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I think he's excellent and just needs to be sensibly managed. For those of us who can remember that far back, his style of play and ability to read the game reminds me of David Bardsley, who had a very similar way of playing at right back.
If we can get Madsen and Vale playing like that consistently for the final 16 games we could be very dangerous. Certainly a partnership we have to grow. Shout out for Bennie as well. He is still only 19. He will be picked up for losing his man for the goal but I thought he worked very hard as the 'water carrier' between Vale and Madsen. It reminded me at times of the role Ian Holloway played for us. Constantly mopping up and linking play. Well done that lad.
Otherwise, I thought the defence looked really sound and Kone was everything you want in a number 9 in that match.
Let's hope the Dembele injury isn't as bad as it sounds but considering this is a weakened team and squad, and considering that the Wrexham game could have been a season killer, they reacted well. So credit to the gaffer, the coaching team and the team. They didn't panic at 2-1 and they played some really nice stuff, on a pitch not really made for football.
Let's also hope they can now take some confidence and belief into the Charlton game on Friday. We are very much due an away performance and an away win, particularly against some old team mates and a manager who for reasons best known to himself, really dislikes us.
Back to his best. We lose him at our own peril. I had the same foot injury he had and it took ages, but he seems to have shaken it off. 35 in a few months and still very comfortable at this level. 91 games for the club. If he keeps playing like this then def another season in him.
1. The link up between Madsen and Vale was excellent and a shout out for Bennie, who seemed to act as the water carrier between them on occasion. That triangle seemed to work very well and was far more creative.
2. Harvey's hair! He either got a recommendation off Cookie or Cookie's new hair has jumped in the wind and self seeded on Harvey's head?
I feel for Palace and their fans. They are getting hammered at every angle. This is such a crap thing for the FA to do but they are top serving scum bags.
Norwich managed to beat them last week. A few teams recently have turned them over. And we need a big response after last weekend and of course that humiliation at Coventry. So I expect a big performance, a swashbuckling front foot assault on the Coventry defence. That is what the coaching staff should demand, what the players should demand of themselves and what the fans should demand of the club...
The voice of Morgan Freeman: But QPR did not do any of this and lost 4 nil.
It is typical that we sell one striker for another, only to find the new one is broken as well. I can only assume he bashed his knee standing up from the contract signing on ceremony?
Should we have paid £1m for Poku when it appears he arrived on a stretcher? I guess in the days of modern football finance £1m is a gamble for a player that, if he does ever regain working hamstrings, is a player.
I feel far more comfortable with Nourry than I did with Hoos. The job is a bit of a poisoned chalice anyway so I don't envy anyone doing it. It does help, as others have pointed out, that having owners with seemingly deep pockets and the ability to absorb and convert debt is quite a rarity.
We've made some good signings and some not so great signings, but overall we have made ones that will hopefully get us moving forward.
The shame this season is that it will perhaps be looked at as a missed opportunity. Leicester, Southampton and Sheffield Utd being very mediocre and the division being quite mediocre overall. But it what is it is and we still have a much smaller budget than most teams in this league. It is a missed opportunity though when you look at how well Millwall, Preston and Hull have done this season.
Comms seem to be the most trying part of his tenure so far. That has to improve but the pitch is one of those things where you do the research and put in something that should work, that then fails quite spectacularly. It can happen! It has happened. It has caused some of the injuries as well.
His work on the Women's team has been outstanding and it's an important part of this club's identity.
By the way I think the fitness thing is something the powers that be need to review. Going from a full squad, more or less, to bare bones in a matter of weeks is not a good look. I sometimes feel that certain players are over trained and others need to be trained in a different way. With the amount of hamstring injuries it feels obvious that some element of the training isn't accounting for the match day reality. Famously Ledley King didn't train in the week at Spurs. That's not to say he did nothing. He did very light training customised to his longterm injury weaknesses and only actually played full tilt on match days. You look at Poku and JCS and you wonder if an overhaul in the way their particular training is managed would allow them to play more matches without breaking down all the time?
Inevitable really. Obviously good at rescuing teams in trouble but not great at helping them push on. That said, no budget to work with, half of last year's players and the player attitude isn'r great there.
They have fantastic owners who make good decisions and have momentum. Good luck to them in regards to where they have come from and where they languished for years.
I spend quite a lo of time working in gardens, laying and looking after turf and I honestly have no idea what their fixation with watering the pitch is. I can only think that they are replacing patches and worrying that it will just come up in square chunks if it dries up. But the amount of water they put on it, if you slide at all on it, it will just churn up that turf anyway. It chucked it down all day Friday so that should have given the turf enough to at least more or less stay in place. It's a majorly historical problem. They nailed it a few years ago with turf that could survive the shade but this year we've almost gone back to the Trevor Francis mud bath era.
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