Given there are five allowed substitutes in many leagues these days, I reckon there might be a niche role for an impact sub player, whereas you had to be really picky with three or less subs being allowed. I’m not saying we’re not going to be getting big bucks for such a player, but more of a recognition that the role of impact sub could be more of a thing now.
Has he ever actually gotten a proper go as a starter? I cant recall him starting two games in a row much if at all
I don’t know if we can throw the bank at him, anyway. Quite a few of those foreigners are on multi-year deals, as well. They wouldn’t have come to play in Australia on the cheap.
Source is Wikipedia but apparently all of Sega’s wage can sit outside of the cap as he’s a Homegrown Player.
Teams can spend an unlimited amount on 4 U-23 Australian players who have come from the youth team, called Homegrown Players.
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I mean just in recent starts he got the goal and the assist to get us through to the ACL2 QF, and scored two against WU? That’s more than Lolley has done in his last six starts…
Many of his starts were earlier in the season, playing an unfamiliar and unsuited role deeper in midfield.
Assuming he’s not ruled out by the loan to another club, the following players would be most likely on the exemption as being the highest paid under 23s
Gurd
Kucharski
Segacic
JCP
ZDJ
Hollman
- JCP is not home-grown. He was signed into seniors from Brisbane.
- Aaron Gurd will have aged out by next season.
- Wood is contracted for next season.
This is interesting because the MOTM voting disagrees to some extent:
He’s started two matches since then, which I haven’t tallied the votes for yet. But if he won it vs Bangkok, which I don’t think is beyond the realms of possibility, it’d be up to 30% and still 4th on that list.
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Calling Sega a super sub is a massive disrepect. On current form he’s our best player and should be first picked.
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I just found out about this meme yesterday, and this pretty much sums up my reaction to this take.
Actually this meme could be quite handy and probably has a significant amount of re-use value e.g. reaction to Devenish Meares trying to act as sweeper, Popovic failing to track back, King trying to hold an offside line, and so on.
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I dunno, he’s started 8 times this season and has scored 2 goals off of those starts. It’s not a bad return from a starter, but both goals came from the same loss to WU. I’ll leave out the Asian games, because in fairness, by rights we should have dominated all of those except for maybe the last games. His best performances by far have come off the bench. I’m not in any sense of the word saying he’s a bad player. My question is whether insipid performances by most of the players are making him look better with man of the match performances. I’ll withhold judgement for now on whether he’s a good starting player, or if he needs more experience.
At this stage, he can still be called a super sub because the vast majority of his goals have come off the bench.
I think what you’re saying has some merit, he has had more impact off the bench than when starting.
It doesn’t mean that he’s been poor when starting, he’s still been one of the better players, it’s just that he’s stood out more because more often than not he’s got the goal or assist that has got us back into/won us the game.
If he was well into his 20’s then I would label him as an impact player and use him as such. However, given how young he is, I’d hate to stereotype him at this stage of his career and would like to see him given an extended run as a starter before forming a firm opinion.
100% agree. That’s why I was saying i’m still on the fence. He’s proven himself a massive asset off the bench, but that’s also basing it off of a young kid that can shoot well, up against very tired defenders. He should definitely be given an extended run of starting and given the opportunity to show he can score at all moments of a game.
At the same time, playing well in a team where everyone is playing pretty badly isn’t exactly an amzing thing in itself. A big portion is on the tactics and the coach, so there’s no blame on him, but still.
That’s been my exact reaction, directed at Uffy, when seeing Joel King at RB or CB.
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Or when we signed Sotirio and played him in front of JK that one time. 
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According to Transfermarkt, King has started at CB three times and we have 2 wins plus a draw from that. In fact we didn’t concede in those three games. One against Perth was a draw, then a win against Australia’s Shame and then a win against Eastern SC
File that stat right next to xG, thanks. 
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We have also not won every game where I haven’t been named in the starting squad (or the squad at all…). If you want obscure meaningless stats…
We’re all still in counselling for that one.
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Maybe you need to pull your socks up. Just saying.
Edit. I meant as in playing wise not in posting on the forum in case there was any confusion 
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