by Southampton Gull » 28 Jan 2012, 23:40
yellow wrote:
I didn’t single out Ellis. What I said was quote “I don't believe that the inclusion of Mark Ellis and our recent form are merely co-incidence.â€
For that to be true he has only to be better than Saah. Not that difficult a task IMHO. However, I think he is doing it in spades.
Some only read what they want to read.
However I would be interested to see how the MOTM stats look since his return. I wonder if Gulliball can tell us?
Of course I suspect that he is ahead, but I know that if he is, then his critics will say ignore that, it’s just the blinkered voting that goes on, and he might make a mistake any game now to prove our point!
Of course you singled out Ellis.
You dragged up a thread titled "Ellis" from 2 months ago to illustrate a point regarding (surprise surprise) Ellis. If that isn't singling out Ellis I'm a London Bus driver. So I read what I read, not what I wanted to read, duh !!
For him to be better than Saah as you put it, that will have to be tested if and when Saah returns and has the benefit of playing in a side with the current formation and not the one employed the last time he was in the team.
I can credit Ellis with good performances when I see them and have done so in the past, I just don't see him as the most significant reason for our upturn in form, I put that down to a change of formation, using Lathrope in that holding role thus protecting our back four and allowing Mansell and O'Kane to do what they do best. I think that would also have brought out the best of Saah as it happens, time will tell if that line of thought is correct.
What the MOTM voting does or doesn't show is immaterial, nobody is arguing that Ellis isn't playing well and doing so in a team full of confidence, if we hit a bad run let's see how well he performs then shall we?
[quote="yellow"]
I didn’t single out Ellis. What I said was quote “I don't believe that the inclusion of Mark Ellis and our recent form are merely co-incidence.â€
For that to be true he has only to be better than Saah. Not that difficult a task IMHO. However, I think he is doing it in spades.
Some only read what they want to read.
However I would be interested to see how the MOTM stats look since his return. I wonder if Gulliball can tell us?
Of course I suspect that he is ahead, but I know that if he is, then his critics will say ignore that, it’s just the blinkered voting that goes on, and he might make a mistake any game now to prove our point![/quote]
Of course you singled out Ellis.
You dragged up a thread titled "Ellis" from 2 months ago to illustrate a point regarding (surprise surprise) Ellis. If that isn't singling out Ellis I'm a London Bus driver. So I read what I read, not what I wanted to read, duh !!
For him to be better than Saah as you put it, that will have to be tested if and when Saah returns and has the benefit of playing in a side with the current formation and not the one employed the last time he was in the team.
I can credit Ellis with good performances when I see them and have done so in the past, I just don't see him as the most significant reason for our upturn in form, I put that down to a change of formation, using Lathrope in that holding role thus protecting our back four and allowing Mansell and O'Kane to do what they do best. I think that would also have brought out the best of Saah as it happens, time will tell if that line of thought is correct.
What the MOTM voting does or doesn't show is immaterial, nobody is arguing that Ellis isn't playing well and doing so in a team full of confidence, if we hit a bad run let's see how well he performs then shall we?
