Ollie Watkins

[Nunkin1965]

I reckon Ollie along with one or two others will get close to the sacred 20 league goals this season.

[SamTheMouse]

It's frustrating that he isn't a bit more clinical, because he makes such great runs into the right places. And he's always available for the ball and never hides.

[Small Rodent]

What I love about Ollie is that when Zaniolo decided (wrongly?) to go for goal himself, Ollie, instead of standing there arms akimbo like so many as if to say why didn't you pass to me, ran over with a big smile on his face and patted him on the back. Lovely attitude, which you can see throughout the team.

Yeah, I thought that was great.

[paul_e]

I reckon Ollie along with one or two others will get close to the sacred 20 league goals this season.

I'd take 3-4 getting in double figures and I think we'd be a better team for that than if Watkins scored 30+ on his own.

[Rudy Can't Fail]

It's frustrating that he isn't a bit more clinical, because he makes such great runs into the right places. And he's always available for the ball and never hides.

I've mentioned this before, his ability to be in the right place at the right time is his greatest strength. Very few strikers can match him on that score. He's also bloody fast, something that rarely gets a mention. Unfortunately he'll never be clinical as technically he's weak but that shouldn't stop him scoring 25+ goals this season. We've a team that will create the chances, he just needs to do what he does best and be the option to score.

[AV84]

A couple of our goals this season were inches from being Watkins'. He's always in or around the player who scores and if they weren't there the ball would land on his foot. Granted, the few times it has landed on his foot he's failed to convert, but it does feel like it's only a matter of time for him. And as long as someone is putting the ball in the net we can afford to give him time to get on the score sheet.

[paul_e]

For me it's also worth accepting that both his chances yesterday were stopped by very good goalkeeping, there's a reason Trafford went for as much as he did despite having so little experience, I suspect there's plenty of other keepers who'd have fluffed at least 1 of them.

[OCD]

I reckon Ollie along with one or two others will get close to the sacred 20 league goals this season.

I'd take 3-4 getting in double figures and I think we'd be a better team for that than if Watkins scored 30+ on his own.

I'll take a 30+ goal difference by the end of the season over Watkins getting 30+.

[Three Spires Villa]

I reckon Ollie along with one or two others will get close to the sacred 20 league goals this season.

I'd take 3-4 getting in double figures and I think we'd be a better team for that than if Watkins scored 30+ on his own.

I'll take a 30+ goal difference by the end of the season over Watkins getting 30+.

All day long, correct

[danno]

Most of our goals don’t happen without him progressing the ball, or making smart runs off the ball to draw out other defenders.

He should have scored in the league by now, but it will come. I’d be concerned if he wasn’t getting chances.

[PaulWinch again]

Good assist yesterday.

[supertom]

Ollie's great. He'll hit double figures in the league as per. I'd expect him to top comfortably over 20 in all comps. His all-around play improves year on year too. Notably his hold-up play and his link-up play. He's probably gonna grab 10 assists in the league too because of how he finds pockets on the inside channels and has the vision to find people. 2 assists in the league so far, along with his hat trick in the conference league.

He's a great mix of the classic unselfish no9 but with the ability to score too. He's playing with confidence and driving at people too. When his head has dropped in rough patches, notably under Gerrard and late Smith, he's been a bit hesitant to get at defenders.

So long may he keep playing with confidence to add to the work rate which has always been there by default. As we've seen, ever since he's joined the club, regardless of whether he's in top form or not at his best, we always look better with him in the side.

[Percy McCarthy]

^^ 3 if you count winning the pen v Everton.

[CT Villan]

Good assist yesterday.

I've watched and rewatched the Ollie 'assist' and I swear he never looks up once for Cash - to my mind he's going for goal and screws it up. Luckily for us and him, Matty is following up on the far post. At the end of the day it's not really important, we won the game comfortably but we may not always be so lucky.

[Garyth]

They'll watch the match back as a group and stop to analyse bits. It must be quite embarrassing when they get to the bit where Watkins has a tap-in if Zaniolo lays it off. Hopefully he learns for the next time they're in that situation.

I can picture them all in this meeting, with Emery pausing the video at the point he could have slipped it though and just looking at Zaniolo with an eyebrow raised. Everyone will know he should have and everyone will also understand the context of why he didn’t - he’ll get a free pass this time, but if it happens again you can imagine Emery having none of it.