Transfer Rumour Carl Rushworth (1 Viewer)

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

Ccfcisparks said:
This was your reaction when we signed him

Post in thread 'January transfer window'
Transfer Rumour - January transfer window

Right and as I said in the post you’re replying to the excitement was because I thought he was a more forward minded player than he is.

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

Fucking hell arguing the toss about what I personally find exciting. What a way to spend a Saturday afternoon.

SBAndy · Jul 19, 2025

Lamps said:
Best of both worlds with Grimes to me. Always looking for the ball and very rarely loses it. But then you get it where he plays a 30 yard pass perfectly to unlock a defence.

Hoping it’s my memory playing tricks on me, but I can’t remember a single instance he did this…

Sky Blue Goblin · Jul 19, 2025

Not to defend him too much but last season Grimes had the second highest progressive passes in Europe.

Deity · Jul 19, 2025

If you can’t see what Grimes brings to our midfield then try another sport as football isn’t for you ….

TomRad85 · Jul 19, 2025

Sky Blue Goblin said:
Not to defend him too much but last season Grimes had the second highest progressive passes in Europe.

He completely dictates the tempo of the game, exactly like he did at Swansea when he used to boss us every damn time.

David O'Day · Jul 19, 2025

Sky Blue Goblin said:
Not to defend him too much but last season Grimes had the second highest progressive passes in Europe.

it is like some people don't get how you play through a press

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

SBAndy said:
Hoping it’s my memory playing tricks on me, but I can’t remember a single instance he did this…

He played one ball over the top for EMC in the early ish games I think then never again.

TomRad85 · Jul 19, 2025

David O'Day said:
it is like some people don't get how you play through a press

I don’t really get the issue people have with him picking it up deep tbh. He starts the attack way better than your average centre back does and when he moves into that position it allows the full backs to push on.
Also he actually managed to get a couple of goals in half a season which is something of a goal spree by Grimes standards. No midfielder will go without goals playing under Lampard.

Ccfcisparks · Jul 19, 2025

shmmeee said:
He played one ball over the top for EMC in the early ish games I think then never again.

I take it your dealer is back off his holidays

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

Ccfcisparks said:
I take it your dealer is back off his holidays

We rarely played over the top or quickly to release our forwards last season. Lots of working it out to the wings and crossing in, few big switches or raking diagonals. I honestly can’t remember Grimes playing any passes like that or like his highlight reel on here when he signed that put a winger away.

Ccfcisparks · Jul 19, 2025

shmmeee said:
We rarely played over the top or quickly to release our forwards last season. Lots of working it out to the wings and crossing in, few big switches or raking diagonals. I honestly can’t remember Grimes playing any passes like that or like his highlight reel on here when he signed that put a winger away.

I remember him doing a big cross field switch nearly every game tbh

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

Ccfcisparks said:
I remember him doing a big cross field switch nearly every game tbh

Putting a winger through? Not just switching play to the other side?

David O'Day · Jul 19, 2025

TomRad85 said:
I don’t really get the issue people have with him picking it up deep tbh. He starts the attack way better than your average centre back does and when he moves into that position it allows the full backs to push on.
Also he actually managed to get a couple of goals in half a season which is something of a goal spree by Grimes standards. No midfielder will go without goals playing under Lampard.

People wanted us to sign one the best midfielders in the league and then whinge when does what he has always done.

Mad

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Lamps · Jul 19, 2025

Ccfcisparks said:
I remember him doing a big cross field switch nearly every game tbh

And always when unexpected. I suppose the opposition just expected him trying to keep possession.

Lamps · Jul 19, 2025

shmmeee said:
Putting a winger through? Not just switching play to the other side?

Which is where the wingers normally are?

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

Lamps said:
Which is where the wingers normally are?

Maybe I’m not explaining myself well. The sort of passes you see in the first few here:

Brighton Sky Blue · Jul 19, 2025

David O'Day said:
it is like some people don't get how you play through a press

We then did it against Sunderland at home who sat back and let us pass it around the back doing sweet FA

JSL · Jul 19, 2025

Those passes are the same ones just from different angles and colour effects

PUSB-We_are_going_up · Jul 19, 2025

Trueskyblue20 said:

Dovin performing well according to the stats then

TomRad85 · Jul 19, 2025

PUSB-We_are_going_up said:
Dovin performing well according to the stats then

Considering it took a while to get going, being messed about and then also had his season cut short its pretty impressive.

Lamps · Jul 19, 2025

shmmeee said:
Maybe I’m not explaining myself well. The sort of passes you see in the first few here:

Must be some kind of misunderstanding between us here as it shows countless times the type of balls forward to the wingers I said.

SBAndy · Jul 19, 2025

TomRad85 said:
He completely dictates the tempo of the game, exactly like he did at Swansea when he used to boss us every damn time.

And yet when teams decided to sit in against us he ended up the deepest outfield player on the pitch. A lot of the passes he played were simple - strange considering when he came on vs Leeds in his debut his one-touch play was exquisite.

Now, it may be as simple as the players in front of him not being in the shape that we’d been working on, forcing him to hold onto the ball for longer. Clearly he has the ability to do it, but I genuinely don’t remember many/any defence splitting passes.

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

Lamps said:
Must be some kind of misunderstanding between us here as it shows countless times the type of balls forward to the wingers I said.

Yeah maybe I’m just not seeing it but I rarely remember our wingers getting set free or against the last man like that even less so our strikers.

David O'Day · Jul 19, 2025

Brighton Sky Blue said:
We then did it against Sunderland at home who sat back and let us pass it around the back doing sweet FA

you don't know what playing through a press is do you

hardly the cdm fault the forwards can't break down a low block

sharkymcphee · Jul 19, 2025

This site is so funny. Arguing about Grimes on a transfer thread about a loan goal keeper.

Grimes turned our season around quite obviously

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

No one said grimes wasn’t a good signing or even that I wasn’t happy we signed him. I just said defensive midfielders ranked lowest in my totally made up personal rankings of how exciting signings were.

Doug King help me please. Make a signing.

Terry_dactyl · Jul 19, 2025

shmmeee said:
No one said grimes wasn’t a good signing or even that I wasn’t happy we signed him. I just said defensive midfielders ranked lowest in my totally made up personal rankings of how exciting signings were.

Doug King help me please. Make a signing.

Less exciting than Centre backs and goalkeepers?

Terry_dactyl · Jul 19, 2025

Terry_dactyl said:
Less exciting than Centre backs and goalkeepers?

Goalkeepers aren’t even proper footballers!

baldy · Jul 19, 2025

Lamps said:
Have you seen his long and accurate throws? Would you get out your seat for a 1v1 against the GK?

I'd get out my seat if our (potential) new keeper ends up 1v1 against the opposing goalie yeah

shmmeee · Jul 19, 2025

Terry_dactyl said:
Goalkeepers aren’t even proper footballers!

Pull off good saves and are a bit mental tho. We probably talked about goalkeepers more than any other position this year.

Conversely I love MvE, probably my favourite player at the moment, but I don’t get excited by the idea of us getting a left sided MvE as I do some random 19 year old winger.

Other people are welcome to their own scale.

procdoc · Jul 19, 2025

Fuck me this is boring

PVA · Jul 19, 2025

Ccfcisparks said:
I remember him doing a big cross field switch nearly every game tbh

He averaged a switch every 3 games last season according to the stats tbf.

SkyBlueStallion_89 · Jul 19, 2025

procdoc said:
Fuck me this is boring

It's been a long slow window so far mate it has be boring, we need confirmation of Rushworth to beat back the boredom lol

shepardo01 · Jul 19, 2025

shmmeee said:
Feels like we’re going for it a bit doesn’t it?

You are getting carried away!
Birmingham are "going for it"
We have signed an unknown fullback, a fullback who isn't as good as the one we have, and are linked to a loan keeper.
That is not "going for it"

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