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Posted December 13, 2021 06:46 · last edited December 13, 2021 06:47

carlind
Hooper missing shouldn’t really be game-breaker against an NPL team, but even for the A League games he’s going to miss, its probably not as bad as it seems. He hasn’t looked that great and very much looks like he missed pre-season, like he only has one shot, which went off-target, in the past two losses and hasn’t really looked like scoring outside of that fortuitous rebound against the Mariners.

As much as it kills me to say it, Sotirio would probably do a better job, and also mean that whoever he’s paired with won’t have to carry him off the ball. Even though Talay said he’ll play a full team and he isn’t exactly one to rotate his players, I’d want to see changes from the Jets battering, like Waine, Sotirio, Pennington etc, because if you don’t get dropped after a game like that, when will you get dropped.
Outside of the Jets game where his touch (and seemingly everyone elses) was terrible, Hooper has been a massive part of our link up play when transititioning. Ball is the only other player we have that you can rely on to hold on to the ball and then move it on in the attacking third. Hasn't had as many chances as he'd probably like because he's been dropping deep and he hasn't been close enough to the goal when he needs to be.

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carlind
Hooper missing shouldn’t really be game-breaker against an NPL team, but even for the A League games he’s going to miss, its probably not as bad as it seems. He hasn’t looked that great and very much looks like he missed pre-season, like he only has one shot, which went off-target, in the past two losses and hasn’t really looked like scoring outside of that fortuitous rebound against the Mariners.

As much as it kills me to say it, Sotirio would probably do a better job, and also mean that whoever he’s paired with won’t have to carry him off the ball. Even though Talay said he’ll play a full team and he isn’t exactly one to rotate his players, I’d want to see changes from the Jets battering, like Waine, Sotirio, Pennington etc, because if you don’t get dropped after a game like that, when will you get dropped.
Outside of the Jets game where his touch (and seemingly everyone elses) was terrible, Hooper has been a massive part of our link up play when transititioning. Ball is the only other player we have that you can rely on to hold on to the ball and move it on in the attacking third. Hasn't had as many chances as he'd probably like because he's been dropping deep and he hasn't been close enough to the goal when he needs to be.