Johnny Kenny

I think he would be a good signing for Hibernian or Aberdeen.

 

Would definitely prefer him to head out on another loan rather than a permanent, still think he's got something, another year of development with regular first team football at a Motherwell for instance would be hugely beneficial for him, then when he returns from that, it would be make or break at that point as to whether he has a future here as a regular striker

 

Kenny is too good to be loaned out. It would come back to bite us in the * if we did.We will probably go with Idah, Yamada and Kenny, with Osmand loaned out. Maeda at a push could fill in as striker if required.

 

At a push?

Maeda is by far and away the best striker we have, once we sign a couple wingers over coming weeks I'm hopeful Maeda will be made striker again

 

Not a statement I’d really disagree with but there’s a big decision for Maeda if in any certain game he’s going to damage them more up front in thr middle, or with more freedom out on the wing he’ll punish them more. He’s the best striker for me no doubt, with Jota out though, he’s by far our best left winger and can add far more there than up front. There’s a bigger gap in quality between the backup LW eho is probably Yang, Forrest the older he gets hasn’t retained as much effectiveness on the LW that he has on the RW. Idah is closer in quality to Maeda up front than the ither options on the left.

Think there seems to be a lot of black and white thinking when it comes to Maeda up front. The period he scored 15 in 10 in starting up front, he wouldn’t ever spend 90 minutes there. We’d move him wide, Idah would go central, and that caused chaos. Suddenly there’s much different options to defend for the opposition, and to adapt, and people forget and write off at the same time Idah was on form as well, think he had 6 in 7 after a long drought. And Maeda’s 15 goals in that period he was up front or starting there, a good 6 or so was when he moved to the wing as well. It’s not one or the other, it’s options to play with and a team to adapt to.

Idah to start for me. If it doesn’t work, then you can put Maeda there, but I’d probably bring on Yamada. Who’s got a lot of the attributes that Maeda brings in the middle, not seen enough to properly judge but even if he’s the hardest of hard working strikers (and if you look at any players up top who play for Japan they all are so I think he probably will) so even if he is that, he won’t be Maeda levels and thats fine. Because he also brings power and strength, which is something Maeda doesn’t bring as much. He isn’t weak, and has tenacity but not the same sort of power.


With the options we have available to us

 

Another one who isn't anywhere near good enough. Get rid.

 

Thought he was awful.. if we should get a mill we need to move him on

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He works hard. But so does Simon Murray

I'd sell

 

Never going to make it here and should never be on our bench in the first place. Literally only reason he's there is because of our abysmal recruitment. Sell.

 

Miles off it.

A guy who hardly tore up the Irish league and couldn’t hit a barn door at Queen’s Park.

Works hard but no quality there at all.

 

Coming on before Yamada was baffling.