Elliot Embleton



Longy said:
I wasn’t a huge fan of Clarke at this point, but he was steadily improving & set the goal up at Sheff Wed. Thought on the day it was extremely harsh to drop him for Embleton. 15mins in & it’s vindicated.
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You'd have to say that a player capable of keeping Clarke warming the bench must have something. In hindsight it was a mistake to loan him out to Derby
 
Longy said:
I wasn’t a huge fan of Clarke at this point, but he was steadily improving & set the goal up at Sheff Wed. Thought on the day it was extremely harsh to drop him for Embleton. 15mins in & it’s vindicated.
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when i watch STID season three back and saw that clarke didn't start the PO final against wycombe it shocked me how uncontroversial that was at the time. 6 months later he was the first name on the team sheet and a year later he was our most valuable player by a long, long way
 
tunstallhill said:
when i watch STID season three back and saw that clarke didn't start the PO final against wycombe it shocked me how uncontroversial that was at the time. 6 months later he was the first name on the team sheet and a year later he was our most valuable player by a long, long way
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I’d go as far to say, even in the middle of last season, he could be a lot more hit & miss than he has been this year.

QPR away in particular, he was dog shit. Terrible. Then I laughed after cos he scored two late goals. I think he did step it up last year, then we lost a few important forward players & he became the main man by some distance. Roberts not being as effective magnified that.
 
tunstallhill said:
when i watch STID season three back and saw that clarke didn't start the PO final against wycombe it shocked me how uncontroversial that was at the time. 6 months later he was the first name on the team sheet and a year later he was our most valuable player by a long, long way
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Going off comments he makes on STID, I think Neil wanted him for later in the game. Tactical judgement that paid off.
 
Nil desperandum said:
The Derby dullard trimming the wage bill for the organ grinder
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Hindsight is a wonderful thing but eased back in, very slowly after a serious long term injury, would have been better than sending him to a team where his supperior ability would mean he’d be pushed into the first team as quick as possible.

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Father Jack Hackett said:
Embleton? For whom?

I personally can’t see it as he’s not proven himself at this level at all and there’s a reason he had to drop to League One for his loan.
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He’s better than Jobe, Adil (on what we’ve seen), all the strikers, Ba, more productive than Roberts.

He’d walk in.

The reason he dropped to league 1 was purely for fitness, let’s not rewrite history to suit your agenda.
 

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