VillanousOne Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 2 hours ago, Sam-AVFC said: What an absolute bastard. Everyone knows a relationship needs to be incubated for at least a year before nicknames can be used. Any earlier is incredibly suspicious. Roscoe is also what Dean calls his tadger... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 I may question Dean not dropping Ross, but i am actually a fan of Barkley, was overjoyed and shocked he signed on loan and hoped there was a perm deal in the works. I think there is a trade off at the moment which means we carry him until he regains full form and fitness, which is risky when we aren't playing well. But also might pay off. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 2 hours ago, VillanousOne said: I may question Dean not dropping Ross, but i am actually a fan of Barkley, was overjoyed and shocked he signed on loan and hoped there was a perm deal in the works. I think there is a trade off at the moment which means we carry him until he regains full form and fitness, which is risky when we aren't playing well. But also might pay off. Same here. I was over the moon. I just couldn’t believe how bad he was against Brighton. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyblade Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 7 hours ago, WooJung said: It's hard to tell, there are many variables one must keep in mind. I thought we were looking very good with Ghazi on the left and Jack playing as a 10, we looked much livelier up front. And like I said, Watkins was still getting chances, he just wasn't converting them. Depending on games, I also like us playing with a 10, but in current form I wouldn't have barkley there. Also, McGinn's and to a lesser extent Luiz level of performances lately hasn't really been good enough to support a 10. Against the likes of leicester in fact I would revert to a "flat" 3 with Nakamba playing centrally. Against other teams I would play Jack behind watkins, with Ghazi on the left. I know he can be very poor at times, but then again, so can Barkley. I haven't seen enough of Sanson to make the call, but he looks promising. I still think it's a bit early for Ramsay to be a regular starter I think at the end of the day there are way too many variables in professional football matches (especially a stretch of them with varying context) to put any one (or more) statistics down to something as simple as a player playing or not, either way. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thug Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 On 17/02/2021 at 18:33, ender4 said: Yes, though before his injury weren’t we saying how good he was and a bargain for the £11m cost for the season? Or have I imagined that? To be fair, his first 2 games he was solid. But if you go back and have a read of the Leeds game comments... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisvilla4 Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 Kind of feels like when he's good he's really good, when he's bad he's really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 18, 2021 Share Posted February 18, 2021 8 hours ago, WooJung said: It's hard to tell, there are many variables one must keep in mind. I thought we were looking very good with Ghazi on the left and Jack playing as a 10, we looked much livelier up front. And like I said, Watkins was still getting chances, he just wasn't converting them. Depending on games, I also like us playing with a 10, but in current form I wouldn't have barkley there. Also, McGinn's and to a lesser extent Luiz level of performances lately hasn't really been good enough to support a 10. Against the likes of leicester in fact I would revert to a "flat" 3 with Nakamba playing centrally. Against other teams I would play Jack behind watkins, with Ghazi on the left. I know he can be very poor at times, but then again, so can Barkley. I haven't seen enough of Sanson to make the call, but he looks promising. I still think it's a bit early for Ramsay to be a regular starter correct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted February 19, 2021 Moderator Share Posted February 19, 2021 Reminds me of Michael Owen recovering from injuries. Even at his peak, when he was out with a biggish injury, it usually took him ten matches to hit form. Then he was back to scoring regularly from Plops long ball game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jono62 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Since his return from injury, we had the COVID outbreak and essentially a game on Saturday and on Wednesday, so he hasn't been able to train properly. Smith said it has been recovery sessions. Hopefully now that more training sessions under his belt, he'll get back to doing what he did against Liverpool and Arsenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delphinho123 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 Excuses, excuses, excuses. He’s been poor. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beachboys1 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 smith finds it easy to drop someone like traore bujt not barkley but andi lke barkley as well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 (edited) 17 hours ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Same here. I was over the moon. I just couldn’t believe how bad he was against Brighton. but they all were... outside of the defence. Edited February 19, 2021 by TRO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 (edited) 22 minutes ago, Delphinho123 said: Excuses, excuses, excuses. He’s been poor. there is about 4/5 that have....but its not prevalent in all games, just some....certain types of games where we get stifled on the ball, we seem to have no answer to it.....we are not good enough to pass and move it a bit quicker, like Man city, to beat the press....It just results in us getting nullified and have to retreat.....we then rely on the defence back 5 to bail us out. The problem, is a collective problem in relation to the front 6.....I don't think it is Barkley alone, but that is equally not saying he is blameless either. Edited February 19, 2021 by TRO 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vive_La_Villa Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 49 minutes ago, TRO said: but they all were... outside of the defence. Yes they were all poor but he was invisible. So was Traore to be fair. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 4 minutes ago, Vive_La_Villa said: Yes they were all poor but he was invisible. So was Traore to be fair. Traore was, but was he ever given the ball, maybe once or twice......players like have to be fed in.....Ross did have the ball to be fair, just couldn't keep it. If we haven't got the ball, we can't feed anyone in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdulaziz1 Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 1 hour ago, Jono62 said: Since his return from injury, we had the COVID outbreak and essentially a game on Saturday and on Wednesday, so he hasn't been able to train properly. Smith said it has been recovery sessions. Hopefully now that more training sessions under his belt, he'll get back to doing what he did against Liverpool and Arsenal. He wasn’t that good against Leicester (bar the goal), he wasn’t the real answer when we played Leeds and Southampton. I don’t think we can play him against teams that play as Brighton and West Ham, he’s much better when there is some space or when a team set back for a draw. We need Sanson to start against Leicester. I’m not sure wether I’m gonna start Trez or Traore either. But it’s not an easy game for sure. We need to be at our best. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRO Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 3 minutes ago, abdulaziz1 said: He wasn’t that good against Leicester (bar the goal), he wasn’t the real answer when we played Leeds and Southampton. I don’t think we can play him against teams that play as Brighton and West Ham, he’s much better when there is some space or when a team set back for a draw. We need Sanson to start against Leicester. I’m not sure wether I’m gonna start Trez or Traore either. But it’s not an easy game for sure. We need to be at our best. I agree....He hasn't got the industry to compete....He has the talent, but not the workrate to match. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VillanousOne Posted February 19, 2021 Share Posted February 19, 2021 On 18/02/2021 at 21:59, chrisvilla4 said: Kind of feels like when he's good he's really good, when he's bad he's really bad. and when he was only half way good he was neither good or bad? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 For all the talk of dropping him he should keep his place of the Jack rumours are true. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted February 20, 2021 Share Posted February 20, 2021 7 hours ago, Wainy316 said: For all the talk of dropping him he should keep his place of the Jack rumours are true. Absolutely. If Jack is out, Ross doesn't lose his place. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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