Tom Anderson

[StocksArmy]

We have all sang his praises in regards to doing the basics of defending his goal but, how much has this guy improved his technical ability? I remember his performance away at Fleetwood on boxing day 2018 and was papping it everytime the ball went near him. He and Joe Wright are huge for this team.

[Paul Simpson]

Can’t believe it’s the same player. He’s now in the Corporals mold? Fantastic Cb .

[Monkcaster_Rover]

As a centre half myself, I f**king love these two.

Best in the league.

[adamtherover]

2nd name on the team sheet after Whiteman!!

[danumdon]

We have all sang his praises in regards to doing the basics of defending his goal but, how much has this guy improved his technical ability? I remember his performance away at Fleetwood on boxing day 2018 and was papping it everytime the ball went near him. He and Joe Wright are huge for this team.

i believe these two are growing into a formidable pair, they complement each other well and have a decent touch on the ball, i think a massive assist for them is having full backs who have great engines to get up and down but also cover the middle, this unit can only get better.

[dknward2]

Spine of the team picks itself

Anderson and Wright
Whiteman and Gomez

[Magicman]

We have all sang his praises in regards to doing the basics of defending his goal but, how much has this guy improved his technical ability? I remember his performance away at Fleetwood on boxing day 2018 and was papping it everytime the ball went near him. He and Joe Wright are huge for this team.

I dont think he has improved, he has always been brilliant since he arrived

[drfchound]

Can’t believe it’s the same player. He’s now in the Corporals mold? Fantastic Cb .

Tom is better all round than Rob Jones.

[Janso]

Can’t believe it’s the same player. He’s now in the Corporals mold? Fantastic Cb .

Tom is better all round than Rob Jones.

Except he's not indestructible, nor does he have the power to score.

 

[scawsby steve]

I told all the naysayers when he first came to give the lad a chance.

[PDX_Rover]

He has been excellent from the start and got better. And he can actually play.

[Alan Southstand]

I think the pair were developing anyway, but DM has accelerated that.

[andyst79]

Been unlucky with injuries Joe Wright hopefully this is his season. If we go up this season we have players that can make the transition into the Championship

[DMnumber4]

https://youtu.be/E6M80goezH4?t=165

Come a long way from needlessly getting too tight to non-league strikers when 5-0 up.

Less than two years...wow

[rover-n-out]

What was up with Marquis in that clip?
After he scored, he looked like he'd lost a tenner, and found a quid, got a right mardy arse face on him, did somebody upset him?

[tommy toes]

He'd got the idea that fans were getting on his back, as some were.

[IDM]

What was up with Marquis in that clip?
After he scored, he looked like he'd lost a tenner, and found a quid, got a right mardy arse face on him, did somebody upset him?

That’s what he was like a lot..  worth it for the goals though..

[jm291]

Poor old Alfie not even getting a start for Cheltenham now either.

[MachoMadness]

He'd got the idea that fans were getting on his back, as some were.

Yeah he'd apparently had some grief from fans in that area. With it being a largely empty stadium he'd obviously heard what was said and was able to give a bit back when he scored.

[drfchound]

Despite his record for us it was surprising how many fans did get on his case.

[MachoMadness]

Some fans tend to look at goals scored and chances missed and not much else. Marquis was like Blundell in that he was a 20-goal striker who wasn't a natural finisher, but his strength was having the brains and the commitment to get into good positions time and time again. Some might see him miss a sitter but ignore the 50-yard gut-busting run he made, that no other player on our team could make, to get into that position in the first place.

[drfchound]

Some fans tend to look at goals scored and chances missed and not much else. Marquis was like Blundell in that he was a 20-goal striker who wasn't a natural finisher, but his strength was having the brains and the commitment to get into good positions time and time again. Some might see him miss a sitter but ignore the 50-yard gut-busting run he made, that no other player on our team could make, to get into that position in the first place.

Exactly.  I remember after he headed in that third goal in the Charlton play off match that someone said they could have scored that one.
I doubt though whether they could have laid the ball off on halfway and ran fifty yards and escaped his marker first.

[Monkcaster_Rover]

Some fans tend to look at goals scored and chances missed and not much else. Marquis was like Blundell in that he was a 20-goal striker who wasn't a natural finisher, but his strength was having the brains and the commitment to get into good positions time and time again. Some might see him miss a sitter but ignore the 50-yard gut-busting run he made, that no other player on our team could make, to get into that position in the first place.

Exactly.  I remember after he headed in that third goal in the Charlton play off match that someone said they could have scored that one.
I doubt though whether they could have laid the ball off on halfway and ran fifty yards and escaped his marker first.

Ran 50 yards after running his blood to water all game, and all season.

John was an absolute treasure & some of our fans are clueless.

[Belle_Vue]

Without a doubt but his time at Portsmouth is proving the grass isn't always greener

[DearneValleyRover]

Big Tom is the Donny Ramos

[andyst79]

Donny Ramos and the ginger cafu 🤣🤣🤣

[scawsby steve]

It's appropriate that both Tom and JM are mentioned in the same thread, because some of the criticism of both of them on here in the past was f*cking disgraceful.

[StocksArmy]

Im not a Marquis fan IMHO. Other than the League 2 season he went on a 10 game barren run for the next 2 seasons after that. Lost count of how many pens he missed along the way, hardly ever assisted any goals either. For a number 9 who played every minute of every game when fit his number should have been much better if he was THAT good. And its no coincidence that the team have not really missed him since he has been gone and hardly pulled trees up at Portsmouth.

[RoversAlias]

25 goals in his last season with us, helped us be a top six League One team.

So I think your assessment of John Marquis is rather unfair, personally.

[andyst79]

Would you have Marquis back here? In my opinion he was 1 of the best strikers we've ever had, however with him up top we were very 1 dimensional at times and relied heavily on his goal scoring. This season everyone is weighing in with goals hopefully this will continue