Oink un board asks if Holty is good enough for the Premiership

The following are my thoughts that I posted. After reading them again I feel like giving him a big man hug. I think he's raised his game this season, and very few yellows after his early season barrage. Good man!

I was debating this with a Premiership team supporting colleague yesterday. If you look at Holty's first goal on Saturday and take that in isolation it tells you quite a lot.
Yes Pacheco did some good work and his cut back was good. There was still a lot to do. It's easy to look at a 4 yard tap in and say "well he should put it away".Holt was behind two defenders and not only managed to get to the ball ahead of them, he also opened his instep up to angle the ball away from the keeper, rather than simply get it on target. Watch it again.

This kind of "striking" skill is exactly what people rave about when talking about people like Drogba. NOT for one second saying that Holt is as good as Drogba by the way!!! I am pointing out that we take it for granted (no pun intended) and so do pundits to a certain extent. If we are promoted - and I hope to God we are - I for one am going to love to see Holty banging a few in and getting Sky analysing every single finish in fine detail. He may well get the credit he is due from other quarters finally. He deserves it.

How many times have we seen a ball driven to the near post and Holt attack it and get ahead of very good defenders to put it away. His movement to the ball in the box is outstanding at times, and I honestly can't think of another striker in this division who is as adept at doing that. Quite rightly Davies of Bolton gets good kudos for being that type of "clever" player and it is only over the last couple of seasons that he is being recognised for it. I can see Holty bagging just as many as him next season - I hope we get a chance to see that. In the words of Kevin Keegan - I would love it, absolutely love it.

Yes, it requires a good supply to him, but Holty doesn't half make an average cross look good. As they say, the hardest thing in football is to put the ball in the back of the net.

Posted By: Muddyfunster, Apr 6, 10:07:46