Harry Pickering

[Hasta]

20 minutes ago, JPTSwindon said:

Not all lost for Pickering - He has the best average rating for me on Football Manager 26, swings and roundabouts hey?

Is your squad full of Eurotrash?

[KentExile]

4 minutes ago, Hasta said:

Is your squad full of Eurotrash?

[Hasta]

10 minutes ago, KentExile said:

If I was at work now I'd be getting Photoshop out and a picture of De Neve and Tavares.

[KentExile]

4 minutes ago, Hasta said:

If I was at work now I'd be getting Photoshop out and a picture of De Neve and Tavares.

Something for you to do on Monday then 😉 

 

Have a few more, make sure to include Gestede & Pasha, lol 

 

Edited Saturday at 20:11 by KentExile

[roversfan99]

The club are getting away with it having blocked the LET (although Jackson wouldn't have asked anyway) but it is absolutely crazy even for this club to have arguably our best available defender frozen out.

Is he the solution to an absolute mess of a defence? Obviously not. But he should be starting either on the left side of a back 3 or at left back. He is steady, experienced, reads the game well and is good on the ball.

Miller is crap, McLoughlin is crap and Ribeiro is crap.

[cesus]

10 minutes ago, roversfan99 said:

The club are getting away with it having blocked the LET (although Jackson wouldn't have asked anyway) but it is absolutely crazy even for this club to have arguably our best available defender frozen out.

Is he the solution to an absolute mess of a defence? Obviously not. But he should be starting either on the left side of a back 3 or at left back. He is steady, experienced, reads the game well and is good on the ball.

Miller is crap, McLoughlin is crap and Ribeiro is crap.

I would always have Pickering down as competent. Nothing special but very rarely has a nightmare. I would always class De Neve as incompetent. How the latter plays before the former cannot be due to footballing ability.

[G Somerset Rover]

There’s a good reason that two much better managers than Ismael have rated him. 

However, his swipe at De Neve post match went a long way for me to proving mine (and many others) theory that he cannot be selected for financial reasons.

Edited 15 hours ago by G Somerset Rover

[roversfan99]

I don't think that Pickering is best suited by any means to playing as a wing back.

But he is superior to alternatives in either position. He is defensively aware and decent on the ball. He wouldn't keep switching off like the useless De Neve who doesn't even offer anything going forward either. Pickering was a regular in a team that finished 8th as a wing back but still, it would be a case of not ideal, but a million times better than a bloke even a relegated Belgian side were happy to let go.

Especially if Hedges is back, Pickering would be our best bet at left centre back. Ribeiro is crap and not only that, is very much a full back. Pickering has filled in at left centre back comfortably before.

[BlackburnEnd75]

I've always felt pickering best position is as a left cb. Solid positionally and good technically using the ball well. 

He's not the worst option left wing back for the last 15 to see out a game. Defensively this would make sense.

Obviously his face or his wage doesn't fit with the management / idiots in charge.

[Comfortably numb]

12 hours ago, roversfan99 said:

I don't think that Pickering is best suited by any means to playing as a wing back.

But he is superior to alternatives in either position. He is defensively aware and decent on the ball. He wouldn't keep switching off like the useless De Neve who doesn't even offer anything going forward either. Pickering was a regular in a team that finished 8th as a wing back but still, it would be a case of not ideal, but a million times better than a bloke even a relegated Belgian side were happy to let go.

Especially if Hedges is back, Pickering would be our best bet at left centre back. Ribeiro is crap and not only that, is very much a full back. Pickering has filled in at left centre back comfortably before.

I mentioned Pickering as lcb previously but was surprised when I realised he was smaller than I imagined compared to Ribeiro.

The best option at the moment for that position is still Pratt and I would imagine he'll be back in on Saturday, maybe having just been given a rest by Ismael at the weekend.

The problem at wing backs is going to be the main issue for the next few weeks. Presume Hedges will be back, and I imagine TGH will play rwb, if that's the formation we go with.

Hopefully Tronstad will be up to speed and I think it's time for Baradji to start alongside him. Admittedly not seen a whole lot of him, but what I have seen I like.

[M_B]

I would have gone with Pickering, but not every difference in opinion has to be a conspiracy .  

[MarkBRFC]

44 minutes ago, M_B said:

I would have gone with Pickering, but not every difference in opinion has to be a conspiracy .  

Is it any wonder with what's happened in the last 15 years?