we've done it with striker after striker to be fair.
Although, have to say, when he does get a chance, he doesn't look like scoring half the time. Confidence would go up if he got more service and got a few though.
As I mentioned last night, my internal shit-giving limiter is kicking in re Weskey as he's getting so much stick and I'm giving him plenty of it to the point where you start to think it isn't right.
That said, I suspect the reason so many are piling in now is because even when we were playing well, he wasn't really doing much - yes, at least he bagged a couple of goals but then missed that penalty and continued to look not very good overall.
Now we're in a downturn it just highlights how his net contribution is precisely zero and that's why he's getting the stick.
Unfortunately, that's the way football goes - we were just about able to carry him with goals coming from midfield and our goal tally overall isn't too shabby but if one or two other players stop contributing then we're not going to be a very good side with only 8 or 9 players on the pitch.
Ultimately, if you're a centre half then you know you're very likely to have an easy game when playing Villa with Weskey up front and if you know there's no goal threat up front then you don't need to worry about having a DM in front of your centre halves, they can press further up and close down space in CM because you know there's no real threat behind you which further adds to our difficulties in midfield - in that scenario, the likes of Jack and SJM are inevitably going to have a harder time of it.
All in all, it would appear that opposition managers have sussed us out and nullified our threat from midfield and that's a big problem if there's nothing up front. What you want to be able to do in a compressed midfield is have a player like Jack/SJM put in a killer pass in front of a running striker in the space available but Weskey is the slowest player I've ever seen in the PL over 10 yards so that option isn't on which means we're going to struggle to keep the ball under control in the opposing half and move the CMs forward with it.
Right now I imagine that Jack and SJM are both confirming their release clauses with their agents this weekend, not just because of the threat of relegation but because of the ludicrous amount of pressure on them every game as they have to carry the ball from penalty area to penalty area almost single-handed - this much effort over the longer-term leads to injury and we all know it - SJM may already be there IMO.
This is partly why I like Trez so much because he's *always* on the move and putting his foot in which takes pressure off Jack and SJM and despite the questions about end product from him his efforts have bagged him a few goals - would that it were the same from Ghazi who is constantly picked ahead of him FFS. When does Ghazi ever put his foot in or sprint into space to receive a ball? He hugs the touchline like his life depends on it, never makes a tackle and rarely beats anyone to put a decent ball into the area.
I'm a bit all over the place with this post lol but the gist is this - we are dysfunctional up front and on the wings and when opposition managers see that pattern they can adjust to take it into account and that inevitably means they can load up the CM and constrain our better players.
We need *something* up front, hell, just any kid that can run quite quickly would do right now, never mind finishing ability etc and likewise, we need people putting in a shift every game on the wings to also take pressure off our CM.
