I don't think I could ever be accused of keeping quiet about Becchio - if you go back through my reports , even from his glory days with Beckford at the start of last season when he couldn't stop scoring I've always pointed out that he is a real , weak link in the team and a definite constraint to us playing any creative football in and around the box. He's obviously a player who is at the top of his game at the moment , he's scored 1 in 2 for the last 2 months , which is good, but my point is that 1 in 2 at this level is the absolute minimum for a striker and if you look at the Charlton game you realise that when he doesn't score how bad he is, when he does score he gets forgiven by some , not me. He's just not good enough for a team with greater aspirations than League One.
If you're talking about being quiet because I haven't done a match report for the last couple of games then fair enough - just haven't had time recently, but I don't not do match reports just cos Becchio scores. Alan, do you think (1) Becchio is a good striker ? (2) Becchio can pass a 10 yard ball to his team mate consistently. (3) Is better than Kandol and Grella My answers (1) No. (2) No (3) No. ----- Original Message ---- From: Alan Edgar <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sun, 2 May, 2010 21:45:13 Subject: [LU] Charlton What Mark says below is almost verbatim what I was saying whilst queuing in the pi$$ing rain for the train back to London Bridge. Interesting that Mr Walker keeps quiet about Becchio when he is scoring all the time and as soon as the striker draws a blank he comes out with rubbish like we should be playing Kandol instead. We couldn't ask for a better fixture to finish the season with, and if we don't deliver then I'd agree with Claridge - we don't deserve it. Al Date: Sat, 1 May 2010 09:50:19 -0700 From: "Mark Smith" <[email protected]> Subject: [LU] today To: "'Leeds List'" <[email protected]> Message-ID: <79b034e9e4624ab59991e51ef6833...@markpc> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" All I wanted today was to match or do better than Millwall. We did that Grayson had a choice with 15 minutes to go. IMO he did the right thing and went for it with as many attacking players as he could. Of course with hindsight a more conservative approach and a draw would have been better. But it doesn't change all that much that we lost rather than drew. We still would have needed to win next week. We could have still finished third with a draw if Millwall won 2-0. At the beginning of the season I would have grabbed knowing that a win at home on last day would see us up. I would have also taken that this morning before the game, and probably at any time since we lost to Southampton. It's a disappointing that we had a chance to finish it today and didn't - but I would have done the same as Grayson. _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away _______________________________________________ the Leeds List is an unmoderated mailing list and the list administrators accept no liability for the personal views and opinions of contributors. Leedslist mailing list [email protected] http://list.zetnet.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist and the hardest time in a sailor's day is to watch the sun as it sails away
