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Daniel Johnson

Mooney said:
Utter shite.

He’s class. When we play him in his preferred position, he shines more than most. He’s over 50 goals in 300 games and God knows how many other goal contributions. This 1 in 10 shit is agenda driven bollocks.
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Agenda driven? He’s consistently inconsistent. Fact.

If he wasn’t he wouldn’t be playing for us.
 
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pne1881 said:
Agenda driven? He’s consistently inconsistent. Fact.

If he wasn’t he wouldn’t be playing for us.
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Another post where someone states their opinion but bookends it with ‘fact’ to somehow try to give it more credence. Yes, DJ was weaknesses in his game and on occasions, when his passing is off, he has a bad game. Most of his poorer games for us, however, have been when he’s been asked to play in a role that doesn’t play to his strengths. Class as a term is imo relative to the level at which the player competes and a goal record of better than 1 in 6 would suggest that your ‘1 good game in 10’ assertion is inaccurate. And that’s opinion. Not fact.
 
Posted this elsewhere and it refers to DJ
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Lowe was sussed out by other managers around October time. They realised that if you press our wing-backs and the corresponding centre half, mark the ball into the middle and anticipate the wing switch then eventually the ball will start going back to Lindsay and Freddie Woodman. The way out of this was DJ. In early season games DJ would make a run (inside to out) into the space left by the opposition pressing, just ahead of the wing back. This allowed us to move the ball higher up the pitch. Since dropping DJ nobody really makes this run and the ball stops at the halfway line and comes back, eventually to the keeper.
DJ is the best player we have got at this as he is the only one capable of keeping the ball higher up the pitch (aside from Ched) and he also spots the right time to do it. Yesterday in the first half he was becoming hugely frustrated, as was I, when he wasn’t being found in these areas. Yes he has defensive frailties and by all means drop him away from home but he should have been playing the majority of home games when you want to be on the front foot and take the game to your opponent.

Without him on the pitch yesterday, we don’t win.
 
OB1 said:
Did more coaching of the players on the pitch yesterday than Lowe did from the sidelines. Probably why Lowe doesn’t play him, it looked like DJ was telling players to push up and make runs rather than playing keep ball
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Agreed. A capable, confident coach would seek the input of senior players ,I'm not sure Ryan Lowe is capable or confident, his insecurities are masked by fist pumps and strange soundbites.
 
Mooney said:
Another post where someone states their opinion but bookends it with ‘fact’ to somehow try to give it more credence. Yes, DJ was weaknesses in his game and on occasions, when his passing is off, he has a bad game. Most of his poorer games for us, however, have been when he’s been asked to play in a role that doesn’t play to his strengths. Class as a term is imo relative to the level at which the player competes and a goal record of better than 1 in 6 would suggest that your ‘1 good game in 10’ assertion is inaccurate. And that’s opinion. Not fact.
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Fair enough. My opinion is he is inconsistent, has more bad games than good & it's certainly more than "on occasions".

That's not to say I don't like him. The guy undoubtedly has talent & when he's on his game he's probably one of the better midfielders in the division but it just isn't often enough.
 
flipper said:
Maybe his form is a result of Lowes fucking awfull tactics and system . Yesterday it looked like the players themselves abandoned lowes game
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How many managers has he played under? Is his form down to all of their poor tactics & system?

He's been pretty inconsistent throughout all of time with us (with the odd exception) & let's be honest if he produced what he's capable of every week he wouldn't be playing for us.
 
pne1881 said:
How many managers has he played under? Is his form down to all of their poor tactics & system?

He's been pretty inconsistent throughout all of time with us (with the odd exception) & let's be honest if he produced what he's capable of every week he wouldn't be playing for us.
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This is just a myth.

And if the old "if he was better he wouldn't be here" maxim is true, then he's by definition the best we'll ever get here, so we need to play him.
 
OB1 said:
Did more coaching of the players on the pitch yesterday than Lowe did from the sidelines. Probably why Lowe doesn’t play him, it looked like DJ was telling players to push up and make runs rather than playing keep ball
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I’m convinced it was he and Browne who instigated the change after a few minutes of the second half. If it had been the manager surely they’d have come out all guns firing and pressurised Wigan immediately.
 
wld said:
I’m convinced it was he and Browne who instigated the change after a few minutes of the second half. If it had been the manager surely they’d have come out all guns firing and pressurised Wigan immediately.
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Well it's not conclusive but the battling stopped when 50 grand went off and we did the tortoise impression again.
 
Say it before and I’ll say it again. Because he absolutely pisses on every other midfielder we have, his weaker games; which people seem as his lesser performances, are always deemed to be insufficient enough to hold down a starting place, because people know his capabilities when he’s at full pelt. However, they are never as bad as the consistently average performances of those around him. For some reason, that sees him dropped, while less talented midfield players are bang average to below average week in week out and the notion gets dismissed because that’s expected.

If Daniel Johnson has 1 good game in 10 (which is ridiculous, that would mean 30 good games for north end his whole career here). I dread to think about the ratio of good games to minutes played of players around him. The lord and saviour himself Ali McCann has probably had 1 or 2 standout games, the rest has been pretty average. But because he runs around a lot everyone goes wild for him. I won’t even start on Ledson.

Has to start, I’d even say week in week out for me. We’re literally the most toothless side in the league, at least leave the fuckin dentures in.
 
I’m sure RL only played DJ yesterday as he was forced into it due to injuries and suspensions. DJ really bought into RL when he arrived, but after several games things seemed to change, and I suspect that DJ realised that RL was lacking in tactical awareness.
 
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