Ollie Watkins

[AV84]

Is he only 10 behind Gabby now for Premier League top scorers for us? Has to happen at some point this season, sooner rather than later, you'd hope.

[Footy-Vill]

Can see Watkins determined to be scoring today he gets the set (scored against all current Prem clubs) if he scores against Man Utd.

[Duncan Shaw]

I have a niggly worry that we are seeing a not so confident Ollie creeping back.  He made of lot of being the main (only) man once we had got rid of Ings and Unai coached and trusted him.  I wonder if the emergence of big Jhon as a threat is causing a return to that (as well as Solanke being lauded in the press for England now he suddenly turned up at Spurs)

I maybe reading far too much into it and am hopefully wrong, but he doesn't quite seem himself.

[Villan82]

I think he is doing just fine. There is an argument to be made that he is already the most consistent forward we have had in the premier league era. We have had four great seasons from him and he has started this one scoring goals and contributing. Yorke had three seasons as the main man and his final one wasn't quite as good as 95-96 or 96-97. I remember Yorke going 9 games without a goal one year, it may even have been 96-97 and then he took off on a scoring run. We got three seasons out of Benteke. Others like Dublin and Angel had their bad runs. Ollie has been a goalscorer and a bloody hard worker since the day he walked in the door. I am a huge fan of ollie Watkins

[AV84]

Emery made some comment the other day about Ollie adapting to having competition, so it may be that he's having a wobble, but it sounded positive from Emery.

[Footy-Vill]

Still no prem goal v Man Utd.

[Percy McCarthy]

Can see Watkins determined to be scoring today he gets the set (scored against all current Prem clubs) if he scores against Man Utd.

Really? Why didn’t you mention it?

[Risso]

Emery made some comment the other day about Ollie adapting to having competition, so it may be that he's having a wobble, but it sounded positive from Emery.

When somebody else scores (like Duran) Ollie always has that sort of face you do when somebody else's kid wins a a race at school sports day.

[London Villan]

He’s always been the same.

[brontebilly]

Emery made some comment the other day about Ollie adapting to having competition, so it may be that he's having a wobble, but it sounded positive from Emery.

It's a very tricky one for Emery to manage. Ollie likes a lot of space in the middle as does JD. There really isn't any sign of a partnership developing between them either. Emery got it wrong at Ipswich I thought as Watkins was playing well, Duran comes on next to him and his threat disappears. Ends up taking off Watkins in the end. With Duran's form off the bench so far he has to get minutes on the pitch but you can see Watkins is getting increasingly pissy about being hooked early in matches.

[German James]

It certainly is tricky, but as long as Ollie's not scoring winners in the first 60 minutes, you can't really blame Emery for swapping him for Duran who seems to have made a speciality of doing so in the last half hour. I'm a fan of Ollie Watkins' workrate, but he's not going have the striker's job all to himself.

[eye digress]

It’s a fairly short term problem, though. We’re in that stage of the season where lots of players are fit and not yet worn down.

Come January, when we’re on our last legs facing 7 games in 20 days, we’ll be happy to rotate them (and so will they).