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Offline Risso

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1020 on: December 31, 2017, 09:21:39 AM »
How is it that Hepburn Murphy can make himself available for a pass and genuinely look a threat the moment he comes on, but Hogan can’t for every single minute he plays?

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1021 on: December 31, 2017, 09:29:43 AM »
How is it that Hepburn Murphy can make himself available for a pass and genuinely look a threat the moment he comes on, but Hogan can’t for every single minute he plays?

Yeah, I’d like to blame the manager for his woes but it’s not true. He’s not done nearly enough to justify his place. I accept that we don’t play to his strengths, but you have to show some kind of effort to adapt to your teammates, and I haven’t seen it.

It’s made more stark by the fact that kids like Davis and RHM come in from nowhere and have some impact, just doing the basics.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1022 on: December 31, 2017, 11:58:40 AM »
right up there with Bosko as one of our all-time transfer fuck-ups

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1023 on: January 02, 2018, 09:24:30 AM »
We saw the difference a goal makes last night. Terrific header for the first goal, but even more so for the Snodgrass goal. Both showed he does have a bit of movement to create space for himself, both were good headers.  Had Snodgrass looked up and passed early in the second half, he would have had a tap in for another.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1024 on: January 02, 2018, 09:31:00 AM »
He's gonna come good I tell ya.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1025 on: January 02, 2018, 09:38:03 AM »
I think the difference was Grealish was feeding to the ball Adomah whilst he was on the run past the fullback, so he gets his cross in early, this allows the forward to make his run and receive the ball. Normally we feed the ball sideways to Adomah who then has to beat the fullback before attempting a cross and the forward has made the run early but doesn't get the ball. The pace of the attacks made all the difference.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1026 on: January 02, 2018, 10:07:20 AM »
The ball got moved a lot quicker and that helped. He was a lot busier after he scored, running to close, or driving with the ball. His header was superb and the one that Steele saved before our second was excellent too.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1027 on: January 02, 2018, 10:47:57 AM »
Hopefully that display and goal will do him the world of good and get his Villa career up and running. I hope he can do a Juan Pablo Angel and now start banging them in. Which got me thinking how many different players have we had that have taken a season to settle in before they came good?

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1028 on: January 02, 2018, 11:53:52 AM »
Lovely headers in the game, hopefully with some confidence he'll really add to the team.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1029 on: January 02, 2018, 12:01:34 PM »
Better. Another 15 goals by the end of the season and he will be starting to look like a  good  signing!

In fairness last 2-3 appearances he has started to lift his game, hopefully with the monkey ofnot scoring off his back it will start to click with him.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1030 on: January 02, 2018, 12:03:14 PM »
Agnew has been coaching him one-to-one so maybe we will start to see the player we thought he was. Delighted for him last night, top draw headers and his running off the ball is excellent but goes unnoticed by the fans and players!

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1031 on: January 02, 2018, 12:08:17 PM »
Agnew has been coaching him one-to-one so maybe we will start to see the player we thought he was. Delighted for him last night, top draw headers and his running off the ball is excellent but goes unnoticed by the fans and players!

Mentioned it in another thread, but I thought he made some good runs in the box and attacked the near post really well last night.  He looked a bit sharper overall and it was good to see him score.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1032 on: January 02, 2018, 12:14:12 PM »
I think the difference was Grealish was feeding to the ball Adomah whilst he was on the run past the fullback, so he gets his cross in early, this allows the forward to make his run and receive the ball. Normally we feed the ball sideways to Adomah who then has to beat the fullback before attempting a cross and the forward has made the run early but doesn't get the ball. The pace of the attacks made all the difference.
This is the crux of it and is also the reason why I've been despairing of this manager's approach to games. Perhaps we've finally turned a corner. It's moving the ball quickly and getting runners available that opens up defences.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1033 on: January 02, 2018, 12:25:43 PM »
Agnew has been coaching him one-to-one so maybe we will start to see the player we thought he was. Delighted for him last night, top draw headers and his running off the ball is excellent but goes unnoticed by the fans and players!

Not me. His run for Snodgrass second goal took defenders away & opened it up for Grealish to set up Snodgrass.

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Re: Scott Hogan - confirmed
« Reply #1034 on: January 02, 2018, 12:41:16 PM »
Agnew has been coaching him one-to-one so maybe we will start to see the player we thought he was. Delighted for him last night, top draw headers and his running off the ball is excellent but goes unnoticed by the fans and players!
How do you know this Walmley?  Not disputing it and I think it's a great thing if true, just wondered how you have heard it?

 


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