Player ratings vs smeltz united

Player ratings vs smeltz united

Paston 7.5 flawless no mistakes, instilling confidence
lockhead 3 cant cross, cant pass, is looking worse with every week
Durante 9 looking quality kept smeltz under shackles
Siggy 7.5 solid as ever, average distibution but can be forgiven for that
Manny 6.5 gave the ball away at crucial times but solid enough
Daniel 6, apart from hitting the bar ran around like a mug
Lia 6.5, solid tackling, great hack for the yellow card
Brown 7.5 high workrate closed players down well
Leo 8.5 Skinned players with easy needs to convert chances to goals
Greenacre 4.5 Did absolutely nothing... needs to start scoring goals or should be looking at a spell on the rimu
Ifill 7.5 Always class, needs to get fit and ride challenges

Costa 7 did well in limited time
Caceres 6 looked ok

Ricki 7.5 Played a 442 finally, and dominated, deserved 3 points

Wth this is OOE thread?

lol @ lochy's 3.  Taking ridiculous player hate to new levels.

locky was poor... u cannot deny that unless u watched another channel..

Thread Stealer.

everyone else did better than ok for me bar locky and greenacre who i thought had poor games.... its an opinion nothing more

Leo 8.5?Did he score?? Locky and greenacres you have to be taking the piss?

sorry mate didnt mean to steal the thread just gettin my view across and venting some steam before heading to bed!!!

Didn't bother reading the first time after seeing Lochy's 3, but saying Daniel 'ran around like a mug' is also lolworthy

Greenacre is a different story.  He put in his usual game of running around trying to do the job of a bigger and stronger man.  Benching him won't help unless there's a replacement, and the service to young Costa didn't suggest that Ricki's system currently accomodates a small, quick forward.

Speaking of the manager: the 4-4-2 obsession some posters have on this board shouldn't be an excuse for marking up Herbert's performance: if 4-5-1 is a more natural fit to his best team, then it's a matter of working out the plan of attack from that shape.  That said, the team looked motivated and worked well together in defence and build-up.  Set pieces looked better, too.  But there's still no finish.  If it was just one game of struggling to score, then "bad luck" would be the right conclusion, but as things stand, something more has to be done.

Fantastic Post. Agree with it all.

I don't think Lochhead was that bad. GCU make a lot of use of those wide attacking backs so he and Manny were put under a lot of pressure, not all of which they coped with admittedly. But they were still sound in the air and firm with their tackles.

I also love how our left back gets rated down because he doesn't cross, even though he did his job (defending, not crossing) to a good level.

what the f**k can Greenacre do when he can't get the f**king ball ???????????

he did a good job in the circumstances, he cam back numerous amounts of times and was defending with Brown, Lia.

Perhaps it was that Lochy as a fullback did it well in the first season and people just cannot get their head around the fact, (myself included), that he is not quite the same player.

Seamonster central defender is forgiven as he is fearless, plays his heart out and tackles well, (yes I look at Siggy with rose-tinted specs),  and I reckon his distribution can only improve. At this level the lack of an all singing all dancing defender can be forgiven surely?

Be interesting to see who the back 2 will be when Mckain is back, as Durante cannot be dropped the way he is playing at the mo. Unless of course Mckain shifted back into midfield to accomodate Siggy?
ForteanTimes2009-10-03 12:54:44

When Porter hit siggy in the face with a full blown shot I was surprised he got up straight away and carried on as if nothing had happened. That must have stung/hurt.

Yeah normally, you have players clutching their faces for 10 minutes like they've lost an eye or something.

Sniffle is struggling for mobility at the moment, last night he physically couldn't do what he wanted, ie push past a player. Should have been taken off at 60 minutes.

can't agree more with that, service at times to greenacre is piss poor. He makes some intelligent runs but no one can deliver a decent enough ball to reward it. he works hard which makes up for his lack of goals I reckon. He's a proven goalscorer, I reckon they will come.

you have a short memory, you forget a free header from a corner which he muffed, im not disagreeing he works his nuts off, would just be good to c him hit the net

Greenacre has been dissapointing in general and he had a bad one last night. Garry2009-10-03 17:38:30

Not sure that Costa is doing enough to land a place on the bench even...anyone know what happened to Chen?

Why? He's done nothing wrong in the limited opportunites so far.


Btw, the original post's mark of Lochy is massively harsh.

Traore is kind of like the anti thesis of Lochhead. Can't defend, but is awesome making runs going forward.
valeo2009-10-03 20:13:03

But doing nothing wrong will continue to only get us draws. We need people to do things well so we can win.

I've been away from computer access for several days. Good to see someone maintained the regular thread, though dunno about some of those ratings. Here are my very belated ones:

Why? He's done nothing wrong in the limited opportunites so far.

How do you know that? I thought that in the 10 minutes he had on the weekend he held the ball up a couple of times while having 2 defenders on him until he got support, and made an excellent run in behind the defenders which would have put him through on goal had not Ifill's pass to him been headed away by the defender.

That's a pretty useful 10 minute stint as far as I'm concerned.

Brown and Sigmund did their duty.