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Ryan Ledson

Ryan Ledson

Ledson is just a possession retrieval machine for the opposition.

Too few of his attempted long passes reach their target to make the number attempted worthwhile.

And he as always goes to ground far too early, either fouling someone or taking himself out of the game completely.

I would say he did these 2 things slightly less than usual last night. He put in a couple of good forward passes.

Problem for Ryan is, performances like last nights are his high water mark at Championship level.
 
Picture this, the ball is coming down to Ledson in acre's of space.
Does he:
A) Take a touch, look around and make a pass to our man
B) Punt it into the sky making the crowd simultaneously look up, again
C) Attempt a Hollywood ball
D) Pass it straight into danger

If you're answering A, you're watching a different football match
 
I cant understand why he has gone backwards in ability. It is not that long ago that he was our best player during the behind closed door matches and showed plenty of promise.
 
He openly has to manage his post game recovery as the operation last year wasn't a complete success- might explain why he tails off when playing each game
 
He plays football like it’s FIFA and he’s bad at it.

Narcissistic footballing. It’s a shame cus he comes across like a decent fella, but every single thing has to be either a huge hard man tackle that often leads to a foul or a 70 yard pass to nobody. Wants to be Steven Gerrard so bad.
 
Tarkovsky said:
He plays football like it’s FIFA and he’s bad at it.

Narcissistic footballing. It’s a shame cus he comes across like a decent fella, but every single thing has to be either a huge hard man tackle that often leads to a foul or a 70 yard pass to nobody. Wants to be Steven Gerrard so bad.
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Did you go on the game on Tuesday?

I'd like to be Steven Gerrard to be fair.
 
Libertine said:
Did you go on the game on Tuesday?

I'd like to be Steven Gerrard to be fair.
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I didn’t, and if he had a good game fair play. But I’ve watched 80-90% of the games this year and he’s been absolutely dross and wouldn’t be a starter for most sides in the division I don’t think.
 
Thought he did a little better on Tuesday, but was still largely crap.

Him pinging the ball 10 yards over Fernandez's head, from about 10 yards away was a particular highlight.

Can't fault the effort, but will be good to have Whiteman back
 
Lee Trundle said:
Thought he did a little better on Tuesday, but was still largely crap.

Him pinging the ball 10 yards over Fernandez's head, from about 10 yards away was a particular highlight.

Can't fault the effort, but will be good to have Whiteman back
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Lee Trundle said:
Thought he did a little better on Tuesday, but was still largely crap.

Him pinging the ball 10 yards over Fernandez's head, from about 10 yards away was a particular highlight.

Can't fault the effort, but will be good to have Whiteman back
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Who do you think was better.. jack king or ledson?
 
Pne_Gaz said:
Picture this, the ball is coming down to Ledson in acre's of space.
Does he:
A) Take a touch, look around and make a pass to our man
B) Punt it into the sky making the crowd simultaneously look up, again
C) Attempt a Hollywood ball
D) Pass it straight into danger

If you're answering A, you're watching a different football match
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None of the above.

E) Double foots the ball and is sent off
 
I struggle to understand how Ledson captained an extremely successful England age group. Even with those who were highly rated in their youth only to fall away and not make it in the game you can usually detect a hint of technical ability. Just can't see anything with Ledson, I'm afraid.
No problem with his work rate or attitude from what I can see - just extremely limited and probably sums up our squad as a whole.
 
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