Originally Posted by
NAE NOOKIE
He has certainly progressed well this year and 9 goals isn't too bad at all considering Holt, Graham and Keatings who have all played more centrally than him are struggling to match that .... whatever Boyle brings its always at 100%, lazy he aint.
There is however a touch of the Ivan Sproule about him. When you watched Ivan's performance in the 2007 League cup final he wasn't very effective because the Killie defenders had worked out pre match that if you got in front of him to check his run you could pretty well stifle his effectiveness and they did that pretty well on the day.
Martin Boyle is a wee bit the same, in that his whole game appears to be a sprint between the left back and the touchline, I noticed in the derby at Easter Road that after half an hour the Hertz left back had worked out that all you needed to do was anticipate and match his run and he would be left with nowhere to go, after that he wasn't nearly as effective as he had been at the start of the game, it was no coincidence that all of our goals came from the left that night.
What Boyle needs to develop is a wee bit of variety to his game to keep defenders guessing, just now and again instead of going on the outside he should try to cut in .... the trouble with that of course is like too many of our players he appears to be rather one footed and its debatable whether he would be able to trouble the keeper or play a telling ball off his left foot.