Quote Originally Posted by Ronners View Post
When Hugill went off on saturday it made, certainly myself, realise just what it will be like when he isn't playing. None of our other strikers can hold a ball up like him, the new lad Nombe looked pacey so he would be looking to play off a hold up player or for flick ons or balls played through, and kelly is similar. Eaves can win headers but cant hold a ball up under pressure and JJ isn't a central striker and isnt strong enough anyway. All in all we would miss Hugills presence up front IMO and I really hope he stays fit as I think he is integral to our system. UTM
Agree that we don't have anyone else who can hold the ball under pressure but Kelly, Green, Fred, JJ and from what I've seen Nombe run channels and break at pace - that's when we look best
We shouldn't be looking to play it to Hugill (or anyone else) to hold up, we should be building through midfield or breaking at pace
It seems to me that there's a disconnect between Hugill and the rest of the players that we've got
If you remember the Dave Gwyther days - Gwyther was a decent player, with outstanding upper body strength, but his game was about holding it up - it was totally the opposite to the likes of Finney, Crawford & Phillips who wanted to run at and past defences - if you remember, we ended up playing Big Dave in midfield before moving him on to Newport where he fitted in much better....