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He has a languid gait and like other players of that ilk, he will often be accused of laziness, especially when he's out of form. He had poor quality ball all afternoon an doesn't have a buddy to play off him. He needs a goal IMO. Great piece of technique with that overhead. I say we stick with him and he'll repay our loyalty. Altidore is a different kettle of fish but like Fletch, he too needs a goal. :)
 
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To me Fletcher keeps reinforcing the fact he's an old breed of striker, he HAS to have someone near him, someone who's never more than 15 yards away from him and does the donkey work, much like a Niall Quinn type, sadly those don't really exist/are useful in the modern game, currently the ONLY premier league team playing a straight up 442 is City and that's because they're got injuries galore, if we intend to carry on playing Poyets system, then either Jozy or Wickham need to play up front, ideally it should be Wickham cause he's got the best close control and passing ability of our forwards. Not to mention that whenever he's on the ball we look to actually attack, the midfielders make runs the play picks up pace and gets exciting, Fletcher kills the pace and hasn't got the fans on side currently. Poyet needs to remove fletch and sit him down and explain this is make or break for him. A goal could kick him in to life or he could carry on the way he has. I'm surprised at just how feeble fletcher looks as well, Blackett and Keane were dominating him physically which is sad to see!
 
We cannot persevere with playing Fletcher as the lone striker. It just does nobody any favours, he can't play that role and we are far less potent trying to play that way. It's got to be Wickham up top with hopefully a new signing (Borini, Kalou, whoever) on the left.
 
We cannot persevere with playing Fletcher as the lone striker. It just does nobody any favours, he can't play that role and we are far less potent trying to play that way. It's got to be Wickham up top with hopefully a new signing (Borini, Kalou, whoever) on the left.
This! He's not suitable for our system and we are playing with 10 men at the moment.
 
its still early but its become quite clear Wickham should be playing up top imo.

if i was a CB I'd love playing against Fletcher. he's weak as piss on the ball a lot of the time, he's got no pace or power whatsoever and he barely ever runs at defenders. he's just an easy cover to me that doesn't pose much threat to the defense at all. he seems to have decent finishing ability in and around the box but he just doesn't offer much else as a lone striker.
 
Soon as a left sided striker is signed its bench warming duty or gracing the KC stadium with his presence. Poor player, and looks worse as he's not suited to our system.
 
Hopeless, again. Not at all suited to the way we play and should be out the team when we bring in a pact left-sided attacker. Makes us look blunt as fuck.
 
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