History for Jazzy Jeff

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adidasbloke

Ryan

"Zawada isn't a great striker"
"Talay isn't good at getting the most out of his players"

Zawada has something like 12 goals and has been scoring pretty consistently over the last 10 or so games, either he's a great A-League level striker or Talay is doing a good job getting the most out of him.

Get realistic ? the quality in the A-League isn't that great for starters, but is all we have in this part of the world... yeah, Zawada is scoring goals, but to call him a great striker is ridiculous, I pointed out his strengths and weaknesses.

Pointless trying to get the best out of only one player anyway... fact is Talay isn't getting the best out of each individual, only have to analyse how poor we are playing as a team, and have given reasons why.

Our most creative player by far is Elliot... with the very good ball dribbling skills he has to beat players, he was a big asset when he moved forward quickly from the back, on those occasions we'd have good momentum going forward as a unit, for some strange reason Elliot just passes the ball around most of the time now. 

I was just pointing out the hypocrisy and contradiction in your post. And, regardless of how good or bad the league is it's about squad fit and the coach getting the best out of the player, we've seen highly rated players flop and unrated players excel.  So looking at players doesn't work.


One metric we can look at is the position a team finishes on the table versus it's relative budget, and David Dome has said that Talay has always finished above his budget.

To say my post was about hypocrisy and contradiction is nonsense.

Highly rated players are going to flop at times, as unrated players are going to excel, that happens in all sports, no matter how good a team is - my point is we're not performing well as a team, also playing in a very negative manner, which is why other teams play too much of the game in our half, constantly applying huge pressure on us, and you're clearly overrating both Zawada & Talay.

It's not difficult to gauge how good a player is, just look at how good that player is at executing all the skill sets in his position under real pressure.

I'm starting to think you're either a troll account or you just don't watch the games. You keep saying how poor we're playing (even though we are fifth), with your main qualms being with the goalscoring and chance creation in the attacking third. Let's break this down. The phoenix have scored 34 goals with an xg of 34.8. only three teams have a higher xg, and equally three teams have more goals. Now, for those playing at home theres 12 teams in the league, imagine how shark the 8 teams with less must be if we're a poor attacking team... But to be fair, goals and xg isn't the perfect metric for creativity and chance creation, that's why we have the big chance creation stat! Which the nix are sitting pretty at the top of the rankings. We are also middle of the pack when it comes to percentage of goals with an assist so, in short... You're talking out of your arse