer space, Ekwah looks to be better further forward and probing at the buisness end. When Neil sits we seem to press 10-15 yards higher up the pitch which in the game against Boro coincided with our best football in the last 20 mins. I know people want Neil to play higher but I think he is our best option to sit and release players forward and in time will become very very good in this position.
He is our best option at the moment but I don't feel it's his best position. I think it wastes his talent a little and he doesn't have great defensive awareness and tracking of runs. He is ok playing there but I would love him him to play in Ekwah or Jobe position and a proper CDM play alongside.
Think Neil is a good player but sometimes like Ekwah loses concentration which is dangerous and has cost us goals , when playing a defensive midfield role you have to maintain focus at all times and both have a tendency to switch off .
Not doubting this at all. I would also bet the boro lads tired. That was a massive 30 minute shift the midfielders and forwards put in. Rare you see a team able to maintain that for a full half. Rusyn made a big difference in terms of getting us higher and everyone got a lift from that. A good set of subs at a time when boro were just starting to show signs of fatigue. For me anyway.
Plus Forss went off for them which was a big blow. Important player, with a goal threat, and losing him may have dented Boro’s morale as well as weakening them playing wise.
Yeh we could see it was needed and he made the change no different to what Mowbray would have done TBH,you just can’t give any credit to the man most managers don’t make a change until 70 mins, it worked we got back in the game and could have took all 3
.It could also mean he picked a few wrong un's to start in the first place , and do you reckon Roberts for Ba improved our chances of taking all 3, just asking. .
I said at half time I expected Boro to push on more and that we'd do what many teams do at the SOL ... draw them on and break away. Ironically that happened after Boro scored and they thought they'd already won the game. I had a little chuckle tbh, I could see what was happening and Carrick didn't Once we'd grabbed the momentum they were on the ropes and couldn't react. I don't think we should've started throwing on subs, after half time as it would've caused too much disruption. Boro only had two on target efforts so a period of defending wasn't a catastrophe imo. I think we were happy with a point but hoping for three ... ... not unreasonable in my opinion.
