Kjetil Osvold's Cat
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If Forest are keeping on with the diamond, and he's not being picked in midfield would it be worth giving him a try as a roaming support striker or just as one of two general purpose forwards?
I was thinking exactly this... right after yet another one of our forward players yet again failed to get past a defender in a 1 v 1 situation. Pace causes problems, you can see that purely from Bournemouth, whose only threats were the little fast guy and a long throw.
Paterson has pace, can dribble and can score. Get him up alongside Hendo.
I was thinking exactly this... right after yet another one of our forward players yet again failed to get past a defender in a 1 v 1 situation. Pace causes problems, you can see that purely from Bournemouth, whose only threats were the little fast guy and a long throw.
Paterson has pace, can dribble and can score. Get him up alongside Hendo.
Would probably go wide on our current form....Worth a shot
Cox had a poor game today - anyone can miss chances - the 1 on 1 was disappointing again but it's not as if he just shot wildly at the goalie, he went for the corner and it just didn't come off. It wasn't his day at all, really needs a confidence boost ie a goal.
The worst thing about Cox was how much he (and DH) were offside. He clearly wasn't with it today for some reason, and looked exhausted. This was worse than missing chances because it's so avoidable, and it was disastrous for our game in general.
The problem we have is that Cox performs for us. I think we all know by now how well our forwards aid our gameplan in keeping the ball in wide positions. It would be lovely if he was knocking in 15 goals aswell, which would be a fantastic return for someone playing his role, but he's obviously not going to do this - our problem is do we sacrifice what he does bring to the team?
It's far more complicated than 'he's not scoring drop him' - Paterson looks better to me at doing something decisive with the ball - but his play is high risk and not necessarily what we need before the rest of the team catch him up - Billy wants the forwards to hold the ball up quite a lot, "decisive players" as I call them don't keep the ball, they try and do something else with it.
We just need to get these guys confidence up and make them more clinical - I wouldn't want to see us change our gameplan because I think it works.
PS did someone say Yeovil were poo...? [cringes] rod for our own backs. No team in this league is poo - didn't you watch last season?
I called for this in the middle of the Bournemouth game. I think he'd do well.
He's very positive and pacey, looks intelligent and confident on the ball, runs at defenders, and his shooting ain't bad either.
I think if we are going to have a genuine chance of promotion we need to get in a decent striker instead of trying to get more wingers.
we've been here before where we try to make do and hope we can scrape through the playoffs (too many times)