| Stu Watson - Too many individuals 10:33 - May 19 with 4196 views | WicklowBlue |
Just read Stu's observations from the game yesterday and he called out the lack of balance across the front 4:
"Lone striker Hirst had just eight touches during his 71 minutes on the field.
A big reason for that, I felt, was that the three in behind him - Hutchinson, Enciso and Clarke - all played a bit too much for themselves rather than the team.
The trio all had exciting, skilful moments that drew fouls and created openings. They also all had several frustrating moments where they were guilty of tunnel vision and trying to beat one man too many.
Every team needs an X-Factor 'can make something out of nothing' player or two. Having three dribblers in the same side is arguably reckless.
Town have undoubtedly missed the attacking variety of a straight line speedster on the right like Wes Burns and Chiedozie Ogbene, plus a tenacious, last shoulder, penalty box sniffer like Sammie Szmodics."
I tend to agree that we do miss someone wide with pure straight line speed to release in behind the lines. Something different for the defence to worry about rather than constantly trying to run at the defenders with the ball. |  | | |  |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 10:47 - May 19 with 3436 views | Blaggers12 |
We've massively missed Ogbene/Burns and Szmodics. Enciso has flashes of brilliance, but a bit like Hutch is playing for himself and not the team. Clarke is just out of his depth in the PL. Whilst we've underperformed as a team this year for sure, injuries have really hampered any sort of balance to the side and any rhythm we could have hoped to get. If Hutch gets a move this summer, I can only see it being to a mid-table team. He's not physical enough for a Brentford or a Fulham; he will probably end up at Palace. |  | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 10:50 - May 19 with 3389 views | Herbivore |
Chappers as a 10 made us tick. He's not that quick (but quick enough) or skillful (though he's got quick feet) so running at people isn't really his game. What he's good at is finding pockets of space and moving the ball on quickly, even if at times he rushed it and got it wrong. Whether he could have done that in the Prem, I'm not sure, although he did it well against Brentford away. But I do think you need that type of player in there as a 10, especially if you've got two wide forwards who want to run with the ball. |  |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 10:55 - May 19 with 3342 views | TractorFrog |
It’s frustrating because the way that Hirst, Chaplin, Burns and Broadhead played as a team the last two seasons was our biggest asset and why they got promoted where Leeds with better attackers didn’t. We’ve really missed that this season. |  |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:00 - May 19 with 3284 views | WicklowBlue |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 10:50 - May 19 by Herbivore |
Chappers as a 10 made us tick. He's not that quick (but quick enough) or skillful (though he's got quick feet) so running at people isn't really his game. What he's good at is finding pockets of space and moving the ball on quickly, even if at times he rushed it and got it wrong. Whether he could have done that in the Prem, I'm not sure, although he did it well against Brentford away. But I do think you need that type of player in there as a 10, especially if you've got two wide forwards who want to run with the ball. |
Agree re. Chappers he constantly looks to move the ball quickly and link up play. I think there was discussion about this in the early part of the season when Omari was playing 10 and Szmodics out left that we were missing that link play | | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:05 - May 19 with 3202 views | Herbivore |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:00 - May 19 by WicklowBlue |
Agree re. Chappers he constantly looks to move the ball quickly and link up play. I think there was discussion about this in the early part of the season when Omari was playing 10 and Szmodics out left that we were missing that link play |
If Omari can learn to add that to his game then he could end up being world class, but it's not his natural game. He's much more of a ball carrier, and he's very effective in that regard. For now, I'd rather play him from wide personally where he has more space and can offer a different threat. I'd like to see a ball player in at 10. | |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:15 - May 19 with 3125 views | artsbossbeard |
Another area where we lacked massively is with the dark arts - we're way too honest/naïve to put the ref under any additional stress whilst watching other teams do it to the ref & us throughout.
Leicester all over the ref when Phillips fouled one of theirs whilst on a yellow, Newcastle the same with Johnson and event tiny little Bournemouth hitting the deck at any opportunity when they came here. |  |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:21 - May 19 with 3041 views | gringoblue |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 10:47 - May 19 by Blaggers12 |
We've massively missed Ogbene/Burns and Szmodics. Enciso has flashes of brilliance, but a bit like Hutch is playing for himself and not the team. Clarke is just out of his depth in the PL. Whilst we've underperformed as a team this year for sure, injuries have really hampered any sort of balance to the side and any rhythm we could have hoped to get. If Hutch gets a move this summer, I can only see it being to a mid-table team. He's not physical enough for a Brentford or a Fulham; he will probably end up at Palace. |
Enciso is the greediest footballer I've ever seen pull on an Ipswich shirt. Which is unforgivable given his shooting is very poor. He very rarely makes the goalkeeper work. A high proportion of his shots are weak mishits.
Hutch and Clarke definitely made some poor and frustrating decisions yesterday, and their shooting was also crap, but they are not instinctively greedy like Enciso is. |  | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:26 - May 19 with 2960 views | EuanTown |
As I said before to many players adding to their highlights reel. Getting cuts ready for their agents to punt around the clubs. |  | | |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:27 - May 19 with 2950 views | artsbossbeard |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:21 - May 19 by gringoblue |
Enciso is the greediest footballer I've ever seen pull on an Ipswich shirt. Which is unforgivable given his shooting is very poor. He very rarely makes the goalkeeper work. A high proportion of his shots are weak mishits.
Hutch and Clarke definitely made some poor and frustrating decisions yesterday, and their shooting was also crap, but they are not instinctively greedy like Enciso is. |
Pretty sure I witnessed him 1st hand absolutely thunderbolting it past Pickford a couple of weeks back and didn't he win Goal of the season a couple of years back for doing roughly the same? | |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:30 - May 19 with 2899 views | tractordownsouth |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 10:50 - May 19 by Herbivore |
Chappers as a 10 made us tick. He's not that quick (but quick enough) or skillful (though he's got quick feet) so running at people isn't really his game. What he's good at is finding pockets of space and moving the ball on quickly, even if at times he rushed it and got it wrong. Whether he could have done that in the Prem, I'm not sure, although he did it well against Brentford away. But I do think you need that type of player in there as a 10, especially if you've got two wide forwards who want to run with the ball. |
100%. If you slot Szmodics or Chappers back into the ten, and either a direct winger in the Burns/Ogbene mould or a more advanced right-back, the structure works a lot better. |  |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:33 - May 19 with 2866 views | DarkHorse |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:15 - May 19 by artsbossbeard |
Another area where we lacked massively is with the dark arts - we're way too honest/naïve to put the ref under any additional stress whilst watching other teams do it to the ref & us throughout.
Leicester all over the ref when Phillips fouled one of theirs whilst on a yellow, Newcastle the same with Johnson and event tiny little Bournemouth hitting the deck at any opportunity when they came here. |
Our players should have been up in arms over some of the challenges by Luke Thomas on Omari yesterday. Should have been sent off. Instead he didn't even get a yellow. |  | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:34 - May 19 with 2852 views | gringoblue |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:27 - May 19 by artsbossbeard |
Pretty sure I witnessed him 1st hand absolutely thunderbolting it past Pickford a couple of weeks back and didn't he win Goal of the season a couple of years back for doing roughly the same? |
He did indeed, and he has scored from outside the 6 yard box precisely once. He has had 48 shots for us and scored twice. He is 14th for shot conversion rate across our entire squad. Sam Morsy is ahead of him. And worse than that really, he regularly shots when team mates are in better positions.
He's got lots of talent, don't get me wrong, but he is greedy. | | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:35 - May 19 with 2832 views | TractorFrog |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:27 - May 19 by artsbossbeard |
Pretty sure I witnessed him 1st hand absolutely thunderbolting it past Pickford a couple of weeks back and didn't he win Goal of the season a couple of years back for doing roughly the same? |
Which is slightly frustrating because then the pundits give him all the praise for that special moment and don’t see the other nine times he tried it when there was a pass on. It’s similar with dribbling into trouble when a pass is on; occasionally it works and he looks like a hero but on most occasions the team would be better off if he passed. I would much rather have Chaplin in that position. | |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:38 - May 19 with 2775 views | DanTheMan |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 10:50 - May 19 by Herbivore |
Chappers as a 10 made us tick. He's not that quick (but quick enough) or skillful (though he's got quick feet) so running at people isn't really his game. What he's good at is finding pockets of space and moving the ball on quickly, even if at times he rushed it and got it wrong. Whether he could have done that in the Prem, I'm not sure, although he did it well against Brentford away. But I do think you need that type of player in there as a 10, especially if you've got two wide forwards who want to run with the ball. |
I thought the same when Enciso put another shot wide, he was much more selfish than the other two for me.
Clarke in particular during the second half put some decent balls about, one I remember to Cajuste that was really decent but Cajuste took too long to get a shot off. |  |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:48 - May 19 with 2681 views | DJR |
I normally agree with Stu but I think that is a bit harsh on the three concerned, especially as there were periods in the game when we played as well as we had all season.
Omari was trying to create things throughout the game but whenever he got into a really dangerous position, he was fouled.
Enciso also linked up well on a number of occasions, having got out of some very tight situations.
And Clarke was also trying to break free and create things.
Sadly, the ball just didn't run for us, and we didn't get out of the game what we deserved: we had 20 shots to their 9. And by taking off Clarke and Enciso, I thought we weakened the team. [Post edited 19 May 11:56]
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:52 - May 19 with 2621 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:38 - May 19 by DanTheMan |
I thought the same when Enciso put another shot wide, he was much more selfish than the other two for me.
Clarke in particular during the second half put some decent balls about, one I remember to Cajuste that was really decent but Cajuste took too long to get a shot off. |
He scores the occasional worldie, but some of his shooting is atrocious. |  |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:55 - May 19 with 2573 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:27 - May 19 by artsbossbeard |
Pretty sure I witnessed him 1st hand absolutely thunderbolting it past Pickford a couple of weeks back and didn't he win Goal of the season a couple of years back for doing roughly the same? |
He does that once a season. But the majority of his shooting is absolutely woeful. | |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:59 - May 19 with 2507 views | Illinoisblue |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:26 - May 19 by EuanTown |
As I said before to many players adding to their highlights reel. Getting cuts ready for their agents to punt around the clubs. |
They’ll be short reels in a lot of cases. |  |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 12:01 - May 19 with 2482 views | bournemouthblue |
The problem with that straight line speed and let's be honest, when is it a problem, it always gives you option over the top but PL defenders position themselves better and tend to mitigate against it more often
Burns always put in a shift but rarely had the joy he got in the Championship
I note that Sunderland appear to have some speedsters that served them well in the playoffs so far
Latte we did try and sign late in August had that, we also were linked with Wimmer from Wolfsburg in January who looked like Burns with a bit more ability to weave left and right
I wonder if we will look at a pacey striker in the summer to give us a different option, I have no clue who we are about [Post edited 19 May 12:02]
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 12:11 - May 19 with 2385 views | artsbossbeard |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:55 - May 19 by Marshalls_Mullet |
He does that once a season. But the majority of his shooting is absolutely woeful. |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 12:28 - May 19 with 2199 views | Herbivore |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 11:34 - May 19 by gringoblue |
He did indeed, and he has scored from outside the 6 yard box precisely once. He has had 48 shots for us and scored twice. He is 14th for shot conversion rate across our entire squad. Sam Morsy is ahead of him. And worse than that really, he regularly shots when team mates are in better positions.
He's got lots of talent, don't get me wrong, but he is greedy. |
He almost needs to take a few steps back and focus on the basics. When he charged down the keeper, he tried an incredibly difficult and very low percentage first time flick towards the goal with the outside of his foot and it didn't even threaten to go in. If he'd brought it under control he could then have shifted inside and had a proper go at goal or squared it to a teammate for a tap in. It was such a waste of a good position. | |
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| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 12:33 - May 19 with 2144 views | itfc48 |
A bit harsh on Clarke I thought, as he played a number of clever passes and was often looking for a pass. Enciso has been like that since he came.
Given he's spent the last few years hugging the touchline for Sunderland I do find it odd that Clarke hasn't had a chance in that right wing role. | | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 12:43 - May 19 with 2034 views | OldFart71 |
Injuries may have cost us balance so the question is why did we buy Philogene. Too much emphasis on small tricky players than robust strong running types.
Our midfield has been a big problem as well. Again you could say injuries have had an effect where both Cajuste and especially Phillips have been out of the team.
Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but everything that could be wrong with Phillips has been. Huge wages, coming to us completely out of form and unfit and the nightmare has just carried on throughout the season. With only Morsy a similar type, but now no longer a spring chicken. Loungo being surplus to Boro's needs but nonetheless doing a good job for us in the Championship. But seldom used in the Prem and Taylor who hasn't managed, despite all these injuries to get a regular place. | | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 13:03 - May 19 with 1856 views | stonojnr |
You've got to remember Hutch & Enciso are only 21 years old, Clarkes only 24, if they possessed the abilities & experience that embues them with the skills not to be like that, you know what none of them would be playing for us, they'd be at PSG or Bayern or Barca or Liverpool instead
So yes it's frustrating when it happens but you've got to understand their inexperience, and playing at this level is incredibly hard | | | |
| Stu Watson - Too many individuals on 13:05 - May 19 with 1851 views | ArnieM |
Chaplin has been on the bench 12 times this season and Broadhead 13 times. So for a quarter of the season two of our more senior/ experienced players have not been used or at best used for the usual token 10 mins or so. And who is that down to then, as hes insisted on continually playing lightweight newcomers, Clarke and Philogene? |  |
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