Jack Payne badly missed

[Oxford84]

Pull mowatt back so it’s 3 centrally instead of two with one in front. Take mowatt off all together and play Carroll who can play as a defensive midfielder. Stop playing it to the striker who constantly looses it meaning the midfield come straight back under pressure. Play a better centre back so ur midfielders ain’t having to cover defensive mistakes and weaknesses . I can go on, but I’m guessing u weren’t expecting 1 answer let alone 5 [emoji6]

Yep,a big problem is that Mowatt and Payne before him, play as a rigid player in front of the midfield,they don't drop back to help the midfield out when we lose the ball and they also don't play close enough to the lone forward.Thomas then gets isolated followed by Mowatt,then both are out of the game and the midfield just doesn't push up to attack,we then cant hold any sort of possession in the oppositions half.

 

[Jerome'SAle]

Pull mowatt back so it’s 3 centrally instead of two with one in front. Take mowatt off all together and play Carroll who can play as a defensive midfielder. Stop playing it to the striker who constantly looses it meaning the midfield come straight back under pressure. Play a better centre back so ur midfielders ain’t having to cover defensive mistakes and weaknesses . I can go on, but I’m guessing u weren’t expecting 1 answer let alone 5 [emoji6]

Play with 3 defensive midfielders? Sexy

 

[Deleted member 462]

Pull mowatt back so it’s 3 centrally instead of two with one in front. Take mowatt off all together and play Carroll who can play as a defensive midfielder. Stop playing it to the striker who constantly looses it meaning the midfield come straight back under pressure. Play a better centre back so ur midfielders ain’t having to cover defensive mistakes and weaknesses . I can go on, but I’m guessing u weren’t expecting 1 answer let alone 5 [emoji6]

Play with 3 defensive midfielders? Sexy

Ruffels and Ledson don’t play as defensive midfielders. Neither sit just in front of the defence, both go box to box and both score a lot of goals. Do u even watch us play ?

 

[Jerome'SAle]

Ruffels and Ledson don’t play as defensive midfielders. Neither sit just in front of the defence, both go box to box and both score a lot of goals. Do u even watch us play ?

Bitchy. Lots of goals?

 

[eraser]

Bitchy. Lots of goals?

Ruffels has scored more than Henry and Rothwell. - so not quite so bitchy eh?

 

[Jerome'SAle]

Ruffels has scored more than Henry and Rothwell. - so not quite so bitchy eh?

Sorry don't understand, your the one who got unnecessarily personal not me. So ruffels has scored more In his career than joe and Henry so he is more attacking than them? Do you even lift bro?

 

[ttg17]

Anyone know how Payne's getting on at Blackburn? Doesn't seem to have been pulling up trees as far as I can tell - never see his name being brought up on social media or in podcasts as one of their standout performers.

 

[Sarge]

Anyone know how Payne's getting on at Blackburn? Doesn't seem to have been pulling up trees as far as I can tell - never see his name being brought up on social media or in podcasts as one of their standout performers.

Smaller fish in a bigger pond at Blackburn is Payne

 

[Ricey]

Seems to get 10/15 minutes at the end of each game. Surely would have been better for him to stay with us and get game time... But there you go!

 

[Berliner]

Seems to get 10/15 minutes at the end of each game. Surely would have been better for him to stay with us and get game time... But there you go!

Suppose he might have stayed if Pep went first, but the chemistry apparently wasn't there...

 

[tonto]

IMHO losing Payne is almost the biggest factor in our downward spiral. Seems very unfair going to blackburn who dont even need him,whose fault was that?

 

[uptheus]

We just miss anyone who can create something e.g. Hall, Rothwell and of course Payne.

 

[carefreeoufc]

I don’t know the ins and outs of what went on behind the scenes prior to his departure but I don’t think Pep was the only reason.

When Payne came in we had quite a bit of promise and some decent examples from the previous season of developing quality players.

I’m not surprised his parent club got to January and thought there must be a better team for him to train and play with. For a number of games anyone from his club watching us would have seen that he was surrounded by has beens and crocks. Unlike the season before where we had a youthful and skilled crop of players managed under Appleton.