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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #10695 on: January 26, 2026, 08:04:42 PM »
This thread is like meeting the girl you dumped when you were seventeen. No, there's nothing wrong with you, and please don't be upset, but there are just better people out there.
Who are these better people? It would be good to hear their names, and to discuss whether or not they’re attainable.

This is the kind of thing that makes you glad you dumped them.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #10696 on: January 26, 2026, 08:45:13 PM »
Classic Ollie. Bullied and ran the Newcastle centre halves all over the show to help our positional play, but a few dicey touches and a chance he should have scored. Glad he got his goal.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #10697 on: Today at 08:57:52 AM »
This thread is like meeting the girl you dumped when you were seventeen. No, there's nothing wrong with you, and please don't be upset, but there are just better people out there.
Who are these better people? It would be good to hear their names, and to discuss whether or not they’re attainable.

This is the kind of thing that makes you glad you dumped them.

Sounds like SE still hasn't got over being dumped and still claiming he dumped her to his mates friends any stranger on a forum board.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #10698 on: Today at 10:25:46 AM »
There are better players out there for pretty much every position in the team (we did have the best keeper for a couple of years mind) the question is how attainable/affordable they are and how they fit into our team and the manager's way of playing.

There are strikers with a better first touch, others with a better finish, but Watkins tops other metrics, like work rate, movement, fitness to play, team ethic. There are very, very few strikers out there (I would say if any) that would offer the all-round game that Watkins gives us, that would also score more goals and create more chances for teammates.


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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #10699 on: Today at 11:12:50 AM »
How about we have a whole week in which nobody reacts to one of Smirker's posts?  Let him rattle with barely suppressed rage.  I can read a thread without endless quotathons and bickering. 

His first touch was abysmal all through that first half, I think that can be accepted by everybody.  He played like Ollie does and came away with a goal.  If we'd had another striker available I bet he'd have been hooked after 60 minutes and not on the pitch to score that goal.

I agree with all of this.

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Re: Ollie Watkins
« Reply #10700 on: Today at 02:04:28 PM »
Classic Ollie. Bullied and ran the Newcastle centre halves all over the show to help our positional play, but a few dicey touches and a chance he should have scored. Glad he got his goal.

Agreed!

 


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