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Cooper: Pompey move will do Storey 'world of good'
           
           


  SWINDON Town manager Mark Cooper feels Miles Storey's loan move to Portsmouth will do the striker "a world of good".

           

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With the squad threadbare to say the least, he's either surplus or this is a hasty decision.

He's shit.

We should sign Fred or Hulk.

They are L1 standard

Still peddling the can't hold it up bullshit I see.

Truth is we've had lots of strikers the same. Two extremes ajose, who was pretty good and George Barker, who hasn't been. Neither held it up though.

If he's not deemed good enough, or is being moved out to make way for a premier kid, just say so.

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Fucking Joke to me.....

Perhaps no cunt wanted Barker!

Why is it bullshit that Storey can't hold it up? It, and his decision making, is a flaw in his game.

Against Brentford, late in the game when they were pushing us hard to equalise, Storey had a chance to at least put his body between an attacker and the ball. He didn't. It was a weak clearance to the edge of the box, on our right. Storey had plenty of time to take a few steps to the ball, either knock the ball away down field, find a Town player to launch a counter attack or just get in the way. He had the time and he had the pace to get their easily.

Instead he gambled and ran beyond the attacker. He gambled that a League One promotion-chasing left back would miss the ball completely and he could break in behind him. Obviously he didn't miss the slow moving ball and was able to cross freely into the box. They didn't score.

Yes, one example but one which clearly fits with what the coaching staff have seen, hence "It’s not all about running in behind people all the time. We are working with him but it’s about that ability to hold the ball up."

He's a good player, he has qualities we need but we shouldn't be utterly blinded by it.

Firstly, I don't know if he's good enough or not, Cooper doesn't think so and that's what counts.

I called bullshit on the reason because to me it doesn't seem logical as a reason to let him go. Its not that I disagree that he can't hold it up, he isn't great at it. Its that every striker other than Ranger has been unable to hold it up.  Smith, Ajose, N'Guessen, Barker - none of those got the same criticism. Williams doesn't hold it up either.

It just seems to me Cooper has never rated him.

I have, of course, been known to be wrong.

If cooper came out and said: "He's gone because he's not good enough", then he'd be slated for having poor man-management skills.

True :)

I think as per my example of play, Storey actively does the wrong thing - not just not hold it up, he looses it in such a way as to leave us more open to attack. Most of the players didn't do that - bar Baker who he didn't play - and N'Guessan once he'd lost interest.

I see where you are coming from, not sure I agree, will have to ask the Pompey fans later..

Pritchard was by a country mile the worst offender at this.

Storey is one of those players who we'll still be talking about 10 years from today regardless of the career he goes on to have.

Why do you think that sonic?

For me he's a bit Alan Connell , never really given the chance to succeed/fail.

But connell is a footnote now hardly mentioned. Except for this post.

I just hope that he has a good season with Pompey as then it will be a win-win situation for us, take him back as a better player or sell him on. Got to say that he seemed to be progressing well under PDC but not under Cooper although injuries did not help.

As usual only time will tell.