WECANDO Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, JonDolman said: I wouldn't be surprised if he is still here as back up. He works hard and is versatile. His touch is not the greatest, but nor is Weimann's. I reckon Marley and Weimann are similar type of players actually. Apart from Marley being stronger, better in the air. Weimann bit better technically. Both players like space to attack and both can play anywhere across the front line. Their work rate makes them the players they are more than what they do on the ball. We don't know what is happening up top. But if we sell Taylor and bring in Moore then we will have 4 strikers. Johnson likes having 5, so Watkins could be our 5th option like Eisa was last season. As well as being a wide option too. Not against that at all. We could easily get a couple of injuries up top and were suddenly worrying about how many strikers we have. Get rid of Watkins and keep Taylor. Both not regulars but Taylor can have a big impact as a sub. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robbored Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 6 minutes ago, bcdc said: If AR has swallowed a dictionary , as Robbored suggests, we need to know which one, so we can avoid it. Vimally? Catennachio? Cognuoscento? Where has the finger-wagging emoji gone? Just what I needed too! P.S. Proust wasn’t an existentialist either Never heard vimally before, I think cantennachio is a defensive style of Italian football, cognuoscento.......at a educated guess I’d say it’s some kind of specific thinking ........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeAman08 Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 4 minutes ago, WECANDO said: Get rid of Watkins and keep Taylor. Both not regulars but Taylor can have a big impact as a sub. Not that easy. It is easier and more economical to move Taylor. Taylor would give us some type of profit FFP wise. Whereas we would take a loss on Watkins most likely. As far as Watkins goes, he can play anywhere in a front 4. Meaning if we go 4231 he can play as the target striker or any of the positions behind that. That said he would seem third choice at best for any of those spots. Striker he’d be behind Fam and Semenyo as target types imo. Could see him on the right as an option back post for crosses but you have Szmodics, Eliasson, Weimann, Paterson, Semenyo, COD, Brownhill and Adelakun as options for those roles too. If we sell Taylor and O’Dowda perhaps he has a part to play but imo he is still taking minutes from Adelakun, Eliasson and Szmodics. Idk seems a long way for Watkins to play a vital role. That said, in the right role, he is a capable player. I won’t write him off like some here. As mentioned above his couple goals were massive ones and he does seem to have a knack for arriving in the box at the right time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcdc Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 7 minutes ago, Robbored said: Never heard vimally before, I think cantennachio is a defensive style of Italian football, cognuoscento.......at a educated guess I’d say it’s some kind of specific thinking ........ RR, my point about the dictionary was that vimally isn’t a word, and the other two are spelled wrongly. Google ‘cognoscente’ and you’ll perhaps be delighted about its relevance to a number of OTIB posters... P.S. to save you one bit of googling it’s catenaccio not catennachio Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cidered abroad Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 3 hours ago, Abraham Romanovich said: Hopefully this season we will witness the resuscitation of a great footballing tradition, when Bristol City come of age, with almost Proustian displays of modern existentialist football. Vimally annihilating by midfield moral argument the now surely obsolescent catennachio defensive philosophy of Neil Warnock. Cardiff indeed will be a side intellectually out argued by a City thrusting and bursting with aggressive Kantian positivism and outstanding in this fine team, the arch-thinker, free scheming, scarcely ever to be curbed, midfield coguoscento, Marley Watkins Buongiorno nuovo AR, You should take lessons in Italian spelling. Catenaccio Cognoscenti Renew your seat with us and I'll give you Italian grammar lessons at half time! All OK with you? @Abraham Romanovich PS for all other posters. AR and I know each other so I'm only having a bit of summer banter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bcdc Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 Poor old AR, two of us on his case now! Still can’t work out what word he was he was trying to use when his recalcitrant fingers typed ‘vimally’. AR, what was it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigTone Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 2 hours ago, Robbored said: Swallowed a dictionary? No, just pissed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fpcity Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 I've thought it for a while now. He's strong, good in air and works hard,pace?cant be slower then Diedhiou. Not sure about his finishing as I've not seen him play through the middle. Maybe we will see him up top in the coming friendly games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abraham Romanovich Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 6 hours ago, cidered abroad said: Buongiorno nuovo AR, You should take lessons in Italian spelling. Catenaccio Cognoscenti Renew your seat with us and I'll give you Italian grammar lessons at half time! All OK with you? @Abraham Romanovich PS for all other posters. AR and I know each other so I'm only having a bit of summer banter. Blimey I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition. After about 10 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 6 hours ago, bcdc said: If AR has swallowed a dictionary , as Robbored suggests, we need to know which one, so we can avoid it. Vimally? Catennachio? Cognuoscento? Where has the finger-wagging emoji gone? Just what I needed too! P.S. Proust wasn’t an existentialist either .............but he was pretty good behind the wheel of an F1 car. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swanker Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 9 hours ago, Unan said: Norwich got rid of Watkins and got promoted. Ashton you know what to do We’ve got Watkins and some people think it would be a good idea to play him up front Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 I blame @Silvio Dante. Had he not explained that our 4231 v Hallen shaped up the way it did, I would be quaffing the suggestion of signing Kieffer Moore or the thought of Watkins up top. But there is a possibility (it’s just one friendly vs Toolstation Hallen However) that LJ wants a mobile big-man to allow his forward three to buzz around. If there was a criticism of Fam (from me, plenty of criticism from many others) it was he never run his CB markers into the channel, he rarely spun off their shoulders, he was a static easy to mark / bully, and his first touch came into question. I have wondered all close season how LJ intends to play this season. I still am, but I'm starting to see a plan. I might be back to square one when we see tomorrow’s line-up, or the ones in Florida, especially Derby. I do expect something different from last season. I could see a scenario where Fam isn’t an auto-pick too. Watkins does have a goalscoring capability, arriving at the far post of the wing, or cutting inside as we saw at Barnsley. He’s not a player I particularly rate, but he can be effective. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fat Controller Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 A lot of people seem keen to write off a player who's only played around 500 minutes of football for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellfire Corner Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 8 hours ago, Mike Hunt-Hertz said: Emmanual Kant was a real pissant, He'd drink you under the table... Line two should be ”who was very rarely stable” It was Heidegger who could drink you under the table!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRFTG Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 Not there's much of a market outside Lanarkshire but we could hire him out as a Stephen Pearson play-a-like... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eddie Notgetinya Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 10 hours ago, TBW said: Something has to be done with the guy ultimately and I doubt we've given up just yet. I can't help thinking that we might take the cheap way out of finding a striker option and hope Watkins can fill the void now we've spent pretty hard already... Not saying I want to, just that the staff might think we can pull a Bobby Reid job on him? Let’s hope not. He ain’t gonna be a Bobby and I’d be pretty unhappy to see so much quality come in to just take a punt on Watkins coming good. Get rid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenRobin Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 Personally I am up for giving him a chance. But not as a striker?! The lad is already struggling, will a position change help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Silvio Dante Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Davefevs said: I blame @Silvio Dante. Had he not explained that our 4231 v Hallen shaped up the way it did, I would be quaffing the suggestion of signing Kieffer Moore or the thought of Watkins up top. But there is a possibility (it’s just one friendly vs Toolstation Hallen However) that LJ wants a mobile big-man to allow his forward three to buzz around. If there was a criticism of Fam (from me, plenty of criticism from many others) it was he never run his CB markers into the channel, he rarely spun off their shoulders, he was a static easy to mark / bully, and his first touch came into question. I have wondered all close season how LJ intends to play this season. I still am, but I'm starting to see a plan. I might be back to square one when we see tomorrow’s line-up, or the ones in Florida, especially Derby. I do expect something different from last season. I could see a scenario where Fam isn’t an auto-pick too. Watkins does have a goalscoring capability, arriving at the far post of the wing, or cutting inside as we saw at Barnsley. He’s not a player I particularly rate, but he can be effective. Yeah, sorry about that Dave - must be less observant next time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
downendcity Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Chris_Brown said: A lot of people seem keen to write off a player who's only played around 500 minutes of football for us. Makes a change from people writing off players before they've played any minutes of football for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTRFTG Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Chris_Brown said: A lot of people seem keen to write off a player who's only played around 500 minutes of football for us. I don't think any reasoned person is keen to right Pearson off. However: Is that all he's played for us as it seems so much, much, much longer....; Thank Christ it's only 500 minutes. His like are exactly why we haven't progressed to the next step. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hunt-Hertz Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 1 hour ago, Hellfire Corner said: Line two should be ”who was very rarely stable” It was Heidegger who could drink you under the table!!! I always get my dipsomaniac philosophers mixed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Magicseason Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 12 hours ago, TBW said: Something has to be done with the guy ultimately and I doubt we've given up just yet. I can't help thinking that we might take the cheap way out of finding a striker option and hope Watkins can fill the void now we've spent pretty hard already... Not saying I want to, just that the staff might think we can pull a Bobby Reid job on him? Too late that's Sammies Role Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smokey Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 Wonder if he could be a good right back? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davefevs Posted July 8, 2019 Report Share Posted July 8, 2019 2 minutes ago, smokey live said: Wonder if he could be a good right back? Never played there according to Transfermarkt. Not sure he has the football intelligence to play there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrozenRobin Posted August 19, 2019 Report Share Posted August 19, 2019 this went well Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Watts Posted August 20, 2019 Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 On 08/07/2019 at 22:45, Smokey said: Wonder if he could be a good right back? Right back to Norwich would be good..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Isewater Posted August 20, 2019 Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 Could he be converted in to a bird table perhaps ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Son of Fred Posted August 20, 2019 Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 22 minutes ago, Major Isewater said: Could he be converted in to a bird table perhaps ? ,,,,occasional table??.....with bailey wright in a supporting role? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cheshire_red Posted August 20, 2019 Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 I thought the OP was intending to send the Jehovah's round Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calculus Posted August 20, 2019 Report Share Posted August 20, 2019 14 minutes ago, cheshire_red said: I thought the OP was intending to send the Jehovah's round You can't just say Jehovah. (Oh, b*gger!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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