George Owen
LEAVE THE SFW THREAD ALONE!!1!
i can spot him just by the way he run and pass the ballCan't tell which one jones is.
look for the yellow shoes.
i can spot him just by the way he run and pass the ballCan't tell which one jones is.
Right now I see Jones as a footballing centre back who can play in midfield like Pepe, rather than a Javi Martinez type player who is just as good in defence as he is in midfield. But I have been impressed by Jones´efforts in midfield and his growing understanding of how to play there.
I still don´t feel Jones thinks like a midfielder, and that shows in the positions he takes up on the field sometimes, but he is starting to make the right movements and hit the right spaces. Jones looks like he has been studying the tapes and trying to pick up a sense of how to really be a top defensive midfielder, and based on how committed he is I wouldn´t rule out him pulling it off through sheer force of will.
The league cup, not the FA Cup.His emergence in midfield reminds me a little of the 05/06 season when we played O'Shea and Giggs there as our solution. We won the FA Cup that year and went on to fix the problem somewhat by signing Carrick in the summer which was the catalyst to the start of an amazing spell of success.
I'm not comparing him to O'Shea per se, just comparing the scenario. For what it's worth I think he has the potential to be the next Keane. Keane was 2 years older than Jones is now when he signed for us.
Yeah that was a brain fart while I was typing. I remember Fergie talking of the significance of that group of players getting any sort of win under their belt and the platform it can provide to greater success. Success breeds success.The league cup, not the FA Cup.
Sadly a lot of people see the League Cup as a pointless trophy.Yeah that was a brain fart while I was typing. I remember Fergie talking of the significance of that group of players getting any sort of win under their belt and the platform it can provide to greater success. Success breeds success.
If I hear one more person here refer to it as a Mickey Mouse cup ill pull my hair out. Great cup to win when we only enter 4 in a year. Can be the springboard to bigger and better things. Love it.Sadly a lot of people see the League Cup as a pointless trophy.
I love all the trophies, even the Community Shield.If I hear one more person here refer to it as a Mickey Mouse cup ill pull my hair out. Great cup to win when we only enter 4 in a year. Can be the springboard to bigger and better things. Love it.
Mickey Mouse was the star of the Disney cast, surely the Champions League should be Mickey. Then the League is Donald Duck and the FA Cup is Goofy.
So the League Cup would thus be Pluto.
Phil Jones vs Chuck Norris, who wins?We're finally matching the tempo Phil Jones wants to play at. Phil Jones can go faster though. Light-speed tempo.
no hair would dare trying to populate his chin. fecks the aerodynamics.
Yeh I agree with this. I think he's lucky that he's young enough to be messed about a bit and still have long enough to really nail down the centre back position when we sort midfield out. He's a great partner to Evans' style of defending too.Realistically, Jones would never be playing in cm if it was up to the correct standard. He's playing well there but it'd be a shame to miss out on an even better CB just because we're short in midfield. He has so much potential, let's not turn him into a jack-of-all-trades.
The sooner he becomes a fixture at CB the better.
He's 21 years old.Realistically, Jones would never be playing in cm if it was up to the correct standard. He's playing well there but it'd be a shame to miss out on an even better CB just because we're short in midfield. He has so much potential, let's not turn him into a jack-of-all-trades.
The sooner he becomes a fixture at CB the better.
Realistically, Jones would never be playing in cm if it was up to the correct standard. He's playing well there but it'd be a shame to miss out on an even better CB just because we're short in midfield. He has so much potential, let's not turn him into a jack-of-all-trades.
The sooner he becomes a fixture at CB the better.
There's more of a difference between playing CB/CM and wing/No.10. Fair point about his age though, I tend to forget how young he is.He's 21 years old.
Do we use the same logic with Adnan on the wings?
True. I'm basing my opinion off the fact that the coaching staff has previously said his best position is CB. Basically I want him to start playing in his best position ASAP. At the moment that seems to be CB, but if the coaching staff thinks it's CM then I'll have no complaints. My problem is with the idea that we're wasting his potential playing him in a position we don't think is his best.I think he could become just as good a midfielder as defender - possibly even better. You can already see the improvements he's making and he's only 21 years old. His gametime in the centre has been absolutely inconsistent but he's still putting in great performances and improving all the time, he clearly has some affinity with the role.
True. I'm basing my opinion off the fact that the coaching staff has previously said his best position is CB. Basically I want him to start playing in his best position ASAP. At the moment that seems to be CB, but if the coaching staff thinks it's CM then I'll have no complaints. My problem is with the idea that we're wasting his potential playing him in a position we don't think is his best.
Wow-a proper full on beard?Needs a cheeky little beard...Too clean looking
Yeah, I agree we need a brilliant young player more in CM than CB. I just hope that doesn't distract us if his best position is actually CB. As far as I know Moyes has never said CM was his best position though, so until that happens I'll assume we're planning on leaving him to be a CB.Aye, I thinks its a fair concern that he's not specialising in one position and that it could hamper him somewhat. I'm not 100% sure that concern is true or even if it is whether it applies to Jones, buts its definitely a fair one.
If we had to make that judgement now then I would hope it was in midfield. Not only because Jones will grow into a brilliant midfielder but its also the position we need to fix, whereas in defence Smalling/Evans is a young, dynamic partnership which is doing well. I think he is needed more in the middle, but also think it will get the best out of him.
0.9c actually.We're finally matching the tempo Phil Jones wants to play at. Phil Jones can go faster though. Light-speed tempo.
shooting boots? Even that's unfair, he's had some good shots lately.I wonder what Santy's bringing him.
All he needs to do is close his eyes and puff out his cheeks and the beard will appearWow-a proper full on beard?
mmmm so you are saying PJ body creates a natural vacuum state that surrounds him all the time, preventing any physical particle to affect him when running?A beard wouldn't create any drag as PJ does not comply with the laws of physics.