Video of Lee Novak scoring a penalty at Stalyvegas

[terrier26]

Hi Guys

As I only live about 5 minutes from Stalybridge's ground I popped down to see Lee Novak play there on tuesday night and I have to say that he looked pretty good. There is a lot of work to do with him but you could see that he had some very good attributes to be polished.

The areas in which he looked particularly good were:

* Movement off the ball - he was constantly on the move interchanging between centre half's and making it difficult for them to pick him up.
* First touch - particularly one touch in the second half stood out when he killed the ball dead with his first touch after a long kick from the Gateshead keeper.
* Link up play - within the first 5 minutes he had the ball played into feet and managed to hold off a defender bring the ball back into his own half before turning and playing a simple pass out wide. His overall link up play and the way that the ball "stuck" when it was played into him impressed me.
* his overall height - he must be over 6ft. He was quite bandy and could do with filling out a bit but hopefully this will come when he spends more time in the gym at town.
* Persistence - although he didn't get that many clear cut chances he didn't let his head go down and kept battling away all evening.
* Well taken penalty - some of the stalybridge players were trying to put Novak off before taking the penalty by re-spotting the ball for him but he kept his head a slotted it away well.
* Pace - he looked like he had a good turn of pace, but was not exceptionally fast. But his acceleration over a few yards looked best.

The development points for his future could be around being a bit louder when he didn't have the ball as he was pretty quite compared to some of his team mates - in particular the left winger for Gateshead who didn't shut up all evening!!! He also got caught offside a few too many times and could maybe do with timing his runs/running across the back four before the ball was played forward a little better. But hopefully town can develop him in these two areas when he joins in the summer.

Overall he definately looked a good prospect and is worth a punt for £100k - especially with that scoring record.

Danny Broadbent also looked lively when he came on as sub. He looked a lot quicker than Novak and did well to win the penalty by knocking the ball past the advancing keeper and winning a penalty after the keeper brought him down. It would be good to see him get a run of games in the town side at some point as I've only really seen him come on as sub for us so far.

I've tried to put a video on here of Novak's penalty - this is the first time that I've tried uploading a video on here so let me know if you have any tips if I'm not successful with the first attempt!!!

[Nickhudds.UTT]

;D can you post the proper link that works if poss please...

[terrier17]

[LordyOfTheManor]

[terrier17]

Someone just had to go one better haha

[Tez]

Attention to detail in that post Tez 26!

Ta for that info though. Can't wait to see the lad in a Town shirt. Roll on next season.

[Nickhudds.UTT]

cant wait to have a decent striker who looks hungry, he will take a few games obviously to settle in but im expecting very good things from this young man !!

[LordyOfTheManor]

Feb 27, 2009 19:56:32 GMT 1 terrier17 said:

Someone just had to go one better haha

You have my sympathy. Have a positive.

But back to the topic at hand, the step-up is going to be extremely hard for the lad. I just hope he can make the grade, just so we can have a regular goalscorer on the books.

But all the signs suggest he could well be an excellent signing.

[Porrohman]

blimey,now i'm on youtube ! me and my dad to right of heed army near back of the stand

[sunflower]

Fantastic! That's the best penalty i've ever seen

[gaz7837]

just says 'Video no longer available' when i try.

Great

[NookTerrier]

Works for me