George Moncur

[jackj13]

He finally decided to have a shot then.

 

[Lincoln Shrimp]

Don't be fooled by his goal, as delightful as it was. He was largely anonymous and would have had no complaints if he was subbed on the hour mark.

 

[Uncle_Rons_Teapot]

He finally decided to have a shot then.

Amazing what happens if Kev would take the handbrake off our players taking a shot

 

[wivs]

He finally decided to have a shot then.

Finally allowed to shoot from outside the box?

 

[Callumturner22]

Amazing what having a shot does instead of the extra pass at times

 

[JB Shrimper]

If only we had a manager who allowed shots on goal rather than needless passing.

 

[Jim Levenstein]

I bet the Ebbsfleet forum already has a George Moncur appreciation thread too

 

[Holy Joe]

I'm quite sure that this was due to the Ebbsfleet manager telling Moncur to score, why won't Kev learn and instead keeps telling players to not score or even shoot. FACT

 

[NZamba Legend]

The lengths people will go to in order to have a pop at Kev Maher

 

[WillMay333]

The lengths people will go to in order to have a pop at Kev Maher

They're not wrong.

 

[rlb999]

Not surprising. It will be the same with Bonne if he leaves. If we’d gone to Boston instead of Ebbsfleet it would have been 0-0 or 0-1.

 

[shrimperjon]

TBF Moncur actually had quite a few shots when with us but all of them were **** or off target. I remember thinking on more than one occasion that I expected more from him in that dept especially. He could have scored a few for us with more composure and accuracy. Think his one today was a free kick outside the box

 

[IloveShrimp]

George Moncur when playing for us was having to do so with the handbrake engaged, as are a couple other players in our team. It must be really frustrating for them as well as us the fans!

 

[BEERMONSTER]

TBF Moncur actually had quite a few shots when with us but all of them were **** or off target. I remember thinking on more than one occasion that I expected more from him in that dept especially. He could have scored a few for us with more composure and accuracy. Think his one today was a free kick outside the box

Absolutely agree.
So come on guys let's get real here, a senior pro who has played at higher level and is of obvious strong independent character, is really only going to shoot to order and 'allows' himself to be stifled by the Coach? The real issue here was he couldn't or wouldn't adapt, he was unable or unwilling to be anything on the pitch other than a maverick player with a free role and no doubt Wright will accommodate this and he will be perceived and arguably will be the stand out player in a poor team.

 

[hlane17]

Absolutely agree.
So come on guys let's get real here, a senior pro who has played at higher level and is of obvious strong independent character, is really only going to shoot to order and 'allows' himself to be stifled by the Coach? The real issue here was he couldn't or wouldn't adapt, he was unable or unwilling to be anything on the pitch other than a maverick player with a free role and no doubt Wright will accommodate this and he will be perceived and arguably will be the stand out player in a poor team.

Moncur's whole issue was that he wouldn't be allowed to play in the true 10 role, our system simply doesn't allow for that. Adapting to a new role never seemed an option for him.

He's never played in LCM or RCM in his entire career and obviously struggled with it, as we saw.

 

[bazzashrimper]

Moncur's whole issue was that he wouldn't be allowed to play in the true 10 role, our system simply doesn't allow for that.

He's never played in LCM or RCM in his entire career and obviously struggled with it.

He played in a 10 when we only had one fit forward at times. Added not much there too

 

[kentblues]

Absolutely agree.
So come on guys let's get real here, a senior pro who has played at higher level and is of obvious strong independent character, is really only going to shoot to order and 'allows' himself to be stifled by the Coach? The real issue here was he couldn't or wouldn't adapt, he was unable or unwilling to be anything on the pitch other than a maverick player with a free role and no doubt Wright will accommodate this and he will be perceived and arguably will be the stand out player in a poor team.

Moncs is better as a number 10. Forget defensive duties. As with Jack Payne back in the day we had a player who we could get the best out of because of how we’re set up.

Ag our level in the right team he was always going to be a threat.

 

[BEERMONSTER]

Moncur's whole issue was that he wouldn't be allowed to play in the true 10 role, our system simply doesn't allow for that in its current form.

Hence a failure to adapt his game especially at a lower level which should have been achievable with the right effort and application

 

[SHRIMPERR]

Hence a failure to adapt his game especially at a lower level which should have been achievable with the right effort and application

Or you could argue it’s poor recruitment. Signing a player who doesn’t fit the system. It was almost as if we signed him based on his name/pedigree and assumed he could play in a slightly different role to what he’d played in previously. Unfortunately it didn’t work, but that’s football

 

[BEERMONSTER]

Or you could argue it’s poor recruitment. Signing a player who doesn’t fit the system. It was almost as if we signed him based on his name/pedigree and assumed he could play in a slightly different role to what he’d played in previously. Unfortunately it didn’t work, but that’s football

Yes you most certainly could, I think it was on paper the best of Hobsons choice at the time and I think the expectation among the coaching team was there was enough ability and football intelligence in the player to still do a job but as you say it didn't work.