Ollie Watkins

[Five Villa Tattoos]

The fans all liked him at his previous clubs. The staff not so much.

[cdbearsfan]

The fans all liked him at his previous clubs. The staff not so much.

Well, Dean Smith was one of the staff at his previous club and signed him, so he can't have hated him that much.

[PaulWinch again]

Other than a ropey pass at the end that nearly cost us he was bloody brilliant today and held the ball up so well.

[colin69]

His best game for ages. Well done Ollie.

[Ger Regan]

Yep, really good hold up play, a proper centre forward display. Keep it up.

[LeonW]

Ollie was fantastic today. He helped bring the other attackers into the game and posed Citeh a lot of problems. He does unsettle them as we saw last season.

[Axl Rose]

Other than a ropey pass at the end that nearly cost us he was bloody brilliant today and held the ball up so well.

This. He can be such a good player.

[PaulTheVillan]

Looked like someone had killed his cat when we scored.

[passport1]

I've come to the conclusion that Ollie has had his boots lined with lead .How a forward  can earn a living at the top level with no first touch baffles me. Then I remember Barren Dent.

[N'ZMAV]

I think his best season is behind him, same with Ings. I'd like to see Archer play, but hoofball won't suit him

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

There was one passage of play in the second half (before Ings came on) where Ollie had the ball, but he was surrounded by 4 (FOUR!) Soton players and was inevitably crowded out.
The guy has no support up front, with Bailey and Coutinho almost hugging the touchline under whatever tactics our genius of a manager has going on and no midfield support. You could play Haaland in place of Ollie in our current system and he'd look lame.

[john e]

There was one passage of play in the second half (before Ings came on) where Ollie had the ball, but he was surrounded by 4 (FOUR!) Soton players and was inevitably crowded out.
The guy has no support up front, with Bailey and Coutinho almost hugging the touchline under whatever tactics our genius of a manager has going on and no midfield support. You could play Haaland in place of Ollie in our current system and he'd look lame.

In fairness he was also put through two maybe even three times last night with the ball delivered directly to his feet but because of his poor torch and control he lost the ball very quickly a decent striker would have fired off two or three attempts

Any striker will be marked, if you can’t control the ball you’re going to struggle, he’s just too lightweight spends a lot of time moaning sat on the floor after he’s lost the ball

[Ian.]

Ollie was all alone last night and even if he looked down the channels to receive the ball nobody else was committing themselves into forward spaces so it would of resulted in a similar situation.

[john e]

There was one passage of play in the second half (before Ings came on) where Ollie had the ball, but he was surrounded by 4 (FOUR!) Soton players and was inevitably crowded out.
The guy has no support up front, with Bailey and Coutinho almost hugging the touchline under whatever tactics our genius of a manager has going on and no midfield support. You could play Haaland in place of Ollie in our current system and he'd look lame.

Maybe but I’ll still take Haaland over Ollie thanks

[ChicagoLion]

His first touch is just not good enough.