Tyrone Mings has had too much of his football career sitting on the injury table, so it is no surprise that when he got his chance to show what he could do against Sevilla FC he got a bit heated when decisions went against him. What makes me pleased though is that Tyrone cares and he is so desperate to play, and play well, that even a friendly meant everything to him.
But it must be a great sense of frustration to him that he has not played hardly any Premier League games in three seasons and he is seeing years when he would have developed as a player drift away. Tyrone has to acknowledge that he can't get that time back but that he can still become the player he wants to be. He still has all the great attributes that Eddie Howe liked when he wanted to sign him from Ipswich Town, and the test for Mings is really about now. He has to make an impression, but in the right way. Keeping your cool is an important aspect of being a player as when you lose it the whole team suffers.
Tyrone has a month now to show us where he is really as a player. I want to see him tested and I know he might not get it right every time he plays, but Tyrone is a player that has been at AFCB long enough to know all the plays and take on all the advice that Eddie Howe and Jason Tindall have drilled into him over that period. We just want to see him bring some of that out on the pitch.
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| Tyrone is eager to impress. |
What I saw was a player that wants to try his very best to get straight into the team. But for me, Tyrone is a better player when he strokes the ball around, is calm in possession, uses his size to ease people off the ball and thinks about the game rather than try to wrestle and force things, as I felt he did at times against Sevilla. Mings is a better player than one who wants to get into a scrap, and he knows that he has can play with discipline and that he is a better player when he does just concentrate on his football.
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But it must be a great sense of frustration to him that he has not played hardly any Premier League games in three seasons and he is seeing years when he would have developed as a player drift away. Tyrone has to acknowledge that he can't get that time back but that he can still become the player he wants to be. He still has all the great attributes that Eddie Howe liked when he wanted to sign him from Ipswich Town, and the test for Mings is really about now. He has to make an impression, but in the right way. Keeping your cool is an important aspect of being a player as when you lose it the whole team suffers.
Tyrone has a month now to show us where he is really as a player. I want to see him tested and I know he might not get it right every time he plays, but Tyrone is a player that has been at AFCB long enough to know all the plays and take on all the advice that Eddie Howe and Jason Tindall have drilled into him over that period. We just want to see him bring some of that out on the pitch.
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