Pardews comment after the game
"Chris Dickson for me has still got a bit of work to do to get in this team and I really am not going to elaborate anymore on that,"
Well i'd like you to elaborate on that Alan because the bloke has scored goals at whatever level hes played at, scores in nearly every reserve match, has been itching to get a game whilst sitting the bench each week and then you bring in McLeod who's had 1 reserve match in the past 6 months.
Have i missed something or has this been discussed elsewhere? Has there been a falling out?
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Well, that's Dicko's stock-in-trade. And given a service, that 's what he's particularly good at.
Isn't it Pards .....?
(1) Pards doesn't rate him as a footballer.
(2) They've had a fall out or Pards doesn't like his attitude
(3) We've got to pay out if he starts so many games
As option (3) is highly unlikely it has to be (1) or (2)
About 3/4s of the way down this article. Not sure if it was after the game but it's obviously since saturday
http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/sport/3793525.Pards_backs_Varney_to_come_good/
So if Dicko isn't flavour of the month at the mo and, in Pards own words, "has still got a bit of work to do to get in this team",
then ship him out on loan for a month ....... and let him learn.
C'mon Pards, the player needs games, before he gets so rusty in front of goal that his confidence gets shot.
If you won't even give him a start at Charlton - then let him get a start at Leyton Orient or somewhere for a month.
He needs to play!
According to the Burnley report Gray was absent due to a family illness.
Did anyone see Fleetwood's involvement in the MK Dons keeper getting sent off?
SF went thru and was tripped by the keeper but the flag was already up for offside. SF has a right moan about it and the Dons keeper (who was huge) chested SF to the ground. Straight red but Cheltenham still lost.
Pardew, like Curbs, has bad man management skills. Put Dickson in Varney's shoes and I'm sure he would have more goals this season than Pard's blue eyed boy.
And this is based on what?
Letting Gray be with a sick family member = poor man management skills.
Picking a player he rates over one that you rate = poor man management skills.
Agreed Henry.
Maybe the ability to work with people that you're not getting on with, was what he might be getting at? D'you think?
I think a disappointing Pardew feature seems to be to have an overly positive blind spot assoicated with some players (Varney and Crainey for example) and an overly negative one, for others (Moo2 and Dicko). His job is to pick the best side for a specific challenge, surely.
That was me kin - based on what I was told by a Manager that played against him in Non League football.
As for poor Man Management preferring one player over another isn't but going public about soemone who isn't being played might be. It can achieve one of two things - either galvanising the player to doing what the Manager expects or pXXXing him off so much he goes backward. Let's hope for the lad and CAFC's sake it is the former.
Not out of context at all. Golfie referred to those two players and then said that AP has poor man management skills.
What you have described in what you see as APs poor team selection skills. Totally different thing.
It is only supposition that AP doesn't get on with Gray or Dickson (who Pardew bought BTW) or any of the other players. We just don't know. He dropped Holland on Sat so does that mean he doesn't get on with him now or that they have fallen out?
Or does it mean that having sent Wright out on loan (obviously fallen out with him!!!!!) and now playing him they have kissed and made up.
Dickson went on loan last season ans scored 11 in 11 starts for them and has, therefore, proven that he can do it in the division below. How is he going to prove he's good enough if he's never going to be given a chance at this level? And by chance I don't mean 10 minutes here and there. I mean a run of half a dozen starts. Varney's had 13 this season and scored twice - he missed that many open goals on Saturday alone.
Dickson is probably similar to Kris Boyd at Rangers, who doesn't do enough running about or work as hard as another bloke (say Novo for example), but give him the ball and he'll score.
No SE10 you're certianly not. And I would have still have Varney in the team, probably on the left so he can cut inside onto his right.
The workrate would be huge
I dont think Pards is inferring anything about any kind of falling out with Dicko, I know football is a game of interpretation and inference, but would people prefer Pards to label the weaknesses in Dicksons game to upcoming opponents?
No I think a lot of people would.
He burst into the box with his first touch and forced a save or block and corner (can't remember which) and shortly after went close with a header.
When he was given a chance against West Brom (now a Premiership club) last season as a late sub he scored a real poachers goal then confidently put away his penalty in the shoot-out.
What more can the guy do given the very, very limited chances he has been afforded