Julian Kelly

[Southbank Old Boy]

I was staying in the Hotel for the weekend and saw Kelly after the game leave for the car park with the other Academy lads who were all wearing tracksuits. All the autograph hunters sprinted up to the boys in the tracksuits and Kelly wearing a suit was left to walk to his car by himself lol. He saw the funny side though.

I thought he had a good debut. I think Coppell wanted to give him some minutes and played him on the right hand side so he could tuck in infront of Roseiner, Roseiner seemed to be talking him through the game helping him with his positioning maybe more than Hunt would have

But rosenior's positioning was awful in the plymouth game
He spent most of the game playing as a centre back and seemed completely unaware that the player he should have been maerking was out on the touchline
Not sure he is the best person to be giving advice to Kelly
But then again neither should hunt

Full backs arn't supposed to stay with their man on the touch line. It leaves a gaping hole in the defence. You can't get the ball to the touchline very quickly and you can't do much damage from there. You can from going inside the full back. Any time the ball went out wide our full backs / wingers were on to it fairly quickly.

If it's worth saying once......

[Ian Royal]

Always finish reading the thread first.

[FiNeRaIn]

Was a poor cross, but then minutes later he stuck a peach of the ball down the line which set up a far more promising attack. You can't point out one without the other.

[ellpryjon]

Was a poor cross, but then minutes later he stuck a peach of the ball down the line which set up a far more promising attack. You can't point out one without the other.

Logic isnt welcome on here

[urz_1871]

I will defend the lad from the cross he tried to put in. It was one of them where as he was shaping up to cross it, he accidently poked the ball with his left foot causing the ball to go a bit futher than he was set for. Which meant the ball was sliced straight out of you know what i mean?

Think coz as he was nervous he was trying to do it a bit too quick.

[juanpablo]

jesus its one cross


moving on?

[rg6royal]

I don't think the lad is quite ready yet but definitely will be one for the future. Just give him experience by playing him in Cup games.

[SpaceCruiser]

jesus its one cross


moving on?

Nobody's been slagging Kelly off.

[juanpablo]

jesus its one cross


moving on?

Nobody's been slagging Kelly off.

not saying they have?

[SpaceCruiser]

jesus its one cross


moving on?

Nobody's been slagging Kelly off.

not saying they have?

So what's the problem?

[juanpablo]

i thought there was a lot more discussion on the cross because i read the post before mine. Going back through the thread evidently not.

so no problem here

[SpaceCruiser]

Glad to hear it. Personally, I'm hoping Kelly will become a good player.

[juanpablo]

Glad to hear it. Personally, I'm hoping Kelly will become a good player.

me to although not sure how many opportunitys he will get this season to be honest

lbs and rbs murty, rosenior, hunt, golbourne, kelly, pearce?

if we bring in another will be even more difficult for the lad, but to be in the fringes now coppell must rate him

[Platypuss]

Personally, I'm hoping Kelly will become a good player.

Is there anybody here who doesn't?

[SpaceCruiser]

Personally, I'm hoping Kelly will become a good player.

Is there anybody here who doesn't?

Probably Royalee as he'll be unhappy that we're doing things on the cheap.

[SCIAG]

Glad to hear it. Personally, I'm hoping Kelly will become a good player.

me to although not sure how many opportunitys he will get this season to be honest

lbs and rbs murty, rosenior, hunt, golbourne, kelly, pearce?

if we bring in another will be even more difficult for the lad, but to be in the fringes now coppell must rate him

If you count Pearce you might as well count Bikey too...

[SpaceCruiser]

Kelly played at right back last night, it was a lot more impressive performance than his showing against Plymouth. I was very disappointed, though, to see that the Luton player had forced him off the pitch and the referee took no action before they scored their undeserved goal. Apparently popped his shoulder, according to the official site.

[kwik-silva]

Did look like that, the referee was rubbish

[andrew1957]

I thought it was almost an assault on Kelly lat alone a foul but the referee seemed desperate to get them a goal.

I also thought the referee was very inconsistent earlier on. Some of the Luton challenges were agricultural to say the least and yet players were not booked but when Noel Hunt carried out the first bad challenge by a Reading player he was straight in the book. He deserved to be but several Luton players should have been in there as well.

[SCIAG]

I thought it was almost an assault on Kelly lat alone a foul but the referee seemed desperate to get them a goal.

I also thought the referee was very inconsistent earlier on. Some of the Luton challenges were agricultural to say the least and yet players were not booked but when Noel Hunt carried out the first bad challenge by a Reading player he was straight in the book. He deserved to be but several Luton players should have been in there as well.

I agree. At one point they went in two footed on Golbourne and then did the same on Hunt, prompting Luton's fans to shower Hunty with abuse.