Quote from: tomd2103 on August 06, 2017, 01:13:51 AMQuote from: olaftab on August 06, 2017, 12:12:20 AMHogan was very good today. Gabby should have squared it to him when clean through and he superbly stepped over to let the ball to Gabby to score. I think he needs to be more greedy.Sorry Olaf, can't agree with that. A couple of nice touches to nearly set himself up in the first half, but I thought he was increasingly ineffective as the game went on. I accept it's not all his fault as we don't play to his strengths, but there is little point in playing him if we are going to continue to play the way we did today, I half-agree with both of you about today. But in general there seems to be a collective shrug of the shoulder and 'Bruce can't have seen him at Brentford or he would't have bought him' vibe around this. We're talking about the most expensive player Bruce has ever bought. It's madness. Hogan's a good player, but to put him in a Bruce side is like dousing a Quail's egg in salad cream to make your Uncle Kevin's sandwiches to take to work on his pig farm in the winter. Bruce has wasted £15m of his employer's money (and potentially ruined a good player's career). It's practically gross misconduct.We could've got Akinfenwe for a couple of pork pies and a handjob* and he'd have contributed way more under this manager.*I know that for a fact.
Quote from: olaftab on August 06, 2017, 12:12:20 AMHogan was very good today. Gabby should have squared it to him when clean through and he superbly stepped over to let the ball to Gabby to score. I think he needs to be more greedy.Sorry Olaf, can't agree with that. A couple of nice touches to nearly set himself up in the first half, but I thought he was increasingly ineffective as the game went on. I accept it's not all his fault as we don't play to his strengths, but there is little point in playing him if we are going to continue to play the way we did today,
Hogan was very good today. Gabby should have squared it to him when clean through and he superbly stepped over to let the ball to Gabby to score. I think he needs to be more greedy.
I will do the same. Seen nothing at all to inspire confidence in him.
Hogan will only ever be effective in a front two, and with someone to play off. Playing him on his own will only serve to knacker his confidence.
Quote from: olaftab on August 06, 2017, 12:12:20 AMHogan was very good today. Gabby should have squared it to him when clean through and he superbly stepped over to let the ball to Gabby to score. I think he needs to be more greedy.Did he do that step-over deliberately? If so, that is bloody impressive anticipation. Hendrie used to do it to good effect on occasion back in the day (for Dion and JPA in particular).
Quote from: Sexual Ealing on August 06, 2017, 01:36:32 AMQuote from: tomd2103 on August 06, 2017, 01:13:51 AMQuote from: olaftab on August 06, 2017, 12:12:20 AMHogan was very good today. Gabby should have squared it to him when clean through and he superbly stepped over to let the ball to Gabby to score. I think he needs to be more greedy.Sorry Olaf, can't agree with that. A couple of nice touches to nearly set himself up in the first half, but I thought he was increasingly ineffective as the game went on. I accept it's not all his fault as we don't play to his strengths, but there is little point in playing him if we are going to continue to play the way we did today, I half-agree with both of you about today. But in general there seems to be a collective shrug of the shoulder and 'Bruce can't have seen him at Brentford or he would't have bought him' vibe around this. We're talking about the most expensive player Bruce has ever bought. It's madness. Hogan's a good player, but to put him in a Bruce side is like dousing a Quail's egg in salad cream to make your Uncle Kevin's sandwiches to take to work on his pig farm in the winter. Bruce has wasted £15m of his employer's money (and potentially ruined a good player's career). It's practically gross misconduct.We could've got Akinfenwe for a couple of pork pies and a handjob* and he'd have contributed way more under this manager.*I know that for a fact.But a handjob is all the butchery brings cos fame isn't easy as him
I said last week that if the balls were put to him low and hard and frequently he could score 25 goals a season. Because I have never seen him given the ball low and hard and frequently in the box (other than the excellent goal he scored in Germany) I have never seen him in the flesh justify the money spent on him.