Let’s try him on the set pieces. Mind you, Doyle will walk back into the team on Sunday!
I hope he really is a good passer because that was one of the things which was badly missing on Saturday. Doyle, Rose and O’Brien are all midfielders of the same type - competitive ball winners who will work hard and make an impact while protecting the back four or five, but I’m not convinced that they will regularly provide defence splitting passes.
Our strikers will need decent service to feed off if they are to get the goals we require and the likes of Tyson (who on Saturday seemed totally isolated by the lack of service) need it close enough to the opposition’s goal to give them a real chance of scoring.
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...and I hope there is more midfield action in the opponents half. Waiting in your own half for the opposition to advance before acting is not going to get you many goals. If Enzio, Booty, Rose, O'Brien & co can be just a ****sy-weensy little bit more adventurous, Dennis and Thomas might get the chance to outwit defenders in their own box rather than having to pick up the ball and run twenty yards trying to evade tackles before shooting. The big hefty centre-forward we are looking for could help here but I can't see Ardley playing three up front.
When it comes to great sporting names, there's no beating Rugby Union players - Leigh Halfpenny and Joe Launchbury for instance, and the best of them all, the majestic Billy Twelvetrees
There was apparently a player from Zimbabwe named Danger Fourpence.
The one everybody loved when I was a kid was Reading goalkeeper Steve Death.
Googling silly names, it's hard to top Bongo Christ who turned out for the Congo national team and I'd forgotten Ally Dick who had a spell at Spurs, another great 80s one is Constantin Pistol from Romania.