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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2009 12:07:33 GMT 1
I think our poor form has a lot to do with the form and availability of 4 of our key players.
Nathan Clarke
Jim Goodwin
Gary Roberts
Danny Cadamateri
Nathan Clarke:
Without doubt our best defender this season, and in my eyes player of the year. He's missed 5 games of the 7 games without a win. It cannot be under-estimated how much we have missed him. Luketti hasn't done badly after coming in (apart from yesterday), but I think the effect its had on Butler has been more damaging. Just like Nathan Clarke has always played better alongside a more capable central defensive partner, I think the same can be said about Butler, his form has dipped since Clarke has been out of the team. They had formed a good partnership, and the defence has looked shacky since Clarke has been out. We've started leaking soft goals, and that's a disaster for a team that sruggles to score.
Jim Goodwin
He established himself in the team in the Leeds away game, and its no coincidence that his good form coincided with Towns. Its an important job he does, and the better he plays the more effective Michael Collins can be. His form has dipped recently, he was awful yesterday, and he missed a couple of games through suspension as well. Undoubtedly Goodwins drop in form has affected the team.
Gary Roberts
Our best attacking player this season and top scorer, he just hasn't looked the same since his three match ban. Maybe its a temporary drop in form, maybe he's been effected by the extra competition for places since Pilkington and Ainsworth have come in. Either way, he's not performing at the level which he did for the first 2/3rds of the season.
Danny Cadamateri
Unfortunately his injuries have come back, and he's been in and out of the team. Showed what he can do yesterday, but has missed more games than he's played recently.
You could argue that these 4 have been the key to the good form from the Leeds away game, to the Leeds home game. Their performance levels allowed us to pick up some very decent results despite our problems up front.
Normally you could cope with one or two getting injured or loosing form, but when it happens to all four at the same time its not surprising our results have dipped, especially when we still haven't found a goalscorer.
Get Clarkey back fit, keep Cads fit, and get Goodwin and Roberts playing like they can, then results will improve, but if not then its more than likely the poor form will continue.
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Post by downatthepharm on Mar 22, 2009 12:48:20 GMT 1
Goodwin wasn't awful yesterday. He did ok in the first half. The reason people seem to think he was awful was because he had a nightmare five minutes in the build up to him getting subbed. In those five minutes he played a couple of poor long range passes, an awful through ball and then gave away a booking trying to make up for it. There were far worse performances than his yesterday
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Post by Eric Cartmenez on Mar 22, 2009 12:53:48 GMT 1
Goodwin was one of our best players on the pitch till he came off.
Roberts was absoloutly abismal i think there was only one of his corners that cleared the first man his crossing apart from the goal.
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Post by downatthepharm on Mar 22, 2009 13:20:25 GMT 1
Goodwin was one of our best players on the pitch till he came off. Roberts was absoloutly abismal i think there was only one of his corners that cleared the first man his crossing apart from the goal. Roberts didn't hit a clean ball all day apart from the cross to cads. He seems to be dragging, scuffing, overhitting and misplacing all his passes |
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Post by SN0W on Mar 22, 2009 15:01:53 GMT 1
Goodwin was one of our best players on the pitch till he came off. Roberts was absoloutly abismal i think there was only one of his corners that cleared the first man his crossing apart from the goal. Roberts didn't hit a clean ball all day apart from the cross to cads. He seems to be dragging, scuffing, overhitting and misplacing all his passes And they still try to tell you that going out on the piss doesn't affect performance... |
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Post by downatthepharm on Mar 22, 2009 15:05:23 GMT 1
Roberts didn't hit a clean ball all day apart from the cross to cads. He seems to be dragging, scuffing, overhitting and misplacing all his passes And they still try to tell you that going out on the piss doesn't affect performance... He's still feeling the effects of that massive night out 4 wednesdays ago |
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Post by townatheart on Mar 22, 2009 15:11:58 GMT 1
excellent post that, very sound analysis imo. combined with clark's efforts at starting to weed out those players he feels are not right to help move the club forward perhaps goes a way to explain the change in what we are seeing on the pitch as compared to the first few weeks that clark was in charge.
nice to read something sensible, have a positive.
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Post by digwon on Mar 22, 2009 17:41:45 GMT 1
Goodwin was one of our best players on the pitch till he came off. Roberts was absoloutly abismal i think there was only one of his corners that cleared the first man his crossing apart from the goal. Roberts didn't hit a clean ball all day apart from the cross to cads. He seems to be dragging, scuffing, overhitting and misplacing all his passes his control was slightly wank too |
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Post by sunflower on Mar 22, 2009 17:44:25 GMT 1
Form is only temporary, but unfortunately for most of the Town team, Class is permanent.
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Post by grist on Mar 22, 2009 18:35:50 GMT 1
Form is only temporary, but unfortunately for most of the Town team, Class is permanent. Being pissed is temporary. Having the wrong attitude that allows you to get pissed tends to be permanent. Not good in a footballer. |
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Post by specialun on Mar 22, 2009 18:37:55 GMT 1
Goodwin wasn't awful yesterday. He did ok in the first half. The reason people seem to think he was awful was because he had a nightmare five minutes in the build up to him getting subbed. In those five minutes he played a couple of poor long range passes, an awful through ball and then gave away a booking trying to make up for it. There were far worse performances than his yesterday I don't think he was good from start to finish to be honest. He was more concerned with arguing with constantine and shouting at lucketti. But to be fair, in those 5 minutes where everything went wrong, he had just picked up a knock which he was trying to run off. But he was out of the position for the 2nd goal, he lost too many 50-50s and his movement of the ball was slow and backwards (not helped by a lack of options around him) - he just didn't seem to be sharp as usual. Good post and spot on with Nathan Clarke - and on his impact on Butler (and vice verca). I'd have a 3rd centre half on my shopping list this summer. Not disespect to Lucketti, he has done ok as an individual, but he's a liability to the team. Since he has come in to the team we have conceded 10 goals in 5 games, having conceded 19 in the previous 18 league games (which is promotion chasing stuff). Byt it is the uncertainty at the back (lucketti and tom clarke both went for the same ball 3 times yesterday, neither called) - which is surprising given lucketti's experience. He isn't leading as captain, he isn't vocal on the pitch and far too often he looks to be going though the motions. I think it goes further than an impact on Butler..., we are defending 2 yards deeper, and have resulted in playing a more long ball game ...Clarke looks for the ball from Smithies, Lucketti tells him to slow it down and pushes up. |
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Post by terrier19 on Mar 22, 2009 22:46:46 GMT 1
IMO Collins is also one of the worst performers, he pops up with a goal occasionally but can anyone remember the last time he had a consistently good 90minutes?
He seems to go missing in games and let the game pass him by, if we got an offer for him in the summer i'd sell straight away
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