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Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #570 on: December 18, 2016, 05:44:26 PM »
He has been a 50p head until very recently, especially in the opponents box

Offline PeterWithesShin

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #571 on: December 18, 2016, 05:44:37 PM »
May be as well that a year out of the firing line with us last season has helped him. He's always been brave but he seems a lot more assured this season.

Offline Toronto Villa

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #572 on: December 18, 2016, 05:48:57 PM »
He's also playing again lesser opponents. For me Baker is improved but marginally so. Attacking players at this level are generally less clever, slower and more predicable. This standard suits him very well.

Offline brian green

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #573 on: December 18, 2016, 05:54:51 PM »
How many days ago was it posted that the injury he had sustained was "a bruised vagina"?

Offline charleeco7

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #574 on: December 18, 2016, 06:05:23 PM »
The manager wasn't a bad centre half in his day so perhaps that has helped also.

Offline Ad@m

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #575 on: December 18, 2016, 06:18:56 PM »
He's also playing again lesser opponents. For me Baker is improved but marginally so. Attacking players at this level are generally less clever, slower and more predicable. This standard suits him very well.

100%.

He's at his level so he looks competent. Stick him in the Prem and he ends up out of position, leading to his desperate lunges if we're lucky. He'll certainly help us get up but once we're there he'll need replacing.

Offline SoccerHQ

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #576 on: December 18, 2016, 06:34:36 PM »
While we're at this level though he's just so much better than Elphick as an option for us.

Ask James Chester who he'd rather play alongside....with Baker he hardly puts a foot wrong yet as soon as Elphick comes back in he starts looking shaky and we look vulnerable when teams run at us.

Offline Richard

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #577 on: December 18, 2016, 07:49:37 PM »
Chester has to play on the right so we need a left footer in January as cover for Baker.

Offline peter w

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #578 on: December 18, 2016, 07:56:44 PM »
i  think signing a Catholic is neither here nor there.

Offline Matt Collins

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #579 on: December 18, 2016, 07:57:56 PM »
He's also playing again lesser opponents. For me Baker is improved but marginally so. Attacking players at this level are generally less clever, slower and more predicable. This standard suits him very well.

100%.

He's at his level so he looks competent. Stick him in the Prem and he ends up out of position, leading to his desperate lunges if we're lucky. He'll certainly help us get up but once we're there he'll need replacing.

That's true of most of our squad

Offline West Derby Villan

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #580 on: December 18, 2016, 08:03:36 PM »
i  think signing a Catholic is neither here nor there.


I'll take help from any God

Offline villan from luton

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #581 on: December 18, 2016, 08:07:42 PM »
Thought he was superb today, either him or Jedinak my motm. Great atmosphere and a steward told me we were the best fans he had seen in years, that is on a sunday lunchtime.

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #582 on: December 18, 2016, 08:23:59 PM »
Has his limitations, this level suits him, but dependable so far this season. Get a decent keeper in behind him and Chester and we have a solid platform. I'd like him to score more goals for us.

Offline villan from luton

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #583 on: December 18, 2016, 08:33:35 PM »
I think you are being a little unfair there, he has been more than dependable. And I think he could be more of an asset at set pieces, though was chuffed with his goal at Brighton as had 2 quid @ 100/1.

Offline Bad English

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Re: Nathan Baker
« Reply #584 on: December 19, 2016, 08:38:25 AM »
How many days ago was it posted that the injury he had sustained was "a bruised vagina"?
A recent Facebook 'inspirational poster meme' posted by a lady, who owns lots of cats and posts many moving tributes to our brave boys, lost children and lonely old people, informs me that we might wish to call people 'cocks' instead of 'pussies' or vaginas as the latter 'can take a real pounding'.

 


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