Think he's upped his game in the past two games. Prdew said: "Andy’s been our best player in our first 10 games," said. "He’s in a good place at the minute and if we keep him fit and well I think we’ll go close.
"I look back at when we got relegated and we didn’t have him at all and I wonder if we’d have made it if we had."
I'm not sure he's been our best player, and i'm not sure we would of stayed up, but he definately looks like a player enjoying his football at the minute.
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He is certainly influential and he seems to be taking the captaincy seriously. I noticed him go to the ref and point at his wrist a couple of times when Muller was timewasting at goal kicks in the second half.
I'd always held my own at the higher level and been invited to schools of excellence etc but never quite had what it took to stand out - by dropping a couple of divisions I was suddenly the main man, all the play came through me, I captained the side and we won the league. I had more fun, enjoyed my football more and had more of a sense of achievement from that year than any other - on a slightly different scale I reckon Andy Reid is feeling just like that at the moment!
Who would you say has been our best player then? Personally i think Reid is by far our best player and one of the top 5 players in this league. Everything goes through him and without him we'd be a much poorer side.
wait two mins and i'll have a thread up
If we recognise that he's at the very least our main influential player, you would think other club's managers would have targeted to close him down - like Murphy was targeted and closed down a couple of seasons ago.
Or is our advantage that we have other players who can influence a game equally effectively?
He doesn't seem the type to be fair, so fingers crossed.
Barnsley's goal on Saturday is an example. Is that down to Reidy?
The right hand side has looked far better balanced whoever has played there.
Having said that I think questions could be asked of both Sodje and Bougy re Barnsley's goal. Sodje was outmuscled and Bougy didn't react.
The difficulty is, do you drop ZZ to accomodate him in the middle or play a different formation?
A centre 3 of Semedo, ZZ and Reid with Thomas and Sam on the flanks.
I certainly wouldn't drop ZZ at the moment.
I quite like 4-5-1/4-3-3 but Pards seems to like 2 up front.
For a championship squad, that's a hell of a lot of options. Whether you think some of those are good enough in those positions is up for debate.
I think you'll find that it was Mills who failed to clear it.
Personally I think we are all getting a bit too anal about the defence. I still think defences take a while to gel and also the midfield needs to learn to support the defence and, at one nil with a few minutes to go, so does the attack. Why for instance was Big Chris putting the corner flag back when he could have made a contribution in our half. As a balance to this, though keeping the ball and playing in their half will always stop goals coming as they don't have the ball. It takes a while to hone down these issues. I think the team has done bloody well, with all the changes to be 2nd after 10 games.
The difficulty is, do you drop ZZ to accomodate him in the middle or play a different formation?[/quote]
Er, hello? We are second in the table and unbeaten in 8 league games so why change anything? Reid is probably the best footballer in this division, a real class player. Of course, he is not an up and down merchant like, say, Shaun Newton, but he is a ball player of very high class which more than makes up for his lack of defensive ability.
As for Thomas offering more down the left than Reidy, well, that is almost unbelievable. Pards made Reidy captain because he drives the team on and is an inspirational player. Thomas was dropped for being a self-obsessed twat.
No brainer for me, Reidy to stay just where he is on the left of midfield with a license to roam. Of course that exposes the left-hand side to some degree but his other attributes more than make up for that.
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