Twiggster wrote:Eddie on LUTV this eve post game reflections, gave young Samby MOTM for us - but added that "Ross was very close - Ross ran the show for us at Leicester with his workrate and set ups. He had a great game, thae boy".
I've just watched the full game back on LUTV and have to agree.
However, the replay showed me again, that Kenny should not be first team keeper. OK - he made some GREAT saves at Leicester, but his positioning and flapping was worth noting.
Nowhere NEAR how bad son of scum was in the other goal, but Kenny worries me.
I am sad, but I've watched all of our full games back on LUTV and HOW many times does Kenny flap at crosses and fail to do the simple stuff? WHY didn't he come out to at least hinder the Leicester defender who scored last night at the death? Poor keeping.
When Ashdown plays, the whole back line seems more confident to me? Body language seems better from the defenders and he doesn't go "walkabout", like Kenny - who I've seen casually wander down the pitch a few times this season and have to scramble to get back on his line.
Kenny has cost us a lot of goals in the league this season, purely by poor positioning and either not coming for crosses or flapping them. He is no better than Lonergan was, but he is Warnock senior's love child it seems?
Kenny kept us in this game, without question. Not seen the replay of the goal, but from the majority of peoples' views it seems that it was a free header. I'd say that's the fault of the defenders (/Warnock for changing it around too late and causing confusion), but not Kenny.
I think Ashdown should probably have been used more, but you can hardly complain about Kenny keeping 3 clean sheets in the last 4!
Ross McCormack deserves a 9 in this match because he was absolutely and completely unplayable. He was all over them. He did everything except score. He was outstrengthing their centre backs and coming away with the ball all night. Absolutely top class. On several occasions I saw Morison didn't even jump for the ball over the top to him. Complete carthorse. Why was Warnock so desperate to get a player that's so unfit, so much that he traded our top scorer for him?
Also Schmeichel had a good game, McCormack was unlucky not to score. Some of the shots Schmeichel was saving, it actually made him look like a half decent keeper!
The trouble is though that at the end of the season a striker is judged byow many goals he scores. Often a striker can have a sh1t game but scores a hat trick and wins mom.
Too many people, including NW, slagged Becchio off for various reasons but at the end of the day no one could slag off his goascoring.
weasel wrote:The trouble is though that at the end of the season a striker is judged byow many goals he scores. Often a striker can have a sh1t game but scores a hat trick and wins mom.
Too many people, including NW, slagged Becchio off for various reasons but at the end of the day no one could slag off his goascoring.
87 goals in 221 games in all competitions, ok but nothing special
One goal in 3.5 matches....not good enough for one of your main strikers....on a par with the likes of our Cresswell, Blake & Healy...mindst many fans raved about Blake & the overrated David Healy....remember where we finished in our previous championship campaign with those three average strikers in our team
weasel wrote:
A goal every 2.5 matches. Not a bad ratio especially given that he was largely the foil for Beckford for 3 seasons.
No its not a bad ratio, but there is nothing special about it. Which is my point here, its nothing more than what you would expect from an average striker to do with the amount of time hes played.
