[BTLawson]

[quote=JEFF;495632]Isn't that what we need a bit of aggression? It's a man's game isn't it, let the opposition know you are there, rough them up a bit, that's what other teams tend to do to us. At least Evil was there when the goalie spilled the ball, Mully would have been standing about wondering what to do next. What other team has a striker who spends all the match with his back to the goal, never turns the opposition and cannot shoot? Mully has been a good servant but it's about time we had a change. quote]

Yes Jeff we need more aggression upfront but he is not the right player to give us that. He was brought on for 5 minutes on Saturday and needlessly managed to get himself booked. Agression and going for a player in the context of football are seperate. He made no attempt to win the ball-he just had a little swipe at the keeper when he thought the ref wasn't looking. ONCE AGAIN he overstepped the mark and deserved to be cautioned. Since he came back I don't think he's done anything positive for the team. He was sent off for stamping on a player against Peterborough (clearly he hasn't learnt from that), close on a few occasions to being sent off again and more importantly he is yet to find the back of the net this season. You could say the lack of goals is due to him not featuring much but on the evidence that I have seen, I believe he doesn't deserve any more chances and we have other strikers so why not use them?

Now whatever you say about Mullin (most of which I agree with), you can't escape the fact that he is currently our top goalscorer this season-he is league 2 standard-he will continue to get in positons to score for us this season given the oppertunity by Coleman. Mulllin might not be as aggressive but he's scored more times this season than Evil and is a lot less likely to be sent off.
You say he would have stood around in that inccident- I agree with you! He is proffesional enough to know when a ball can be won or not. ie. not assualting the keeper who already has the ball in his 2 hands.

I do agree however that we have based to much of our play around Mullin in recent years and league defenders know our game and are dealing with him most of the time as we saw again on saturday. It is frustrating to watch but for me Evil is only going to create more problems than solve this one. We have other strikers so lets give them a start.