Dougall out for a month

I did. But to be fair we were already 2-0 down and everyone was completely useless throughout the game. Not one player did their job.

 

Your comments have zero context though so of course they look out of place. The Dougall circumstances are completely different to the injury point you raised recently and you know it.

 

I've not seen any evidence of that. Thought he played well in the first half against Luton though, when he played more of a holding roll. And he arrived late in the box to score, as someone taking up a deeper midfield role will do occasionally. When we've played him as an attacking midfield player, in my opinion he's not been very good at all. In two of the three league games he's started this season he's been hauled off at half time. I think the Luton game might be the only time he's managed 90 minutes for us in the league? It's the only time we've won when he started the game and he was still on the pitch when we scored the winning goal.

 

Agree with all of that. Not convinced by McGeehan but his performance against luton gave me some hope he could do a job in DM. Not seen any evidence to suggest he's an effective attacking mid.

 

He was a free scoring midfielder when we signed him. I've seen little of him, but as a defensive midfield player he looks out of position. He scored a great goal going forward versus his old team ... what has he done in defence?

We have no real cover for Dougall. Bird or a 3 at the back formation maybe?

You can't ask a player to adjust to a new position in first team football. That has to be done in training / U23's

 

Did he start against Sunderland last season - or do you just mean this?

 

He never looks to beat a man and hardly ever looks forward for a pass unless he's got 3 or more seconds to think about it.

And even then he usually plays it backwards.

He's OK when he strays forward cos he's a unit, and his passes (like his recent goal) go to the target.

 

Wasn't in the squad for the home match v Sunderland, unused sub away. I meant both last season and this.

 

The fears some people voiced and were shot down for after the Luton game, are coming home to roost quicker than even they probably thought. You simply have to make sure that everyone has a capable deputy. In some cases that can be achieved with the good old fashioned utility player.

 

In the Luton game we didn't have Moore and Dougall available and we won. Against Shrewsbury we did and we lost. I'm struggling with the evidence you're using to make your point.

 

Need to get zeberdee in, ave heard he’s got some spring in his step!

 

The squad simply isn't deep enough. Moore has probably been rushed back too soon and we still can't field a strong strike pairing in a 4-4-2. We've now got to soldier on for at least a month without anyone who is naturally suited to the defensive midfield role.

Ps. Dougall was only on the pitch for 21 minutes at Shrewsbury.

 

We did with Hourihane to be fair, that took how many games to look comfortable in his defensive duties? Season and a half of regular football?

McGeehan has started just 10 games. Its not fair to judge him on just that. Let's see if a run of games helps demonstrate more what he can do.

And to be fair, he put in a few good tackles against Luton and a fantastic block in the box at Charlton that stopped a direct shot on goal.

 

There is a conversion scale/formula for the Barnsley FC injury recovery prediction. Its like the very basic one you do when converting temperature from centigrade to farenheit.... you double it and then add 28... so with Woodrow that's
14 days x 2 = 28... + 28 which is 56 (8 weeks) . So with Dougal 2 months = 56 days (lunar calendar) plus 28 = 84 days (12 weeks)... but the add in the Isgrove factor and it could be much much longer.Then on his first game back its a given that a disciplinary card will happen resulting a 1 match, or even more, ban. however I do not see this predictor formulae coming anywhere near accurate enough to give date for Isgrove.... maybe a look in Old Moores Almanac would be a better choice.

 

Teams that go up don't have X number of players learning on the job as the season progresses.

 

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