Building on current players' strengths, I'm enjoying the flexible 3-5-2 model which uses the skills of both Sepp and Andrew Hughes to surge forward with the ball. The Sheffield United Premier League team had "overlapping central defenders" and we seem to be developing such a model. Will Storey on his return have this as part of his skillset, or should we be looking elsewhere?
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Totally agree and we know how successful the Blades we’re going from league one to prem. it works if you have the players, Sepp and Hughes are doing great with it. Just need a replacement for Sepp to carry that on, and look at wingbacks.
Big summer ahead I’m excited at the prospect of a full season with lowe! The footy yesterday was decent just a bit wasteful in the final third!
Big summer ahead I’m excited at the prospect of a full season with lowe! The footy yesterday was decent just a bit wasteful in the final third!
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Sepp and Hughes get forward nowhere near as much as the Sheff U lads did. It’s not a bad thing - we just have a different style to Chris Wilder.
FWIW I thought yesterday was the most evident display of Ryan Lowe’s ‘brand’ that he so often speaks about. I enjoyed it.
FWIW I thought yesterday was the most evident display of Ryan Lowe’s ‘brand’ that he so often speaks about. I enjoyed it.
Storey is good at carrying the ball at times but his mind goes a complete bank when he hits the halfway line and is forced to make a pass, resulting in him losing the ball more often than not.
Statistically, I think Storey has won more aerials per game than anyone else for us this season, might have changed since I last checked. So if he stays, i'd see him as backup for Bauer in the central role in Lowe's system. Ideally we would find Lindsay a L1 loan move for next season.
Sean St Ledger in Lowe's team would have been great.
that could be because they have no faith the wingbacks wont lose the ball and then they're caught up front with only Bauer back....
Bambo could be worth a try in Sepps place as he has the pace to get back too.
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That's not the way Lowe described it at the time:
Jordan Storey's loan to Sheffield Wednesday explained by Ryan Lowe
The Preston North End defender has joined the League One club
Likewise, because we are in a brave new world of "cash neutral" transfers, Storey had to go out before Diaby could be offered a short-term deal:
Storey's loan exit paves way for Preston North End to sign Bambo Diaby
PNE have loaned Storey out to Sheffield Wednesday
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Storey was loaned out so that we could bring in Archer. All governed by the budget.
Dan Ballard who was right centre back for Millwall was regularly getting up to our penalty area and so was goal scorer Murray Wallace on left but their centre back Cooper was so dominant that it enabled them to do so.
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Ryan Lowe also said that Josh Harrop had a ‘fantastic game’ against Cardiff in the cup.That's not the way Lowe described it at the time:
Jordan Storey's loan to Sheffield Wednesday explained by Ryan Lowe
The Preston North End defender has joined the League One clubwww.lancs.live
Likewise, because we are in a brave new world of "cash neutral" transfers, Storey had to go out before Diaby could be offered a short-term deal:
Storey's loan exit paves way for Preston North End to sign Bambo Diaby
PNE have loaned Storey out to Sheffield Wednesday
He evidently has a different approach to speaking about players publicly than Alex Neil did.
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The main reason for that was because against our formation, the wide centre backs are the free men so they can step in.
Whereas Millwall play a 3-4-3, making it harder for Sepp and Hughes to get forward when they have Wallace and Burke pinning them back.
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Given the choice between what Ryan Lowe says on the record to the local media, and what you say on here about a player you don't rate, I think I'll stick with Lowe's version of events for the time being.
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If he rated him, he’d have stuck around and played him. Simple as that. If you think that Ryan Lowe will publicly express his private views on players, then that’s up to you.
He also described Josh Earl as ‘defensively sound’ at the fans forum. I guess you’ll choose to believe he actually thinks that, too.
Granted his view may have changed on Storey, but my thoughts would be that if JS were to still be here next season, it would be because he’s been let down by those above, which isn’t unlikely.
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You repeating your own views is not going to convince me that Lowe shares your views.
Besides, Ridsdale has also confirmed "cash neutral" transfers were the club's January policy - we had to get Harrop and Storey out if we wanted to get Archer and Diaby in.
Or maybe he was lying too.
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Ironically he didn’t even mention about Harrop going on loan and saying he could fight for his place. Although I am sure thracia will find a link that says he did.
In all fairness josh earl is pretty sound defensively. If you go on this forum enough or watch the matches or even listen to Lowe properly then you would realise that Josh earl’s issues are in his attacking play and what is expected from a wing back.
Just because a player goes out on loan doesn’t mean he’s not rated. The defence was playing well at the time and he wasn’t getting a look in so it makes sense for him to go out and get experience. The same could be said for McCann. People think Lowe doesn’t rate mccann which is absurd. He clearly rate him it’s just the others have been more consistent.
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Lowe's view on Harrop's future seemed rather more cagey than his view on Storey:
RL: "I have got friends at Fleetwood, Stephen Crainey is a friend of mine. They will do things right and I'll get all the information that I need on Josh to see if he will play for Preston North End in the future."
Ryan Lowe explains why Josh Harrop has signed for Fleetwood Town on loan
The midfielder has joined the League One club
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Lowe's view on Harrop's future seemed rather more cagey than his view on Storey:
RL: "I have got friends at Fleetwood, Stephen Crainey is a friend of mine. They will do things right and I'll get all the information that I need on Josh to see if he will play for Preston North End in the future."
Ryan Lowe explains why Josh Harrop has signed for Fleetwood Town on loan
The midfielder has joined the League One club
Cheers.
So to sum it up.
Lowe wants storey part of this Preston North End team in his words ‘for years to come’ and wasn’t playing games because the players in front of him were playing well.
With Harrop he wants him playing games to see ‘what he’s about’ as at the moment he can’t see where he’s going to fit in the team. At the moment he can’t see a future for him.