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Author Topic: Watkins, Ings, both or neither?  (Read 44082 times)

Offline RamboandBruno

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #195 on: January 03, 2022, 08:05:37 AM »
Don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere but linked with arsenal and rumours that he was taken out of the squad last minute. Thoughts? I'm not sure how I feel which to me means we could do better.

I saw what i presumed was just clickbait nonsense about Arsenal and Watkins. However, i was a little disconcerted with Gerards pre match interview, where he seemed to fudge the rxact readon Watkins was out. Probably nothing.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #196 on: January 03, 2022, 09:24:58 AM »
Don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere but linked with arsenal and rumours that he was taken out of the squad last minute. Thoughts? I'm not sure how I feel which to me means we could do better.

I saw what i presumed was just clickbait nonsense about Arsenal and Watkins. However, i was a little disconcerted with Gerards pre match interview, where he seemed to fudge the rxact readon Watkins was out. Probably nothing.

He's just been very careful not to exactly divulge who's out with Covid, even if it's obvious. Not an approach I happen to agree with, but that's all it was.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #197 on: January 03, 2022, 10:58:44 AM »
Don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere but linked with arsenal and rumours that he was taken out of the squad last minute. Thoughts? I'm not sure how I feel which to me means we could do better.

I saw what i presumed was just clickbait nonsense about Arsenal and Watkins. However, i was a little disconcerted with Gerards pre match interview, where he seemed to fudge the rxact readon Watkins was out. Probably nothing.

He's just been very careful not to exactly divulge who's out with Covid, even if it's obvious. Not an approach I happen to agree with, but that's all it was.

Agreed.  It seems pretty daft too when Gerrard says "we have a number of players out injured, with covid, and suspended" - we know who's suspended and the club tell us who's injured.  So it doesn't exactly need Hercule Poirot to work out who's got covid (or are self-isolating because they're not jabbed)!!

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #198 on: January 03, 2022, 03:17:27 PM »
I don't understand the secrecy around players about who has tested positive for Covid. It's a pandemic - everyone has either had it, knows someone who has had it or will catch it as some point. It's not like it's chlamydia or something.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #199 on: January 03, 2022, 03:29:43 PM »
Trying not to show up the idiots who still refuse the jab.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #200 on: January 03, 2022, 06:37:17 PM »
I don't understand the secrecy around players about who has tested positive for Covid. It's a pandemic - everyone has either had it, knows someone who has had it or will catch it as some point. It's not like it's chlamydia or something.

Yes it is. And I would like to put on record that I have never had Covid.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #201 on: January 03, 2022, 06:47:23 PM »
I don't understand the secrecy around players about who has tested positive for Covid. It's a pandemic - everyone has either had it, knows someone who has had it or will catch it as some point. It's not like it's chlamydia or something.

Maybe something to do with medical records being private?

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #202 on: January 03, 2022, 06:47:32 PM »
I don't understand the secrecy around players about who has tested positive for Covid. It's a pandemic - everyone has either had it, knows someone who has had it or will catch it as some point. It's not like it's chlamydia or something.

Yes, but the Covid protocols mean it's the only one of those three reasons where you can be SURE if someone is going to miss a certain game.  The isolation period for a positive Covid test is fixed.  So I totally understand why the club's position is to not confirm ANY covid cases, because it gives opposition information we'd rather they didn't have. 

Admittedly, if the game is a week away it doesn't tell them much, but I'm perfectly happy with the approach that we don't tend to identify covid cases.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #203 on: January 03, 2022, 07:03:28 PM »
Trying not to show up the idiots who still refuse the jab.

You can have the jab and still get a positive result though.

It's not difficult to work out though and since we don't know when they first tested positive, you can't know when the isolation period ends.

Watching an NFL game last night and the commentators seemed to know who was vaccinated and who wasn't. I'm not suggesting that's necessary but does highlight a difference between cultures. Just seems odd when you can pretty much work out who's tested positive when you see team sheets.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #204 on: January 04, 2022, 09:48:47 AM »
I don't understand the secrecy around players about who has tested positive for Covid. It's a pandemic - everyone has either had it, knows someone who has had it or will catch it as some point. It's not like it's chlamydia or something.

Yes, but the Covid protocols mean it's the only one of those three reasons where you can be SURE if someone is going to miss a certain game.  The isolation period for a positive Covid test is fixed.  So I totally understand why the club's position is to not confirm ANY covid cases, because it gives opposition information we'd rather they didn't have. 

Admittedly, if the game is a week away it doesn't tell them much, but I'm perfectly happy with the approach that we don't tend to identify covid cases.

Totally agree Smithy

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #205 on: January 04, 2022, 11:07:19 AM »
Don't know if it's been mentioned elsewhere but linked with arsenal and rumours that he was taken out of the squad last minute. Thoughts? I'm not sure how I feel which to me means we could do better.

I saw what i presumed was just clickbait nonsense about Arsenal and Watkins. However, i was a little disconcerted with Gerards pre match interview, where he seemed to fudge the rxact readon Watkins was out. Probably nothing.

He's just been very careful not to exactly divulge who's out with Covid, even if it's obvious. Not an approach I happen to agree with, but that's all it was.

People's tone about this seems somewhat different to the feelings expressed on Smith doing similar...

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #206 on: January 10, 2022, 10:28:24 PM »
Playing both at the same time does not work, Steven.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #207 on: January 10, 2022, 10:30:26 PM »
Amen to that.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #208 on: January 10, 2022, 10:32:21 PM »
Never both again. Ings was pulling a train last 20 mins when we needed to be pressing them hard from the front. Poor decision to start them both and even worse not to change it.

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Re: Watkins, Ings or both?
« Reply #209 on: January 10, 2022, 10:32:23 PM »
How many times do we have to prove this point.

 


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