Stevo985 Posted December 26, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 26, 2016 1 hour ago, Mammoth10 said: 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. K7 and the reactions are similar. To be honest the guys who sit immediately to my left are genuinely ruining some games for me. They are unbelievably negative. I mean fair enough, you can do what you want at a game. But they are so loud and so negative it really gets on my tits. Today they spent the final 10 minutes just moaning and shouting about Gabby. I get it, nobody likes gabby and I agree he shouldn't be on the pitch. But we're winning. Cheer the **** up! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted December 26, 2016 Share Posted December 26, 2016 4 minutes ago, Stevo985 said: K7 and the reactions are similar. To be honest the guys who sit immediately to my left are genuinely ruining some games for me. They are unbelievably negative. I mean fair enough, you can do what you want at a game. But they are so loud and so negative it really gets on my tits. Today they spent the final 10 minutes just moaning and shouting about Gabby. I get it, nobody likes gabby and I agree he shouldn't be on the pitch. But we're winning. Cheer the **** up! I'm in k7 and i agree, they were doing my nut it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dodgyknees Posted December 27, 2016 Share Posted December 27, 2016 Before we give up on RMc I'd like to see how he does with a solid midfield behind him. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AVTuco Posted December 29, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2016 Was lively when he came on. Want to see more of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poitier Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 He made a good contribution tonight, a step in the right direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HanoiVillan Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 I wasn't impressed. Normally this is the other way round, and I'm the one defending him. Weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keener window-cleaner Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 (edited) I can't believe why he doesn't start the games. He is such an intelligent player. Makes a lot of good runs, is often available, hardy ever gives the ball away and just contributes so much. In comparison, Grealish and Ayew tends to hold on to the ball for too long and doesn't really contribute to any good rythm in our play. It seems as if the other players just stands still and watches what they will do when they have the ball. McCormack on the other hand always seems to choose the right option. If Kodjia would have passed the ball he would have had two goals tonight. I would say that he is by far our best all round player. And evidently he scores a lot of goals if he is given the chance. Bruce mentioned something about his fitness level after the last game, the way he ran in the second half it doesn't seem to be a problem, though Bruce of course know that best. Anyhow, a half fit McCormack contributes more than the others beeing 100%. Edited December 29, 2016 by Keener window-cleaner 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillaChris Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 Was really surprised he didn't start given it was his old club and he finally scored the other day....given SB's comments over his fitness you can only conclude he didn't think RMC was up to starting twice in 3 days. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 29, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2016 You can tell he has talent, we just need to find a way to fit him into the side if we want to keep him. The way we play right now doesn't work for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keener window-cleaner Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 1 minute ago, Stevo985 said: You can tell he has talent, we just need to find a way to fit him into the side if we want to keep him. The way we play right now doesn't work for him. Grealish played as a second striker in the first half, would have been the perfect position for McCormack, as he showed in the second half. We should be building the team around him. Kodjia as the main striker and McCormack in a free role behind. The only worrying thing is that they don't seem to go very well together. I don't know how many times now I have seen McCormack make frustrated gestures and been screaming at Kodjia because he didn't pass - and quite rightly so. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted December 29, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 29, 2016 He was also getting frustrated at Kodjia today for not going up for headers. Ross went up for one and tried to flick it to Kodjia, and you could see him gesturing afterwards as if to say "Why am I the one going up for flick ons to you?!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest av1 Posted December 29, 2016 Share Posted December 29, 2016 You can see how frustrated he gets with Kodjia, and rightfully so imo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Villarocker Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I noticed tonight that two or three times he was instructing Kodjia to move more. I've a feeling that playing alongside Kodjia frustrates him because he has a football brain whereas Kodjia is very selfish. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KJT123 Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I thought he played very well when he came on. Some nice little flicks and also worked very hard down the channels. Got inside down the right hand side after stealing possession and played a great ball in that was tipped over by Green. Probably deserves some starts now over Ayew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LockStockVilla Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 Once Ayew and Kodjia are off to AFCON, I'd like for us to try out McCormack and Gestede up top together (assuming we don't sell Gestede right away). I think McCormack could benefit from Gestede's ability to win aerial battles and get flick ons to him. Also, Gestede is a lot less selfish and 9/10 would pass the ball up for a teammate in a better scoring position, imo. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DevonIsAPlaceOnEarth Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 19 minutes ago, LockStockVilla said: Once Ayew and Kodjia are off to AFCON, I'd like for us to try out McCormack and Gestede up top together (assuming we don't sell Gestede right away). I think McCormack could benefit from Gestede's ability to win aerial battles and get flick ons to him. Also, Gestede is a lot less selfish and 9/10 would pass the ball up for a teammate in a better scoring position, imo. Would be interesting to see. Given the way we lined up tonight and with Gestede off, I suspect it'll be a front two of Grealish and McCormack. That would be quite interesting as they having good footballing brains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 he played well when he came on. as mentioned in a strange way that Kodjia is probably our best striker I think a Gestede/McCormack partnership is our best attack going forward especially with Adomah/Grealish/Bacuna supplying them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newry_Villan Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 I hope he gave Kodija an earful after the game. He seemed very frustrated with him. It's not the first game I've seen RMC get frustrated with him either. We have talented player being let down by a greedy Kodija. Big Rudy and RMC up front while Kodija is away. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VILLAMARV Posted December 30, 2016 Share Posted December 30, 2016 4 hours ago, LockStockVilla said: Once Ayew and Kodjia are off to AFCON, I'd like for us to try out McCormack and Gestede up top together (assuming we don't sell Gestede right away). I think McCormack could benefit from Gestede's ability to win aerial battles and get flick ons to him. Also, Gestede is a lot less selfish and 9/10 would pass the ball up for a teammate in a better scoring position, imo. Well, as Lambert would say, He'd give it a right good go! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tinker Posted December 30, 2016 VT Supporter Share Posted December 30, 2016 Ross and Jack could work, Ross could improve jack's movement off the ball with the type of coaching Ross gives Kodja. For me he has to start he's our most afective forward Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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