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When Plan A works we play some fabulous football and the results this season have been better than for many a year. However when we are one nil down with 20 mins to go it means that we have failed to score for 70 mins and something needs to change. Throwing on Agyemang and Pellicori hasn't worked. Injecting pace and creativity with the returns of Balanta and Cook will give us something different to break down a defence but if there isn’t someone there to stick the ball in the back of the net what’s the point?
The skills of Routledge, Taraabt and Buzsaky have been a delight to watch. Those like me who enjoy watching players who get stuck in and put in the hard graft are delighted with the likes of Mahon (before injury), Watson and especially Faurlin. Players who leave nothing in the tank at the end of the 90 minutes. If Watson and Reid leave us we will be short in this area but this isn’t a weak area. Neither is our creativity and neither is central defence. We have successfully transferred Leigertwood into an attacking right back and Williams, Borrowdale and Ramage are all solid if not spectacular. I can find very few negatives throughout the squad. Simpson has been a revelation, Vine had started to improve but unfortunately that where our attacking prowess finishes. We have no Plan B because we have no strength in reserve.
Until we sign Messi and Ronaldo plan A can always be stronger. But for a Championship team our first XI is up there with the best. However if injury strikes who do we turn too? Our Plan A only works because 2 of the “fab 4” aren’t ours. What happens if Spurs or Arsenal recall their players? For two years now names such as Folan and Fallon have been mentioned because the manager of the day has wanted a brute upfront. Neither though is particularly good. However we play in a league with the likes of Hulse, Henderson, Best, Rasiak and Stead who are play this brutish role. Even if they can’t all be described as brutish they all give their clubs alternative options. All of them play for clubs currently below us in the division and all of them will have seen our progress and will see our potential. Plan B for me has to be to sign one if not two of these players and then to use them in matches both away from Loftus Road when chances are few and far between and you need a big man to hold up the ball. And also these players would be ideal for a struggling side needing to get back in a match.
Routledge of course has scored goals this season but he has also shown that he isn’t a natural finisher who will score 15 goals playing upfront. He is better suited to terrorising left backs and putting in crosses for a big man. Or cutting in from the wing and linking up play with the other creative players. For me Routledge is a waste upfront and the sooner he is reverted back to the wing the better. He is only playing there due to the lack of depth upfront. Is it time we recall Helguson? Surely in January we finally sign a big man who gives us alternative options.
The skills of Routledge, Taraabt and Buzsaky have been a delight to watch. Those like me who enjoy watching players who get stuck in and put in the hard graft are delighted with the likes of Mahon (before injury), Watson and especially Faurlin. Players who leave nothing in the tank at the end of the 90 minutes. If Watson and Reid leave us we will be short in this area but this isn’t a weak area. Neither is our creativity and neither is central defence. We have successfully transferred Leigertwood into an attacking right back and Williams, Borrowdale and Ramage are all solid if not spectacular. I can find very few negatives throughout the squad. Simpson has been a revelation, Vine had started to improve but unfortunately that where our attacking prowess finishes. We have no Plan B because we have no strength in reserve.
Until we sign Messi and Ronaldo plan A can always be stronger. But for a Championship team our first XI is up there with the best. However if injury strikes who do we turn too? Our Plan A only works because 2 of the “fab 4” aren’t ours. What happens if Spurs or Arsenal recall their players? For two years now names such as Folan and Fallon have been mentioned because the manager of the day has wanted a brute upfront. Neither though is particularly good. However we play in a league with the likes of Hulse, Henderson, Best, Rasiak and Stead who are play this brutish role. Even if they can’t all be described as brutish they all give their clubs alternative options. All of them play for clubs currently below us in the division and all of them will have seen our progress and will see our potential. Plan B for me has to be to sign one if not two of these players and then to use them in matches both away from Loftus Road when chances are few and far between and you need a big man to hold up the ball. And also these players would be ideal for a struggling side needing to get back in a match.
Routledge of course has scored goals this season but he has also shown that he isn’t a natural finisher who will score 15 goals playing upfront. He is better suited to terrorising left backs and putting in crosses for a big man. Or cutting in from the wing and linking up play with the other creative players. For me Routledge is a waste upfront and the sooner he is reverted back to the wing the better. He is only playing there due to the lack of depth upfront. Is it time we recall Helguson? Surely in January we finally sign a big man who gives us alternative options.
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