Whilst editing the highlights from the game I have to say I thought Mooney actually had a very good game.
There were several times he spun off his marker very cleverly, he was unlucky to get knocked out the way by the gills keeper on another occasion when he hopefully would have scored, yes he missed a one on one in the second half but the goal was world class, if you havnt seen it check out the way he drags the ball from one foot to another before netting with an unstoppable shot and there was another moment when he linked up excellently with Sam and Sodje with the latters shot going straight at the keeper.
At the time I thought he was wrong to raise his hand to his ear when he scored as I feel that in a lot of the games he has been very dissapointing and warranted critism but this was a very good performance. So whats the problem? He is obviously inconsistant which is why he is not in the Reading team presently but surely any footballer who can score the type of goal he did on saturday has genuine ability.
Based on that performance and goal do you not feel that he is worth a punt and with a bit of coaching he will be a useful signing if he can show more consistancy and composure on a regular basis. But after some of the treatment he has received of late such as being booed before kick off and at half time on Saturday, would a player really want to commit himself to a club where he has been targeted for abuse. As far as "a bit of coaching" is concerned, this is an area we need to address and get in a coach with proven goalscoring experience.
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As Parky said he is very inexperienced at league level and would not be too expensive. Seems to like it here and weighs in with the odd goal.
I still compare him to Andy Hunt in that he doesn't have much pace or strength but he is very intelligent as a footballer - probably borne out of playing to his strengths!
If he had an intelligent and mobile strike partner he would score more goals too I think - especially with someone like Shelvey behind them as he is able to pick out a pass.
With his limitations physically and generally not being a great finisher he's a decent player in this league and at the moment nothing more. Can see why he's nowhere near the Reading team at the moment. Don't agree with all the "how is he a professional footballer" though, he's not great but he's doing ok in this league.
just lacking composure in front of goal, like i said we need a coach in with proven goalscoring ability. would say Killer but the game has changed since then and beer is no longer considered an acceptable reward
nor me but 15 would be good providing the other striker weighed in with the same
Those polls mean, NOTHING as one person can sit there and click it over, over and over again.
I'd quite like to see Mooney and Jonjo in the same team, think it could prove quite dangerous.
for who..us or them :-)
yes tho.agreed
Nice to agree with you for once Stu :-)
Mooney's goal was an absolute beauty, one of our best this season. If he can add consistency to his game he'd be a good League 1 player. I could say the same about several of our players.
I can see why people make this argument, but it's not one that I agree with. I know Parky isn't the greatest manager in the world, but in my eyes we have several players with technical flaws, and no amount of motivation and good man management is going to change that. These technical deficiencies, coupled with our inconsistent individual performances, is the reason we're struggling a little bit at the moment.
Can't argue with that, choice.
I know some will say good coaching will help, but these aren't young players coming through, these are the players who have big weaknesses in their game and are only a few years off their peak. In the case of Burton, Llera and Richardson, they're somewhere around their peak already and Dailly had his peak as a Premier League player years ago.
Or maybe they need to motivate themselves and stop making silly mistakes.
They don't appear to have the same high levels of confidence they did early on but if think back to the first game of the season v Wycombe we were flying and in total control until they scored and our players confidence and our game went to pieces.
Right now we have a lot of good (for this level) players lacking confidence IMHO so they take an extra touch or the safe option rather than the more adventurous attacking football we have played before.
Yes, motivation is down to Parky and Kinsella as well but it also has to come from the players themselves as does application. The closing down for the Gills first goal was non-existent and no one tracks Birchham as he makes his run. That's not Parky's fault, that is just slack play.
Overall the buck stops with the manager and Parky needs to get the players playing but the players themselves can't avoid a lot, if not most, of the blame for what actually happens on the pitch.
Mooney is still a bit of an enigma for me. He is very very lightweight and I suppose at his age that isn't going to change.
He would help himself a little if he didn't go looking for cheap freekicks. I think he goes to ground very easily.
I've said before in other threads that he hasn't looked the same player since the injury. He seems a yard short of pace.
If some Premiership primadonna did that, then the TV muppet show pundits would never stop blathering on and on about it.
I'd say that all 3 are lightweight.
As I said I don't think he has been the same player since the injury. Had high hopes during his first loan spell and the getting knocked off the ball so easily was never really an issue for me.
I was really meaning if you put either of those two up front, they'd look even more lightweight than they do now with big centre backs challenging them. He is lightweight but not so much that he can't make up for it in other ways, if he's on form.