[Archived] Morten Gamst Pedersen

[chris]

I have always been pro Pedersen, but I still can;t really understand the long term drop in form in front of goal, if he would have maintained his form from the first two seasons he would not be a Blackburn player now, probably at spurs or man city in a 8 figure sum.

long may it last.

[Smithy]

Will this man be the 10 goal hero we need this season?

[Hasta]

I've always been an anti-Pedersen person (not nastily !) but in the first season his limits were covered up by his spectacular goals and his goal instincts. Whilst he's scoring he's fine. If he goes 10-12 games without scoring he's a liability. What I liked yesterday was his keeness to get in the box and try to sniff a goal out. Too many times in the past 2 years he's been conent to sit out wide out of the way. When he ghosts into the box he often has more instinct than most of our strikers.

[RibbleValleyRover]

Will this man be the 10 goal hero we need this season?

Closest he has come is 9, but that was way back in 2005. He has scored 4 league goals for the first time in 3 years so who knows, perhaps this season he might?

[Smithy]

Closest he has come is 9, but that was way back in 2005. He has scored 4 league goals for the first time in 3 years so who knows, perhaps this season he might?

Fingers crossed as someone has too.

[MarkBRFC71]

Those who have criticised Pedersen are being made to look increasingly foolish. The player has been and continues to be one of our best and most important players. Well done to the club for rewarding his loyalty and talent with a long-term contract.

Think that's over-egging it quite a bit Jim.

He's done OK, but the goals are masking the fact that he's very much a stop-gap in centre midfield at the moment. While the goals are welcome, and he's made some decent attacking runs into the box, he still loses his man too easily at times defensively, wimps out of amost 50/50 challenges and his passing can be very hit and miss. At the moment given his goalscoring streak you'd have to keep him in the team but a striker, and a proper CM would be the first things I'd be looking to buy - and I just don't see where MGP gets in the team if we have a new CM.

Good to see that his instructions appear to have changed from lofting the ball in to driving it with pace which is far more difficult to defend, and if on target and no-one gets a touch can easily end up in the net as we saw both yesterday and against Wigan. Both excellent deliveries.

[BuckyRover]

5 in 5 for a central midfielder is "OK"?

He has done ok the last few years, at the moment he is playing brilliantly.

[Daremz]

If Dunny gets back on track (as he was last year), we have the quality to control games from midfield. Olsson in the fine form he had last year (left-wing) and Brett on the right-wing is quite a good midfield, in optima-forma that is...

[gumboots]

I've always defended Pedersen. Not that I haven't criticised him when he's played poorly but that I can't understand why some seem to criticise him whatever he does, indeed sometimes when it's not him who makes the mistake. There always has to be a scapegoat and for whatever reason, Pedersen is the current Rovers' one. He must know this and it must have sapped his confidence. The fact is that because he CAN do special things, the opposition know they can't ignore him. They all have a much healthier respect for him than his own fans do.

For whatever reason he seems to have got back a large amount of the confidence he's been lacking, and so obviously needs, to perform well. Long may it continue.

[chris]

I don't anyone that critsised Pedersen looked foolish.

it's interesting how a players plays under par for 4 years then has a good few months and suddenly he is the next Daivid Beckham again.

crazy old fans, never change.

Anyway maybe if he keeps it up until the end of the season Man city will offer 17 million.

[Amo]

it's interesting how a players plays under par for 4 years then has a good few months and suddenly he is the next Daivid Beckham again.

crazy old fans, never change.

Always the way, mate.

[Steve Moss]

Pretty much my point of view. When the debate was on about whether he should go or stay, I was very much in the pro Pederson camp. Just thought I would post a "I told you so" message.

I was in the anti-MGP camp, until Sam offered him a new contract and he became our player again. Regardless of my thoughts about how he delayed signing a contract and his form over the last few years, I really do hope that he proves his detractors (including me) wrong in a big way and scores a bagful of goals for the Rovers.

[SamTheShrew]

after the 7-1 debacle today thought i'd watch the 2005-2006 season review.

What a team, and that includes Dickov and Kuqi.

but it also included Bellamy (awesome) and Bentley (steal)

Genuinely smiled a lot at the goals we scored. Genuine pride

as for the name of this thread - MGP this season was a world beater.

absolutely incredible goals

[rovers1995]

Well done Pedersen, sitting in with the away supporters. I can imagine that he was joining in the songs too

[Tom]

Nice one morten, top lad.

People probably moaned at him for sitting wrong though.

[67splitscreen]

Olsson was in the crowd with some mates as well.

[67splitscreen]

MGP with comments from vinjay

[Kelbo]

And a comment from Mike Phelan (not on the website, but directly on Sunday evening) "it would have been a different game with Pedersen in the team," he is really highly thought of at Old Trafford!

[Amo]

And a comment from Mike Phelan (not on the website, but directly on Sunday evening) "it would have been a different game with Pedersen in the team," he is really highly thought of at Old Trafford!

5-1?

[LeChuck]

MGP with comments from vinjay

Why do people dislike him so much? He seems like a genuinely nice guy, which is rare for modern footballers.

[Amo]

Why do people dislike him so much? He seems like a genuinely nice guy, which is rare for modern footballers.

I've never had anything against Pedersen personally. It just frustrates me to see a technically gifted player underperforming for so long when we all know he can do better. Getting the goals back into his game is a step in the right direction. Let's just see if he can keep it up.

[Tom]

Why do people dislike him so much? He seems like a genuinely nice guy, which is rare for modern footballers.

Pedersen get's so much unwarranted stick it's unfair. Everytime he doesn't win a tackle he gets loads of abuse from the stands but you would struggle to find a player who puts more in for the team.

So glad he stayed in summer, sure he can be frustrating but even on a bad day offers more than most of our midfield.

I'm sure there are some in our fans that want him to have a bad game so they can jump back on him again.

[broadsword]

Is anyone going to deny that he's had a prolonged dip of a number of years where by and large he's not played very well?

[Tom]

He wasn't great but he's very rarely been as bad as people made out IMO, when he has a bad game it's highlighted as he takes a lot of our set pieces.

[philipl]

The important thing is that MGP is playing well now and should be looking forwards to the Wolves game after an unexpected rest at OT.