MURPHY "BEST CROSSER IN THE WORLD"
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What recent achievements has Terry Devlin accomplished?
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Terry Devlin has been named in the Sky Bet Championship Team of the Week following a fine showing against Blackburn. The versatile Northern Ireland international, who has mostly been utilised at right-back this season, shone at both ends of the pitch in the Fratton Park victory. Goals from Callum Lang and Ibane Boat saw the Blues battle from behind to secure all three points and climb out of the bottom three. But it was the performance from Devlin which stood out most, and he was also named in the Team of the Week for the entire EFL.
So congratulations to Terry Devlin. I always think, and I wonder if you agree, that one of the most insightful football crowd chants of all time is Terry Devlin, he plays where he wants. Because it's fun, of course. It praises one of our players, of course. But also, I think it shows an insight into, and I don't mean to be patronising when I say this, I think it shows the fans' insight into the way John Massino likes to set up a team with as many players in as many appropriate positions as possible, able to adapt during the course of the game and play where they are needed. and recognise when to change or adjust their positioning skills and senses so that they go from being a right-back to being a right-sided midfield player or, if necessary, shoring up the two central defenders if you're a full-back like Terry Devlin.
He doesn't just play where he wants, he plays where he's needed And he's quietly attracting attention. So we'd better just keep an eye on him and make sure that he's happy. He's a happy bunny. He seems to be pretty well grounded, I think, for a player who has it in him, I feel. Do you agree? to play in the Premier League eventually. He's got the lot. He's adaptable, but his specialist position is a very important one, whatever Roy Keane may have to say about it, or is it Jamie? What's his face? When they're denigrating Gary Neville, the right-back is a very important position. If you're playing for at the back... So maybe Devlin's versatility will come into its own fully if it is part of John Massino's agenda to, where appropriate, have just three at the back.
You may be interested to know, though, that this Skybet Championship Team of the Week is compiled in a very interesting way. Now, I've never bothered to look into it before. I don't personally set great store in these things, but there's an element of kudos about it. And Terry Devlin will no doubt have appreciated. I've mentioned it in his most recent phone call to his mum or whatever. But if you look at the team that they've compiled as the team of the week in the championship, what's really interesting is that the majority of them play for teams that are struggling a little bit. That includes us, of course. But you've also got, there's a Derby centre-forward, Patrick Higgins, Aguimang, who got two for Derby against Sheffield Wednesday the Saturday before.
Then there is Jovan Makama, who got Norwich's... No, got two for Norwich against that lot up the road again on Saturday. Then you've got Ephraim Mason-Clark, Coventry. There's got to be a Coventry and or a Middlesbrough player in there somewhere. And it's him. He got the goal in their 1-0 win over Bristol City. Then you've got next to him is Brian de Kierschmacher, who got the only goal for Oxford.
How does Terry Devlin's versatility benefit the team?
Oxford, yeah. In their 2-1 defeat at Preston. Then you've got Bobby de Cordova-Reed, who got the first. Leicester 3, Ipswich 1. And then you've got Jordan Storey, for Preston, who put Preston in the lead against Oxford. So these are clubs that will welcome any positive publicity, any positive news. And in order to decide which of the players representing those clubs go on the team sheet for Team of the Week, you pick the goalscorer. which makes Devlin's achievement even greater because that honour could have gone to Lang and it could have, it could just as easily have gone to Bowat. But that's how these things seem to be put together to me.
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