Loft would be ok as a squad player or as a foil for say Van Veen but to lump all the pressure on him as the primary striker is stupid.
I will however say that miss was most likely one of the worst I’ve seen.
Swann’s caused this by signing Mooney, Jarvis and Turan. This is what happens when your chairman fancies himself as a player recruiter.
If we survive this season he needs to move on. I’m not expecting anybody to come in who’s awash with money but a chairman who actually acts as a chairman would be enough for me.
The lad that Stevenage brought on that scored their third showed how to play as a lone striker, he controlled the ball and held off three of our players before moving the ball at least three times.
For his goal he never gave up pressured cordner knowing he is prone to a mistake and profited with a goal, mr cox should show our strikers his 20 or so minutes on the pitch as an example of how a strikers plays.
The Stevenage radio reporters were saying what a big side we are but did mr loft at 6’ 4” actually win a header? And his first touch is awful meaning he is already facing our goal two yards closer then when received the pass.
Having been at Tottenham and Leicester he is clearly no mug but someone needs to get hold of him ASAP before he drifts away as he has at times showed he can be a decent striker.
“Loft would be ok as a squad player or as a foil for say Van Veen”.
No he wouldn’t! He has been in professional football since 2015 and is 23, yet you can hear Cox shouting and telling him what to do throughout the match.
I said ok, not good and certainly not brilliant. Ok as in, he’d be half decent if he simply played as a foil doing all the donkey work for a more talented player “van veen” or came off the bench once in a while, apart from that though he’s not worth much more.
Generally, I’ve not had a huge problem with his finishing, the bigger issue has been his first touch and his passing. He simply cannot control the ball or find a team-mate. Second touch is usually a throw-in!
So you did and no he isn’t. The long balls would still be aimed at him. Having Van Veen alongside would make no difference to his basic lack of ability to control the ball and lay it off to another player (on his team).
56 league games and 7 goals is not a glowing reference for his finishing. The bigger issue is he hardly ever seems to be in a threatening position to get on the end of some decent crosses into the box.
I do not reasonably expect that we can sign a goal-scorer in January.
Surely, we can sign somebody capable of holding up the ball when it goes forward.
Every team we face seems to possess a minimum of one such in their starting line-up. They can’t be all that expensive.
I was calling for 4 players in. I’ll now settle for one holder upper and a CB. (Nightingale?)
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