| The Kyle Edwards connundrum 13:29 - May 6 with 2248 views | STYG |
I know there's been suggestion of him being a left wing back and McKenna getting him proficient in the defensive arts, but it seems to me that it would be a lot easier in working on his final pass and finishing and playing him in the Celina role.
Bersant will hopefully be back and that gives us Celina and Chaplin either side of the striker, with Aluko presumably as back up on the right. I'd love to see Edwards do the same on the left. If Celina isn't back then that position is up for grabs.
I keep thinking what if that screamer had gone in at Burton. Would he have hit the ground running? At Cheltenham he was absolutely obscene. He looked like a footballer playing amongst kids the way he picked the ball up and went past everyone. His final decision was far from the best but you could see just how much he could hurt teams.
He seems the sort that would be helpful against teams that sit deep because there's so much chance of a risk of winning free kicks or penalties with the way he plays and he's also electric when we win the ball back and the opposition is further up.
If McKenna can unlock his potential he has the possibility to be one of the most exciting players we've seen for years because you can see he has so much ability, but the fact he wasn't in the 18 on so many occasions when fit shows that he's also quite a way off ever delivering on it.
His first half against Cheltenham though. I was constantly laughing at how nobody could get near him. The longer he went without a goal or assist the more anonymous he became and also felt he suffered a lot from our problems going the other way and not being able to play his natural game. He's a young kid that probably needs a shoulder around him.
Very Gio like at times, just without the goals or asissts, which I say is the bit that needs to be coached, not the ability to defend. [Post edited 6 May 2022 13:31]
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 13:38 - May 6 with 2177 views | RobTheMonk |
I'm not really sure where this Edwards as a LWB has come from.
I agree that he'd be an interesting option in that forward playmaker role though. |  | | |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 13:48 - May 6 with 2113 views | Fixed_It |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 13:38 - May 6 by RobTheMonk |
I'm not really sure where this Edwards as a LWB has come from.
I agree that he'd be an interesting option in that forward playmaker role though. |
He had been training as a wing-back before his injury apparently. |  |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 13:53 - May 6 with 2086 views | RobTheMonk |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 13:48 - May 6 by Fixed_It |
He had been training as a wing-back before his injury apparently. |
Ahh that explains it. | | | |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 14:07 - May 6 with 2028 views | Metal_Hacker |
This guy given the right coaching could be superb IMHO
Has the ability in bundles it's just the final bit
Really hope he comes back flying next season |  |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 14:29 - May 6 with 1947 views | jayessess |
The longer he went without a goal contribution, the more it played on him. I can well believe that a pre-season and a reset will do him a lot of good.
Hope so, because a player with his dribbling ability would absolutely take us to another level right now. |  |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 14:33 - May 6 with 1931 views | TRUE_BLUE123 |
I said similar about him playing in one of those 10s a while back. I agree with everything you have said
He does something which nobody in our teams can do, the way he beats people so easily is crazy to watch. Just needs to work on his end product. Hes still only 24 plenty of time to learn.
And that Cheltenham game, ridiculous. |  |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum (n/t) on 14:39 - May 6 with 1912 views | markchips |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 14:33 - May 6 by TRUE_BLUE123 |
I said similar about him playing in one of those 10s a while back. I agree with everything you have said
He does something which nobody in our teams can do, the way he beats people so easily is crazy to watch. Just needs to work on his end product. Hes still only 24 plenty of time to learn.
And that Cheltenham game, ridiculous. |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum (n/t) on 15:02 - May 6 with 1817 views | markchips |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum (n/t) on 14:39 - May 6 by markchips |
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My previous post sums up his contribution so far. | | | |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 15:47 - May 6 with 1702 views | NthQldITFC |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 14:29 - May 6 by jayessess |
The longer he went without a goal contribution, the more it played on him. I can well believe that a pre-season and a reset will do him a lot of good.
Hope so, because a player with his dribbling ability would absolutely take us to another level right now. |
Re. your first sentence: I think that was a disease with a fairly high R rate which passed through several of our attacking players this year. I trust that the McKenna vaccine and injection of two new strikers will completely wipe it out. |  |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 16:44 - May 6 with 1565 views | Darth_Koont |
To be fair, Burns really doesn’t have a lot of defending to do in his role. Credit to JD but we probably have a decent enough defensive safety net behind Edwards in Edmundson or Burgess to try similar.
I think the wingback role gives Burns space ahead of him to attack which I think is the key benefit. That may also help Edwards although that space is down the side of the defense and beyond the opposing fullback (which Burns loves). So perhaps the real adaptation for Edwards is to be more comfortable going outside the defender rather than cutting inside.
Fascinating to see if we try it. I fear though that with Penney not 100% trusted and then players like Humphreys and KVY covering that Edwards doesn’t help solve the left-side just raises another question. I reckon we’ll go for a proven specialist as Plan A as it really was our Achilles heel for too much of the season. |  |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 17:18 - May 6 with 1496 views | jayessess |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 16:44 - May 6 by Darth_Koont |
To be fair, Burns really doesn’t have a lot of defending to do in his role. Credit to JD but we probably have a decent enough defensive safety net behind Edwards in Edmundson or Burgess to try similar.
I think the wingback role gives Burns space ahead of him to attack which I think is the key benefit. That may also help Edwards although that space is down the side of the defense and beyond the opposing fullback (which Burns loves). So perhaps the real adaptation for Edwards is to be more comfortable going outside the defender rather than cutting inside.
Fascinating to see if we try it. I fear though that with Penney not 100% trusted and then players like Humphreys and KVY covering that Edwards doesn’t help solve the left-side just raises another question. I reckon we’ll go for a proven specialist as Plan A as it really was our Achilles heel for too much of the season. |
Edwards' primary value probably wouldn't be that you line up 3-4-3 with him at LWB and Burns at RWB every week. It's options, I think?
A LWB who goes past people when the opposition are defending deep.
A Number 10 that's a threat on the counter attack if the other team try to keep a high line.
A RWB who can straight swap for Burns if he's injured.
A proper winger if you want to go 4-4-2 for a bit.
A rotation option for the attacking midfielders. | |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 19:04 - May 6 with 1341 views | HighgateBlue |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 16:44 - May 6 by Darth_Koont |
To be fair, Burns really doesn’t have a lot of defending to do in his role. Credit to JD but we probably have a decent enough defensive safety net behind Edwards in Edmundson or Burgess to try similar.
I think the wingback role gives Burns space ahead of him to attack which I think is the key benefit. That may also help Edwards although that space is down the side of the defense and beyond the opposing fullback (which Burns loves). So perhaps the real adaptation for Edwards is to be more comfortable going outside the defender rather than cutting inside.
Fascinating to see if we try it. I fear though that with Penney not 100% trusted and then players like Humphreys and KVY covering that Edwards doesn’t help solve the left-side just raises another question. I reckon we’ll go for a proven specialist as Plan A as it really was our Achilles heel for too much of the season. |
It would've been useful to have tried it in the last few games of the season, but of course that's not been possible. It's a bit of a risk, as it really does require a similar dynamic to what occurs on the right. JD really is superb in that role, freeing Wes up. It's possible that it might work on the left, but I'm not certain. K-Mac will have thought of it as a possibility of course, and will have investigated it, and I'm sure that whatever he's concluded is infinitely more correct than my ramblings! |  | | |
| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 07:47 - May 8 with 899 views | PioneerBlue |
He provided early season excitement with his dribbling and running.
KMcK hasn’t used the formation he played in for PC.
I’m not sure where he fits into a L1 team when you look at all the promotion ready sides this year. Mostly build on physical height strength platforms. Without goals and assists he reduces our overall ability to compete in the power battle at set pieces and in-pitch warfare that L1 is a lot of the time. Even with our ability to control games we found once the opposition come out of defence we still need that power and height on the pitch to defend the alimo.
Nice guy, he might be a bench option but he has a lot to do to get into a championship aspiring XI. I would like to see it work for him, this is a squad I like, they seem to get on. I don’t see him as a LB or LWB, like KVY, we have money to spend on position ready players. If he could really push Burns, or do the 10 role that will be good. You could see KMcK helping him in natural positions. Up the pitch it’s all about goals and assists next season and we did t see anywhere enough of that in 21/22. | |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 08:30 - May 8 with 831 views | bournemouthblue |
I see a bit of Wilfried Zaha about him, if he ever clicks he'll be a gun
Another star from Palace, Victor Moses did play as a wing back for Wigan under Martinez I believe so it seems possible
If McKenna can develop someone like Burns on the left, we could be a serious proposition |  |
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| The Kyle Edwards connundrum on 09:10 - May 8 with 759 views | wkj |
There is no doubt in my mind that Kyle Edwards is going to be a special player. It's kind of like Chalobah when we had him - nothing close to a premiership player at the time, but not far away from becoming one. Edwards is one who needs turf time, but patience will yield a profit with him - I'm convinced of it. |  |
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