Thats a very good point - he might be as fit as a fiddle, but playing for someone like Leeds or West Brom
Ben Pearson
Some of you may have detected that this lad frustrates me at times.
It would be very easy to say he didn’t put a foot wrong today (apart from trying to rip Ralls’ shirt off him in the box).
However, that’s precisely the point and his talent is not being properly harnessed.
He has a tremendous knack of tidying up opposition attacks but if he’s just going to roll the ball to Davies, Fisher, Hughes or Bauer then he may as well not bother. We’ll lose possession again within seconds.
Teams are extremely vulnerable when they’ve just been turned over.
Win the ball, take responsibility and drive forward with it Ben.
Once you’ve mastered that,we can get on to scoring some goals.
It would be very easy to say he didn’t put a foot wrong today (apart from trying to rip Ralls’ shirt off him in the box).
However, that’s precisely the point and his talent is not being properly harnessed.
He has a tremendous knack of tidying up opposition attacks but if he’s just going to roll the ball to Davies, Fisher, Hughes or Bauer then he may as well not bother. We’ll lose possession again within seconds.
Teams are extremely vulnerable when they’ve just been turned over.
Win the ball, take responsibility and drive forward with it Ben.
Once you’ve mastered that,we can get on to scoring some goals.
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He did a couple of times today, cut it back to Sinclair which we should have had a penalty from.
To be honest, I reckon even if he did develop that aspect of his game, he won’t do it in his last 7 games for us
He should have done better with the scuffed pass that went in the general direction of Sinclair.
It’s not the final ball I’m looking for from him as such but just some attacking impetus.
He’ll be fine in a better side because they’ll have the quality to use the ball but PNE need more from him than that.
Perhaps he’s under orders when he rolls the ball backwards after gaining possession but he doesn’t strike me as being that disciplined, nor would it make much sense to do that when he‘s a better footballer than our back four.
It’s not the final ball I’m looking for from him as such but just some attacking impetus.
He’ll be fine in a better side because they’ll have the quality to use the ball but PNE need more from him than that.
Perhaps he’s under orders when he rolls the ball backwards after gaining possession but he doesn’t strike me as being that disciplined, nor would it make much sense to do that when he‘s a better footballer than our back four.
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He’s a ball winner and deep lying playmaker, that is the role AN demands of him.
I do think you have a point, his speed really is an asset that we don’t use going forward, he’s probably our fastest player outside of barky and we look so incapable of counterattacking play it is rather baffling