Ollie Watkins

[olaftab]

Please tell me no one on here thinks we are having both the McGinn chance and the Ollie goal? Please.
If the first goes in the second simply doesn’t happen. Even if you play the game a billion times
 over.

Know what you’re saying but a billion times is slightly overstated. And I think we would have made same play that led to Ollie’s goal even if McGinn had toed that in.

[Ian.]

I've never seen a badger in the garden. Lots of foxes, even the occasional hedgehog. But never a badger.

Make of that what you will.

I’ve seen a badger run. Jesus, they are fast, I couldn’t believe it. They would give Tony Daley a fair race.

[Percy McCarthy]

Eh? Why not? They were 5 minutes apart?

The game would have restarted with a kick-off and the rest of the game would have played out completely differently.

It’s like when people regret the save from Rashford’s shot in the PSG home game without thinking about us scoring from the resultant corner.

[PeterWithesShin]

We used to have badgers near us, they are ace. Especially the young 'uns when they are playing. Had to be very careful who you let know though.

[Rory]

I love badgers too.

See, this is more like it. Less Watkins, more badgers, and we are all friends again 🥰

[Skipper_The_Eyechild]

I can attest that badgers are fucking rapid. I remember a badger turning a corner on a local street, me making it jump, and it was basically a blur as it whizzed back up to the woods. Impressive 0 to 60.

[Somniloquism]

Literally he did not lose us the game literally but literally could have won it literally.

True. Apart from missing two sitters and getting an assist for Arsenal's second, he was okay.

Not sure how he managed to do that when he was 30 yards up the pitch from where the ball was lost. And SJM showed how hard it is to score a tap-in when a previous player has done all the hard work.

He set the move up allowing the ball to bounce off him 10 yards.

Still not seeing it. How long before Bogarde had the ball in acres of space then passed to Tielemans who then passed to Sancho who was robbed did a ball bounce off Watkins for it to be "his fault" is allowed?

[Ian.]

I was in the front garden many years ago about 2 or 3 in the morning letting our dog have a wee. Bonnies ears pricked up, then I heard it too. A clapping noise getting faster and closer from the estate. Then this stumpy low down, funny creature with a pointed small tail teared through the gap by the garages into the field in front of our house and bolted across the field and up the bank.

Yep, Badgers are mighty fast!

[German James]

Badgers certainly are speedy at full gallop. Shout out to hedgehogs too: they can fairly shift if they need to.

[RamboandBruno]

Never seen a badger, but lots of foxes around here. Cocky buggers, I believe Fabtastic Mr Fox may of been a documentary

[brontebilly]

I know xG is hated by some on here but the chance that he had early on was 0.34 so about 1 in 3. That's a good chance but not a 'he had to score and by missing he's responsible for us losing the game' one.

That said if he was more confident with his left foot I think it was easier on that side but if we're going to criticise players for having a weaker foot he's nowhere near the top of the list for that.

xG in the context of an individual chance falling to Ollie Watkins is surely irrelevant. Ollie scores the hard ones and misses sitters. Thought he should have let that one roll across his body and hit it quickly with his left to the opposite corner. Body shape seemed off for a curler with his right, horrible effort to put it wide at near post. His header late on was a brilliant effort. That's Ollie Watkins.

[Pat McMahon]

Badgers certainly are speedy at full gallop. Shout out to hedgehogs too: they can fairly shift if they need to.

Add crocodiles to that list.

We were on a twilight boat trip into the jungle in Borneo a few years ago and saw some brilliant wildlife. On the way back the captain moved towards the riverbank to show us some fireflies and we saw the giveaway two red dots of a crocodiles eyes. It stayed motionless until we were just short of the shore and then bolted off into the water at a ridiculous speed. According to the guide they can reach 20 mph in short bursts so forget trying to outrun them.

[Drummond]

Crocodiles are clearly quicker than badgers. You never see a crocodile that couldn't cross the road quick enough.

[Dante Lavelli]

I said he was shit today and he was.

Do you think he was good?

The last thing this thread needs is people updating on whether he was good or bad for each game. It’s repetitive enough already.