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What Simmo needs to do!

What Simmo needs to do!

Atkypne

Atkypne

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Drop Sedgwick & Agyemang

Bring in Dichio along side Nugent, play Miller in the middle with McKenna. Whaley wide right and Lewis Neal on the left. When Davidson/Hill returns from injury, Danny Pugh back to left wing.

Agyemang and Sedgwick were piss poor today! This game was crying out for Dichio to start, I was really shocked when I heard Agyemang was starting, I think this was a big mistake from Simpson today.

Rock on Birmingham, which will be a crunch game! 🙂
 
yeah agyemang is poor. dichio is good we had loads of chances when he came on and he unsettled them.
 
atkypne said:
Drop Sedgwick & Agyemang

Bring in Dichio along side Nugent, play Miller in the middle with McKenna. Whaley wide right and Lewis Neal on the left. When Davidson/Hill returns from injury, Danny Pugh back to left wing.

Agyemang and Sedgwick were piss poor today! This game was crying out for Dichio to start, I was really shocked when I heard Agyemang was starting, I think this was a big mistake from Simpson today.

Rock on Birmingham, which will be a crunch game! 🙂
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We've got little enough midfield without making it even more lightweight. Whilst he's not one of my favourite players, if anyone needs bringing in it's probably Jarrett.
 
What id like to no is why is it with nugents goals ratio hes still first choice , i like the lad but for me his head is in the stars , so why dont we play dd and brett , with nuge on the bench or is this unthinkable cuss hes wourth a few bob . just seems the double standards within the fans is pathetic ..
 
I think we need a bit more link up between midfield and up front. We just don't seem to be supporting the front 2 strikers enough. The lack of chances in our last 2 home games was appalling. I don't know about Luton as I didnt go but I bet we created pretty much naff all. We aren't playing to strenghts.

I think Ormerod in behind Dichio and Nuge would work but not from the start as you'd have no options if one got injured, plus you'd need 2 defensive midfielders who can cover for them well - Jarrett & McKenna?? Neal deserves a start as he looks like he can actually beat a man and get in behind defences

Also, looking at some of the players, their fitness levels don't seem to be at the peak they should be at. Coventry ran rings around us to be honest. If we are going to improve results, I think this needs addressing quickly.

I HAVE FAITH IN SIMMO - COME ON YOU WHITES, REGAIN THAT TOP SPOT!
 
dirk the pnemouse said:
What id like to no is why is it with nugents goals ratio hes still first choice , i like the lad but for me his head is in the stars , so why dont we play dd and brett , with nuge on the bench or is this unthinkable cuss hes wourth a few bob . just seems the double standards within the fans is pathetic ..
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Exactly. If he was a flamboyant african, he'd be pilloried for his every mistake.......
 
nuge and agyemang dont link up at all. dichio brings the midfield into it well. i say start dichio and nugent then we can bring 2 dangerous forwards on in agyemang and ormerod.
 
atkypne said:
Drop Sedgwick & Agyemang

Bring in Dichio along side Nugent, play Miller in the middle with McKenna. Whaley wide right and Lewis Neal on the left. When Davidson/Hill returns from injury, Danny Pugh back to left wing.

Agyemang and Sedgwick were piss poor today! This game was crying out for Dichio to start, I was really shocked when I heard Agyemang was starting, I think this was a big mistake from Simpson today.

Rock on Birmingham, which will be a crunch game! 🙂
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Agree with all that & in fact said it all before kick off.

Totally the wrong game for paddy to start & to try sedge, miller and mckenn was plain daft
 
atkypne said:
Drop Sedgwick & Agyemang

Bring in Dichio along side Nugent, play Miller in the middle with McKenna. Whaley wide right and Lewis Neal on the left. When Davidson/Hill returns from injury, Danny Pugh back to left wing.

Agyemang and Sedgwick were piss poor today! This game was crying out for Dichio to start, I was really shocked when I heard Agyemang was starting, I think this was a big mistake from Simpson today.

Rock on Birmingham, which will be a crunch game! 🙂
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Interesting to observe how similar comments telling Simpson who to pick and how to play from less influential members of the board are met with abuse, derision and 'We are 2nd in the league I think Simmo knows a bit more than you' etc etc.
 
Agree with mouse on this one.

Nugent is simply not doing the business, drop him and Pat and bring in Dichio and Ormerod against Birmingham.

Graft is key next weekend, these two give it plenty.
 
As I said in the the thread about Prestons Management Crisis, It is very easy for us to type in who we think should be playing where and provide simple reasons why. Every now and again someone goes a little bit further and offers more detailed discussions which justify their selections.

Agyemang and Nugent have been in the side for games in which PNE have not performed to their best, and where the results have been worse than we may desire. To this end that pairing is easy to pin point as a problem.

So what have Agyemang and Nugent been doing wrong? With these two in the side I think our main threat comes from them running at defenders, or in behind down the channels, and as such we are playing more balls designed to exploit those strengths. The result is that defenders are aware of this and are dealing well with it, to the extent that we are not creating sufficient chances.

Both are too similar for me in this regard, and for that reason I would look to Dichio who offers a very different threat. However that is not to say that we should never use two strikers with similar strengths in any game.

Against Bimingham the 'stickability' of Dichio will prove invaluable IMO and as such I would start with Dichio at St Andrews, moving Agyemang to the Bench to make a 25 minute appearance in the second half if required. My feeling is that there is some slowness in the Birmingham defence which is there to be expolited (N'Gotty must be slow, surely) as Southampton demonstrated. I choose to drop Agyemang and not Nugent because I feel Nugent to be the more skilled of the two, and more likely to react quickest and best to balls that drop in and around the Birmingham area (This again we saw in the Southampton game)

Midfield selection is being forced by injury at the moment, and that will need consideration come January. For now I leave the choice to Simmo and support whatever he does. My feeling is that the emphasis will be on defensive midfield at St Andrews, which will be hard to achieve with any of the combinations suggested.
 
All evidence suggests that the Nuge & Paddy combination does not work. Paddy is the perfect sub & scares opponents in the last quarter of any game. Dichio does knit play together and is superb at bringing midfield platers into the game- Nuge & Paddy simply run away from them. Ormerod isn't yet taking the full strain up front. Also, Nuge does like the big stage- and WILL be up for it at St Andrews.
More worrying is midfield. Miller was not up to the pace or the pattern yesterday & Pugh looked like a midfielder in defence (even though I thought Edwards was consistently the major source of panic for PNE, & Pugh had no support in front of him). I hope that either Davidson or Hill is fit for Saturday, that Pugh returns to midfield & that Miller works on his fitness & is played either just behind the front two ("diamond formation") or not at all. If Jarrett has sorted himself out, his physical capacity to be a box to box player makes him a better choice than Miller
 
The last few games Agyemang, McKenna and Sedgewick have been crap. Now i would say drop Sedgewick and bring in Lewis Neal and Dichio instead of Agyemang. For Paddy to be starting everygame is shocking...he may be fast but he doest have great stamina. Now with Dichio, his height and flick On's trouble the defence and make them unsettled! Also when Dichio started scoring a few goals he was dropped and Paddy was back into the team. Paddy at the moment should be fighting for a place on the bench.
 
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