Midfield

[Saint-Harry]

It's why I don't envy Adkins. When fit and available, Puncheon, Chaplow and Guly all have very strong cases to start in that position in my opinion. I just can't pick between them. (It doesn't help either that all three are quite big favourites of mine!)

I think it's going to be a test of Adkins' man management skills! If our whole squad is fit an available then there is so much competition for places. Before January I was sceptical, but now we have options all over the place.

 

[AdamBanana20]

Lack of nastiness? I really don't know where this comes from out of all our CM's Morgan puts himself about the most, wins the most ball back and puts his body on the line. He has somehow picked up this tag of not being a tackler and bottling challenges. This is utter bollocks. He regularly out muscles opposing players. That big bastard today, Morgan won more than his fair share of ball of him, and was probably our best player after the first 20.

Yeah,totally agree with you mate.Morgan wasn't really into the game until 20mins or so and he started to pass the ball around and got stuck in.Played very well.

 

[#44]

Guly-Schneiderlin-Cork-Lallana

 

[TheSecondStain]

Lack of nastiness? I really don't know where this comes from out of all our CM's Morgan puts himself about the most, wins the most ball back and puts his body on the line. He has somehow picked up this tag of not being a tackler and bottling challenges. This is utter bollocks. He regularly out muscles opposing players. That big bastard today, Morgan won more than his fair share of ball of him, and was probably our best player after the first 20.

It's actually quite an old reputation dating from his earliest first team appearances. In those days, he was a little lightweight, and when he did put in tackles, they were often mistimed. Nowadays, as you say, he puts himself about, and quite effectively so.

 

[AdamBanana20]

It's quite clear that Schneiderlin is a much better all round player than Hammond.