Karl Coppack
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How many midfielders?
I understand the point.
Do you think some people have been a little bit harsh on Frimpong at right-back at times?
He's not perfect, he's not incredibly defensively solid, but he does provide something in that team, that extreme quality, which nobody else does.
And that can be effective in games.
I mean, it was only three months ago we were talking about, well, Frimpong literally ran this game from right-back because of that pace that he has.
Yeah, and I think there's a big issue with Frimpong in the sense that he's very horses for courses.
So for me, if he comes up against somebody who is quick and strong, he's almost ineffective.
Like when he came up against Jed Spence, right?
You just couldn't get past him.
And he doesn't have another trick in the locker.
So we can't have Frimpong as our right back for every single game or as our right winger for every single game.
But there's no way to me that there's no game... Jeff Spencer was playing right wing though, wasn't he?
He was, but then, yeah.
So what I mean is what he does is incredible and it's an incredible quality, but it is the same thing every time.
If somebody kind of directs that, then that's slightly different.
Whereas if he's coming up against, I don't know, like Matt Target next season, he's not because he plays for Middlesbrough, but you know what I mean.
You can see how Frimpong can get the better of him, just give him a horrible time.
For me, there isn't a world in which next season there is no games where that incredible frimpong quality isn't useful for us.
But I totally agree with the point of Bradley's not coming back and we don't know what player Bradley's going to be when he does come back.