Best winger at NCFC

[0peteddMMyyyy0Falseen-USTrue 0]

Croft was pretty ineffective yesterday, maybe due to long injury lay off, Huckerby was all too predictable.  Get well soon Chadders but unfortunately fitness will be a problem.  How about Croft and Chadwick in the same team to give Huckerby a kick up the r''s.

[ronbol ronbol 0]

more huckerby bashing.................... brilliant...................hail the mighty chadwick!

[The Great Drinkell 51]

[quote user="ronbol ronbol"]more huckerby bashing.................... brilliant...................

hail the mighty chadwick!

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Time moves on Ronbol, Hucks has been execllent for us but isn''t at the moment. Pete just suggesting that maybe he needs reminding of whats required.

[ronbol ronbol 0]

I only tell it as i see it. Hux is still effective always 2 people trying to take him out of the game. This frees up another in our squad to use the space. shame we have no one else who can use this space that hux creates. Hux is still our best winger.

[The Great Drinkell 51]

They need the ball to make the extra space pay, hucks is holding it too long too often IMO

[ricky knight 0]

Hux our best player is now the root of all our problems, wait for it earnie will be next, anyone but the crap manager and useless board.

[Chris Meadows 0]

huckerby is starting to cause our defence as many problems as the oppositions

[Hardhouse44 289]

[quote user="The Great Drinkell"]They need the ball to make the extra space pay, hucks is holding it too long too often IMO[/quote]

If Huckerby is holding on to the ball for to long as you say it is only because he feels the pressure to create everything because the rest of the midfield are so poor. And in addition I put Croft the that bracket too. He was totally ineffectual on Saturday. No end product at all.

[Branston Pickle 4,150]

IMO when all is said and done, we do have some decent players across all parts of the pitch - the problem has been getting them to play consistently, as a team, and whether we have cover.  Re: wingers, I''ve not seen enough of Chadwick but with him, Hucks and Croft in the squad, Eagle as additional cover/Hughes at a push, we do seem now to have those places covered.  Who is best is largely moot - it is probably Hucks but depends on form, injuries etc.

Re: Hucks, as per some others, I''ve always felt that he keeps the ball too long at times - if he draws 2-3 players creating space, we don''t actually get the benefit if that space isn''t utilised....when he is on form it doesn''t matter as he will take them on and beat them, but when he is a little off colour as he is at the moment, he should maybe use it more.  That is my considered opinion, not a bash at him!

[10 Bryceland 0]

Never mind the best, do we have any wingers at the club?  In the traditional sense a winger is a player who stays out wide and uses a combination of pace and trickery to get to the by-line and cross accurately for the onrushing strikers.  Or cut inside and score regularly like Kenny Foggo used to.  Having said that, without Dion or a fully fit 20 goals a season for Cardiff Thorne, we have no-one to capitalise on any pin-point crosses.  We cannot even cross accurately from  a dead ball situation.  At the moment despite their undoubted ability none of our wide players are doing this.  Neither are they playing like a wide midfielder should.  Not enough covering back, supporting others or dominating mid-field.  In short we have players like Hucks and Croft who are wonderful to watch when on form but are not providing a sufficiently consistent or telling contribution to the team effort. 

Mind you that last statement would cover virtually the entire of PG''s available options.  But all is not lost! PG is one of the new breed of upand coming managers and I am confident that, having achieved all the required coaching qualifications, he will soon harness the undoubted ability of our existing and future players into a match-winning combination.  All I ask is we give him a chance.