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Regular games and a bit of confidence make all the difference plus surely he's the first name on the sheet when it comes to penalties.
 
His form completely fell off the cliff last season after the contract renewal.

Warming up this season and yes the team is far more watchable when he's on it. Lovely throughball to Riis in second half who should've buried the one on one.

I always think him and Sinclair would link up no problem if they had a run of 10 starts together. Would like Sinclair starting in this current formation alongside Riis.
 
Got to say, Alex Neils decision to not play DJ at ten throughout his tenure is mind boggling.

Probably cost him a Premier League move in all honesty.
 
SoccerHQ said:
His form completely fell off the cliff last season after the contract renewal.

Warming up this season and yes the team is far more watchable when he's on it. Lovely throughball to Riis in second half who should've buried the one on one.

I always think him and Sinclair would link up no problem if they had a run of 10 starts together. Would like Sinclair starting in this current formation alongside Riis.
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Why change a productive partnership between Riis and Maguire though? If one of them scores every other game (with the other scoring outlets we have as backup), probably not going that far wrong. Sinclair is long past his best.
 
SoccerHQ said:
His form completely fell off the cliff last season after the contract renewal.

Warming up this season and yes the team is far more watchable when he's on it. Lovely throughball to Riis in second half who should've buried the one on one.

I always think him and Sinclair would link up no problem if they had a run of 10 starts together. Would like Sinclair starting in this current formation alongside Riis.
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His 'form' coincided with the entire team being shite and a total change in playing style. The amount of times I see people laying the total blame for his poorer performances last season at his door alone is frightening.

If the ball is in the clouds wtf do we expect our best technical footballer to do?

Play football and most of the time he'll contribute significantly, it's not really difficult.
 
Double J said:
Got to say, Alex Neils decision to not play DJ at ten throughout his tenure is mind boggling.

Probably cost him a Premier League move in all honesty.
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What was more mind boggling was the fact when he did and did well Neil would comment it was his best position.... but then wouldn't play him there regularly.

Like I said, build a team around him.
 
I wrote some gibberish in pre-season about one of DJ or Browne needing to really step up this season and earn their corn, after some fairly non-descript periods in recent times.

The way DJ has done it is superb. He's getting further forward than I ever remember, and all the better for it.
 
With @Ando60 , it depends how much Red is inside him when he posts.

Sober and he is pessimistic, 2+ glasses and he suddenly gets giddy with predictions of us finishing in 17th! 😂
 
sedgwick__7 said:
It's easy to forget at times that we signed him as far back as 2015. I think only Browne and Huntington have been here longer. He's been a very good servant to the club and as Trundle suggests above, he would have better numbers if we'd had better strikers than we have done in recent years.
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And if he'd been played more often in his best position.
 
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