Anthony Scully
Apps 19 (9) Goals 10
Best Outing – Peterborough (H)
Ah, Mr Scully. Ahead of the season, I told FourFourTwo he was the one to watch, then we signed Montsma, Roughan burst through and I felt a little misguided. I’d seen enough last season to know I liked Scully, but where and how I wasn’t sure. he just plays with a youthful abandon, like a talented kid down the park who turns up at 10 am and is still there banging in goals at midnight. The problem with that is harnessing it and using it in a positive, tactical way. It’s all well and good being a maverick, being unpredictable, but if you don’t know what to do with it you end up being a luxury that a proper team can’t afford. Well, Anthony Scully is no luxury. He’s banged in goals in all four competitions, the only player to do so. He’s come on in games and scored, he’s started games and bagged early, and he’s been involved in plenty of goals too. He’s scored 10, added four assists and two second assists. Recently, he has cemented himself a place in the first team, and I’ve picked the Posh game as his highlight rather than Forest Green because for me that was the game where he wrote ‘League One quality all day long’ in his bio.
Rob Beezley says – Scully is a pacy winger, like Johnson, scores a few as well He is mature beyond his years and glad he’s on a permanent as will make us a bit of money, no doubt about it!
Mark – A-
Joe Walsh
Apps 13 (1) Goals 0
Best Outing – Fleetwood (A)
Finally, we come to Joe Walsh. He was a surprise signing when he arrived, I thought we’d done with central defenders and we announce another one. He arrived carrying a knock and barely had a kick for the first month or two. If anything, he was in danger of becoming the forgotten man of the summer. That all changed against Fleetwood, a game he was forced into courtesy of Adam Jackson’s red card, having barely kicked a ball in months. He had a stormer, keeping the likes of Ched Evans and Paddy Madden nice and quiet, and since then he’s impressed me every time he plays. He’s comfortable on the ball, striding out from defence, and rarely puts a foot wrong positionally either. He might even have had a goal or two to his name, especially the other night against Pompey, meaning he brings a threat in both boxes.
Ben Daniels says – Walsh is a Rolls Royce of a centre back. Classy.