Sam Sodje Missing Next 2 Games

Well it's great that he played (and so well today). I really liked him when he played for us a couple of years ago. I can't really understand why a player of his quality is not playing at least one Division higher. Still I hope he comes back from Nigeria fitter and even sharper.

Well two seasons ago he was on the books of a Premier League team. He plays for Nigeria, I'd put him a bit higher than lower championship.

And that Bob Carolges fella - aka Karim Bagheri - was clearly mustard as he had the world record for goals scored in an international match, or something like that.

Thought the guy played really well for us and made a big difference, seeing this was his first game back in this side MOM to me....

Didn't even feature on the bench, ah well he's had a week's rest.

Didn't even get on the bench for Nigeria the weekend.

[cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]wouldn't replace Llera, bad man management that would be.

Disagree with this. You play your best players and Sodje is clearly better than Llera. Fergie wouldn't keep Rio or Vidic on the bench and play Evans

[cite]Posted By: Henry Irving[/cite]So by that logic you would keep Spring in the side, as he's played well, and not bring back Semedo?

yes. Wouldn't have said that two games ago but at Leeds and once again last week he was one of our better players. Just think that if a player plays well and you still drop him then what incentive is there to do well, train properly etc as you know at the end of the day it means diddly-squat. I'm not saying that it was the only problem with reagrd to Moo2 but I reckon it's what started it and certainly didn't help.

Managers traditionally keep to the maxim, "never change a winning side".

Well, with just 1 win in 6, even though we've only lost 1 match, it's not really any longer a winning side.
We seem to have lost our edge.

Apart from the Colchester calamity, we're reasonably tight at the back and not conceding, but we've not scored in 3 games. Strangely, since Semedo has been out of the side, we've not looked nearly so potent in attack.

Burton has been playing on with various injuries and naturally doesn't seem to be so effective as he was in earlier matches.

So my conclusion is ....... we're weaker than we were/should be right through the spine of the side.
Maybe a brave decision needs to be made?

Llera was better last week but lets face it, Oldham hardly offered much of a threat. Sodje was superb against Leeds and in very difficult conditions stifled the threat of arguably the best striker force in the league therefore he has to play on sat. Llera against the likes of Jordan Rhodes and Theo Robinson scares me!

[cite]Posted By: LargeAddick[/cite]if a player plays well and then gets dropped the next week and then required again and plays well again but is still dropped the next week they would get disillusioned, maybe even become a problem and then maybe their attitude is deemed to not be good enough and then you alienate them and they end up getting shipped off to Motherwell or Bristol Rovers. Sodje time will come naturally, either through Llera playing badly or through a suspension and then it'll be up to him to keep his place. Seeing as he didn't even make the Nigerian bench he should consider jacking international football in.

God help us in next years World Cup then. If we get any injuries and the replacements do well they will stay in the team.

Terry gets injured and Upson keeps his place.

Rooney gets injured and Heskey keeps his place.

I know what you're saying but don't agree. You play your best players if they are fit, on form and not a 'problem player'.
You also don't seem to have taken into account Sodje getting disillusioned having been MOM at Leeds and him and everyone else knowing that he is better than Llera.

I miss him already - we looked better defensively at Leeds than we did at home to Boreham. So I'd play him week in week out if his work ethics good in training. He's a no nonsense defender, at the moment 50p head Miguel is the opposite of that.