Tweet
Very easy to be negative given lack of goals and some howlers when in good positions but can't get away from fact he has been effective at other clubs and for me has at times looked decent for us albeit without the midas touch.
Perhaps the question has to be how to get the best out of him. Warnock knew the role he would be playing when he was bought and was obviously confident he could play well in that role.
Playing up front on his own he often has two men marking him and often has nobody nearby to receive his knock downs and flick ons. My perception of him is a target man who will get 10-15 goals a season and cause a fair bit of mayhem in and around the box for a strike partner. Realistically he has no chance of getting that number of goals (proportionately speaking) or number of assists when he is double marked and has no strike partner.
I personally would like to see Taraabt playing much closer to him for parts of games to give him that support and to maybe create more space for him. Without that all we will get is more of the same.
Or we could just write off the investment and see if Miller can do the job better. He may well do but again I doubt playing alone up front we would get best out of him either.
Perhaps the question has to be how to get the best out of him. Warnock knew the role he would be playing when he was bought and was obviously confident he could play well in that role.
Playing up front on his own he often has two men marking him and often has nobody nearby to receive his knock downs and flick ons. My perception of him is a target man who will get 10-15 goals a season and cause a fair bit of mayhem in and around the box for a strike partner. Realistically he has no chance of getting that number of goals (proportionately speaking) or number of assists when he is double marked and has no strike partner.
I personally would like to see Taraabt playing much closer to him for parts of games to give him that support and to maybe create more space for him. Without that all we will get is more of the same.
Or we could just write off the investment and see if Miller can do the job better. He may well do but again I doubt playing alone up front we would get best out of him either.
As I see it, we dont make use of him in the right way. If you wants him to score loads of goals he needs a partner in a 442 formation. I did also notice that people slated him for not scoring when he came on injured earlier in the season. During that period he was only slowly getting his fitness back. AND now when he MAYBE is fully fit, he has to face a lost cause with his "back against the wall". At the moment, who is there to respond to his flickons when we clearly have to sacrifice a midfield going forward. Thing is that we have to sacrifice A LOT because of the way we make use of Taraabts freedom to flourish. Thank god for Adel, that´s a fact. But other players have lost their freedom to play how they should in their respective roles. Additionally he(Hulse) has to do the job of the wingers as well. At least he drifts quite fluenlyt along the forward line. How can people possibly expect him being on the wing creating flickons which he, himself, should respond to in front of goal?LOL. He is not a fast player.
Comment