Cam the Ram Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Won player of the year that season.Yeah so he obviously has the talent, we just need the right manager to get him playing like his old self Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cam Posted May 29, 2015 Author Share Posted May 29, 2015 Asked a friend of mine who supports Reading about him and this is what he said: "He played LCB to accommodate Hector, but was at his best when Gorkss was here when he played RCB. Can play both to a decent level tbh. Would be interesting to know what wages he gets with you, seeing as here he was on like 20k ish I believe." So it looks like we're signing another centre back who is decent on the left side, but really should be playing on the right side if we want to get the best from him Assuming he is right footed then? I preferred it when we had a left footer (minus Forsyth) playing on the left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEL Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Assuming he is right footed then?I preferred it when we had a left footer (minus Forsyth) playing on the left.He's left footed but does use right footed sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mountain Ram Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Surely it's not beyond the realms of possibility that when all a footballer has to do is train / play football they could learn to use their other foot to some degree of usefulness?!There doesn't seem to be the same fuss made about left / right footed central midfielders as we make about CBs either...but back on topic - find it odd being linked with players when we have no manager who's supposed to have the final say. The last time we dabbled without a manager we ended up with Whitbread! Shall try to give him the benefit of the doubt though if we do sign him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramesses Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 He's left footed but does use right footed sometimes.In RamNut’s youtube link it looks more like he's quite right footed and doesn’t use his left very muchhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tEgC2Q5FYXc Decent backup for Bucko maybe... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idiakez Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Is anybody else worried that we seem to signing CBs for quantity rather than quality? We had Shotton, Keogh, Buxton, Whitbread and Albentosa last year and yet we didn't have a settled partnership nor did any of them look entirely convincing. I do believe that if we were to sign a confident, commanding centre half whoever was to partner that player would look 10x better, as Keogh (who was undroppable last year) seems to spread panic across the back four. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Assuming he is right footed then?I preferred it when we had a left footer (minus Forsyth) playing on the left.Does it really matter what footed he is? I am right footed and can play LCB no problems. Our other player who plays there is also right footed and has no problems either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mostyn6 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Does it really matter what footed he is? I am right footed and can play LCB no problems. Our other player who plays there is also right footed and has no problems either.nip up to Moor Farm with a up to date CV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rynny Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 nip up to Moor Farm with a up to date CV. Was thinking that when I was writing it might be a bit too old for a trial now And not to mention unfit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEL Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 SIGN RYNNY UP ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 I'd prefer Michael Hector if we're going after a Reading CB but there you go...We could dig out the old chant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddie Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Is anybody else worried that we seem to signing CBs for quantity rather than quality? We had Shotton, Keogh, Buxton, Whitbread and Albentosa last year and yet we didn't have a settled partnership nor did any of them look entirely convincing. I do believe that if we were to sign a confident, commanding centre half whoever was to partner that player would look 10x better, as Keogh (who was undroppable last year) seems to spread panic across the back four. Bucko did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheron85 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Bucko did.That's an unfair comparison though as Bucko is the Messiah... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idiakez Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Bucko did.Meh. He was probably the best out of a bad bunch but nothing special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ambitious Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Meh. He was probably the best out of a bad bunch but nothing special.If you watch the rest of the division, I'd beg to differ.Keogh and Buxton are within the top 20, maybe 15, of this division - I assure you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheron85 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Meh. He was probably the best out of a bad bunch but nothing special.YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Idiakez Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 If you watch the rest of the division, I'd beg to differ.Keogh and Buxton are within the top 20, maybe 15, of this division - I assure you. Possibly, but they're still nothing special - as I said. Far too error prone, although so is the rest of our defence. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leicester Ram Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 Possibly, but they're still nothing special - as I said. Far too error prone, although so is the rest of our defence.The sh*ttest, laziest, most nonsensical, pure b*llocks criticism you can ever make of a CB is that they're 'too error prone'. What does it actually f*cking mean?!?Is every time we concede a goal an error? In that case, you'd only be happy with 5/6 CB partnerships in the entire world, and even then, people say Cahill/Terry are the best PL CB's of an average lot.And even then, there was a point before Bucko got injured that we'd conceded something like the 2nd or 3rd least goals in the league? Not a clue how we managed that being so bloody error prone.Where do we draw the line between a goal being a defensive error or down to the quality of the striker? Was Messi's dink against Bayern his quality shining through or Boateng being error prone? You can examine every goal to death and say what a defender could have done better. If a Bayern player had stood on the goal line where Messi eventually put his dink for 90 minutes, he'd never have scored it.Is Martin too error prone for not scoring every single shot he has?I'm 90% sure that what most people don't like about Keogh and Bucko is that some times Keogh doesn't look entirely stable on the ball, even though he is, and that neither of them are 6'4 and built like brick sh*thouses.Sorry have a worryingly Alpha-esque rant at you, but that phrasing really gets on my tits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
needles Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 While we had a thread of togetherness and round pegs in round holes, our defence notched up 8 clean sheets in 9 games. Bucko and Keogh at centre half. They're perfectly sound. We all want better, in all positions, but lets not be too critical of good honest professionals like them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deano180 Posted May 29, 2015 Share Posted May 29, 2015 The sh*ttest, laziest, most nonsensical, pure b*llocks criticism you can ever make of a CB is that they're 'too error prone'. What does it actually f*cking mean?!?Is every time we concede a goal an error? In that case, you'd only be happy with 5/6 CB partnerships in the entire world, and even then, people say Cahill/Terry are the best PL CB's of an average lot.And even then, there was a point before Bucko got injured that we'd conceded something like the 2nd or 3rd least goals in the league? Not a clue how we managed that being so bloody error prone.Where do we draw the line between a goal being a defensive error or down to the quality of the striker? Was Messi's dink against Bayern his quality shining through or Boateng being error prone? You can examine every goal to death and say what a defender could have done better. If a Bayern player had stood on the goal line where Messi eventually put his dink for 90 minutes, he'd never have scored it.Is Martin too error prone for not scoring every single shot he has?I'm 90% sure that what most people don't like about Keogh and Bucko is that some times Keogh doesn't look entirely stable on the ball, even though he is, and that neither of them are 6'4 and built like brick sh*thouses.Sorry have a worryingly Alpha-esque rant at you, but that phrasing really gets on my tits.Hope your going out for a drink tonight Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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