Sir Leigh of Somerset Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Marlon is a 'marmite' player for sure and seems to have taken Skuse's mantle. There are people sitting around me in The Dolman who groan every time he receives the ball (which is a lot of groaning over 90 minutes) and never ever applaud or even quietly acknowledge the mostly positive contribution he makes. Obviously, we're all just expressing our opinions here but I do think that, overall, he's one of our better players who performs his allotted role fairly consistently well. I've not seen many opposing players take Pack's role better than him, he's improving all the time and he could well end up as a really valuable asset, either to the team or in the transfer market. It's just an opinion mind (but tin hat now firmly on)! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCFC_Dan Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 In the first half he was particularly superb. He always seemed to be in the right place to make a challenge or to receive the ball and he used it well. Managed to restrict himself to only a couple of long diagonal passes and found his man most of the time. BT Sport displayed some statistics that showed he had the most touches and completed the most passes of any player on the pitch. Against Premiership opposition, even a Pulis side, that's notable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samo II Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 Will be interesting to see him playing in that formation with Smith and the 6'3" Gladwin, as think that would give us the sort of strength and height we've lacked in that area, and really help those attacking players in front of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arrytheb Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 4 minutes ago, Thatch35 said: Even so, he's been average or below most of the season, showing he's not championship standard. He needs replacing for us to move up the Championship next season (if we are still in it). If you want city near the top of the league, he is not the answer, come on chaps. I'd say that if we want City near the top then very very few of the existing players are the answer! General question. How many of ours would get into a top 5 team on a regular basis? Realistically. Without red tinted glasses on. We are where we are due to 2 reasons. Players not good enough to be (much) higher atm and poor management. Not really a criticism, just what I believe to be the truth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobBobSuperBob Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 As a 'to date' non Pack fan thought he had a decent game last night overall - the swing away from 5-3-2 helps hide his obvious lack of pace as others have commented on Still don't see him as a regular if this side is to progress at this level IMO particulately down to his lack of pace and mobility for this level - which he can't change massively unfortunately But Well done MP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awbb Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 He had a decent game. If I had one criticism, he misjudged a couple of headers. One of them was in the first phase that lead up to their goal. I don't think he was under any pressure, indeed. may have had time to bring it down on his chest, unfortunately he just misjudged it and missed it completely. Flint did the same a few seconds later and that was that, so not all Marlon's fault! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reddoc Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 He was probably the best of a bad bunch, but I am getting excited about the prospect of one of those cross field passes going to one of our players at some stage this season. Hope I'm there for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BS4 on Tour... Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 12 hours ago, leadman said: best of the 3 I thought. still turns towards his own goal way too often, he stopped doing that last season, so reults improve pak will aswell. Pack...it's only one extra letter, you seem to consistently call him Pak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Army 87 Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 2 hours ago, Sir Leigh of Somerset said: Marlon is a 'marmite' player for sure and seems to have taken Skuse's mantle. There are people sitting around me in The Dolman who groan every time he receives the ball (which is a lot of groaning over 90 minutes) and never ever applaud or even quietly acknowledge the mostly positive contribution he makes. Obviously, we're all just expressing our opinions here but I do think that, overall, he's one of our better players who performs his allotted role fairly consistently well. I've not seen many opposing players take Pack's role better than him, he's improving all the time and he could well end up as a really valuable asset, either to the team or in the transfer market. It's just an opinion mind (but tin hat now firmly on)! I was in the dolman and witnessed the same thing. In the first half he played a cross field ball towards Little which was cut out, followed by groans and boos. 5 mins later Bobby Reid does exactly the same thing, same outcome and there was applause. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esmond Million's Bung Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 14 hours ago, Harry said: Pack was very comfortable against Prem opposition. Certainly showed Bobby how to do it, who was rather weak. I agree he was certainly the pick of a poor midfield and didn't look out of place, if only he could cut out the 3 or 4 occasions during a game where he seems to nonchalantly give away a simple ball away and usually at an inopportune moment. But we do need a midfielder who offers goals, hopefully Gladwin might be that soldier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmersonsRed Posted January 20, 2016 Report Share Posted January 20, 2016 14 hours ago, Thatwasclose said: is this thread a joke? No, you must have been watching another game. If you like watching football with a football brain may I recommend doing your coaching badges, I've done almost all of mine now, 2 more to go - been helping coach a local non-league side to help along the way and I promise you you'll look at football in a different way afterwards. You have to take into account just how awful Bobby Reid was last night to realise how well Pack did to make sure we weren't overrun in that midfield. He kept control of the ball well under pressure and played several passes that opened play up, even if they weren't the final ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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