RyanioBirdio
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Finally somebody has said it. I’ve been going mad sitting here and thinking to myself, “So hang on, if someone trains brilliantly and then never produces at all in a match situation, they’re doing their job?” That’s like saying someone doing really well in driving lessons is the important part, so it doesn’t matter that they’re always fluffing their test and therefore can’t get their license. It all comes down to those match situations, always, and Agyei has started to show he can offer us something positive and affect games. Sure, maybe he is raw, but I don’t think anyone is saying he’s definitely some sort of relentless, undercover goal machine in waiting. Although maybe he is - we’ve no way of knowing. What they are saying, increasingly, is that it’s incredibly peculiar that others aren’t performing and are barely offering anything, and yet they’re getting opportunity after opportunity, week after week, month after month, and this guy can’t even get off the bench for 10 minutes in a game we’re already 3-0 down in. Despite the fact that he helped turn the game against a PL side just four days earlier. He is our player - he has 2.5 years left on his contract and joined us from a Premier League side. He is exactly the sort of player we are supposed to be signing for ‘The Model’ and yet the poor sod can’t do anything. The frustrating part is that he will probably be given a start at some point, and unless he absolutely rips it up immediately both the manager and the apologists will use it to debunk anybody who ever called for him to get a chance. Mackie can score 2 goals in 35 games and we aren’t allowed to question that, and have to keep seeing him stomp about and giving him more chances, but I’m willing to bet that Dan Agyei could start two games in a row and unless he smashed in a brace it would be used as ‘proof’ that he isn’t good enough. It’s feeling less and less like a fair fight.Just waiting for everyone to say this that and the other about how we don’t see X, Y and Z in training... what this argument fails to counter though is that it doesn’t matter what you do in training, it’s what you do in a competitive match. You could be the laziest piece of sh*t out Monday - Friday, but if you’re banging goals in on a Saturday, most clubs would snap you up no problems
From what I’ve seen so far, Agyei has produced more than enough on match days to deserve his opportunity ahead of Mackie
It wouldn’t surprise me to see him not even getting on the bench at Burton. Forde will come back into the 18 any game now and Hanson is also fit again, and looking at the rest of the bench from yesterday I have no idea who is realistically going to be bumped out to accommodate even one of them besides Agyei. If he’s on the verge of not even being able to sit on the bench, it’s a damn shame. I don’t know how little the other strikers have to do, or for how long, before we can see him just play a game or two.