I’ve always thought our young players that came through the ranks were always fearless and ran that little bit harder as they were one of our own? Too many greats of the past decades to mention…, but hopeful you’ll see where I’m coming from… let’s compare just these two at the moment.
TC to Shaun Newton… However frustrating Shaun was over his time at the Valley, but he put a shift in with regular 6,7,8 out of 10 performances and had the awareness (coached) into knowing when to pass and knowing when to dribble & run and had a good consistent career with us, I don’t see that in TC… I think it’s his fear of getting it wrong, and his mentality is full of woke nonsense of ‘the haters’ online… as we all know when he’s finally made up his mind to do ‘something’ with the ball - he’s lost it.
Some may see this second one as unfair.. but Karoy to Lee Bowyer..unfortunately for Karoy he isn’t Lee Bowyers left foot, let alone a Lee Bowyer, I can see that but how does NJ see he’s the attacking midfielder in our system, yet again frightened of messing up.. I think Karoy will be kicking himself this evening for missing that chance today…first time toe punt, shin it, or smash it - basically anything apart from the 3? Touches he had to control and get a shot off… blimey how do they ‘coach’ him in scenarios like that..surely we practise these things don’t we? If we are expecting him to get into those positions..
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Karoy is fearless, he miss places passes and frustrated but always gives 100% and literally the one criticism you can not apply is fear.
As it stands, his energy is still useful but he is far from the finished article and he is young enough to address the issues. He has to understand that his levels are not acceptable for him if he wants a better career, not a lower league one.
Just a thought as to why the youngsters are no longer performing as well as in the past. Talent is a factor too in that the ceiling for Bowyer and Newton is /was higher probably than the other two but with proper consistent management at first team level both TC and Karoy possess the talent to perform well at league 1 level at the very least.
I’m starting to think that maybe he should aim to pass to the opposition and he’ll probably find a team mate instead.
He makes mistakes trying to make things happen. He missed a good chance but made a rare, for our midfield, run beyond the strikers to get on the end of TC's pass.
Maybe if he constantly passed it backwards like certain other players he'd be praised to high heaven every week.
Indont think Anderson should be anywhere near our first team but the one attribute I’d say he definitely has is that he is fearless.
He was the only midfielder doing the hard yards yesterday.
Maybe Docherty, Alan Campbell and Luke Berry bring more to the team when they ‘play’.
How many of us had made it in our jobs two months after being nineteen years old?
Every individual is different, some mature at 19, others at 24. The only way “our own” progress is through competitive minutes, and a supporting arm around them.
His passing, on the other hand whether short, backwards or long really has not improved over two seasons and that’s worrying for me.