Well, it's a game of opinions saint
Joes performances at the moment are consisting largely of good unoticed work coupled with little moments of quality with his quick feet. This is unfortunately coupled with the fact that only (a curently slightly off the pace after injury) Col Little gets around him to play and a lack of belief by every man, woman, child, cat, dog in the ground that he'll actually score.
Last seasons problems were Colin coming to far back to look for the ball due to being isolated and no other partner up front after Robbo left. It's fair to say Joe has solved this somewhat but he isn't going to hold it up for 10 minutes at a time with big defenders clambering all over him like an Alan Shearer or Niall Quinn.
Yesterday, he did fairly weel with the huge Woozeley fouling him constantly, i was at a loss how the ref deemed eevery nudge from the gigantic Steven Rose to be a foul in comparison.
However, the fact that he doesn't offer much of a goal threat is putting his all round play under greater scrutiny. ANyone think Rod would have held it up better? No thought not. Hopefully big Thommo will give us an extra dimension that we've been lacking since Marcuss injury and before then Dickie Landon.
Crawley were shaky at times but they were composed enough to stop us building momentum. I think Hiley, Scully, Rendell and Peters would all get a gig at most conference sides tbh. We were good in parts but lacked a bit of surety at times, prob due to the lay off and it is one of the things where part time v full time does come into play a bit. Because of that we couldn't build momentum whcich is what wins us games.