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Author Topic: Ollie Watkins  (Read 468095 times)

Offline Walmley_Villa

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2610 on: March 16, 2023, 02:34:54 PM »
Maguire and Dire in, the usual suspects

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2611 on: March 16, 2023, 02:42:06 PM »
And Kalvin Phillips, who has played as a many PL minutes as me this season.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2612 on: March 16, 2023, 02:46:38 PM »
Maguire and Dire in, the usual suspects

Maguire in is just daft. I was completely on board with taking him to the World Cup as there wasn't an obvious, younger, better option with the relevant experience. And the decision to do so was fully vindicated.

But right now is exactly the time that you play the younger option to give them the experience so you don't need to take Maguire next time.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2613 on: March 16, 2023, 02:51:17 PM »
Man U have won 12 and drawn 1 of every game Maguire has played in since the World Cup.*



*He's mostly been played as an 89th minute sub, but still. :)

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2614 on: March 16, 2023, 03:04:02 PM »
Its pretty amazing how Southgate just picks favourites regardless of how many minutes they've been playing - after specifically saying he wouldn't do that when he got the job.

How does it feel to be, say, Mings or Lewis Dunk, for example, when they know Harry Maguire is going to be ahead of them, practically without even playing any actual club football?


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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2615 on: March 16, 2023, 03:12:30 PM »
Kalvin Phillips has played 56 minutes of league football all season. He'd probably struggle to get near Danny Drinkwater he so fat.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2616 on: March 16, 2023, 03:17:39 PM »
Whatever your opinion of them as players including Maguire and Phillips in the squad is bullshit and reinforces the idea that it's better to be a sub at at a top 6 club than to actually play.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2617 on: March 16, 2023, 03:17:47 PM »
Utterly ridiculous squad selections that just show Southgate to be a hypocrite. All this talk of picking form players on merit... total lies.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2618 on: March 16, 2023, 03:28:58 PM »
Mason mount has hardly played neither as well as gallaher .


And Philips and dyer wtf



Southgate is an.absolute idiot , and has already cost a England probably a least a trophy

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2619 on: March 16, 2023, 03:31:54 PM »
Southgate is the MON of the England men's team. The strengths he has help him overcome his weaknesses right up to the crucial final step - but it's those weaknesses which stop him from taking that.

Mind you, a couple of penalties away from the Euros is not a terrible record, or down to the coach at all really.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2620 on: March 16, 2023, 03:37:48 PM »
And Kalvin Phillips, who has played as a many PL minutes as me this season.


Southgate has obviously said he will get him fit for Pep , he is good like that

Fuck off England i care less and less every game

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2621 on: March 16, 2023, 03:44:05 PM »
I reckon you could take any manager from the top four leagues, give them this generation of England talent and they'd get them to the finals of every major tournament. The difference come when the chips are down in the later rounds, when a bit of bravery and tactical nouse can be the difference between winning and going home. That's where Southgate is found wanting, every single time.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2622 on: March 16, 2023, 03:50:28 PM »
Duran and Buendia called up for their squads

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2623 on: March 16, 2023, 03:52:16 PM »
Southgate is the MON of the England men's team. The strengths he has help him overcome his weaknesses right up to the crucial final step - but it's those weaknesses which stop him from taking that.

Mind you, a couple of penalties away from the Euros is not a terrible record, or down to the coach at all really.

It is down to him as his team should never have had to go to penalties. He's a liability.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #2624 on: March 16, 2023, 04:00:20 PM »
I would just like to fuck off Gareth…Maguire, really?

 


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