Just a thought i know Dave Martin who plays for the spanners very well.He is a big CAFC fan so is his family he can't get a start 4 spanners at the mo. He is very fast and has a great left foot in deadball situations. Might be worth a look?
Millwall have started playing very narrow in order to tighten midfield up due to their early poor form. Its worked a treat for them as they are now unbeaten in eight ? I doubt KJ would want to upset the applecart by using width until he feels it totally necessary. Martin is a decent player but not I think surplus to requirements at The Den just out of the current team.
Personally i think LM is a problem area as Bailey simply has to stay in the centre now.
Yeovil will give us a good indication of how Racon can fare out wide but i feel he has a tendency to go missing in away games.
We heard you the first time. Obviously he'll stay there for now but do you really think he's the answer out wide? His natural instinct is to come inside all the time.
In the late Nineties we were quite well stacked up in this role with the likes of Mortimer , Robson and Walsh but since then we do not seem to sign many genuine left footers.
Over the last ten years it has only been genuinely sorted out when Andy Reid signed. Apart from this I always felt Konchesky was a better LM than LB and but he left us partly because he believed that Curbs played him out of position and preferred Left Back . I think Basey has potential as well . His delivery up pitch at dead ball situations is impressive but as a long term solution I am unconvinced. I think Holden could have potential but maybe as an impact sub not as an integral squad member .
The other lefties were ( to my memory ) oldies or injury prone like Barnes ,Salako and Blomqvist or loans like Bouzza and Cook. Stephen Hughes failed to play for us and Curbs did not want to pay £500 000 for Julian Gray.
Otherwise we have used the likes of Thomas and Ambrose to 'cut in'.
In all I would like a genuine leftie to give the squad some balance not neccesarily to break into the side straight away.
I'd have Basey at left midfield. IMHO, he's too slow to be a defender but would provide cover for Youga when he bombs forward. He can also put in a half decent cross. Did well in that position against Norwich last year
[cite]Posted By: Valley McMoist[/cite]I'd have Basey at left midfield. IMHO, he's too slow to be a defender but would provide cover for Youga when he bombs forward. He can also put in a half decent cross. Did well in that position against Norwich last year
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Racon did very well. Think he suits the winger position as the ball seems to stick to his feet.
Yeovil will give us a good indication of how Racon can fare out wide but i feel he has a tendency to go missing in away games.
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We heard you the first time. Obviously he'll stay there for now but do you really think he's the answer out wide? His natural instinct is to come inside all the time.
In the late Nineties we were quite well stacked up in this role with the likes of Mortimer , Robson and Walsh but since then we do not seem to sign many genuine left footers.
Over the last ten years it has only been genuinely sorted out when Andy Reid signed. Apart from this I always felt Konchesky was a better LM than LB and but he left us partly because he believed that Curbs played him out of position and preferred Left Back . I think Basey has potential as well . His delivery up pitch at dead ball situations is impressive but as a long term solution I am unconvinced. I think Holden could have potential but maybe as an impact sub not as an integral squad member .
The other lefties were ( to my memory ) oldies or injury prone like Barnes ,Salako and Blomqvist or loans like Bouzza and Cook. Stephen Hughes failed to play for us and Curbs did not want to pay £500 000 for Julian Gray.
Otherwise we have used the likes of Thomas and Ambrose to 'cut in'.
In all I would like a genuine leftie to give the squad some balance not neccesarily to break into the side straight away.