I hope that was a particularly rather unusual off day (we all have em) that we will never see again. I also hope his fellow players let him know how they felt about his child like selfishness of unwillingness to play a reasonable much needed simple/attacking pass at least once every now and again. Not showing himself to be much of a team player. Hated watching him tonight.
In all seriousness if you are going to play football like that, then you need to be dropped immediately until you learn and can be taken seriously again.
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I think he needs either a arm around his shoulder, a to jet up his arse or his family around him a little more. Was very worried about how he carried himself tonight
I think I'm beginning to see him for watt he is a very selfish player
We need team players at the moment
Willing to give all for the team not a showboating prima doña who sulks
Remember Ronaldo he was like that and look what happened to him!!!
Goodnight
Tonight was one of those nights where it was not coming off one bit and the fact that he had easy passes on made it look worse for him each time.
I agree he gets away with what we could say are lucky bounces but he gets too many of them to be jammy, surely?
t.?"Dont give him any space, get in his face but dont foul him"
Is exactly what Rotherham and Huddersfield did against him which puts him into trouble
People are blaming Big Mak for not finding a red shirt with the flick ons but when your strike partner is not where he's supposed to be, what can he do?
Furthermore TWWW playing deep just clogs the midfield and makes it harder to move the ball to open up their defence.
In another note, people questioning his application must have missed a number of lung busting runs back to try to retrieve the ball after losing it!
We never did find out what happened at the training ground that made GL drop TW for the first game of the season - did we? - and I've got a horrible feeling that unless GL can somehow get on top of this once and for all, this is not going to end well.
He is so close to being terrific but there is a nagging doubt that there is something about him that's just going to hold him back and not meet his full potential. Rumours of a big fall out with one of the coaching staff just before the start of the season looked like they had credibity when he was dropped for the start.
On Saturday i thought if Mak had started, and Watt had come on for the last half hour, we would have won the game. But its a dangerous situation to be in when a player is only at his best playing in half hour bursts when a game gets stretched and oppo defenders tire. Over 90 mins, more often than not, the oppo seem to have the measure of him. He needs to understand he has to adapt his game a little.
Everyone loves a bit of individual brilliance, but all of us who have played at any level will tell you that you don't mind at all having a selfish player in your team when he is delivering the goods and causing issues for the opposition. When he isn't, and your passes or supporting runs are being wasted, then you have a big problem that can cause resentment in a team.
However, I always get the feeling that 'next time' he gets the ball he will make something happen. That is the case tieh mercurial talents. They can seem to be unable to do anything right for 85 minutes then suddenly it clicks and they sneak past three players and score or set up someone else to do so.
I would have taken him off when Vetokele came on though. I wasn't aware that Mig Mak has a hamstring problem.
If he stayed up front for the whole game, he would probably be accused of not working hard enough. So, he just has to find the balance between the two.
He's just had two frustrating games but there were still moments that nearly came off for him.
- Ahearne-Grant (Many will say he's not ready)
- Vetokele (The general opinion is that he's not fit and that he's too interested in his Missus at the moment)
- McAnley (He's unfairly been awarded the new Sponge-Foot tag)
- Kennedy (See Ahearne-Grant)
- Gudmundsson (Who do you play on the Right?)