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I’m not so sure Boselli is as bad as most people think. From the few times i’ve seen him play for us i think he gives us something different, something we aint got or had for a while.
He plays off the shoulder of the central defenders, can head a ball and has some good link up play with fellow strikers. problem is, i haven’t seen enough of our 6million + man to make a firm opinion. So i went onto youtube to check him out and have to say i was pretty impressed with some of the goals i saw. He is very good in the air, and has some good close control.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Di Santo for his endeavour & work ethic,along with the odd wonder goal he can pull out the bag. But his goal scoring record says it all for me, double figures have alluded him upto now. He is our equivelant of Liverpools Dirk Kuyt. Shouldn’t Bob be rotating the strikers to give himself more options? It’s a lot of money paid to never give him a decent run in the side.
given a decent run in the team upfront with Kone i reckon Boselli could do ok?
I don’t know if you have noticed but RM is a creature of habit and tends to stay with more or less the same starting line up whenever possible !
Boselli will score goals if given the chance, he just never got enough games under his belt. I’d love to see Gary Hooper from Celtic signed, whether that’s realistic is another thing
Both shite.
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Both shite.Next…
Thank you for your well constructed and incisive response.
So what do you suggest the club should “next” do about it then?
I noticed we were down near the bottom of the Alternate MOTD2 subs who score goals table ! I thought no wonder, given that the players who could maybe score for us on the bench on average tend to get about 5 mins to do just that !
I don’t know if you have noticed but RM is a creature of habit and tends to stay with more or less the same starting line up whenever possible !Funnily enough i had hence the reason for the question. Was trying not to sound too negative about the matter so to avoid being called a moaner or even worse… A darksider
Boselli for me. He deserves a chance. There’s a really decent player in there somewhere. That finish where he scooped the ball over the keeper’s head in the cup showed that.
Di Santo is frustrating me more than ever. You can’t knock his enthusiasm and he does chase lost causes (twice headscratchingly unnecessarily on Saturday) but I noticed a couple of times that he actually slows some of our moves and play down with his showboating because he often forgets that the easy option is more often than not the best option. Kone is light years ahead of him on this front.
I can’t see what harm mixing it up a bit and trying something new will do other than once and for all show us whether Boselli really is any good or not.
I also think Boselli deserves a chance and passing judgment on him after coming off the bench for the last 5 minutes of a game, as is usually the case, is hardly fair.
On the occasions I have seen him play, the last time against Bradford, he does seem to have the knack of getting himself into goal-scoring positions. The fact that he hasn’t been scoring could be down to confidence which can’t be helped by throwing him on at the death when a goal is needed and him hardly seeing the ball.
With respect to Di Santo I’m not convinced about his temperament. He sulks too much and spat his dummy out again on Saturday when he was brought off, brushing aside Graeme Jones “suggestion” to go sit on the bench by walking straight down the tunnel.
It’s all very well saying that he deserves a run in the side but Bobby & the coaching staff see him in training every day & when he turns out for the reserves & there’s obviously something there which to me indicates that they don’t think he’s up to it.
Manager’s can of course get things wrong & it took Di Santo the best part of 2 seasons to start showing (on a consistant basis) that he was up to the job but I feel that as Bobby staked so much on the fella (if the Benson incident is true) & due to the fact that he cost so much, if they had any sort of faith in him then he would be getting far more match time than he currently does.
Not only that but even when Di Santo looked at his worst, Bobby consistantly put him in the side ahead of a Boselli who was farmed out on loan – suggesting that he sees far more in one than he does in the otherSo I’ll bow to Bobby’s judgement on this one
I’m not questioning RM or the coaching staff’s judgment here for the very obvious reasons you’ve mentioned. I just think that to throw him on with 5 or 10 minutes to go isn’t doing him any favours, especially when the team is perhaps not set up to get the best out of him.
I’m trying my best to like Di Santo but there’s something about him that is annoying. He comes across as a bit of a smart-arse and seems too ready to have a go at his team mates when he is equally at fault with poor decision making and finishing. Beausejour is very often the butt of his whinging for reasons I cannot always fathom.
It’s all very well saying that he deserves a run in the side but Bobby & the coaching staff see him in training every day & when he turns out for the reserves & there’s obviously something there which to me indicates that they don’t think he’s up to it.
Manager’s can of course get things wrong & it took Di Santo the best part of 2 seasons to start showing (on a consistant basis) that he was up to the job but I feel that as Bobby staked so much on the fella (if the Benson incident is true) & due to the fact that he cost so much, if they had any sort of faith in him then he would be getting far more match time than he currently does.
Not only that but even when Di Santo looked at his worst, Bobby consistantly put him in the side ahead of a Boselli who was farmed out on loan – suggesting that he sees far more in one than he does in the otherSo I’ll bow to Bobby’s judgement on this one
That would be the case for the whole team selection then so I hope you don’t come on here calling anyone or suggesting such a person deserves a chance ! :huh:
That would be the case for the whole team selection then so I hope you don’t come on here calling anyone or suggesting such a person deserves a chance ! :huh:I don’t see how it prevents me thinking any particular player is garbage. I can not rate a certain player but accept that a manager feels he is the best in the squad to play that particular position – the 2 aren’t mutually exclusive.
Part of me has been wanting to see Callum McManaman given a go at this level but I’m more than prepared to accept that if he doesn’t select him then Bobby doesn’t think he’s ready (or good enough) yet. Likewise I think Ronnie Stam is ideally suited to the wing back role but Bobby feels from seeing them in trainign every day that Boyce is the better option so fair enough
So the same applies to players I rate as well as players i don’t such as BoselliThat would be the case for the whole team selection then so I hope you don’t come on here calling anyone or suggesting such a person deserves a chance ! :huh:
I don’t see how it prevents me thinking any particular player is garbage. I can not rate a certain player but accept that a manager feels he is the best in the squad to play that particular position – the 2 aren’t mutually exclusive.
Part of me has been wanting to see Callum McManaman given a go at this level but I’m more than prepared to accept that if he doesn’t select him then Bobby doesn’t think he’s ready (or good enough) yet. Likewise I think Ronnie Stam is ideally suited to the wing back role but Bobby feels from seeing them in trainign every day that Boyce is the better option so fair enough
So the same applies to players I rate as well as players i don’t such as Boselli[/quote]You should just reply to each and every disgruntled fan who moans about a particular player ” The manager knows what he is doing so shut up ! ” ;) Personally I see a certain clique forming selection-wise ! ;)
You should just reply to each and every disgruntled fan who moans about a particular player ” The manager knows what he is doing so shut up ! ” ;) Personally I see a certain clique forming selection-wise ! ;)I get your point to be honest but in relation to say Stam & Boselli for instance, they’ve both been here now for what 2 & a half years & despite being quite high profile Bobby signings he rarely picks either of em even when they might appear to me to be the best options available.
That tells me all I need to know about the pair – it’s a bit different to a new signing bedding in
He signed McCarthy, McArthur & Maloney too & I often wondered where the hell they were & why he wasn’t playing them – when introduced they’ve been successful coz I tend to think he knew (having stepped up in class) they were now ready whereas chucking em in at the deep end may have seen them flounder
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