JayRod today

This has been a tremendous Christmas period as both games were away and both were banana skin games. My only concern and I am sure I will get slated for saying this but JRod is becoming another George Boyd in chasing the ball only to find the ball has gone elsewhere and I rarely see him leaving the floor to win a heading dual. I am afraid headless chicken comes to mind. Jan transfer can rectify this situation. On one other point we need to firm up our loanees to permanent if we are going to be the main leaders.

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Originally Posted by lancaster100

This has been a tremendous Christmas period as both games were away and both were banana skin games. My only concern and I am sure I will get slated for saying this but JRod is becoming another George Boyd in chasing the ball only to find the ball has gone elsewhere and I rarely see him leaving the floor to win a heading dual. I am afraid headless chicken comes to mind. Jan transfer can rectify this situation. On one other point we need to firm up our loanees to permanent if we are going to be the main leaders.

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Seems like a clear out is on the cards. Lowton and Westwood have already left the building, Barnes and Long are reportedly packing.

Beyer looks certain to be bought imminently, I hope Mr Pace can keep hold of Tella now and TBH and Maatsen in July. B)

I agree about loanees. JayRod had a few games when he scored and has come close a few times. With goals coming from nearly everyone, we are not dependent on his goals or Barnes for that matter. I think that JayRod’s link up play has been good at times and perhaps he creates space for others by pulling defenders out of position.

The unknown for me is Twine, where he will play and who will he replace.

Jay Rod should also have scored early in the second half. Only he knows how he missed.

Jrod has missed a lot of sitters,but he's scored some good uns for us.

Don't you think its a different style of play? My view is this. If we play him as a traditional centre forward he may have score 15 goals now instead of the 9. However the team might be down say in 6th place.

It's just the style like city played last season when they opted to play without a centre forward isn't it? Or at least very similar.
Today jay was dropping very deep and most of the times Tella was drifting into the centre!

That's my take on it, not saying its right but its what im seeing

Today his link up play and little flicks and cross field balls were pretty awesome I thought.

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Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier

Seems like a clear out is on the cards. Lowton and Westwood have already left the building, Barnes and Long are reportedly packing.

Beyer looks certain to be bought imminently, I hope Mr Pace can keep hold of Tella now and TBH and Maatsen in July. B)

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We won’t keep Maatsen , I don’t think anyway
Posted previously he’s most gifted footballer we have , it’s just starting to really show.

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Originally Posted by Untinted Glasses

Don't you think its a different style of play? My view is this. If we play him as a traditional centre forward he may have score 15 goals now instead of the 9. However the team might be down say in 6th place.

It's just the style like city played last season when they opted to play without a centre forward isn't it? Or at least very similar.
Today jay was dropping very deep and most of the times Tella was drifting into the centre!

That's my take on it, not saying its right but its what im seeing

Today his link up play and little flicks and cross field balls were pretty awesome I thought.

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Agree with this view and think that Jay is very much a big link on our present set up. The disappointment to me today was that Tella had several opportunities to power away into the box put he put the brakes on and it broke up our play. As a forward, particularly one who has pace, you should be getting into the box and defenders are then very wary of touching you.
Anyway, a win is a win and that was very hard fought and QPR were unlucky not to take all three points against the Blades, such is the Championship.

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Originally Posted by Supersub6

Agree with this view and think that Jay is very much a big link on our present set up. The disappointment to me today was that Tella had several opportunities to power away into the box put he put the brakes on and it broke up our play. As a forward, particularly one who has pace, you should be getting into the box and defenders are then very wary of touching you.
Anyway, a win is a win and that was very hard fought and QPR were unlucky not to take all three points against the Blades, such is the Championship.

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I switched on the QPR game in the 96th minute with 6 minutes of extra time already played and Egan scored in the 97th minute. Go figure. :confused:

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Originally Posted by army88

We won’t keep Maatsen , I don’t think anyway
Posted previously he’s most gifted footballer we have , it’s just starting to really show.

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I was on a Chelsea web page yesterday, they claim the Burnley loan deal is perfect for Maatsen, they now have the new Mount & James situation on their hands following that pair's successful loan periods away from the Bridge. :s