Quote Originally Posted by ncfcog View Post
I actually really like Sam and he has provided us with some really good moments during his time at Notts. His problem appears to be consistency and often struggling to read the game. Head down bearing in on goal you'll always fancy him to score. Unfortunately we have a manager who goes by the mantra defend from the front attack from the back. Halifax's winning goal when they came from 2-0 down with 10 men was a prime example. Their player who created the chance was allowed to literally walk past Sam without any challenge, it almost looked like Sam wasn't sure what he was supposed to do. It's the one area of his game I feel he needs to work on, unfortunately other than at training he's not really getting the chance to improve by playing games.
This. Sam’s a decent footballer, skilful and can finish. But he’s grown up in leagues where there’s generally a different style of play to our one, which is all about intensity and pace. He’s struggled to come to terms with that IMO, and not done what Ruben has and adapted his game to become effective in this environment.

Whether he could do given more of a chance is a sort of pointless circular argument, because from his limited chances he’s never really looked like doing it.