Lewis Cook

The best central midfielders can play in a two or three. He's playing well now but are we a better side recently than the first half of the season? Are we winning more? Neil's got a fair point.

So now its his fault that strikers are missing or defenders make mistakes.

Are you suggesting Lewis is not playing well? Or are you trying to suggest that a single player playing well should mean that all other 10 players become world class? Weird arguments you make sometimes just for the sake of it.
 
The best central midfielders can play in a two or three. He's playing well now but are we a better side recently than the first half of the season? Are we winning more? Neil's got a fair point.
It’s not about playing in a 2 or a 3, it’s about him being played in his actual position.

Lewis Cook is a deep lying play maker, his game is based around picking the ball up on the half turn from deep and starting attacks.

At the beginning of the season he was being played in an advanced role, tasked with making runs beyond the opposition back line and providing an attacking threat. He just isn’t that kind of player and it showed, he looked completely lost.

Not many midfielders have it in their locker to perform both of these roles. Most midfielders will either specialise in one or the other, and you will normally find that midfielders that get asked to perform both are normally a ‘Jack of all trades but master of none’ type.
 
So now its his fault that strikers are missing or defenders make mistakes.

Are you suggesting Lewis is not playing well? Or are you trying to suggest that a single player playing well should mean that all other 10 players become world class? Weird arguments you make sometimes just for the sake of it.

I think I might have answered you first question in the post you quoted.

He's had a very up and down afcb career and is now performing consistently, in my opinion his best period of form for the club. It's not the team's best period of form though and I think that is relevant for a deep-lying midfielder, who is the heartbeat of any side. Jack Wilshere looked great but was dropped for not being effective enough. Lewis Cook is a brilliant player to watch and the type that you pay your money to see, he needs to be part of a successful side though.
 
It’s not about playing in a 2 or a 3, it’s about him being played in his actual position.

Lewis Cook is a deep lying play maker, his game is based around picking the ball up on the half turn from deep and starting attacks.

At the beginning of the season he was being played in an advanced role, tasked with making runs beyond the opposition back line and providing an attacking threat. He just isn’t that kind of player and it showed, he looked completely lost.

Not many midfielders have it in their locker to perform both of these roles. Most midfielders will either specialise in one or the other, and you will normally find that midfielders that get asked to perform both are normally a ‘Jack of all trades but master of none’ type.

Were we a better side at the start of the season or now?
 
Were we a better side at the start of the season or now?
We got better results at the start of the season, but I’m not sure that we were a better side. We were certainly more clinical at the start of the season, but I’m not sure that has anything to do with Lewis Cook’s inclusion/non inclusion.
 
We got better results at the start of the season, but I’m not sure that we were a better side. We were certainly more clinical at the start of the season, but I’m not sure that has anything to do with Lewis Cook’s inclusion/non inclusion.

I don't think everything is down to Lewis Cook but it do think that we've never got the balance right in central midfield across four managers and at least three seasons. Jeff Lerma, Lewis Cook, Phillip Billing, Ben Pearson and even Gavin Kilkenny are all very good players yet they've never been part of an balanced and effective central midfield such as we've had in our successful sides of the past.

I'm hopeful that with Lewis Cook's upturn in form that he can be the catalyst to finally achieving this. People have mentioned him as captain material and he's a brilliant player to watch - next step is to dominate games and drive us to success this season and next.
 
I don't think everything is down to Lewis Cook but it do think that we've never got the balance right in central midfield across four managers and at least three seasons. Jeff Lerma, Lewis Cook, Phillip Billing, Ben Pearson and even Gavin Kilkenny are all very good players yet they've never been part of an balanced and effective central midfield such as we've had in our successful sides of the past.

I'm hopeful that with Lewis Cook's upturn in form that he can be the catalyst to finally achieving this. People have mentioned him as captain material and he's a brilliant player to watch - next step is to dominate games and drive us to success this season and next.
Would agree with that. Would go as far to say that since Lerma has signed that the balance of our midfield hasn’t really looked right. Good a player as he is.

Personally I think the most balanced we have looked was under Woodgate when Pearson and Lerma acted as a screen in front of the back four and Billing was given more of a free attacking role behind Solanke.
 
Random I know, but I’m sure I didn’t dream it and the club had made a documentary from the day of his injury to his come back?
yeah - seems to be removed from COWS, I remember it was around the time he got player of the month. I would like to see the Swansea full 90 again too, but that's one of the few that have been left out
 
yeah - seems to be removed from COWS, I remember it was around the time he got player of the month. I would like to see the Swansea full 90 again too, but that's one of the few that have been left out
Thanks, wonder why, they released a trailer and everything…
 
We are very lucky to have Lewis Cook.

...and don't forget Lewis won the World Cup with the Under 'somethings' and talking about the Cooks, Steve seems to be always popping up against us. I'm too old to remember why we let him go and Surridge is another who comes to mind.
I'm hoping that Brooksey can regain his full fitness, I'll bet he lost a lot of weight during his illness, I know I did when I had the big 'C'.
I was off work for 18 months before I was fully fit again, but that was almost 50yrs ago. Since then I have had 20yrs of self employment,
You can guess my thoughts when I think of so many other poor souls who have not 'made it'
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I hope that Lewis carries on his great form from last season into the PL and regains his place in the England squad. No one deserves it more than him after overcoming two crippling injuries that would have mentally destroyed many others, and then returning back to his best on the pitch.
 

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