MotM: 09-11-24 Farsley (H) Devine

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Harriers 1 Farsley 0

Poll ended at Tue Nov 12, 2024 5:16 pm

Christian Dibble
0
No votes
Joe Foulkes
7
16%
Caleb Richards
0
No votes
Kam Kandola
5
12%
Reiss McNally
11
26%
David Davis
4
9%
Reece Devine
12
28%
Zak Brown
4
9%
Amari Morgan-Smith
0
No votes
Ashley Hemmings
0
No votes
Maz Kouhyar
0
No votes
Maliq Cadogan
0
No votes
Ben Beresford
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 43
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harry211 wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 10:59 am
marcus garvey wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 10:38 am Oh for a midfielder who can break beyond the attack and give the opposition problems ala Austin.
This is a similar point I made in another thread though after the Peterborough or Needham game. It's why Devine has been so good. How often has he got to the byline and cut inside before pulling the ball back? It just stretches those lines that we so often face from opposition. We do need someoen doing that through the middle to really unsettle the opponents.

It's all getting a bit military strategy this. Form column!
We had that with Cadogan to a certain extent who played in the ten in a 433, but he went completely off the boil after August. Only thing that went against him during that period was him missing a few good chances but he was involved in a lot of good stuff we did that month where we looked like genuine title contenders.
Brown changing the system to stop us loosing, make us difficult to beat and adapting to personnel available/unavailable. To be honest, its a completely different look now to what we had in August but there was a fear we were too Eustace esque and we would find the usual short comings of that sort of side, which of course we did. Physcially strong, fit and organised is the way forward, with some serious disrupters. The pureists wont like it but thats half the battle.
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Harry Aire wrote: Mon Nov 11, 2024 1:54 pm On the speculation about Maliq Cadogan, I wonder if we are getting the best out him. He has pace and a heck of a shot as he showed again on Saturday. Some keepers would not have got near his effort and we'd all be talking about a great goal. Is there a way he could be played further forward? He is clearly not great when being asked to break up play in midfield. If he could be played up front with some decent service he might just be the answer to our scoring problem, or part of it. At the moment we don't seem to have a system that accommodates his prodigious talent.

I keep waiting for some Premiership style tactics from our manager (and I like the chap very much) but the team looks to me much as it did with Russ in charge and the problems are much the same. Perhaps it's down to the limitations of the players we have but in Maliq's case I think we have a gem and we're just not maximising his potential.
He's definitely wasted - and I imagine Swansea are not particularly chuffed - but playing him as a central midfielder in this league just gets the crowd on his back when he's too soft in the tackle.
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