Czechlad Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 Are we sure we are actually losing Kodjia? I mean Ivory coast have a decent amount of strikers. Kalou, Bony, Sio, Doumbia, and Kone are all decent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted December 21, 2016 Author Share Posted December 21, 2016 2 minutes ago, Czechlad said: Are we sure we are actually losing Kodjia? I mean Ivory coast have a decent amount of strikers. Kalou, Bony, Sio, Doumbia, and Kone are all decent. He has been starting for them recently, so I would imagine so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ginko Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 2 hours ago, bobzy said: Just doesn't fit our system really, does he? I was excited about his transfer and he's shown that he's certainly a very capable player, but he looks like completely the wrong signing. We should have more than one system and hopefully if Bruce gets some players in in January, particularly a couple of midfielders, he might feel more comfortable utilising multiple systems based on our opponents and/or personnel available. McCormack could easily fit into another system or we could build one around him. One thing is for sure, we should never write a player off after this length of time, especially one who has proven in the past to be lethal in this league. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Fine margins. On another day he gets hooked off after an hour. Really pleased for him, here is hoping he can find some goalscoring form from somewhere. Sounded like he had another quiet day today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted December 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2016 Hopefully Ross gets confidence and finds joy of football from this. He needed this, and so did Villa. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr_Pangloss Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Needs to kick on now and show why we paid so much for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farlz Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Was very good in that second half, most of our good attacks came through him. Hope this'll give him a big confidence boost now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dont_do_it_doug. Posted December 26, 2016 Author Share Posted December 26, 2016 Probably his best performance in a Villa shirt today. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Very happy for him. Well deserved goal second half. Him and grealish link up well together. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terrytini Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Head and shoulders above the rest ( except Grealish) in football intelligence. Glad he is finally starting. next step is to work out how to get the ball to him more, dangerous with almost every touch. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2016 I'm so glad at the reaction in here. Judging by the people around me in the Holte you'd have thought Ross had an absolute stinker! THought he did well today. Some of his flicks and through balls are very very intelligent. If we can work him into a role where we can use that he can still be a big player for us. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ramshackler Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Played through middle alot more today and we saw the benefit. His link up and cute play around the box with grealish was outstanding. Really love it if we start V Leeds with that exact line up with grealish in for Gg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 50 minutes ago, dont_do_it_doug. said: Probably his best performance in a Villa shirt today. Second half yes, he came alive. First 50 minutes I was again wondering where he fits into our team. I thought he'd get hooked when we put Ayew on so looks like he got a boost from the show of faith from SB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astonaidan Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 I will be very surprised if he doesnt turn out good for us. Its been said already but our midfield right now is shocking. If Bruce sorts it out in January we see a different player 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 40 minutes ago, terrytini said: Head and shoulders above the rest ( except Grealish) in football intelligence. Glad he is finally starting. next step is to work out how to get the ball to him more, dangerous with almost every touch. I think the answer to that may be contained within your first sentence. The trouble with McCormack is that he is a completely different type of player to all of our attacking players other than Grealish. Whilst McCormack is clever player who wants to play nice little 1-2's around the box (see our disallowed goal), Kodjia, Ayew and Adomah, are very direct, head down and go sorts, which i think McCormack has found frustrating. Today i counted at least 5 occasions in first half when he was screaming for a ball that never came. There have been times in this thread when people have pointed that out as being moody or petulant, but you really can understand his frustration at times. So for me the only way you are going to get the best out of him is by selecting people around him who play the same way, ie Grealish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted December 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2016 1 hour ago, DCJonah said: Very happy for him. Well deserved goal second half. Him and grealish link up well together. They do, and we need to try and take advantage of this against "poorer" opponents more efficiently. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeyp102 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 One of our only players who has a football brain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 Pleased for Ross, he's undoubtedly a talented player and things haven't quite worked out for him here so far. This goal can only be a good thing for him and the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mammoth10 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 3 hours ago, Stevo985 said: I'm so glad at the reaction in here. Judging by the people around me in the Holte you'd have thought Ross had an absolute stinker! THought he did well today. Some of his flicks and through balls are very very intelligent. If we can work him into a role where we can use that he can still be a big player for us. Not sure where you sit in the Holte but the number of retards in L7 that slate him is beyond belief, yes he's not reached his full potential (with us) but he's clearly got ability and as others have said is probably too clever (like Grealish) for many of his teammates, very good, mainly second half today; hope he can kick on from here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtsimonw Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 As I said in the Ayew thread, he's an intelligent footballer player, playing with a bunch of players who don't play a particularly clever game. I thought he was poor first half, improved when Grealish came on, then improved again when Ayew come on. Intelligent players are better with intelligent players around them. I'd like to see McCormack keep his starting spot and have someone like Grealish or Ayew around him, because that's how he'll thrive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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