Touché.
I'm just grateful you're still in a little bit of doubt and not simply written off out of hand.
I'll start a forum member's title amnisty;
I'm not a real Duke.
There, I feel better for that.
I'm a genuine coffin dodger
Still not forgiven you for that game at Roots Hall.
I'm not a massive fan of McEachren, You can tell he's played at a good level, and he doesn't make many mistakes- but I don't think he does much apart from keeping things ticking over. He reminds me of Lewis Bate, but with dodgy hamstrings. He's not a game changer. Put it this way, Smyth was MOM and won us the game yesterday on his second (?) start for us, and McEachren has never done while he's been here. I'd be happy enough if he moved on in January.
If you play a simple pass to a teammate who then goes on a mazy run past 4 opponents and smashes a shot in the top corner from 35 yards, you get an assist. If you sprint down the wing, absolutely skinning your fullback and put a brilliant cross in which Ruben Rodrigues somehow contrives to put over the bar from inside the box, you don’t. Murphy has done a lot of the latter. He’s played very well in his last few appearances, that’s unarguable despite the lack of G/A.
May I ask from whom that has been told?
Welcome, Brother Otto.
A threadbare squad is really a problem of your own making if you continue to hand deals out to people like Gorrin. I appreciate a lot of it is luck but you are dicing with it a bit if you keep players like that around and we have loads of them, our squad carries far more than is necessary. I'm not saying have none, I'm saying have less. Much less. I understood why Manning added him to the group (again, to cover a shortage of bodies) but I can't see any sense in a renewal now that we have January to move things around. You won't convince me that Gorrin will make a 'vital difference' for anybody but especially ahead of, say, a non-league holding midfielder in his early 20's with a bright future in the EFL. The scenario you mention is fine, but why does it need to be the ever-unreliable Gorrin? Is he sharp enough to trust with such precious minutes as what you describe? There's as much chance he's injured for the game against Portsmouth as he is to be the hero. We should be trying to lower our risk tolerance, not extend it.
Yeah I appreciate Henry unlikely to go anywhere for now. But I’d like to see us in no way dependent on him, even for 10 minutes.
Even he didn’t look happy to be thrown on at Derby. He got thrown around like a dog toy. The game was much too quick and aggressive for him. He looked fragile and uncomfortable and there was a moment in the box he could’ve shot and he got closed down but he looked terrified to get clattered. Nobody benefits from relying on him. 5 mins at the end of a 3-0 win to help keep the ball? Testimonial vibes. Fine. Any more than that is just daft.
That's not really true, Murphy's shooting has been bad but he's put in some great balls. The goal he set up for McGuane in the cup is one of my favourite moments this season.
