He plays, he nearly always scores

Yet more proof that leaving Cauley out of the side is just madness. We could have two forwards on 20 each by May

 

Back post poacher. What a simple game this is. 3-1 and could be more

 

And he is one player that we don't have to worry about in January.

 

Interesting in his post match interview that the social media banter may have spurred him on.
He is the ideal foil to Moore. The Parker to Kieffer's Aylott.

 

All good so far. We’re lucky to have him. Same as last season with McBurnie

 

Not seen enough of Cauley yet, but I think he's a different type of player to Parker, more of a goal poacher and less of a play-maker. Maybe as he really settles into the side he might become another Parker (I wish!).

 

Yes, we'll see. Agree it's early days yet.

 

Lots was made of Bradshaws departure, but this lad easily has more in the tank for me.

Always a goal threat, can run with the ball, can shoot from outside the box, can head the ball and his anticipation is top notch, plus he's no slouch.

 

I’ll hold my hands up and say that when Bradshaw was sold (or even close to being sold) I was pretty downbeat by it as I thought he’d score goals in this league and it pretty much just left us with Kieffer up front. However, Cauley has been an absolute gem so far so a massive well done to the club on this situation as a whole.

When Cauley first got over his injury I said that 12 goals would be a good return. Well with how he’s hit the ground running, I’d say 20 is more realistic now. Let’s hope he keeps it up!

 

We certainly seem to have got the better end of the deal than Millwall - the frustrating thing being if he’d not been signed injured (sorry, not got an injury in his first training session that we knew about before he’d trained...), we might well have been top two at the moment.

Not playing him against donny was absolute madness.

 

If he'd started against Donny the odds of us being two points better off than we currently are would have increased.

 

I don’t know we were awful when we went 4-4-2, we got ripped apart that last half hour & were it not got dreadful finishing we could’ve easily lost 4 or 5-1

 

Maybe but it just looks to me that we could have two of the top three or four strikers in the league on our hands. To hamstring ourselves by playing only one of them to me seems daft.

 

Looking back at the game itself and take into context the opposition I think Stendel identified that they had two major threats upfront in May and Marquis and knew Donny liked to play the ball on the floor around the midfield and feed the strikers through It’s partly why they’ve been successful this season.

I think To combat this Stendel played 5 in midfield to clog the middle of the park up and disrupt their usual passing style and force them to boot it long to try get Marquis and May through on goal, I think I’m large this worked because they were both caught offside 30 thousand times.

It’s about weighing up the options available to us and deciding whether it’s risky or not, yes if we played two up top we might have ran away with it but on the flipside Doncaster might have had more room to operate and get their strikers through on goal more.

 

Different game when you start with 4-4-2.

 

I’d rather see our best eleven starting and for the opposition to be worried about how to cope with us - not the other way round

 

Especially considering he's their record signing, and they look like being relegated

 

I don’t think it was a case of management team not fancying him for the Donny game, rather that he’d not long since returned from a fairly serious muscle injury and couldn’t play Saturday-Tuesday. DS opted to play him vs Sunderland, which in hindsight looks the wrong decision. These things happen.

 

Winall used to do that, but we don't like to talk about it

 

The irony is that we took a London boy up north and he’s brilliant and they took our lad down south and, so far, he’s NOT brilliant. You’ve got to larf, aintcher...