Spoony Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Get rid of him whilst we can still recoup the money. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 The first one one on one he didnt miss by much, didnt do much wrong really. Won the penalty from which he scored. Thought he was one of the few players in our team to come out with any credit today. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nick76 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, PaulC said: The first one one on one he didnt miss by much, didnt do much wrong really. Won the penalty from which he scored. Thought he was one of the few players in our team to come out with any credit today. You’re kidding me. I forgot he was even playing first half and didn’t think much second half when he was involved, then he gets two opportunities and didn’t take either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom_avfc Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 The only way we ever look like scoring is from Watkins running in behind and one of our defenders punting the ball behind their defence. Even when he gets chances he’s generally run about 30 yards to get onto a long ball. Showed for England that he can be a bit of a poacher but if it wasn’t for his runs we wouldn’t get the ball within the final third of the pitch. No surprise that he scored double the number of the goals with Grealish’s creativity alongside him. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulC Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, tom_avfc said: The only way we ever look like scoring is from Watkins running in behind and one of our defenders punting the ball behind their defence. Even when he gets chances he’s generally run about 30 yards to get onto a long ball. Showed for England that he can be a bit of a poacher but if it wasn’t for his runs we wouldn’t get the ball within the final third of the pitch. No surprise that he scored double the number of the goals with Grealish’s creativity alongside him. Yes hes not the problem. Get Tammy Abraham in and he would do no better. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spoony Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 32 minutes ago, tom_avfc said: The only way we ever look like scoring is from Watkins running in behind and one of our defenders punting the ball behind their defence. Even when he gets chances he’s generally run about 30 yards to get onto a long ball. Showed for England that he can be a bit of a poacher but if it wasn’t for his runs we wouldn’t get the ball within the final third of the pitch. No surprise that he scored double the number of the goals with Grealish’s creativity alongside him. Run in behind…so he can be flagged offside, miscontrol it and pass to no one or hit it straight at the keeper or hit the woodwork. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GingerCollins29 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 hour ago, PaulC said: The first one one on one he didnt miss by much, didnt do much wrong really. Won the penalty from which he scored. Thought he was one of the few players in our team to come out with any credit today. Should have buried the one on one and nearly missed the pen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brumstopdogs Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 2 hours ago, samjp26 said: Not at all, he often takes balls down really well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 2 hours ago, PaulC said: Yes hes not the problem. Get Tammy Abraham in and he would do no better. Tammy does score lots of goals (which is amazing to me considering he rarely strikes the ball cleanly), but I always thought he was poor with the ball at his feet. But as I'm posting this I actually think even he is better than Ollie at linking play. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shirtman Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Nice bloke but not good enough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Three goals in last six games, four goals in his last seven games if you include his England goal. I think we will sign a striker for £65m plus in the summer as we look to improve, but that doesn't mean Watkins has to be sold, we're trying to build a squad. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HalfTimePost Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 O'Leary was right 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom13 Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 50 minutes ago, HalfTimePost said: O'Leary was right That may be so, but I'd never boo him. I just post my opinion. And Watkins being very sloppy is a very commonly shared opinion, because it's true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 He don't try hard enough to get in the right positions like he used to. 8 goals this season, an we wonder why we are struggling. Ing's should be our main man. "But bit he runs alot". Yeah but don't score goals!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turvontour Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 I dont know what people expect him to be. He's a £25-30 mil striker which gets you a goal every 3 games roughly. Good spell he goes 1 goal in 2 for a while, bad spell 1 in every 5 or 6. Harry Kane will get you a goal every game and a half roughly, but he'll cost £125mil. I suppose it's what the owners want to do really, we've now got a load of £15-30mil players, which gets you about 10th in the premier league. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laughable Chimp Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 (edited) 38 minutes ago, turvontour said: I dont know what people expect him to be. He's a £25-30 mil striker which gets you a goal every 3 games roughly. Good spell he goes 1 goal in 2 for a while, bad spell 1 in every 5 or 6. Harry Kane will get you a goal every game and a half roughly, but he'll cost £125mil. I suppose it's what the owners want to do really, we've now got a load of £15-30mil players, which gets you about 10th in the premier league. Thing is, he's not getting 1 in 3. He's goal return is actually 1 in 3.4 full games this season. That's subpar for a PL striker. 25-30m should get you somewhere in between 1 in 2.5-2.7 goals per full game imo. Edit: Nevermind, I forgot to include the Wolves match Edited April 3, 2022 by Laughable Chimp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 6 hours ago, turvontour said: I dont know what people expect him to be. He's a £25-30 mil striker which gets you a goal every 3 games roughly. Good spell he goes 1 goal in 2 for a while, bad spell 1 in every 5 or 6. Harry Kane will get you a goal every game and a half roughly, but he'll cost £125mil. I suppose it's what the owners want to do really, we've now got a load of £15-30mil players, which gets you about 10th in the premier league. You expect a striker to score one on ones and not hit his strikes constantly at the player like he is the goal. If their was a stat of a player finishing hitting it at the opposition player ollie would be top and nowhere near him. As well as his finishing his hold up play has been so poor. Sell him and try get tammy back 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodders0223 Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 You get the sense he is absolutely at his peak right now. Decent goal haul but bottom line is, if you want to be up there challenging for Europe you need a striker who can trap a bag of cement. You need an all round focal point.. unless you're Man City. He's so poor in so many areas. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister_a Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 Sell him while everyone else thinks he is good, and put the money towards a striker who can score, trap the ball and run past opposition players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david-avfc Posted April 3, 2022 Share Posted April 3, 2022 19 hours ago, PaulC said: The first one one on one he didnt miss by much, didnt do much wrong really. Won the penalty from which he scored. Thought he was one of the few players in our team to come out with any credit today. But it’s a ruthless sport and “not missing by much” just doesn’t cut the mustard in those instances. If it was a 5 a side kick about you’d say to him unlucky that was close, but this is the Premier League, it’s cut throat, and his finishing just wasn’t good enough. Fair play to him for winning the penalty but by god it was lucky that when it hit the post it bounced in and not out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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