Skyblueabo1111
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I thought it weird. Simms not played in playoffs? 99 appearances. One game triggers 2 million payout to Everton?
Ellis Simms playoffs reason not played (2 Viewers)
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Skyblueabo1111
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Skyblueabo1111
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99 games
Skyblueabo1111
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He wasn't injured
Skyblueabo1111
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He will
Liquid Gold
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This is gonna be one of those bullshit internet things that becomes fact.
fatso
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Weird, but would explain his omition, but then again why have him on the bench???
And let's be brutally honest. He's been fucking shit for ages. I wouldn't want him anywhere near our first team if I were Lampard.
baldy
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99 appearances but being on the pitch ain't one
peteCCFC
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Ellis, are the rumours true that you never sleep and stay up all night playing your Xbox?
Somerset Sky Blue
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I kept wondering if he was injured and that's why he didn't come on
...but then why have him on the bench and he certainly warmed up a few times.
Who is to know what would have happened, but I would have liked to see him in the first leg, especially how the game was developing.
...but then why have him on the bench and he certainly warmed up a few times.
Who is to know what would have happened, but I would have liked to see him in the first leg, especially how the game was developing.
Otis
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Saddlebrains
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He wasn't injured
We didn't owe any payout for appearances
Management patience has ran out
We didn't owe any payout for appearances
Management patience has ran out
Jamesimus
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Pete, the rumour I started was that he stays up all night watching anime. Stick to the script please.
Jamesimus
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Surprised it lasted this long tbh. You can still see what he has in moments, unfortunately they became rarer as the season came to an end!
I still think he’d have been more of a handful than Wright in the second leg
I agree, there are the ingredients, depends on him ultimately and the system I think, he’s not a loan striker.
think may be best for both to go seperate ways, like you say, wouldn’t surprise me to see him score regularly at next stop.
Grendel
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He was poor against Middlesbrough
He’s not been great all season but wev‘e won a lot of games he’s started in, there’s no way he doesn’t play a single minute in those 2 games,
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Grendel
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I would guess most people who have managed a him feel the same
Kingokings204
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Whilst I accept that 100%. It still beggars belief he couldn’t be useful for half hour or more when some of our players weren't Great themselves and or couldn’t walk any more.
Exactly, there’s no way lampards thinking of keeping him, prob wasn’t impressed with him at Everton either, shame, really want him to come good, proved he can score at every level he’s been at
Otis
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You would guess so, wouldn't you
I have stood by him all season and did last season too, but the last time he scored was Feb 15th. When you add in to that, his inability to hold the ball up to allow us to build an attack, you are then left with a big problem.
He may well do well elsewhere, but you would have to think his time with us is at an end
Don’t think we can wait for him to come good can we , but you just know whatever club he goes to he’ll be a totally different player, 6 ft 3 shithouse. If your a defender you should hate playing against him, it’s the opposite.
Speedie's Head
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He didn't play because his season has been hugely disappointing, unfortunately!
Captain Dart
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If there was an appearance payout it wouldn't be anything like 2 million, 100,000 I could believe but 2 million, laughable. Anyway it's clear he made way for Haji, when BTA went on he took EMC's position.
Ellis Simms couldn't tear his way out of a wet paper bag, let alone tear up a league. He failed to look good in Scotland and even I (an overweight, 40 something, Sunday league GK) could look good up front in Scotland. He's scored 40 goals total in 5 years, what's the odds on him doing 20 in 1? Very high odds that's for sure, regardless of where he is and in which league.
Time to give up on him. His size probably made him look better as a kid before all the others caught him up, but as a man, he still looks like a boy half the time. Fair play to him for managing to make a half decent career for himself, but he's as much as a professional striker as I am.
*Edit: as a side note it was always going to be hard coming in a filling the boots of Gyokeres. We, as fans, had high expectations after Vik. I thinknthe thing that's annoying isn't the fact that he's not always on his game, it's his lack of effort when he's not in the game that's the issue. Nobody on here, or in the stands expects any player to be 100% perfect 100% of the time. Every player is going to have a bad game from time to time. Every player is going to make mistakes during a game. That's the league were in and the level of it. But when he half heartedly bimbles about and apologies to opposition players for fouling them, you need a career change.
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