Bring on Freddie!

[PL2 3DQ]

Well is it the time to throw caution to the wind and start with Freddie? Youthful exuberance, speed, fresh legs, something to prove. Our attack looks stale, it needs a spark. Thoughts?

Merged with the other Freddie Issaka thread started yesterday.

 

[Mr Gillingham]

Surely he would have played by now. Just can't see it happening, unfortunately

 

[Born green]

Throw the dice in a relegation decider with a 17 year old!
He doesn’t need or deserve that kind of pressure
Bring him on for the last 15 if we are desperate but better to save him for next season

But it's ok to give an 18 year old a load of games since January....

 

[Cobi Budge]

I don’t see what we’ve got to lose by playing Freddie, we aren’t scoring anyway, at least he’d be fresh and hungry.

 

[philevs]

I’d start with Freddie and review things at half time, if he’s doing well leave him on for another 15 or so and then change if needed.
No-one else up front is really performing as they should be.

 

[Pilgrims Progress]

We now know that we have to go against Hull with the intention of scoring at least one goal.
With our current goal drought and all our senior forwards seemingly out of any sort of decent form, surely we need to throw the dice and give Freddie Issaka some game time, or even a start?

I love to watch Freddie but to start him could be risky we need
experienced heads for this one and go all out and attack from the
start with two or even three up top, the current tactics worked in
Div 1 but it has failed miserably at this level as we don't have the
quality needed. How about trying?

4 4 2 or 4 3 3

 

[Ian C]

I just cant watch anymore Ben Waine. So deflated at Millwall yesterday when I saw him in the starting linup. Utter garbage! I'd rather we gave Callumn Burton a chance up front.

 

[djg145]

This is a game for Hardie and Whittaker to step up to the plate not Isaac

They have had several games to step up, it isn't happening. If it's not working we keep it the same until it does work lol. No, if something isn't working it needs changing

 

[santos73]

They have had several games to step up, it isn't happening. If it's not working we keep it the same until it does work lol. No, if something isn't working it needs changing

We know Whittaker and Hardie can do it but Freddie has yet to prove it
One moment of magic from Whittaker could save us from relegation

 

[Sun Stonehouse]

Surely he has to start. Nobody has been effective in attack for us for the last two months so what have we got to lose. He can't possibly do any worse than what we have been presented with since January. Waine doesn't have an ounce of his talent or unpredictability and unfortunately Hardie seems to have run out of steam. Bundu and Whitticker are generally the only ones to actually attempt to shoot at the goal, usually without much success it has to be said. What could possibly go wrong!.

 

[Cobi Budge]

This is a game for Hardie and Whittaker to step up to the plate not Isaac

Hardie and Whittaker have both been poor for some weeks now and we’ve only scored 3 goals in our last 6 games - one of those was an OG.

What do we have to lose by giving Issaka a go?

 

[Balham Green]

N

Not many are going to know of him so not many will know his strengths or weaknesses.
Cometh the hour….

Not many know my strengths and weaknesses. I'm available.

 

[Sun Stonehouse]

Oh and please don't start with Calum Wright, a total waste of a player on the pitch. A sad reflection of what we could have had with regards to buying Finn Azaz but unfortunately we didn't appreciate what we had until it was too late. Division One maybe for Wright but no way a Championship player.

 

[djg145]

We know Whittaker and Hardie can do it but Freddie has yet to prove it
One moment of magic from Whittaker could save us from relegation

So how does he prove it? By sitting on the bench?

 

[Argy1e]

Oh and please don't start with Calum Wright, a total waste of a player on the pitch. A sad reflection of what we could have had with regards to buying Finn Azaz but unfortunately we didn't appreciate what we had until it was too late. Division One maybe for Wright but no way a Championship player.

Since Wright has been taken out of the side we've been toothless going forward. Bundu had one chance and scored it against Leicester, apart from that we've been rubbish. In the games where Wright has played recently we've been worse in every game after he's been subbed off. His movement is excellent, and the players around him have looked better when he's played too. He had a couple of bad misses against QPR and has barely been seen since, but he is so much better on the ball than Bundu, and offers us something that no-one else in the squad can.