by Niall Quinns Discopants » Wed May 19, 2010 5:17 am
brite blu sky wrote:Niall Quinns Discopants wrote:Crossie wrote:He will be an asset when he's back. But it wont be the 2nd coming of Jesus. We have moved on alot since he was putting in occasional good performances.
Its amazing how everyone only remembers the goals, what about all the games where you barely noticed he was on the pitch for 60 minutes.
exactly. People need to calm down a bit. Even before his injuries he was very raw and had tendency to disappear for long periods in game. Don't get me wrong, I'm delighted to hear his rehab is going well but extended loan period and lots of regular football elsewhere is needed before we should even think about playing him.
he caertainly did used to disappear.. but i got the sense under sven he started to get stronger.. perhaps i was imagining it.
Bottom line is he has potential.. possibly a lot of it.. but we have been there before with a lot of players and they dont come through.. my wishful thinking side is hoping that he at least gets a chance
nah, I thought he was improving as well and like you said has massive potential. It's just that almost three years in sidelines and (previous?) problems in lifestyle makes me bit worried how much he has been left behind in development. Also, this is whole new team with whole another level of skill and expectations so the step up will be massive.
I'm not writing him out though, just saying that there's LOT of work ahead of him and I don't expect to see him for us regularily before 11/12 season.
Sometimes we're good and sometimes we're bad but when we're good, at least we're much better than we used to be and when we are bad we're just as bad as we always used to be, so that's got to be good hasn't it?
Mark Radcliffe