After his little stint at the weekend im all for Wagstaff to start next sat. He showed pace, a urge to get forward, looked creative and (something that Sam has only done 3 times in the league) scored a goal! Don't get me wrong Sam has got alot of football in him. He has some good skill, pace etc but no finish. Obviously something Parky and the coaching staff need to work on. Perhaps Wagstaff was helped by the fact their defenders were knackerd and not at the top of their game but i think he is worth a chance. Would be nice to see another young academy product come through and do well and perhaps take the heat off of Jonjo (i think he needs it)
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Keep Sam on for 70 mins, and then sub for Waggy.
yep
What he said.
Sums it up to me that one of the better crosses of the second half on Saturday was from Burton when he found himself out on the wing, while Sam remains great at holding back from running at people and better at winning corners than delivering the killer ball.
Keep him on the bench, bring him on every so often and hopefully he'll help Sam up his game.
The talk that Sam can't cross is a myth, 9 assists last season in a struggling team, all sorts of strikers up front and he wasn't always a regular. He is frustrating, but his crossing isn't as bad as people say it is. He's not going to pick out perfect crosses from deep, but he can and does put in a few decent crosses.
Don't expect Sam to be sprinting past the left back and swinging loads of crosses in, he's only usually got Burton in there who's not a real goalscorer, Shelvey who is tall but not great in the air, Bailey who will score the occasional header if he finds space, and occasionally Racon who's not great in the air either. If we had an Iwelumo and a Darren Bent up front, fair enough, but with the players we've got it must be a big reason why Sam doesn't get loads of crosses in.
crosses don't have to be in the air, there is nothing in the rules that say you can't get to the byline, or near to it, and put a decent cross in on the floor
You have a lot more common sense and football knowledge than your old man!
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Thats not hard he is only interested in the Cricket !
I'll second that. Sam to go at it from the start for 60-75 minutes and then Waggy to takeover when the full back is cream-crackered!
Like I say, he's a bit lightweight at the moment, he wasn't born with the kind of physique Shelvey was, so it might take him a season or two to get up to the kind of fitness required. Until then, I don't see a problem starting with Sam and keeping Waggy as a back up.
Yeah, but considerably more likely to get cut out.
I don't know how old you are, but you've got a good grasp of how the game is played - better than some posters on here, lol
*ducks for cover*
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It would be nice to see Sam cross when he get's space, which all too often he just turns defenders again, but as someone said it's not like he has loads to aim in the box. If he is narrow and getting close to Burton, allowing Richardson to overlap, we've pretty much got the perfect player for this 4-5-1 formation thingamy. Sam's a hell of lot more important than most people think, and a MASSIVE mistake last season was having him in the 11 and we'd draw a few matches then we'd lose and he was dropped then we'd bloody well lose the next few matches. Keep him in, he does a lot for the team.
Great to see Waggy showing energy and verve. That is something we lacked last year the option to introduce effective pace. Let's hope he becomes that this season.
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I'll second that. Sam to go at it from the start for 60-75 minutes and then Waggy to takeover when the full back is cream-crackered![/quote]
That's the ticket - indeed I'd let it be known to Sam up front not to expect much more than an hour, - but make it clear that he is to run like fury for the whole of that time with the deliberate aim of knackering the full back.
Absolutely and his crossing ability is much understated as well - not Beckham-esque but certainly not terrible. Maybe needs to work a bit on his decision making sometimes but he's improving. He played 3 or 4 lovely little through balls in behind the Wycombe full back too for Richardson and Racon to run onto. He a vlauable asset because we can give him the ball and he'll keep. The Wallsall fan's report of Saturdays game also picked him out as our most threatening player and he 'll be marked out of some games, but that alone will make space for others.
Interview with him during which he said that after the Walsall game (when he had come on and scored) Parkinson said a few words in the dressing room.
When PP mentioned Wagstaff all the other players broke into a round of applause.
Wagstaff said what a lift that was.
I thought that is shows something very positive about the squad and its attitudes.
You can see the team spirit is high right now, everyone looks happy and there are smiles and jokes all round when we score and everyone is covering for others mistakes.
Incidently, anyone have a clue what Lloyd's weird armpit scratching dance is all about?