Ollie Watkins

[cdbearsfan]

Agree Risso, I love Watkins but he is not an out and out goal scorer and that's what we need to move up a level.

He had a better goals:chances rate than Kane last season. I think he does miss a few but people ignore the fact that he bangs in two or three wonder goals each season where he beats half the team.

[JD]

CD my friend, I would love our forward future to be the Ollie and Cam show. Both on their game could be frightening for the opposition and totally awesome to watch.

[ChicagoLion]

I think you are right Cdb, in that Watkins was a lot worse last season than the season before. He never had great first touch but now it’s got much worse.

[JD]

I think you are right Cdb, in that Watkins was a lot worse last season than the season before. He never had great first touch but now it’s got much worse.

Wouldn't we all love him to find it again. Hope he does there's a great player there if he can.

[chrisw1]

He missed a lot of chances in 20/21 as well, but at the time his all round game was a breath of fresh air and of the chances missed he seemed to hit the woodwork a lot.  I think the general feeling was he'd been a bit unlucky and would kick on.

Last season the misses started to become more obvious and he became frutrating towatch.  His hold up play seemed to deteriorate and his all round game just seemed off.

I quite like Ollie, but last season I thought he was very lucky to keep getting starts.  I think a lot of us hope he kicks on again this season, which is probably why we're maybe over reacting to the pre-season misses.  It just feels a bit more of the same when we know he should be doing better.

I'd probably give Ings an extended run in the team, but he was anonymous against Brisbane too.  Ollie will start the season as first choice, but I do think he'll need to up his game to keep Ings and Cam at bay.

[cdbearsfan]

CD my friend, I would love our forward future to be the Ollie and Cam show. Both on their game could be frightening for the opposition and totally awesome to watch.

It'll be fascinating to watch how Archer does this season. If we are playing two up front, he'd be ahead of Ings for me.

[Flamingo Lane]

I like Watkins and believe he can rediscover his first season form, and then some. What was very noticeable last season I thought though, was how very little he seemed to enjoy playing, in complete contrast to his previous season with us.

[Toronto Villa]

Our supply to our forwards overall is pretty pathetic. I’m pretty if that was better versus hopefully punts into the box Watkins, Ings and Cam would be more than capable of scoring lots of goals. We could buy Haaland or Mbappe and they’d struggle to reach their potential without others getting into great positions to set up chances for them. Jack doing what he did that season was critical to Ollie’s success. And Ings would score loads for the same reason if he was being set up like that.

[pauliewalnuts]

Watkins' air kick before Archer's goal says it all, really.

[cdbearsfan]

Yep. Selfless by Watkins.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Have you ever seen Ollie try to play keep it uppy? If he manages 4 times he's all smiles. There was a video this week of our South American mob playing the same game, my god they're from another planet. Ridiculous skill.

[sid1964]

Hopefully he will rediscover the goal touch this season, he is under serious pressure for his place in the team from Archer. (or if we buy another forward)

[olaftab]

Ollie is more of a Sheringham than a Shearer. We need a ruthless finisher. As those are as rare as an FA cup win we may have to wait on Archer developing.

[ChicagoLion]

Ollie is more of a Sheringham than a Shearer. We need a ruthless finisher. As those are as rare as an FA cup win we may have to wait on Archer developing.

except that Sherringham was excellent at controlling and passing a football.

[chrisw1]

Ollie is more of a Sheringham than a Shearer. We need a ruthless finisher. As those are as rare as an FA cup win we may have to wait on Archer developing.

except that Sherringham was excellent at controlling and passing a football.

And wasn't particulalry quick and pretty much played nothing like Ollie at all.