Ollie Watkins

[Sexual Ealing]

There’s no way we can revision this into a scenario where he didn’t cost us the game on Saturday. They were horrific misses.

[olaftab]

The Jury in the sauna this morning, made up of seasoned Villa fans, unanimously  agreed that both were shocking misses and scoring just one of those would have seen us win the game.

[Monty]

There’s no way we can revision this into a scenario where he didn’t cost us the game on Saturday. They were horrific misses.

I love this vendetta.

[Demitri_C]

It’s not a bad miss, because it’s going in. It’s a good save because nobody really expects Raya to make it.

Watkins could have placed the header, but the (actual) miss from earlier was probably preying on his mind and he opted for power.

I think your theory about the earlier miss is definitely spot on without question.  But i still think thats a bad miss. Most top strikers score that. If he just hits that with his foot thats going in and raya cant do a thing about it.

Bad miss but we move on. Ollie will make it right we know he will.

[Duncan Shaw]

Yep. We need him to bag one soon to get his confidence up, we know he can get stuck in a rut, he seemed to be stuck on 19 for ages last season too.

He's still effectively in the same rut!

[Bad English]

I have finally seen the first miss again today. Fucking hell Ollie!

[The Edge]

There’s no way we can revision this into a scenario where he didn’t cost us the game on Saturday. They were horrific misses.

Agreed. It's Arsenal levels of one eyedness to try and spin Ollies misses as anything other than rank bad finishing. No ones calling for him to be dropped or anything of the sort but sometimes you have to just tell it as it is.

[Sexual Ealing]

Indeed. He’s won us plenty of games. He cost us this one.

[ozzjim]

Much as we all think very highly of Ollie, when his level drops it dips quite low, and his high is not very top elite. He's probably bang on where we are as a club output wide, but he's very streaky and you can see how much he beats himself up. I would never describe him as clinical, he was better last season, but needs to be back there pronto or we're struggling, as more of our eggs are in his basket without Diaby, who chipped in with very useful goals.

[Chris Smith]

Much as we all think very highly of Ollie, when his level drops it dips quite low, and his high is not very top elite. He's probably bang on where we are as a club output wide, but he's very streaky and you can see how much he beats himself up. I would never describe him as clinical, he was better last season, but needs to be back there pronto or we're struggling, as more of our eggs are in his basket without Diaby, who chipped in with very useful goals.

I think we have more goals in the team this season for instance I reckon Rogers will score more than Diaby did and Ramsey will also get close to that.

[ozzjim]

Much as we all think very highly of Ollie, when his level drops it dips quite low, and his high is not very top elite. He's probably bang on where we are as a club output wide, but he's very streaky and you can see how much he beats himself up. I would never describe him as clinical, he was better last season, but needs to be back there pronto or we're struggling, as more of our eggs are in his basket without Diaby, who chipped in with very useful goals.

I think we have more goals in the team this season for instance reckon Rogers will score more than Diaby did and Ramsey will also get close to that.

Rogers could do with being a little more selfish and shoot more for me. I hope you're right, but I still think we're one short going forward that has a knack of getting decent numbers goals and assist wise. We'll miss Diaby more than we appreciate I think. And I was all for selling him, thinking we might actually replace him.

[The Edge]

Much as we all think very highly of Ollie, when his level drops it dips quite low, and his high is not very top elite. He's probably bang on where we are as a club output wide, but he's very streaky and you can see how much he beats himself up. I would never describe him as clinical, he was better last season, but needs to be back there pronto or we're struggling, as more of our eggs are in his basket without Diaby, who chipped in with very useful goals.

I think we have more goals in the team this season for instance reckon Rogers will score more than Diaby did and Ramsey will also get close to that.

Rogers could do with being a little more selfish and shoot more for me. I hope you're right, but I still think we're one short going forward that has a knack of getting decent numbers goals and assist wise. We'll miss Diaby more than we appreciate I think. And I was all for selling him, thinking we might actually replace him.

That one run he made in the first half was incredible he got right into the heart of there defence and tried to put Ollie in but it was way too crowded. If he learns to be a little bit more selfish and have a pop at goal I can see him scoring one or two worldies and we'll have one helluva player on our hands. I'm excited to think what Unai and his coaches can do with such raw talent.

[ozzjim]

Agreed, I would like him eventually coming from a bit deeper though. I get why he's playing 10, but think he's so good and strong he could play 8 with greater impact.

[Demitri_C]

Much as we all think very highly of Ollie, when his level drops it dips quite low, and his high is not very top elite. He's probably bang on where we are as a club output wide, but he's very streaky and you can see how much he beats himself up. I would never describe him as clinical, he was better last season, but needs to be back there pronto or we're struggling, as more of our eggs are in his basket without Diaby, who chipped in with very useful goals.

This is why i would want some real competition for ollie. You only get the best out of your players if you have the risk of losing your spot.  He has stunk the place out last two games. We cant have many more of these kind of performances tbh

[cdbearsfan]

He has exactly the same competition he had last season.