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Offline Mister E

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #30 on: February 21, 2018, 01:52:43 PM »
He's a holding player and has no business being in front of Jedinak or BB.

Agree completely about him being a holding player which begs the question, since his arrival, why have we played him in every midfield position except the holding position and why are we surprised he's failed to deliver?
And, as a  holding player is he not too prone to giving the ball away and rash challenges?
For you question, Dave, name the current Aston Villa squad member that has won both the European Championship (U17s) and the World Cup (U20s) as a holding midfield player?
Ha, touché RCF. Not quite what I was expecting unless you're asking it with plenty of irony!

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #31 on: February 21, 2018, 01:54:41 PM »
I don't do irony, Dave.

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #32 on: February 21, 2018, 03:01:50 PM »
It's possible that we are also honouring something in our agreement with Spurs to play him x percentage of the time. Same would be with AT. In the end we are developing prospects from another club and we need to maintain those relationships which often means not being able to give our kids a chance.
This is it.

There is a risk that if we don't play a loanee, the loaning club are less likely to loan in the future and also word would get out, so other clubs then become reticent about loaning to us.  So effectively it means you have to be good at identifying your targets in the first place.


He's played in lots of games.  But his performances of late have been crap, so he should be dropped, whatever the agreement with his parent club is.  I can't really believe that somebody like Pochettino would expect a player in poor form to be picked anyhow though.  It's not something he'd do himself, so why expect it of another manager.  Anyway, if we do somehow get promoted, I hope we'll get beyond having to rely on Spurs handouts for our players, anyway.  I'm not sure how playing a player in a position that rather obviously isn't his natural position is helping to develop him anyway.

Offline mr underhill

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #33 on: February 21, 2018, 03:19:47 PM »
the same could be said of the Yanited duo - far from dynamic .

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #34 on: February 21, 2018, 03:23:24 PM »
The correct Brummie pronunciation of his name is Ohnomom.

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #35 on: February 21, 2018, 03:24:36 PM »
Didn't Alex Ferguson stop loaning players to Newcastle because the loaned players weren't playing? Playing Onomah again last night was a mistake. Much like playing Thor anywhere apart from DM.

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #36 on: February 21, 2018, 03:52:53 PM »
He's fucking crap. I can't think of any way to put it more eloquently.

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #37 on: February 21, 2018, 04:02:03 PM »
Once Grealish is fit again I'd rather have him in the team than Hourihane.  He's shown that there is a good player there when he first started with us.  He seems to be a bit weighed down by the chip on his shoulder of late and needs to shift it.

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #38 on: February 21, 2018, 06:56:32 PM »
Onomahtopoeia

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #39 on: February 21, 2018, 07:36:47 PM »
Didn't Alex Ferguson stop loaning players to Newcastle because the loaned players weren't playing? Playing Onomah again last night was a mistake. Much like playing Thor anywhere apart from DM.

I'd be upset, nay, inconsolable if Spurs refused to loan us any players of Onomah's standard ever again!

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #40 on: February 21, 2018, 07:41:54 PM »
He's clearly in poor form, but I don't think he's a poor player. I think he's young and is going through a dip and any perceived lethargy can probably be attributed to a lack of confidence.

I totally agree, he’s a fine player in very poor form, there were many posts earlier in the season saying how lucky we were to have him.

Form is temporary etc, I think he’ll have a part to play in the run in.

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #41 on: February 21, 2018, 09:34:08 PM »
He started off brightly so I wondered if its as much a confidence thing as anything else .

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #42 on: February 21, 2018, 09:39:14 PM »
Don't entirely get the anti Onamah thing. He seems to me to have just lost his way and on Saturday he looked like a bright player being played in the wrong position. Confidence is huge. He was superb at QPR (for example). After that game told a mate who is a Spurs fan that they had a good one on their hands. Pochettino apparently rates him very highly and he is arguably a better manager than Steve Bruce.....

Offline mr underhill

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #43 on: February 22, 2018, 09:02:51 AM »
He's been  very average

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Re: If Onomah is the answer ...
« Reply #44 on: February 22, 2018, 10:09:02 AM »
... what the hell is the question?

Your answers below, please; the more creative, the better.
If Onomah is the answer the question must be fucking stupid.

 


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