Said the above in response to a direct question from a reporter in the post-match press conference.
The way he said it intimated that Dickson is not leaving the club anytime soon, which indicates that he might finally see him as part of his 1st team squad plans.
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Doesn't contribute....who an earth ever said that?
But Burton earned his crust tonight - and just needs a pacy player to play off him.
Burton was very good tonight. MOTM in my opinion.
Burton and Dickson could be the way forward.
But it's happened so gotta get on with it. Compare Burton's performance tonight with Grays............
I'd play him on the last-man and Burton a bit deeper, we really need to win games not get draws and to my mind its probably worth losing the odd game 2-0 chasing a win if you win another two games adopting the same approach.
He needs to play off the shoulder of the last defender, Darren Bent style - as long as he looks across the line first to not get caught offside
i'm usually someone who sticks up for Gray, but he was poor and anonymous tonight.
Burton was much better than Gray. If we get a goalscorer, whether that's Dickson or not, alongside him and win a few games he'll look like a useful player.
Watching Dickson, you could understand some the of the issues about him not closing players down etc, but as others have said what he did bring was some pace and the threat of being able to run on to through balls.
He's a totally different option to the other two, and will give defenders something different to think about.
He chased down a long ball out of defence with two Palace players around him. Looked like he was going to take it to the corner flag but stopped it, foot on ball, on the touch line maybe 18 yards out. Waited for the two defenders to close him down then flicked it between them and ran off into the box. Good low cross across the 6 yard box the defender did well the clear as Burton was waiting behind him for a tap in.
Unfortunately, the situation when he came on (i.e. Palace pumping the ball from defence to upfront in one fell swoop) did him no favours at all.
He looked like a lazy f*cker who would not chase down the ball or run the line as was required of him. I know that's not his game and in other circumstances it may have been different, but I can understand why Kins/Parky were balling at him. If that was M.Bent with that attitude we would be baying for blood.
Howver, excellent bit of skill at the end to create the chance and I really would like to see him up front with one of Burton or Gray.
Of absolutely no relevance now but I personally dont think he would.
I doubt that Curbishley would have ever bought him in the first place. How often did he buy non-league players?
Like to see Dicko start next game with Burton (who put himself about very well) . Gray contributed little and if we are going to give ourselves even a faint outside chance, we can't rely on midfield to provide all the goals. Strikers have to chip in with a decent proportion of them and Dicko is the man most likely in that department - by far.
I'd also like to see Dicko and Shelvey on the pitch together. Uncle keeps telling us they have a really good understanding but I don't think we've ever been allowed to see it yet in the first team!
Locked on fact in my humble opinion.