Duncan Barkes
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He's not just earnest and industrious, he's successful in what he does.
He's standing on the right bit of grass every time, which is how I define, you know, being a player who understands the moment in the game, especially when the ball is coming his way.
When to go forward, when to come back, when to go wide, when to cover, when to get close, when to stand off, when to go forward, when to overlap.
It was good to see Colby Bishop have a run out.
He didn't threaten, but he gave our goalkeeper the option of the long ball.
Now, I tuned into the BBC at half-time to see what was being said, and somebody had sent in
A text saying that Schmidt was kicking the ball long too often.
I don't know what game that bloke was watching.
He wasn't kicking the ball long.
He kicked it once or twice long because Blackburn...
worked out that he couldn't kick it long because he had four forwards all of whom were five foot six there's no point going long when you your guys are a foot shorter than half the other team so he was looking for the short ball out of out of the penalty area when he had it and generally speaking he worked it well our two full backs went wide and somebody would then come forward
In the middle, one of our midfield players would come back towards him in the middle of the pitch and he'd often get the ball and then would know that one or both of the full-backs were on for a pass so it would go square out to them.
And that's clearly a training ground thing and it was very successful.