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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1950 on: January 05, 2023, 12:29:11 AM »
The miss was terrible, but his all round play tonight was abysmal before that. Can't beat a man, crossing and passing really poor. He's not a centre forward, and he's not much better out wide.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1951 on: January 05, 2023, 12:35:23 AM »
Bookended what for me was a pretty indifferent performance by missing with his left and missing with his right.

Certainly bought tears to my eyes.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1952 on: January 05, 2023, 01:00:00 AM »
Bailey has my full support, and these things happen in football.
Being so upset demonstrates his dedication and how much it means to him.

He'll be fit and firing against Leeds in the Premier League next time, and if he's not rested on Sunday, I think he'll do very well against Stevenage because he's a class player who is very good and exciting to watch


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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1953 on: January 05, 2023, 01:27:53 AM »
Exactly like Traore. Also like El Ghazi, too for that matter (although very good rather than magnificent).

It's a winger thing
It's a terrible thing to lose

El Ghazi was never a winger.

Well you certainly used to w(h)inge about him  ;)

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1954 on: January 05, 2023, 04:32:33 AM »
We used to have the same issue with Tony Daley. Fantastic at times but inconsistent as hell in many a game - and I loved the bloke.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1955 on: January 05, 2023, 07:07:45 AM »
We used to have the same issue with Tony Daley. Fantastic at times but inconsistent as hell in many a game - and I loved the bloke.

I said to a mate on Sunday. He is like Tony Daley in this respect.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1956 on: January 05, 2023, 07:22:55 AM »
In the long term I can see much of a future  at the club for this guy. Nowhere near the quality  required to progress.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1957 on: January 05, 2023, 08:11:48 AM »
Showed again last night how one footed he is, bad miss and he had a bad game.

Why are wingers the most inconsistent players?

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1958 on: January 05, 2023, 09:02:44 AM »
We used to have the same issue with Tony Daley. Fantastic at times but inconsistent as hell in many a game - and I loved the bloke.

I said to a mate on Sunday. He is like Tony Daley in this respect.
I like Bailey because wingers are my favourite type of player but the one of the main differences between him and Tony Daley is comparative pace. Daley was so much faster than defenders it looked like they were standing still so he could push the ball past them and be sure of getting to it. Defenders now are fitter and more athletic so Bailey can't do this so much despite probably having a similar top speed.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1959 on: January 05, 2023, 09:04:39 AM »
He's better on the left instead of fart arsing around cutting back all the time.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1960 on: January 05, 2023, 09:08:14 AM »
His right foot is for standing on only but the explosiveness as per the obligatory YouTube clips from Leverkusen seems to have disappeared. Needs to physically get stronger to retain possession better.
Not altogether surprising considering he got pretty seriously injured twice last year as a result of that explosiveness (one of the times, incidentally, when tracking back, so I'm not sure it's fair to describe him as lazy, as someone did on here last night i recall). I suspect that he still doesn't fully trust his body to hold up at full throttle.

He was poor last night, albeit better in the second half, but he wasn't the only one.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1961 on: January 05, 2023, 09:14:54 AM »
What's happened to his shooting? He had those two laughably bad attempts against Liverpool, can't remember any attempts against Spurs, then that atrocious miss last night. We need better from our supporting attacking players.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1962 on: January 05, 2023, 09:19:00 AM »
What's happened to his shooting? He had those two laughably bad attempts against Liverpool, can't remember any attempts against Spurs, then that atrocious miss last night. We need better from our supporting attacking players.

Up until then he'd been at least fucking deadly with his shooting. Even in shite games like Palace he'd nearly snapped the crossbar given one half chance. Now he makes Watkins look like Romario.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1963 on: January 05, 2023, 09:24:53 AM »
His right foot is for standing on only but the explosiveness as per the obligatory YouTube clips from Leverkusen seems to have disappeared. Needs to physically get stronger to retain possession better.
Not altogether surprising considering he got pretty seriously injured twice last year as a result of that explosiveness (one of the times, incidentally, when tracking back, so I'm not sure it's fair to describe him as lazy, as someone did on here last night i recall). I suspect that he still doesn't fully trust his body to hold up at full throttle.

He was poor last night, albeit better in the second half, but he wasn't the only one.

The injury against Everton was from kicking the ball, against Man City he was just running back into his own half. Neither of them especially explosive.

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Re: Leon Bailey - signed
« Reply #1964 on: January 05, 2023, 09:24:57 AM »
I've just remembered that chance in the first couple of minutes, it looked like he could've taken a touch past the defender and had a better chance but he snatched at it and it set the tone.

He seems that kind of player, get him a couple of positive early touches and he's on fire but if he's gets tackled or fucks up he first tries to do something magic that's not needed, then his head starts to drop a bit.

It can be worked on.

 


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