Did Marek Matejovsky...

[Royal Rother]

Some see it, others don't.

C'est la vie.

[Ian Royal]

Marek doesn't work for us, because we don't have a player of the right type and quality to play with him and we won't play in an alternate system which can get around that by putting two players in the centre with him. We'll never see more than sporadic quality performances until he gets that partner or partners.

He'd have been great with Sidwell. He might be great with Karacan in the future.

The idea that he only gives the ball away trying to make attacking through balls is a falacy though. I've seen several simple balls which he has gifted to an opposition player in the few games I've seen him play.

Mind you, I've seen most our players do that. In fact Harper is probably the one I've seen do it least. I think it's a general lack of concentration with the squad. So many times I've seen players pass straight to an opponant, hoof it over the top or play a shocking ball back to the throw in taker.

We're making the game hard for ourselves with poor touches and I'm sure it's because we're being too casual or not concentrating hard enough. All these players are capable of doing things right.

Not sure why you think he would have worked well with Sidwell

Sidwells strength was getting up and down the pitch and making well timed runs into the box to join the front two (that used to help us with Kitson playing deep by the way). Playing him alongside Marek would mean one of the two would have to curb their natural attacking instincts in a Gerrard/Lampard kind of way

I think a Harper style player is the perfect foil for either of them, but alongside Marek he needs to be a bit more willing to get stuck in than he would alongside Sidwell who did a lot of the physical side too

Because Sidwell had a strong all round game, he could score, he could tackle and he could go box to box.