Emil Riis

Saw enough last night. Given us some brilliant moments but he's a shadow of the player he once was.

Sooner he's out of the side the better.
 
Riis can see out his contract all he wants for all I care, won’t be missed, absolutely shocking as of late, he’s a shadow of his former self.

Majority of the players out of contract in the summer don’t deserve renewals, get rid and rebuild.

Hecky has some job to do in the summer.

Do need to kepp the squad fresh and on their toes. Extensions to defenders was a step back.
 
Why despite his height does he never win anything in the air and why offside so often?

Same reason Peter Crouch was rubbish with his heading, just because you are tall doesn’t mean you are good in the air.

For me if you aren’t great in the air like Riss, Milly and Keane then you need to put pressure on the defender going for the ball and concentrate on winning the second ball. Unfortunately for us we have no one we have one doing this.
 
Same reason Peter Crouch was rubbish with his heading, just because you are tall doesn’t mean you are good in the air.

For me if you aren’t great in the air like Riss, Milly and Keane then you need to put pressure on the defender going for the ball and concentrate on winning the second ball. Unfortunately for us we have no one we have one doing this.

Peter Crouch has the most headed goals in prem history 53. 2nd is Shearer with 46
 
It does feel like we're playing with 10 when he's on the pitch. For a big man, he rarely wins his battles and when he does, he rarely keeps the ball. Body language is a world away from his teammates. It's easy to see that Hecky has a hard job on, but the way he's transformed others isn't flowing through to Emil. No ill will, but he needs to move on if only for his own good.
 
For me if you aren’t great in the air like Riss, Milly and Keane then you need to put pressure on the defender going for the ball and concentrate on winning the second ball. Unfortunately for us we have no one we have one doing this.

Yeah, in these "Luton benchmark" games, we leave the striker isolated, fire high balls at him, then complain "nothing is sticking".

We get what we deserve from these tactics.
 
Same reason Peter Crouch was rubbish with his heading, just because you are tall doesn’t mean you are good in the air.

For me if you aren’t great in the air like Riss, Milly and Keane then you need to put pressure on the defender going for the ball and concentrate on winning the second ball. Unfortunately for us we have no one we have one doing this.

Crouch holds the record for most premier league headed goals?
 
For me its simply a case of he isnt a good footballer and another case of North End not striking whilst the iron is hot - sales wise

He has more limitations than strengths but what is unforgivable at any level is the effort/desire.

Even when Osmajic isn’t performing well he harries opponents and puts himself about, which is why he is loved by the faithful. Riis allows defenders an easy time most weeks,
Even Ched showed more effort and put himself far more in his cameo.
 
Since the injury his demeanour has been way off. He doesn’t win anything in the air, he’s rubbish at holding the ball up. He gives up the chase all too often, he’s extremely frustrating to watch. We need rid asap and replace with a young hungry forward.
 
His good game is playing shit and scoring, his bad game is playing shit and not scoring.

Would be a decent option for a technical side lacking goals up top, a Sunderland for example.

Will probably get slated for it, but he fits into the Ledson category of footballer who I find genuinely miserable to watch. He’s much better than Ledson obviously, but has the same impact on me as a spectator
 
His good game is playing shit and scoring, his bad game is playing shit and not scoring.

Would be a decent option for a technical side lacking goals up top, a Sunderland for example.

Will probably get slated for it, but he fits into the Ledson category of footballer who I find genuinely miserable to watch. He’s much better than Ledson obviously, but has the same impact on me as a spectator

For me Ledson is better, better ball control, a far greater presence and he gives a fuck
 
It does feel like we're playing with 10 when he's on the pitch. For a big man, he rarely wins his battles and when he does, he rarely keeps the ball. Body language is a world away from his teammates. It's easy to see that Hecky has a hard job on, but the way he's transformed others isn't flowing through to Emil. No ill will, but he needs to move on if only for his own good.
I said last night that if it wasn't for his occasional 'worldie' strike, we'd probably be putting him in the category of Tony Lormor, Habib Sissoko and Micky Holt category of striker.

Can't head, can't control a ball, poor movement, poor attitude... but can hit a ball hard, occasionally in the direction of the goal.
 
Saw enough last night. Given us some brilliant moments but he's a shadow of the player he once was.

Sooner he's out of the side the better.

Blackburns lumbering centre forward v Preston’s lumbering centre forward. Miles and miles apart in application.
 
He’s also good at being in the right place a lot of the time…last night he should have scored when the ball fell to him but skied it.
 
I’d love him to come good but sadly can’t ever see that happening, I’ve always thought that he was Lazy and just didn’t get stuck in.
 
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