| The Egeli conundrum 10:52 - Jan 21 with 3181 views | portmanking |
With Burns looking sharp, McAteer putting in arguably his brightest substitute cameo, what do we do with Sindre?
With Nunez possibly out for a game or two, do we move Sindre inside into the central 10 with the experience of Burns beside him? It could be a decent opportunity to see what he's made of. I think he could add more of a goal threat to us as a central 10. |  | | |  |
| The Egeli conundrum on 10:59 - Jan 21 with 2486 views | NthQldITFC |
A good idea I think, but probably as first change there rather than from start of games. I think he's been looking relatively nervous and indecisive more recently, perhaps worrying too much about his instructions and not playing (or striking the ball!) as freely as he was at the start of the season.
Totally understandable, and a natural part of his education given age and new country, but I think he might be better coming off the bench in games where we've already got a stranglehold and he has a little less pressure on him.
If Nunez is out though, he might well be the best option to start there, particularly if Clarke is starting on the left. |  |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:01 - Jan 21 with 2468 views | billlm |
We're away at a half decent sheffield side not sure that's the place to do that with egli,
He doesn't really cut it on the right for sure, |  | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:11 - Jan 21 with 2357 views | Mookamoo |
Would love to see Walle Egeli at 10.
Nunez only really got started there because of injuries and we pretty much stumbled on how important that type of player is at 10 and not at 8.
Szmodics and Akpom didn't really work. Walle Egeli will have the same quick thinking, those dinks round the corner etc. |  | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:12 - Jan 21 with 2347 views | nrb1985 |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:01 - Jan 21 by billlm |
We're away at a half decent sheffield side not sure that's the place to do that with egli,
He doesn't really cut it on the right for sure, |
Agree with your sentiments but ultimately, what options do we have if Nunez is unfit?
KM clearly doesn't rate Clarke there, SS has been hopeless there and Akpom hasn't been much better and is probably injured.
Taylor maybe and have 433? [Post edited 21 Jan 11:13]
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:17 - Jan 21 with 2281 views | NedPlimpton |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:12 - Jan 21 by nrb1985 |
Agree with your sentiments but ultimately, what options do we have if Nunez is unfit?
KM clearly doesn't rate Clarke there, SS has been hopeless there and Akpom hasn't been much better and is probably injured.
Taylor maybe and have 433? [Post edited 21 Jan 11:13]
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Ridiculously harsh to say SS has been hopeless there. He's barely played in that position for us in the championship before his injury, and when he was playing there it was at the start of the season with almost a whole new team around him |  | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:17 - Jan 21 with 2279 views | Churchman |
Agree with this. He has all the attributes to play at 10 so why not? The only issue is that given age, experience, new country, new league he is bound to take a bit of time to even begin to fulfil his potential. He’s nailed on to become a top player, from what I’ve seen of him, but not ‘doing a job’ on the right.
If Nunez is out, why not start him, see how it goes and sub him after 60 mins? |  | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:20 - Jan 21 with 2245 views | homer_123 |
I think KM has already said his future is more central.
He has the attributes to play there or, at least, is developing them.
That said, it's a really, really tough role to play, he needs a bit more experience there, for me. I would like to see him get game time there, for sure. |  |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:21 - Jan 21 with 2241 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:17 - Jan 21 by Churchman |
Agree with this. He has all the attributes to play at 10 so why not? The only issue is that given age, experience, new country, new league he is bound to take a bit of time to even begin to fulfil his potential. He’s nailed on to become a top player, from what I’ve seen of him, but not ‘doing a job’ on the right.
If Nunez is out, why not start him, see how it goes and sub him after 60 mins? |
Why is he nailed on ? |  |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:23 - Jan 21 with 2218 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
We need to try something. He does not look like a right winger at all.
Looks more like a 10 or even a number 9 long term. | |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:23 - Jan 21 with 2205 views | billlm |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:12 - Jan 21 by nrb1985 |
Agree with your sentiments but ultimately, what options do we have if Nunez is unfit?
KM clearly doesn't rate Clarke there, SS has been hopeless there and Akpom hasn't been much better and is probably injured.
Taylor maybe and have 433? [Post edited 21 Jan 11:13]
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In his brief cameo taylor looked ok,
Where Sammi was playing earlier as a 10,
All be it not great but the teams evolved and if he's over his injuries he may be better, won't have the guile of nunez but his work rates off the scale, | | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:24 - Jan 21 with 2203 views | tractorboy1978 |
I think there are a couple of directions McKenna could go in with a couple of the players, not just Egeli but Nunez and Akpom/Szmodics too. It'll be interesting to see what business we do before the end of the window as guess that'll shape where players fit in until the end of the season.
Will we sign an 8?
Will we sign a 10?
Will we sign a striker?
Will Szmodics go?
Can we send Akpom back? [Post edited 21 Jan 11:24]
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:26 - Jan 21 with 2172 views | Guthrum |
Rotation, rotation, rotation. Keep things fresh, keep Burns fit, devastate opponents with the power and speed we can bring on to the wings after already battering them for an hour or so. Three options are better than two, having the squad space.
Walle Egeli can also work in the centre and, in any case, is very young and still developing. |  |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:30 - Jan 21 with 2113 views | AVJones |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:21 - Jan 21 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
Why is he nailed on ? |
I find him interesting. If we’d paid 5 million for him, I suspect a lot of fans would be questioning about him. Because we paid so much, and were told he was the bees knees, there’s been a lot of buy-in that he has massive potential. I haven’t seen it. Moments, yes, but not a star in the making.
He’s had half a season now, the team are playing well, it should be his time. I’d love to see him grab a game and dominate it. | | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:31 - Jan 21 with 2104 views | Churchman |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:21 - Jan 21 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
Why is he nailed on ? |
He has heart, build, skill, awareness of others, a good passer of the ball and possesses a heck of a shot. He even won a header or two on Saturday. In other words I believe he’s nailed on to become a a top player because he has the attributes.
Clearly given we were in a competition to sign him, others think so too. | | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:35 - Jan 21 with 2036 views | LankHenners |
Think it's been on the cards for a while that we'll start looking at him in the middle at some point, and wonder if we have now reached it. Can understand playing him wide up to now as it's given him more space and time to get settled in, but think he looks more dangerous when he picks the ball up in central positions and his attributes look to suit it much more. |  |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:36 - Jan 21 with 2023 views | _CliveBaker_ |
McAteer has looked lively in his last few appearances. There's definitely something there, we just paid too much for him, but that's by the bye. Both he and Burns are far more suited to the role, we look so much better with a natural right sided player there who can go on the outside and get in behind the full back.
Its not a reflection on Walle-Egeli, its just not his game. He's never looked comfortable out there and he's far too easy to defend against. On the left we've had Philogene or Clarke who can go both ways and are so clinical when they work some space, Egeli doesn't have that to his game. I'm not sure I really see him as a 10 either as plenty have suggested, he looks every bit a #9 to me and he could be a very good one at that. |  | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:40 - Jan 21 with 1976 views | TractorJack |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:17 - Jan 21 by NedPlimpton |
Ridiculously harsh to say SS has been hopeless there. He's barely played in that position for us in the championship before his injury, and when he was playing there it was at the start of the season with almost a whole new team around him |
He even had a really good game there against Norwich just off the top my head. |  | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:42 - Jan 21 with 1948 views | nrb1985 |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:17 - Jan 21 by NedPlimpton |
Ridiculously harsh to say SS has been hopeless there. He's barely played in that position for us in the championship before his injury, and when he was playing there it was at the start of the season with almost a whole new team around him |
So you're agreeing with me then?!
You're simply just giving me the context as to why he hasn't done well there. Which I agree with by the way.
Better way of phrasing maybe "hopelessly unsuited" to that role? | | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:47 - Jan 21 with 1910 views | NedPlimpton |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:42 - Jan 21 by nrb1985 |
So you're agreeing with me then?!
You're simply just giving me the context as to why he hasn't done well there. Which I agree with by the way.
Better way of phrasing maybe "hopelessly unsuited" to that role? |
What about your post have I agreed with?
FWIW I think SS is probably our best option there if Nunez is injured. I think all of us would like to see Sindre eventually grow into that position but maybe drip-fed over time not coming straight in as a starter | | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:48 - Jan 21 with 1890 views | Mookamoo |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:23 - Jan 21 by billlm |
In his brief cameo taylor looked ok,
Where Sammi was playing earlier as a 10,
All be it not great but the teams evolved and if he's over his injuries he may be better, won't have the guile of nunez but his work rates off the scale, |
Might be that Szmodics will be better at 10 with Taylor behind him doing a lot of the grunty work.
Think it was the case earlier in the season that Cajuste was still a little off the pace and Szmodics was working too hard closing down and not concentrating on hitting the spaces when we won the ball back. If Cajuste and Taylor are now that much better, then it might be that Szmodics will be more effective.
Taylor at 8 and Szmodics at 10 is fine, but seems a bit industrial compared to Nunez there. Walle Egeli will be more fun to watch. | | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:55 - Jan 21 with 1811 views | Swansea_Blue |
A few of us talked about this on an earlier thread. I think there a lot of value in looking at how we’ve handled other youngsters like Hutch (someone else mentioned that as a parallel). KM’s quite happy to ‘drop’ players out for a while to give them time to develop with less pressure on them. We may see this now with Egeli making more sub appearances, whatever position he ends up in.
I’m surprised we’ve pigeon holed him into that RW role (albeit a common approach with youngsters to start them out wide while they learn the game). When you look at his goals reel, more are from central or LW positions. So yes, I agree it would be interesting to see him centrally. |  |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 11:55 - Jan 21 with 1810 views | TractorJack |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:48 - Jan 21 by Mookamoo |
Might be that Szmodics will be better at 10 with Taylor behind him doing a lot of the grunty work.
Think it was the case earlier in the season that Cajuste was still a little off the pace and Szmodics was working too hard closing down and not concentrating on hitting the spaces when we won the ball back. If Cajuste and Taylor are now that much better, then it might be that Szmodics will be more effective.
Taylor at 8 and Szmodics at 10 is fine, but seems a bit industrial compared to Nunez there. Walle Egeli will be more fun to watch. |
You could even go for SS on the left (he moved out there when Young came on last night) and Clarke at 10 | | | |
| The Egeli conundrum on 12:00 - Jan 21 with 1758 views | SheffordBlue |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:36 - Jan 21 by _CliveBaker_ |
McAteer has looked lively in his last few appearances. There's definitely something there, we just paid too much for him, but that's by the bye. Both he and Burns are far more suited to the role, we look so much better with a natural right sided player there who can go on the outside and get in behind the full back.
Its not a reflection on Walle-Egeli, its just not his game. He's never looked comfortable out there and he's far too easy to defend against. On the left we've had Philogene or Clarke who can go both ways and are so clinical when they work some space, Egeli doesn't have that to his game. I'm not sure I really see him as a 10 either as plenty have suggested, he looks every bit a #9 to me and he could be a very good one at that. |
I'd quite like to see Walle Egeli have a few more apprearances from the bench. The players coming off the bench often have more space to work in, particularly if the opposition are chasing the game and have been run in to the ground by the starting 11. When he has come off the bench he's tended naturally to drift more centrally as the game becomes stretched and this suits him more than hugging the touch line. | |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 12:03 - Jan 21 with 1719 views | homer_123 |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:36 - Jan 21 by _CliveBaker_ |
McAteer has looked lively in his last few appearances. There's definitely something there, we just paid too much for him, but that's by the bye. Both he and Burns are far more suited to the role, we look so much better with a natural right sided player there who can go on the outside and get in behind the full back.
Its not a reflection on Walle-Egeli, its just not his game. He's never looked comfortable out there and he's far too easy to defend against. On the left we've had Philogene or Clarke who can go both ways and are so clinical when they work some space, Egeli doesn't have that to his game. I'm not sure I really see him as a 10 either as plenty have suggested, he looks every bit a #9 to me and he could be a very good one at that. |
I know that wide right role is one of creativity and scoring etc. but KM's off the ball work, tracking back, interceptions, work rate, tackling etc. was superb last night.
I'd like to see him translate that into the creative side - that said, I think he had a goal bound shot cleared near post?
I like a lot of KM's work. | |
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| The Egeli conundrum on 12:08 - Jan 21 with 1643 views | SitfcB |
| The Egeli conundrum on 11:12 - Jan 21 by nrb1985 |
Agree with your sentiments but ultimately, what options do we have if Nunez is unfit?
KM clearly doesn't rate Clarke there, SS has been hopeless there and Akpom hasn't been much better and is probably injured.
Taylor maybe and have 433? [Post edited 21 Jan 11:13]
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If Nunez is injured then get CC10 back. |  |
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