Not sure if this has been posted previously :
http://www.football.co.uk/colchester_un ... 0827.shtml
RedRedWine wrote:Well done to Perks. Why is it though that he wasn't very good when we played him as a midfielder (he requested to revert back to left-back but Howard had made the spot his own) yet everywhere else he has been he has proved to be a smash hit? A bit like Stanley who this season has been very average with us, but whilst on loan at Torquay he has been getting rave reviews. Odd.
Shrimpy wrote:RedRedWine wrote:Well done to Perks. Why is it though that he wasn't very good when we played him as a midfielder (he requested to revert back to left-back but Howard had made the spot his own) yet everywhere else he has been he has proved to be a smash hit? A bit like Stanley who this season has been very average with us, but whilst on loan at Torquay he has been getting rave reviews. Odd.
I can remember at the time he was playing for Rochdale hearing from someone connected to Perks that Keith Hill employed a much higher defensive line meaning that the gap between the defenders and strikers was much smaller. This allowed Perks and other midfielders to be much nearer the attackers than he would have been at Morecambe resulting in him getting far more involved in the game in an attacking sense rather than just shielding the back four all the time, this also meant he had much less ground to cover.
I feel that this is still a common problem with Morecambe sides to this day. It's no coincidence that we've not really had an exceptional talent in the centre of the park for a very long time now yet former players in Perkins and Craney have gone onto achieve this elsewhere.
Ntini wrote:Shrimpy wrote:RedRedWine wrote:Well done to Perks. Why is it though that he wasn't very good when we played him as a midfielder (he requested to revert back to left-back but Howard had made the spot his own) yet everywhere else he has been he has proved to be a smash hit? A bit like Stanley who this season has been very average with us, but whilst on loan at Torquay he has been getting rave reviews. Odd.
I can remember at the time he was playing for Rochdale hearing from someone connected to Perks that Keith Hill employed a much higher defensive line meaning that the gap between the defenders and strikers was much smaller. This allowed Perks and other midfielders to be much nearer the attackers than he would have been at Morecambe resulting in him getting far more involved in the game in an attacking sense rather than just shielding the back four all the time, this also meant he had much less ground to cover.
I feel that this is still a common problem with Morecambe sides to this day. It's no coincidence that we've not really had an exceptional talent in the centre of the park for a very long time now yet former players in Perkins and Craney have gone onto achieve this elsewhere.
Is that not due to a lack of pace at the back for us over the last few seasons? We've had decent enough defenders such as Bentley, Artell, Parrish, McCready, Haining etc. but none of which can match the pace of some of the Strikers in this league. Therefore you have to play a bit deeper so that Strikers can't get up to full pace and run behind them with a ball over the top.
RedRedWine wrote:Well done to Perks. Why is it though that he wasn't very good when we played him as a midfielder (he requested to revert back to left-back but Howard had made the spot his own) yet everywhere else he has been he has proved to be a smash hit? A bit like Stanley who this season has been very average with us, but whilst on loan at Torquay he has been getting rave reviews. Odd.
RedRedWine wrote:Rumours were rife at the time of his departure that he [Perks] didn't get on well with Sammy
RedRedWine wrote:Do you think Perks would ever come back like Drummond did?
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