A lot of teams play only one up top though and it works for them - it's all about the support from the flanks and the midfielders none of which happened last night.
Luke Moore did a lot more to be honest. At one stage he looked a very good player indeed.
Quote from: Risso on August 16, 2018, 10:37:02 AMLuke Moore did a lot more to be honest. At one stage he looked a very good player indeed.Moore looked very good for the 2nd half of DOLs last season and for a few months after mon arrived (when he was playing on the left of a 3) but he picked up an injury in about November and never got back from it because Young came in and replaced him. I think going to the baggies then ruined him and he's never got back to even the level he was in that first year or so let alone lived up to his potential.
If I'm honest, and this is an isolated exception, I actually feel a bit for Bruce with this one. Hepburn-Murphy is undoubtedly a talented player for his age and we'd all love to see him progress into the first-team. Would I be happy to put my faith in him for the remainder of this season and not bring-in another striker? Absolutely not. For all of Bruce's unhelpful tactics, Tuesday night highlighted RHM's limitations at this stage. He's tiny. Really tiny, and easily bullied by centre-halves. Even in wide-areas he was unable to get past his marker/s and was generally ineffective. Regardless of his record at U23 / Youth Team level I've seen absolutely nothing in his first-team appearances YET to suggest that he's ready to be n the first-team, even as a regular on the bench.We can all point the finger at Bruce for not developing him, but he's also been hampered by his own injury record. Bruce's remit is one thing and one thing only - to get us promoted. If bringing through youth-team players contributes towards that, then brilliant, but it's also down to those players to grab that opportunity. At the moment I've not seen RHM do any more than the likes of Luke and Stefan Moore did at a similar stage.