[Waller is my hero]

Find me another Gary Roberts!!!!

Vital cog in our team.....missed him today desperately

[metallilad]

Waller is my hero, on 24 January 2015 - 11:40 PM, said:

Find me another Gary Roberts!!!!

Vital cog in our team.....missed him today desperately

I said this a long time ago and was shot down in flames.
I was told that our team was built around Ryan & Morsy and not Roberts. I was right, some well respected posters were very wrong.

[azul]

metallilad, on 25 January 2015 - 12:06 AM, said:

I said this a long time ago and was shot down in flames.
I was told that our team was built around Ryan & Morsy and not Roberts. I was right, some well respected posters were very wrong.

So you think that was proof today?

Roberts is clearly influential and you might be right, but come back in 6 weeks so we can reappraise it properly

[metallilad]

azul, on 25 January 2015 - 12:12 AM, said:

So you think that was proof today?

Roberts is clearly influential and you might be right, but come back in 6 weeks so we can reappraise it properly

No need to. Look at how much we missed him when he was injured before.

[Skywalker]

Waller is my hero, on 24 January 2015 - 11:40 PM, said:

Find me another Gary Roberts!!!!

Vital cog in our team.....missed him today desperately

Roberts was a big miss today. His quality and creativity is as important to us as Will Hughes is to Derby.

[Wooden Spoon]

azul, on 25 January 2015 - 12:12 AM, said:

So you think that was proof today?

Roberts is clearly influential and you might be right, but come back in 6 weeks so we can reappraise it properly

When Roberts plays well we win. If Roberts doesn't play we tend to struggle to break through in the last 1/3...and so it was today

[azul]

a kick in the balls, on 25 January 2015 - 12:21 AM, said:

When Roberts plays well we win. If Roberts doesn't play we tend to struggle to break through in the last 1/3...and so it was today

As I said, we'll be in a much better position to discuss this in 6 weeks time, assuming no major incomings/outgoings

[sophocles]

Blindingly obvious - all we lacked today was that little extra bit of composure, awareness and creativity in the final third, that extra touch of quality that cuts defences open. That is precisely what Gary Roberts can provide, and it really showed today.

[azul]

sophocles, on 25 January 2015 - 01:08 AM, said:

Blindingly obvious - all we lacked today was that little extra bit of composure, awareness and creativity in the final third, that extra touch of quality that cuts defences open. That is precisely what Gary Roberts can provide, and it really showed today.

It is, he is clearly one of our most influential players but the opening two posts make it sound like we'll never score another goal without him using today as proof.

We were playing a team that is supposed to be on its way to the premiership.Today was just a crap day at the office in that regard

If we win the next three, we'll have some plonker suggesting we don't need him and that results prove it.

This post has been edited by azul: 25 January 2015 - 01:31 AM

[trickytrevsfanclub]

metallilad said:

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I said this a long time ago and was shot down in flames.
I was told that our team was built around Ryan & Morsy and not Roberts. I was right, some well respected posters were very wrong.

Well respected posters, who are they?

[Nitrous Oxide]

What we lacked was a right winger who can deliver a ball into the box without delaying giving time for the defence to get back. Time and time again it's passed about going nowhere. When it does it's either too long , straight into the keepers hands or can't get passed the first defender. Yet from the left it's far far better. So did Boco know something we don't? Are we likely to see someone coming in during this week which would've blocked his chances? No good sticking our leading scorer out there just to accommodate Gnando. I'm sure he'd benefit from decent supply.

[dtp]

Nitrous Oxide, on 25 January 2015 - 09:02 AM, said:

What we lacked was a right winger who can deliver a ball into the box without delaying giving time for the defence to get back. Time and time again it's passed about going nowhere. When it does it's either too long , straight into the keepers hands or can't get passed the first defender. Yet from the left it's far far better. So did Boco know something we don't? Are we likely to see someone coming in during this week which would've blocked his chances? No good sticking our leading scorer out there just to accommodate Gnando. I'm sure he'd benefit from decent supply.

You see, that is were we differ - much as Jones did well down the left I thought is actual crossing was poor in that he rarely found a blue shirt.

Lack of composure in front of goal was our main problem. Ryan had far more time than he took, Doyle got no power on his only shot on target and blazed wide from another good position, O'Shea and Banks had high efforts and failed to bring saves from their keeper etc.

The first job when shooting is to try and make sure the keeper has to save it on the basis that if he doesn't its a goal. I can't really remember their keeper making a good save whilst Tommy had to to keep us in the game.

[Goku]

Nitrous Oxide, on 25 January 2015 - 09:02 AM, said:

What we lacked was a right winger who can deliver a ball into the box without delaying giving time for the defence to get back. Time and time again it's passed about going nowhere. When it does it's either too long , straight into the keepers hands or can't get passed the first defender. Yet from the left it's far far better. So did Boco know something we don't? Are we likely to see someone coming in during this week which would've blocked his chances? No good sticking our leading scorer out there just to accommodate Gnando. I'm sure he'd benefit from decent supply.

What did Boco know that we didn't?

[Nitrous Oxide]

Don't know, thought I'd asked that question.

[Goku]

Well it's quite a vague question if you don't mind me saying. It's about as relevant as saying "Did Goku get laid this morning?"

[Nitrous Oxide]

Very irrelevant.

[Beelzebub]

Nitrous Oxide, on 25 January 2015 - 02:20 PM, said:

Very irrelevant.

How can it be very irrelevant? Surely it's either relevant or irrelevant, it's like dead or pregnant, you either are or you aren't

[dtp]

Beelzebub, on 25 January 2015 - 02:39 PM, said:

How can it be very irrelevant? Surely it's either relevant or irrelevant, it's like dead or pregnant, you either are or you aren't

All right then, very dead, very pregnant, it's not relevant.

[Goku]

what does dtp know that we don't?

[shaun1866]

Goku, on 25 January 2015 - 04:30 PM, said:

what does dtp know that we don't?

I think he was more implying Boco might have known that a winger was coming in so he would fall further down the pecking order so left