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KaKa

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5 minutes ago, The Butcher said:

He couldn't hold the ball up for shit.

 

Re-writing history again.

 

Yeah, he's actually pretty poor at it.

 

Even at Burnley, Ashley Barnes always did the dirty work for him.

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Dr.Spaceman

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16 minutes ago, KaKa said:

 

There's a general habit of calling players shite even at other clubs that really irks me.

 

There's so much that goes into getting the best out of certain players. Most need a setup that benefits them. The exceptional players find a way no matter what, but those are rare.

 

You watch how isolated Isak can be in our setup sometimes and you understand why Wood struggled. Isak has still been great for us anyway because of his greater ability and talent.

 

The thing Wood really struggled with was holding the ball up in general play, or dropping into space and linking play when needed, which is required in our 4-3-3 because there's often no one playing off the striker.

 

At forest they play someone in the number 10 position which takes a lot of that responsibility off him, as he can just stay high up the pitch. I think he also benefits from playing with two wide men that are more traditional in looking to beat their man and whip a ball into the box.

 

He's showing he's got really good goal scoring instincts if the right conditions are put in place for him.

 

I don't think he would have ever showed the same for us with the way our system works.

 

This is exactly it. No need for the 'atodaso' screams every other post.

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Kid Icarus

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59 minutes ago, duo said:

Purple patch - won't last

His record while he was here is the anomaly, not the one he has now.

 

He's an established 1 in 3 Premier League striker and has been for years.

 

 

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Crimson Cardigan

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1 hour ago, Dr.Spaceman said:

If you're not allowed to describe what you see with your own eyes then what's the point in the forum.

I think what’s annoying is how hyperbolic the criticism gets when someone doesn’t set the world alright here.

 

If you’d scouted Wood purely from comments on here you’d be convinced you were getting a league 2 player.

 

 

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Dr.Spaceman

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9 minutes ago, Crimson Cardigan said:

I think what’s annoying is how hyperbolic the criticism gets when someone doesn’t set the world alright here.

 

If you’d scouted Wood purely from comments on here you’d be convinced you were getting a league 2 player.

 

 

 

If people think he looked that bad then what's the issue? Roy Keane called Haaland a League 2 player...

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Kid Icarus

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2 hours ago, St1pe said:

I don’t get why there has to be such a debate on ex-players all the time. Factually he was awful for us in front of goal - it’s not even debatable he was mostly useless. His work rate was great and tried hard for the team but frequently missed chances. 
 

He’s done absolutely brilliantly since he left and he’s one of those ex-players I’m chuffed about whenever I see he’s scored again. He gave his all of us but it just didn’t work out. 

 

At the time any suggestion that we could get more out of him, or that he was useful, had other attributes worth having etc were largely waved away with a general assertion of "nah, he's shite"

 

You'd think with our history of writing players off only for them then to come good, there'd be a bit more humility by the time we're onto writing off player 239, but at this point when the opportunity presents itself I mostly just enjoy being an annoying cunt and rubbing it in faces of people too cock sure of themselves to ever learn their lesson tbh. :lol:

 

 

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TBG

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                   Mamardashvili

 

   Frimpong   Tosin  Guehi   Burn 

       

            Elliot  Schar  McTominay 

 

   Minteh       Wood    Saint-Maximin 

 

Oh what could've been if it wasn't for Howe's stubbornness 

 

 

 

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Aiston

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He scored 5 goals for us, he was shit for us :lol: Carl Cort did better for us.

 

He was terrible at doing his sole job for us, he didn't fit us at all.
 

Don't know why fans have to have a meltdown when our former players have a good period, albeit this time it is probably down to us not acting when we knew Wilson was a permacrock :lol:

 

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The College Dropout

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2 hours ago, KaKa said:

 

There's a general habit of calling players shite even at other clubs that really irks me.

 

There's so much that goes into getting the best out of certain players. Most need a setup that benefits them. The exceptional players find a way no matter what, but those are rare.

 

You watch how isolated Isak can be in our setup sometimes and you understand why Wood struggled. Isak has still been great for us anyway because of his greater ability and talent.

 

The thing Wood really struggled with was holding the ball up in general play, or dropping into space and linking play when needed, which is required in our 4-3-3 because there's often no one playing off the striker.

 

At forest they play someone in the number 10 position which takes a lot of that responsibility off him, as he can just stay high up the pitch. I think he also benefits from playing with two wide men that are more traditional in looking to beat their man and whip a ball into the box.

 

He's showing he's got really good goal scoring instincts if the right conditions are put in place for him.

 

I don't think he would have ever showed the same for us with the way our system works.

Agreed. Not a good fit for us. But he tried hard, fairly mobile for a big lad, won some headers.  He did a job for us.  The move was best for all parties. He’s now playing in a team that plays to his strengths and playing the best football of his career.  
 

I never bought the ‘he’s shit’ tripe. He looked decent for us imo in a system not suited to him. And his record before and after proves he had something.  
 

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Erikse

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46 minutes ago, Aiston said:

He scored 5 goals for us, he was shit for us :lol: Carl Cort did better for us.

 

He was terrible at doing his sole job for us, he didn't fit us at all.
 

Don't know why fans have to have a meltdown when our former players have a good period, albeit this time it is probably down to us not acting when we knew Wilson was a permacrock :lol:

 

 

I don't think anyone really thinks he did superb for us, I think the discussion is about over the top comments of him as a player.

 

 

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3 hours ago, TBG said:

                   Mamardashvili

 

   Frimpong   Tosin  Guehi   Burn 

       

            Elliot  Schar  McTominay 

 

   Minteh       Wood    Saint-Maximin 

 

Oh what could've been if it wasn't for Howe's stubbornness 

 

 

 

 


 

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Gawalls

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He scored 49 out of 144 aps for Burnley then came to us and struggled. Went to Forest where he’s on 22 out of 47. That indicates to me that when he was here the problem might not have been him.  Oh and New Zealand he’s on 36 out of 78.

 

 

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LiquidAK

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4 minutes ago, Lush Vlad said:

There is some serious revisionism and after-timing in this thread of late :lol: 

 

 

 

I mean you can check the tapes, I've been saying he was underappreciated and didn't deserve the dogs abuse he got since way before we sold him. I'm not saying he's suddenly oozing class, or that I'd want us to buy him back by any means (I absolutely wouldn't) - but I haven't exactly changed my tune in regards to thinking he's not a terrible player despite his struggles here. Be lying if I said it wasn't fairly satisfying seeing a few of the Always Miserable gang having to watch him bang them in, even if it's a purple patch :lol:

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Gawalls

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2 minutes ago, LiquidAK said:

I mean you can check the tapes, I've been saying he was underappreciated and didn't deserve the dogs abuse he got since way before we sold him. I'm not saying he's suddenly oozing class, or that I'd want us to buy him back by any means (I absolutely wouldn't) - but I haven't exactly changed my tune in regards to thinking he's not a terrible player despite his struggles here. Be lying if I said it wasn't fairly satisfying seeing a few of the Always Miserable gang having to watch him bang them in, even if it's a purple patch :lol:

Same here mate, I’ve never once slagged him off as he was part of that team that won a lot of games and climbed up the table.

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kingxlnc

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I’m glad he’s doing well for our football fwends Forest, after Shelvey and initially Wood they might have been hesitant taking our cast offs. But now we have credit in the bank and they are winning, with Anderson and Wood doing well and them casting off the Greek gk. All bodes well for them taking Almiron, Longstaff and Lascelles in return for Gibbs White, Hudson Odoi and Murillo in summer 2025

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