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milkyken said:
DJ is a number 10. Whiteman isn’t a sitting midfielder. McCann isn’t an 8, Browne isn’t a RWB, Brady isn’t a LWB.

If I was making a pasta dish but only had rice I’d make risotto instead.
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Whiteman was signed as a deep sitting playmaker, but he's gotten deeper and deeper as time has gone by.

And Brady is literally only a left wingback at this stage of his career.
 
The way Lowe sets up the team at the moment seems like fitting a clutch to an exhaust. If we have right and left backs at the club, play them good or not they are better than those who simply cannot play well there (Brady and Browne)

what grayson used to do to stabilise a losing run (although it wasn’t liked) wasn’t four at the back 5 in the middle and one up front. One point was better than none and it improved confidence amongst the team.

bit of that needed now perhaps, but right players right positions that they are best in.
 
HunterLionheart said:
Whiteman was signed as a deep sitting playmaker, but he's gotten deeper and deeper as time has gone by.

And Brady is literally only a left wingback at this stage of his career.
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I know some Donny fans who can’t believe we play whiteman as a deep sitting midfielder.

He’s scored hat tricks from midfield prior to coming to north end
 
MattPNE17 said:
Fairly nuclear approach from Lowe to say the least.

I've been critical of DJs effort in some games recently but I don't think that's how you treat someone who's been at the club for almost a decade. Ultimately he's still our most creative and technical player, not to mention our vice-captain.

No coincidence to me that Johnson gets dropped, Browne suggests we got the tactics wrong and the players are seen arguing on the pitch all on the same day. Wouldn't surprise me if something's going on behind the scenes.
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That's how Browne captains. He says nothing until a goal goes in and goes ape shit at everyone. I've played in teams with guys like that, it helps fucking nobody.

As for the 'we got the tactics wrong', sure but you were outclassed Alan, I don't hear Lowe singling you out for a lack of leadership on the pitch or the last three years of shite form.

What ever is happening it should be kept in house. Fallouts in public don't help anybody.
 
milkyken said:
I know some Donny fans who can’t believe we play whiteman as a deep sitting midfielder.

He’s scored hat tricks from midfield prior to coming to north end
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He scored one hat trick at Donny. Two goals after the ball fell to him from set pieces and one was a penalty- no rampaging into the box as number 10, and he started his Doncaster time playing further forward, but by the time we signed him, THEY had moved him into a deeper role. It's not a new PNE invention for him.
 
Part of the reason DJ hasn't scored this season is because we don't win penalties anymore. If things stay as they are, we're on track to have our lowest number since rejoining the Championship.

2015/16 - 3 penalties
2016/17 - 3 penalties
2017/18 - 5 penalties
2018/19 - 5 penalties
2019/20 - 11 penalties
2020/21 - 8 penalties
2021/22 - 5 penalties
2022/23 - 1 penalty (so far)
 
Rodney Bewes said:
Part of the reason DJ hasn't scored this season is because we don't win penalties anymore. If things stay as they are, we're on track to have our lowest number since rejoining the Championship.

2015/16 - 3 penalties
2016/17 - 3 penalties
2017/18 - 5 penalties
2018/19 - 5 penalties
2019/20 - 11 penalties
2020/21 - 8 penalties
2021/22 - 5 penalties
2022/23 - 1 penalty (so far)
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Probably cos Loweball bans the players taking people on and getting into the box. Everything resolves around crossing and hoping for a lucky bounce
 
OB1 said:
Probably cos Loweball bans the players taking people on and getting into the box. Everything resolves around crossing and hoping for a lucky bounce
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Playing devil's advocate for a mo - name one player in this side who has the ability and the pace to take their man on and to force defenders into committing fouls like that?

No point asking the players we have to run at people and get past them when they struggle running in the first place!
 
Rodney Bewes said:
Part of the reason DJ hasn't scored this season is because we don't win penalties anymore. If things stay as they are, we're on track to have our lowest number since rejoining the Championship.

2015/16 - 3 penalties
2016/17 - 3 penalties
2017/18 - 5 penalties
2018/19 - 5 penalties
2019/20 - 11 penalties
2020/21 - 8 penalties
2021/22 - 5 penalties
2022/23 - 1 penalty (so far)
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Another round about stat that the "brand" is non-existent.
 
MattPNE17 said:
Playing devil's advocate for a mo - name one player in this side who has the ability and the pace to take their man on and to force defenders into committing fouls like that?

No point asking the players we have to run at people and get past them when they struggle running in the first place!
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We don’t know because of the style of play. But I’d fancy the three loanees being able to have a go

Just look at Alvaro. He looked like that player until he’d had a few months here, and then morphed into Josh Earl 2.0
 
OB1 said:
We don’t know because of the style of play. But I’d fancy the three loanees being able to have a go

Just look at Alvaro. He looked like that player until he’d had a few months here, and then morphed into Josh Earl 2.0
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Perhaps but it's a sorry state of affairs if all of the pace and creativity is coming from players who aren't ours.

It's alright though, we have the best wingbacks in the league.
 
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