Fermers v Dons

[RicoS321]

9 hours ago, Jute said:

Even the two commentators on St J tv were questioning why we had wingers on opposite sides from their stronger foot and how easy it was for their defenders to defend. However even playing this way we did give Cosgrove two decent chances to score and he made a hash of both of them. Just not convinced he is going to play himself back into form or is an intelligent enough player to play the Watkins role in the front 3 with Wright and Hedges.

You could be right, however we played similar football to the first half today several times with Watkins up front and he didn't score. We were all lamenting the fact that he wasn't a finisher and wasn't making the runs. Like last night, we had a period of great football with very little end product with Watkins there, which we now seem to be remembering as some free scoring halcyon period. Quite simply, if we'd got a goal last night, we'd have won the game convincingly and played some nice football in the process. That we didn't, in my opinion, is that McInnes hasn't worked out all season how to add that finishing touch against teams that sit deep with one in front. His option of keeping it narrow last night completely failed. Earlier in the season, we just did the same but were up against teams who hadn't quite worked us out. If we score first in any game, we pretty much win.

 

[RicoS321]

To further my point above, we have to look at last night's game and ask: what would Rooney have done? That's the role that Cosgrove is essentially filling. Rooney generally needed a couple of chances in a game to score, he'd probably have scored Sam's header once in every three attempts, but we nearly always made more chances for him in a game. It was very rare that you said: "he's done all the work himself for that goal", or "he's made that goal himself" (Cosgrove did that numerous times). Had Rooney been up front last night, we'd have likely had the same result, because all our fancy football was played nowhere near the front man, who always had two men in close proximity. 

There was one chance last night that didn't fit that pattern and it's the one where we had a great move and Hedges squared to Cosgrove who was on his heels. The commentator suggested Hedges should have shot, but that wasn't the case. Cosgrove should have read it and would have had an easy free attempt on goal. It was probably the only time we created a good chance last night that Rooney would have scored every time.

[tup1]

19 hours ago, Madbadteacher said:

Tup

Give.

It.

A.

Fucking.

Rest!

It's not as if he's helping us secure more points, which seems to be the argument of those who support continuing to play him. He's been absolute crap since this news broke.

Seeing him in the team makes me want to vomit. I hope he leaves right now, and good riddance to him.