Enufznuf wrote:p.s. Spencer will be back in next Saturday. Why throw in an unproven kid?
See you at Hereford?
But Jimmy Spencer was an unproven kid until he was given a go in the side?
Personally, I think Mullin is on a one-way ticket to the knackers yard the way he has been playing recently. It just isn't working for him or us. We are trying to pass the ball around in midfield and he is stood static, not making runs and not really doing anything.
The ball gets played to him, he tries to head it back (he wasn't even a handful in the air yesterday). Back to square one, no ground made and momentum taken out of the attack. Jevons is not much better at this. If you do play a ball in behind the defence, Mullin can't retrieve it because he is too slow (I swear he was going backwards at one point during the match yesterday).
The fact that Mullin is static makes him easy to mark, easy to defend against, and squeezes the space for others to work in as no defenders are being dragged around by his movement. Even if Hendrie isn't ready, the fact that he makes runs and generally has lots of energy makes the space for others to work in.
Hendrie has probably played just under a half of first team football in about half a season, not nearly enough. I'm not sure how he will ever develop whilst being used so sparingly? Yet when he has played I think most people have felt that they'd like to see a bit more of him. I certainly have after his brief cameo displays against Torquay and Stevenage. I just hope he doesn't have one of those horrendous 'who gives you extra' brummie accents, Stanners one is bad enough.
Still hopefull that I'll get to Hereford on Tuesday.
SEASIDE!!!