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Not been on before Christmas due to work commitments so was genuinely looking forward to seeing this lad play today. I left feeling utterly utterly disappointed.

I know he's not had much of a crack of it, but he seemed so far behind the rest of the lads which were completely woeful to say the least.

Is he the real deal and should we be biding our time or is he completely out of his depth?
 
Rallye said:
Not been on before Christmas due to work commitments so was genuinely looking forward to seeing this lad play today. I left feeling utterly utterly disappointed.

I know he's not had much of a crack of it, but he seemed so far behind the rest of the lads which were completely woeful to say the least.

Is he the real deal and should we be biding our time or is he completely out of his depth?
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He’s got a hell of a lot of improving to do.

I didn’t see a sign of anything. He was slow, didn’t win a thing in the air, didn’t read the game, didn’t have a streak of evil in him, just looked out of his depth.

Early days but I’m not seeing anything.
 
The service to him was virtually non-existent. When he did get the ball, he held it up well and laid it off to better effect than Hugill. He was no more ineffective for North End than Garner was for Ipswich in a poor quality match dominated by defences. Let's give him a chance.
 
North end doing it on the cheap again.... we will never compete with the likes of Wolves, Villa, Boro etc whilst we keep buying bargain basement players......
 
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Schemer said:
The service to him was virtually non-existent. When he did get the ball, he held it up well and laid it off to better effect than Hugill. He was no more ineffective for North End than Garner was for Ipswich in a poor quality match dominated by defences. Let's give him a chance.
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We had lots of possession, countless corners and crosses, and I don’t recall one memorable bit of forward play from him.

Only Barky created things.
 
Ando60 said:
North end doing it on the cheap again.... we will never compete with the likes of Wolves, Villa, Boro etc whilst we keep buying bargain basement players......
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Again... Where does this cash come from?
Take Adam reach for instance, decent player did well at north end sold to sheff wed for £5m!
Just one example.
We all know this.
And to even attract a half decent championship player you'd have to pay stupid wages which we don't due to structure.
We're banging our heads against the wall.

Just have to keep going keep hoping we find the cheap gems.
 
California_PNE said:
Again... Where does this cash come from?
Take Adam reach for instance, decent player did well at north end sold to sheff wed for £5m!
Just one example.
We all know this.
And to even attract a half decent championship player you'd have to pay stupid wages which we don't due to structure.
We're banging our heads against the wall.

Just have to keep going keep hoping we find the cheap gems.
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Maybe, but Burnley did similar with the exception of paying for decent forwards.
 
Churlish to pick out any individual on that performance today.

2 were hauled off early for performing poorly it could have been any of them, in truth.

Big big performance needed with 3 points at bolton, next week, anything less and we start preparations for next season.
 
europne said:
We had lots of possession, countless corners and crosses, and I don’t recall one memorable bit of forward play from him.

Only Barky created things.
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Yes we had all those but no quality. He's not a McGeady or Fuller or Nugent who can create something out of nothing. In the main, the crosses and corners were poor. Ipswich were equally poor, which is why established strikers like Waghorn and Garner were no more effective than Moult.
 
I thought Moult did better than Bodin, who I forgot was even playing yesterday during the match. He also did more than Robinson, who to me now is beginning to look out of his depth if anyone is.
 
Yesterday's tactical approach, particularly in the 2nd half, reminded me (dare I say it) of the Grayson approach.

What is the thinking behind booting the ball up in the air, to a diminutive forward with little physical presence, who is getting easily over powered by the opposition's defence?

When we had Hugill you could accept those tactics to a degree, as we won some aerial challenges and fed off the knock downs. But to continue playing like that now just makes no sense at all. We even had Huntington up front yesterday????

Just cant understand why we played like that. We did the same thing in the first half with a different formation - it was meat and drink to the Ipswich defence, who hardly broke sweat.

Either use appropriate tactics, or buy another striker who suits that game plan, otherwise it's futile.
 
I was looking forward to seeing Moult, and I recognise he has been injured and acclimatising from a move from the wasteland of football.

However, he reminded me of Simon Lynch yesterday. He has no pace and he was frankly appalling in terms of winning or even challenging for headers. Players and their form can suddenly flip, but I am particularly worried by his complete lack of physicality and I fear for the lad already. Bodin too, appears out of his depth physically. His lack of tracking back is evident and he has zero pace.

Sorry for being so blunt. I sincerely hope both prove me completely wrong and become PNE legends.

As for my overall view of yesterday, if that's the best we can come up with at home against a team 14th in the League we have no chance of making the play offs, despite a very positive and proactive set of subs from the manager.

As Neil has said himself we lack the guile and technical ability to break teams down when they sit deep - as evidenced by the lack of cute little diagonals, clever movement or genuine ability to create chances against deep defences. Instead our only tactic was to pump crosses into the box which, given Moult's complete lack of presence and the strength of the Ipswich defence, was very unlikely to cause them any problems. Which it didn't.

Maguire's return is the best we can hope for. Our home form is a big worry.
 
Moult struggled. Bad day to judge him but sticking Hunts up there says it all.
My day was going well until somebody blew a whistle.
 
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