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10 minutes ago, weeyin said:

The "need to run about more" and "doesn't track back" mentality is the kind of attitude that stifles creative footballers in the Scottish game.

Not every player needs to be a hard tackling box-to-box grafter. It's all about getting balance in the team.

 

Totally agree with your 2nd point but your 1st point is not what I said. Top players are constantly wanting it or trying to get it back. Big difference to what you say.

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14 minutes ago, gaz7 said:

Totally agree with your 2nd point but your 1st point is not what I said. Top players are constantly wanting it or trying to get it back. Big difference to what you say.

Certainly never hurts to have additional attributes although I wonder if he’s a bit constrained by the style of play and the roles given to him. The likes of Messi and Modric are great players and popping up all over the park but they are given free rein to roam. Especially with Motherwell, Miller is given a specific role to play and that his responsibility but I get your point. The more boxes he can tick in midfielder attributes the better he is going to be. 

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5 minutes ago, texanwellfan said:

Certainly never hurts to have additional attributes although I wonder if he’s a bit constrained by the style of play and the roles given to him. The likes of Messi and Modric are great players and popping up all over the park but they are given free rein to roam. Especially with Motherwell, Miller is given a specific role to play and that his responsibility but I get your point. The more boxes he can tick in midfielder attributes the better he is going to be. 

I feel this also as against belgium he was playing right mid of a 3 I'd say with barron directing traffic in middle and so maybe that's why barron looked better. Miller's best position in my mind is in middle directing traffic from deep but he's been played further forward for ur recently where although done OK I don't feel he is on ball enough to utilise his passing which is strongest part of his game I feel

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15 minutes ago, steelboy said:

Miller called up to the u19s. 

I forsee a tight hammy in his future....

Always a risk for young players when they play so often at a young age. Hopefully Miller avoids this. 

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51 minutes ago, weeyin said:

Looking at the SFA website, it's the 13th, 16th and 19th of November.

So another international break? FFS someone needs to get a hold of these FIFA and UEFA idiots and stop all this nonsense with so many games between UEFA competitions formats and international leagues or whatever the Fk it is now and let countries have their own seasons

  it used to be reasonable with knock out competitions and euro/WC qualifiers, now it’s just ridiculous and purely greed. 
the players Moan about too many games so maybe they need to step up to the plate and get things back to being a bit more reasonable. 
it’s made even worse nowadays since we are more global and end up with players traveling all over the place 

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8 hours ago, SteelmaninOZ said:

Stama not in Soccer Roos squad for the upcoming WCQ games.

Probably because Kettlewell has turned a goalscoring club captain into a headless chicken. Although he has also been injured recently which meant he's probably dropped down the pecking order a bit. A shame for him, but he really needs to be banging down Kettlewell's door asking him to play a system that suits him; otherwise, his signing will prove to be a waste of our money and his time. 

 

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9 hours ago, SteelmaninOZ said:

Stama not in Soccer Roos squad for the upcoming WCQ games.

Disappointed for him but hopefully good for us as he won't be jet lagged.

Kettlewell needs to start playing him properly.  Jeez we paid over £200,000 for him so needs to be played to his strengths 

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57 minutes ago, grizzlyg said:

Disappointed for him but hopefully good for us as he won't be jet lagged.

Kettlewell needs to start playing him properly.  Jeez we paid over £200,000 for him so needs to be played to his strengths 

Maybe he needs to start playing better.

Having said that, I wasn't expecting a goal machine after a few starts even without injuries or new babies, or round trips to Oz to get in the way.

Wenger used to say it took 6 months to adapt to a new team in the same league. Longer if you came in from a different country.

 

 

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52 minutes ago, weeyin said:

Maybe he needs to start playing better.

Having said that, I wasn't expecting a goal machine after a few starts even without injuries or new babies, or round trips to Oz to get in the way.

Wenger used to say it took 6 months to adapt to a new team in the same league. Longer if you came in from a different country.

 

 

Cheers pal, that has been my case for him.  Takes time to settle and I genuinely think there is a player there but .....apologies if proved wrong but Robinson is a different story, just doesn't look like improving .....but again Kettlewell I feel is not helping our strikers with style we play

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Stama not being picked this time round will be good for him and us in the short term.

Last break he travelled to the other side of the world and played zero minutes.

His move hasnt been straightforward having to relocate his wife and newborn child, getting injured and the aforementioned travel.

He really hasnt had any opportunity to settle down and show us what he can do.

After this break he will get a run of games and we will hopefully start getting more players back that will allow SK to have us playing in a way that suits him.

Long term we need him playing well, scoring goals and being selected for Australia as, I presume, the plan is to sell him on down south for a significant fee.

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