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Author Topic: Ollie Watkins  (Read 1005562 times)

Online ChicagoLion

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #9375 on: Today at 07:20:01 PM »
He is showing all the signs that he is done at this level sadly.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #9376 on: Today at 07:22:35 PM »
I'd start Watkins against Wolves. He's always been feast or famine and his hunger strike has to end at some point. Villa Park against relegated Wolves seems an ideal place to have a big scoff.
Yes, would deffo persist with him to see if that half yard returns with a goal.

Reading between the lines, with the talk of an injury and selective training combined with the fact that we are actually playing him, it sounds like at least part of the problem is in his mind.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #9377 on: Today at 07:23:25 PM »
We've won 9 of the last 11, are 4th, and yet some want to spend their Sunday evening posting endlessly about how shit one of our players is.

…which they’ve posted dozens of times before.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #9378 on: Today at 07:25:14 PM »
Some of you are posting in quite a passive-aggressive way, which is fitting, because that's how Watkins has been playing for most of the year.

Offline BoVillan esq

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #9379 on: Today at 07:52:45 PM »
Its difficult because i was thinking last January if Arsenal had put up the money for Watkins at that point, best he went, said so at the time, better for him and for Villa, it didn't happen, lets not forget he got virtually sidelined when Asensio and Rashford came in, hence the complaining from Watkins last season, so where next, I personally think you now have to give the player time (even more time) hope he can play through this, look at his face today when that shot missed the spot, you can see he's in difficulty, only a couple of months back Rogers was playing like a complete amateur but  he's played through it and you have today performance.

Think he has to be given time, I think their is a chance that once those goals start coming it could turn into an avalanche, that said, if somebody comes in for him in January, let him go, either way we need another total striker in the next transfer window.   

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #9380 on: Today at 08:11:12 PM »
Think he has to be given time
There's an entirely valid argument that says he has been given time. Smirker turning up like a pantomime villain through a trapdoor in the stage to repeat himself to general booing, doesn't disguise the fact that Watkins is a shadow of the player he was. He works hard but he doesn't function as a goal-scorer in the current team and that may be down to tactics or confidence or something else (although, I don't believe he'd be allowed to carry an injury - however niggling - for this long). It doesn't really matter, no team can afford to carry anyone and he's not worth his place at the moment. His past-glories deserve our eternal gratitude, but they don't make up for his present failings.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #9381 on: Today at 08:12:14 PM »
What a way to spend a Sunday evening, GJ.

 


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