May or moult

[JuanFatche]

May is too intelligent for our midfield who fail to pick him out. He makes so many good runs, creates space and gets himself into space. Sadly we don't seem to capitalise on this.

They keep playing the ball over the top for him, and he's not the quickest. We need a winger in January, Mackay-Steven drifts out the game too much, and Wright is still learning. There's very little pace in that final third.

[RedStarTorphins]

They keep playing the ball over the top for him, and he's not the quickest. We need a winger in January, Mackay-Steven drifts out the game too much, and Wright is still learning. There's very little pace in that final third.

I completely agree.
Folk (me included) have said Rooney has lost it from seasons gone by.

But he was very reliant on being in the box & feeding off service from Niall McGinn & Jonny Hayes.
He’s feeding off scraps now.

May will also suffer from the lack of service.
As would Moult presumably.

We were fairly simplistic in that we got crosses into the box & scores a fair % of them.
It stands to reason if you’re putting in half the crosses, the strikers will score less.

Maybe Jack Ross will bring in Lewis Morgan

[JuanFatche]

I completely agree.
Folk (me included) have said Rooney has lost it from seasons gone by.

But he was very reliant on being in the box & feeding off service from Niall McGinn & Jonny Hayes.
He’s feeding off scraps now.

May will also suffer from the lack of service.
As would Moult presumably.

We were fairly simplistic in that we got crosses into the box & scores a fair % of them.
It stands to reason if you’re putting in half the crosses, the strikers will score less.

Maybe Jack Ross will bring in Lewis Morgan

May had two good crosses yesterday and probably should have scored at least one of them, but if he were that good to be scoring 50% of his chances, he would still be in England. If McGinn wants to come back, I'd take him in January. Wright and GMS can battle for the other side. I also suspect Hayes will want to come back in the summer, but I wouldn't take both of them back.

I wouldn't be averse to Morgan coming either

[rico94]

IMO Rooney hasn’t changed since the day he signed,2 or 3 seasons ago no one said a bad word about him but apart from scoring goals he doesn’t bring much to the team.He never had pace,can’t hold the ball up or create anything for himself.If he was playing every week he would still score 20 goals a season.

I still think we have to see the best of May,every one was concerned that his knee was dodgy and he would be injured half the time yet he has started all 12 games since he signed.McInnes said it would take a while for him to get back to his best because he was out for so long,I think he will start scoring more regularly in time.

If we signed Moult instead of May this thread would probably still exist.From the few Motherwell games I have seen this season that juggernaut Bowman creates a lot of space for him by running defenders ragged,breaking their noses and kicking them off the park.If we signed someone like that he would get sent off more than Stockley did.