Paul Dummett

[St. Maximin]

He is a good defender though. Just crap on the ball. 

[Rich]

I think I'd stretch to "decent".

[Shearergol]

4 hours ago, St. Maximin said:

He is a good defender though. Just crap on the ball. 

 

 

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Nope

 

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by Shearergol

[St. Maximin]

7 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

 

 

 

Nope

Perhaps I'm missing something but he's generally very reliable. Solid positionally, tackles well, makes great blocks and has reasonable speed. Certainly not the most talented player, but the level he plays at he does well defensively. As well as that he doesn't seem to make shocking mistakes that lead to goals like some of our other defenders.

[samptime29]

Perfectly acceptable defender just shit on the ball. That doesn't matter as much at CB in a back 5.

[Candi_Hills]

7 minutes ago, St. Maximin said:

Perhaps I'm missing something but he's generally very reliable. Solid positionally, tackles well, makes great blocks and has reasonable speed. Certainly not the most talented player, but the level he plays at he does well defensively. As well as that he doesn't seem to make shocking mistakes that lead to goals like some of our other defenders.

His is a good defender and I agree with everything you've said. Every manager he's played for has been a fan of him. I like a good footballer as much as anyone but Dummett doesn't deserve half the stick he gets on here. When we're hanging on at the end of games and they're chucking everything at us, I'm always glad he's in there.

 

 

Edited May 20, 2021 by Candi_Hills

[samptime29]

The Dummett performance against Southampton at home was one of my favourites this season. Come on for 40 mins, down to 10 men, 3-2 up, pissing it down. He was a man mountain that game.

[Cf]

Rafa was a big fan of Dummet wasn't he? Sure he mentioned him when asked about what players he thought were underrated.

[Kanj]

Rafa said he could see Dummett get into management - extremely smart player. 

[gjohnson]

General question for all.....

When did you realise that Dummett isn't a young player anymore? 

Didn't realise he's now 29 and on the way down....thought he was still early 20's and had room to improve!

[Guest]

Anything aimed over his head where he has to turn and run backwards, he gets shown up. He's easy to get past in one-on-one situations. Games like that Southampton game where literally all he has to do is block things and stick his head on things is all he's good for. Those situations occur very rarely though unless we want to regress back to the times where we had to go 5-4-1 and not get out of our own half because we didn't have the attacking resources to do anything else. Now we have those players in the final third, it's not needed. He's shit.

[xLiaaamx]

First thing is literally what I came here to post. He's never improved on the ball over his head since that own goal against Burnley back when he just got into the team. 

[Guest]

I know Rafa liked him but he was actually out of the team when we had our best spell when Longstaff looked a world beater, Almiron first joined and we were playing Lejeune-Lascelles-Schar. It took that bad Lejeune injury for him to get back in.

[James]

New contract confirmed

[Shearergol]

43 minutes ago, James said:

New contract confirmed

 

Today is the gift that keeps on giving.

[Guest]

He’s probably going to finish in our top 15-20 all-time most appearances list. Fucking hell.

[STM]

Find the stick he gets bizarre. He's often one of our better players when playing centre back and barely makes a mistake. He's a better defender than Schar for example but because Dummett is trash on the ball he gets loads of shit.

 

He's loyal, he works hard, has a good attitude and rarely makes daft mistakes when defending. He's not my image of the future of Newcastle either but on a list of players I have a problem with he is way down the list.

[Guest]

He’s shite man.

[steve_69]

53 minutes ago, STM said:

Find the stick he gets bizarre. He's often one of our better players when playing centre back and barely makes a mistake. He's a better defender than Schar for example but because Dummett is trash on the ball he gets loads of shit.

 

He's loyal, he works hard, has a good attitude and rarely makes daft mistakes when defending. He's not my image of the future of Newcastle either but on a list of players I have a problem with he is way down the list.

I agree, he's far from being the biggest problem in the squad. He's limited because he's an out-and-out left-back with none of the attributes needed to play the more modern wingback role but you know what you're getting from him.

[Bishops Finger]

22 minutes ago, Optimistic Nut said:

He’s shite man.

But still better than anyone on Bruce's transfer list I bet

[Guest]

He’s our 5th best CB on our books (possibly 6th) and he’s never a wing-back/full-back in today’s game. That’s before you consider transfer targets too.

[samptime29]

He is clearly not shite. 

[Guest]

As a Premier League footballer he is. I can’t see any other club ever being interested in him unless it’s a newly promoted club or Burnley. 
 

If he played for Southampton or Palace, no Newcastle fan would look at him and think, ‘tell you who we should sign this summer, that Paul Dummett fella’.

 

 

Edited July 14, 2021 by Optimistic Nut

[Lazarus]

I think saying hes shite is slightly unfair.

 

Hes one of those players who never puts a run together of great performances and stands out but also doesnt stink the place out.

 

Hes just consistently average.

[Guest]

If you can’t play football, you’re less than an average PL player. That Southampton game where we had 10 men holding onto a lead was his bread & butter. He got thrown into the side and literally all he had to do was stick his head on things and clear it. Nothing else. In the 1-2 instances a season that scenario arises then great, hoy him on but you can’t play like that at this level and get away with it. He offers bugger all else.