Gazette End of Season Player Ratings

indeedido said:
I suggested Mowatt earlier, but it's not my job to recruit.
McNair plays well in defence with Fry. Otherwise he needs to play in a 3, he can't be the lead defender.
I'm not saying McNair is no good by the way, just he's no water walker. He's much better than Saville...and much more valuable.
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McNair will be up there with the best defenders in the champo. Mowatt for Saville still leaves us light and there both different types of players.
 
indeedido said:
I simply can't agree with that last line Viv. We ended up a poor disjointed squad that still needs a major overhaul.
We had no strikers, poor goalkeepers, a plodding midfield, with insufficient defensive cover and flattered to deceive out wide.
We have the bones of a top 6 side with Fry, Bola, Dijskteel, Hall, Morsy, Tavernier and Watmore.
We need more quality and more cover.
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I think we looked worse at the end than we actually are/were. I reckon that if we were still in the hunt for the play-offs he would've had Fry and Tav involved, he said a few times he'd basically given them the rest of the season off to recover properly for next time. If there was something on the line then I think they would've played. Obviously that is just a hunch though.

When we went to Bournemouth and equalised we were in a strong position, I think if we had a couple of decent strikers at that point things look different. That was another game of many where the ball just didn't stick up front and left us under pressure, more than we would face with a functioning strikeforce to alleviate some of it. The ball just comes back time and again. Again that is just my opinion. I think some of the players switched off subconsciously as soon as Warnock started talking about next season. If he hadn't have done that, again, things might've been different. We got to where we were through organisation, graft, being hard to beat, by the manager getting as much as he possibly could out of a tiny squad who all bought into the dream of promotion. As soon as we drop off a few per cent we are in trouble. That is what it looked like to me anyway. Again though that is just my hunch. Others would point to injuries, or a lack of quality in the squad.

I agree we need more quality and cover, quite urgently really. But I do think we wrote the season off pretty early and that made us look a much poorer team than we were at that point. We downed tools with about 6 games left, probably after Barnsley(another game in which a lack of a striker meant we spent the entire game boxed into our own third of the pitch and inevitably buckled under pressure).
 
BoroMart said:
Betenelli (G:azette:5, Mart:5) - Was pretty flappy most of the season
Archer (G:6, Mart 6) - yes was ok, nothing special but had more confidence about him, I'd be fine with him as backup next year
Dijksteel (g:7, Mart:7) - would have been 8 if he had played more games
Fisher (g:6, Mart:5) - had a brilliant debut but was poor after that, out of position regularly, I'll give him another chance next year as he was playing with an injury
Spence (G:5, Mart:3) - very poor season, played a lot of games, only McNair, Howson, Bola and Bet played more, yet I struggle to remember more then 3 positive things he did.
Hall (G:7, Mart:7) - 8 on performance downgraded to 7 for injury
Fry (G:8, Mart:8) - to kick on to a 9 he needs to stay fit and improve his distribution
McNair (G:8, M:7) - marked 9 on dead balls, 8 on passing, 5 on defending, average a low 7
Bola (g:7, Mart:8) - played far and above what I thought he could
Howson (G:8, Mart:6) - was like watching someone trying to run in wellies
Morsy (G:7, Mart:7) - promising, needs to keep fit
Saville (G:7, Mart:6) - scored a few goals, but was anonymous in most games
Wing (G:6, Mart:4) - don't care what he did for Rotherham he was poor for u
Johnson (G:7, Mart:7) - good squad player
Tav (G:8, Mart:8) - best player at the club, just staying fit would make him a 9 next year
Kebano (G:7, Mart:7) - fair enough
Bolasie (G:7, Mart 7) - effective, but also tripped over himself and was a bit greedy
Watmore (G:8, Mart:9) - top scorer despite only playing half a season, always worked hard and eager to try
Browne (G:6, Mart:5) - not his fault, high hopes for him as his season was ruined when he looked confident
NML (G:5, Mart:6) - showed some good touches, but needs to be fitter
Coulson (G:5, Mart:3) - ineffective
Britt (G:5, Mart:2) - awful player, awful performances
Akpom (G:5, Mart:5) - powderpuff
Fletcher (G:6, Mart:4) - I liked him, but didn't like his lack of effort at end of season and missed most injured



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Five 8s in season ratings - obvious nucleus of next year's team

Now the dust has settled, we dish out the Boro players ratings for the full campaign
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Can’t argue with too much of that, I’d say you’re more accurate than the gazette. I’d probably nudge howson up to a 7, although I concede he faded pretty badly.
 
Stampy’s_Dog said:
Only just dawned on me that the gazette awarded Fletcher 6. How do they work that out?!
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The Gazette awarded marks were too high.
We improved, we finished tenth, that really doesn't match the scores they gave.
If we had so many 7's and 8's we would have finished higher it is as simple as that.
 
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