The Hard Road To The Premiership

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I've stated before that I think he should be played in the goal square, but nobody seems to like that idea.

Is it practical?

In reality it takes a sh1t load of effort to generate shots inside 25m and when you get them in that zone you cannot afford to waste them, if you do waste them it's demoralising to the team based on effort versus reward.

By comparison you can generate a sh1t load of shots from 50m and nobody is expected to kick them, if you get them you're a hero and if you don't it's no big deal!

So perhaps it's a bit of harm minimisation being put in place by the top dogs!

As a coach you'd be on a short life expectancy if you built a game plan to deliver goal square marking opportunities to your clunking forward only to see him burn you 50% of the time when he actually clunked one. How many opportunities would he get, how many of those would he clunk, how many of those would he kick? It's not a winning, positive, or improvement strategy.