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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4605 on: February 29, 2024, 12:15:37 PM »
I don't understand the beef with Saka. All ours dive. He seems like a nice lad (and brilliant player) to me, apart from a perplexing  belief in God.


You understand it perfectly well, he’s not our player, he’s quite good, so we don’t like him.

Fair enough. I don't think like that, but crack on!

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4606 on: February 29, 2024, 12:19:03 PM »
I don't understand the beef with Saka. All ours dive. He seems like a nice lad (and brilliant player) to me, apart from a perplexing  belief in God.


You understand it perfectly well, he’s not our player, he’s quite good, so we don’t like him.

Fair enough. I don't think like that, but crack on!

If you can think of a better explanation then by all means the floor is yours. What else is it going to be?

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4607 on: February 29, 2024, 12:20:40 PM »
I've got no problem with Saka.  I like Declan Rice and James Maddison too.

The only players I really tend to dislike are petulant players, blatant cheats and any that have specifically been disrespectful to Villa.

And any who play for Man Utd of course, but I assume that that goes without saying.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4608 on: February 29, 2024, 12:24:14 PM »
I don't understand the beef with Saka. All ours dive. He seems like a nice lad (and brilliant player) to me, apart from a perplexing  belief in God.


You understand it perfectly well, he’s not our player, he’s quite good, so we don’t like him.

Fair enough. I don't think like that, but crack on!

If you can think of a better explanation then by all means the floor is yours. What else is it going to be?
Lots of players tick those boxes but don't get the hate. He seems a totally innoffensive player to me. And one of England's genuine world class players for what it's worth.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4609 on: February 29, 2024, 12:24:29 PM »
I don't understand the beef with Saka. All ours dive. He seems like a nice lad (and brilliant player) to me, apart from a perplexing  belief in God.

You understand it perfectly well, he’s not our player, he’s quite good, so we don’t like him.

Saka dives more than any player I've seen since Grealish. It used to annoy me when Joe did it because it would quite often stop good forward momentum. The move for the goal we scored against Forest with everybody touching it would probably have got to Grealish and stopped. Diving doubly annoys me when an opposition player does it, and that's doubled again when a player does it with the regularity that Saka does.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4610 on: February 29, 2024, 01:12:01 PM »
Another Saka fan here. He goes down a bit but it's the blatant cheating from the likes of Fernandes which I find more annoying.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4611 on: February 29, 2024, 01:25:12 PM »
Another Saka fan here. He goes down a bit but it's the blatant cheating from the likes of Fernandes which I find more annoying.

Diving is blatant cheating. Saka's had some shockers, like this:

https://twitter.com/reIegation_/status/1585722838010716160

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4612 on: February 29, 2024, 01:54:51 PM »
I remember him trying to get Mings sent off and I hold grudges.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4613 on: February 29, 2024, 02:07:06 PM »
Im in the camp that while I recognise & respect that Saka has a lot of talent, I don't like the fact that he is an intentionally diving little shit on a regular basis.

And I don't like cheats.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4614 on: February 29, 2024, 05:44:55 PM »
Another Saka fan here. He goes down a bit but it's the blatant cheating from the likes of Fernandes which I find more annoying.

Diving is blatant cheating. Saka's had some shockers, like this:

https://twitter.com/reIegation_/status/1585722838010716160
Did I lip read the ref correctly, “Get up you cheating cnut”?

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4615 on: February 29, 2024, 05:52:08 PM »
I think Saka is a fantastic player but he should cut out the diving. At least he’s not a petulant twat like Fernandes. He’s a cheat and a complete arse to go with it.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4616 on: March 01, 2024, 02:32:43 AM »
He might have got away with that if he hadn’t tried to gild the lily by sticking down his left leg to make sure.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4617 on: March 01, 2024, 01:18:47 PM »
He's on a hot streak, apparently. Now nominated for the PFA Premier League Fans Player of the Month!

https://www.thepfa.com/fpotm/premier-league

You can vote for him above, if you are a fan.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4618 on: March 02, 2024, 01:20:20 PM »
There are 15 games left and Watkins wants to score in every one. He said it himself in an interview after the Sheffield Utd game.

It's 11 goals so far.

I think he'll end up with 21 to 22 Prem goals.
Premier League:
There are 12 games left and he's scored 14 goals.
I think he can make the target providing he scores a brace or hat trick.
I can see one in two for him so that's 6 goals and at brace or hat trick by my maths means he makes over 20+ goal threshold.
Watkins wants to score every game and if that happend a goal a game it would be 26 goals.
I think he'll be hard pushed to reach 25 this season
 
All Comps
Watkins also targeted 20 goals and one more today will take him over twenty for season all comps. That's likely to happen sooner rather than later and great effort by him
Think could be looking at 30+ for season.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #4619 on: March 02, 2024, 02:18:47 PM »
How many goals do you think Watkins will score come season end?
A. Premier League
B. All Comps. Total

 


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