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Question Id Like To Ask Kit.

Started by Mince n Tatties, November 21, 2014, 10:27:54 PM

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Mince n Tatties

Is it Personal that you dont like Matt Smith?
We paid half a million for him, he scored 14 for Leeds last season, has scored
a few for Under 21s and against West Ham.
If we are going to play the way we did tonight why isnt he playing ahead
of Hugo who cant head a ball..

Artful Dodger

Matt Smith is a Div 1 footballer at best. He is not the answer and does not have the mobility of Hugo. If you want us to play hoof ball, then fine, put him up there, but he will not help us in the long term.
Faber est suae quisque fortunae

Mince n Tatties

#2
Quote from: Artful Dodger on November 21, 2014, 10:36:17 PM
Matt Smith is a Div 1 footballer at best. He is not the answer and does not have the mobility of Hugo. If you want us to play hoof ball, then fine, put him up there, but he will not help us in the long term.

Read the post properly, IF WE ARE GOING TO PLAY THAT WAY.
Which we have been doing then he can head it Hugo cant.
And your comments about Smith are way off the Mark..


MJG

Have to agree with AD not that. Rather have Hugo than Smith.
Smith is fine as a backup or sub to mix things up.

Riversider

The real question to ask Symons is this, "what has Chris David got to do to get a start in front of Bryan Ruiz ? "

fulhamben

 goals are not our problem. midfield and defence is where we fail
CHRIS MARTIN IS SO BAD,  WE NOW PRAISE HIM FOR MAKING A RUN.


MrProphet

I'd like to ask him why our worst defender (zverotic) gets the worst player for tracking back and fighting to help him out (ruiz) utter clueless management. It worked with LVC on the wing and Ruiz in the middle so he changes it.

Absolutely stupid naivety from him

Mince n Tatties

Quote from: MJG on November 21, 2014, 10:41:40 PM
Have to agree with AD not that. Rather have Hugo than Smith.
Smith is fine as a backup or sub to mix things up.

Back  Up???
He isnt even on the Bench..

Artful Dodger

Quote from: Mince n Tatties on November 21, 2014, 10:39:10 PM
Quote from: Artful Dodger on November 21, 2014, 10:36:17 PM
Matt Smith is a Div 1 footballer at best. He is not the answer and does not have the mobility of Hugo. If you want us to play hoof ball, then fine, put him up there, but he will not help us in the long term.

Read the post properly, IF WE ARE GOING TO PLAY THAT WAY.
Which we have been doing then he can head it Hugo cant.
And your comments about Smith are way off the Mark..
SO WHICH WAY DID WE PLAY TODAY? Not sure we had enough of the ball to define a style of play! One thing is for sure, if Smith is on the pitch, forget any attempt to play proper football. 
Faber est suae quisque fortunae


MJG

Back up as in squad,  seventh choice striker is a backup :-)

westcliff white

For me we are more direct under kit than we have been in a long while, but I would hate to see smith start over hugo, and I am no hugo fan. In this division he will stretch defences, but we ned to play to his strengths. We need to also get the ball to Ross more and let hi create as that seems to be his role.

Tonight we deserved nothing and got nothing, better in the second half but with out betts we would have been out of site. Then maybe of Hugo had taken his header or Ross and fed Parker we could have gotten ack in it or some how sneaked the win.

Oh well on to the next one
Every day is a Fulham day

filham

Quote from: Artful Dodger on November 21, 2014, 10:36:17 PM
Matt Smith is a Div 1 footballer at best. He is not the answer and does not have the mobility of Hugo. If you want us to play hoof ball, then fine, put him up there, but he will not help us in the long term.

Have you not noticed we have been playing a lot of hoof football in recent games and tonight it was almost nothing but hoof football. Worse still it was inaccurate hoof football without a viable target man.


MJG

I would not call it hoof ball,  but we are clearly trying to use Hugo and McCormack's pace and skill earlier.
The diagonal balls to them have been going on for a number of games,  and you can see when it comes off why we are doing great it.
But don't confuse that with playing a bean pole up front and kicking the ball long

Fulham76

Quote from: Artful Dodger on November 21, 2014, 10:36:17 PM
Matt Smith is a Div 1 footballer at best. He is not the answer and does not have the mobility of Hugo. If you want us to play hoof ball, then fine, put him up there, but he will not help us in wuthe long term.
Quote from: Artful Dodger on November 21, 2014, 10:36:17 PM
Matt Smith is a Div 1 footballer at best. He is not the answer and does not have the mobility of Hugo. If you want us to play hoof ball, then fine, put him up there, but he will not help us in the long term.

Hoof ball is our style now unforunatley. Think I counted about 20 hopeless long balls in the 1st half alone.

fulhamben

Quote from: filham on November 21, 2014, 11:04:34 PM
Quote from: Artful Dodger on November 21, 2014, 10:36:17 PM
Matt Smith is a Div 1 footballer at best. He is not the answer and does not have the mobility of Hugo. If you want us to play hoof ball, then fine, put him up there, but he will not help us in the long term.

Have you not noticed we have been playing a lot of hoof football in recent games and tonight it was almost nothing but hoof football. Worse still it was inaccurate hoof football without a viable target man.
so your answer for us playing terrible hoof ball, is to use a specialist striker for hoof ball. id prefer we mix up the midfield and tactics to get us far away from hoof ball
CHRIS MARTIN IS SO BAD,  WE NOW PRAISE HIM FOR MAKING A RUN.


Mince n Tatties

Anybody would think Smith just stood on the  penalty spot and waited for the ball
to be thumped into him...Hillarious
Apart from his 14 goals last season he made a few assists to Ross for his goals.
Talk about not giving the lad a chance, still everyone has their own opinion on players
I suppose...

fulhamben

Quote from: Mince n Tatties on November 21, 2014, 11:24:33 PM
Anybody would think Smith just stood on the  penalty spot and waited for the ball
to be thumped into him...Hillarious
Apart from his 14 goals last season he made a few assists to Ross for his goals.
Talk about not giving the lad a chance, still everyone has their own opinion on players
I suppose...
? wasnt your reason for his inlusion, because we play hoof ball? and hugo will smash his goal tally
CHRIS MARTIN IS SO BAD,  WE NOW PRAISE HIM FOR MAKING A RUN.

Mince n Tatties

Quote from: fulhamben on November 21, 2014, 11:29:54 PM
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on November 21, 2014, 11:24:33 PM
Anybody would think Smith just stood on the  penalty spot and waited for the ball
to be thumped into him...Hillarious
Apart from his 14 goals last season he made a few assists to Ross for his goals.
Talk about not giving the lad a chance, still everyone has their own opinion on players
I suppose...
? wasnt your reason for his inlusion, because we play hoof ball? and hugo will smash his goal tally

So you dont rate Smith...Youve made that obvious before.
Yes it was my reason for including him, but that doesnt mean thats all he can
do..



rogerpbackinMidEastUS

Quote from: Mince n Tatties on November 21, 2014, 11:35:41 PM
Quote from: fulhamben on November 21, 2014, 11:29:54 PM
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on November 21, 2014, 11:24:33 PM
Anybody would think Smith just stood on the  penalty spot and waited for the ball
to be thumped into him...Hillarious
Apart from his 14 goals last season he made a few assists to Ross for his goals.
Talk about not giving the lad a chance, still everyone has their own opinion on players
I suppose...
? wasnt your reason for his inlusion, because we play hoof ball? and hugo will smash his goal tally

So you dont rate Smith...Youve made that obvious before.
Yes it was my reason for including him, but that doesnt mean thats all he can
do..



I have to agree with you, because of the pressure Brentford (and many teams put on us in defence) we are hoofing more than we would like.
If (and no one seems to have noticed your OP) that's the way Kit wants to play then YES play Smith instead of Ruiz, bypass the midfield in counter attacks with Ross dropping a tad bit deeper.
As you say, Smith is not just a satellite tower, he seems to offer more and his goals per games ratio even if it is under 21's or friendly is very impressive
VERY DAFT AND A LOT DAFTER THAN I SEEM, SOMETIMES

fulhamben

Quote from: Mince n Tatties on November 21, 2014, 11:35:41 PM
Quote from: fulhamben on November 21, 2014, 11:29:54 PM
Quote from: Mince n Tatties on November 21, 2014, 11:24:33 PM
Anybody would think Smith just stood on the  penalty spot and waited for the ball
to be thumped into him...Hillarious
Apart from his 14 goals last season he made a few assists to Ross for his goals.
Talk about not giving the lad a chance, still everyone has their own opinion on players
I suppose...
? wasnt your reason for his inlusion, because we play hoof ball? and hugo will smash his goal tally

So you dont rate Smith...Youve made that obvious before.
Yes it was my reason for including him, but that doesnt mean thats all he can
do..


oh i see. you must rate his defensive skills and first touch then. and you have made it perfectly obvious that you rate him on a previous goal tally and because he is tall. im going off what my bro in law the leeds st holder told me, and the fact that kit has him at, atleast 5 th choice, and the fact that goals havent been our problem. but yes you are right
CHRIS MARTIN IS SO BAD,  WE NOW PRAISE HIM FOR MAKING A RUN.