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A physical bully at youth level but looks way out of his depth at this level currently. Just seems to want to fight, commits the most fouls of any player in the league.

Exactly what you'd expect really. We were never getting battered even in the poor early run but coughed up a lot of easy chances. From the Middlesbrough game on our defence in particular has been exceptional, barely conceding any chances of note.

They've not been particularly good all season, their underlying data shows their early season form was never sustainable, dragged up by some great individual performances & more than a slice of luck. I wouldn't be surprised to see them slide down the table.

Has a lot of moments where he switches off & his decision making is suspect at times, indeed some of QPR's best moments came from this, but he's improving all the time. I've said before that he would have been perfect as one to sign & develop, shame we could only do a loan (for now at least).

Dominant. Keep it up.

Amazing

It says it was to be a joint venture between Hottinger & the Council via match-funding?

Especially as that training ground doesn't even belong to Wasps.

After the introduction of EPPP, Brentford (and others) decided it simply wasn't in their interests to invest in developing young players only to have them poached by bigger clubs for a fraction of their true worth. As with pretty much everything in football, it's all dictated by the Premier...

Agreed but also makes Southgate look daft now for not including him in any of the warm-up squads. How is he supposed to be up to speed with the tactical setup etc.? The whole handling of him (and others given the leaks) is very odd.

Mental. Signed a new 3 year contract less than 3 weeks ago. Admittedly Wigan have been poor but keeping a newly promoted L1 team up in the Championship is one of the biggest challenges there is.

It was the same with Grealish at the Euros in fairness. The clamour then was Sterling should be dropped & we should build the team around Grealish... Look how that panned out.

Henderson is so far past it it's not funny, really he should be nowhere near the squad. Just shows how unbalanced we are when a player like Maddison probably won't get in yet we're relying on players like Henderson in other areas.

Possibly but does he have the discipline to play that role for Southgate's England? And even if he does would we see the best of him in doing so? The reason he's doing so well for Leicester is he's basically given a free role, can't see that working with England.

Hardly comparable tbf. He almost has to take Phillips if there's a chance he'll be fit as we only have 2 competent deep midfielders otherwise. What if Rice or Bellingham get injured in the opening game? On an individual level no doubt Maddison deserves a place, he can't really do much more, but...

In my opinion no, he has zero command of his 6 yard box & there's been numerous times where Fadz has berated him as a result. I'm stunned more teams don't whip more corners under the crossbar (a la Hamer style). In fairness though, as he's grown in confidence he has improved on his communication...

I think that's the point @shmmeee was (clumsily) trying to make. 😁

At least his are from actually trying to make tackles though.

He does play through the middle sometimes but predominantly off the left, it wasn't a deliberate ploy to target Eccles who I thought played him really well.

It's a very fair point though, clean sheets aren't really down to him much if he's not having to do anything. You are of course correct about that being the defence's job but they are going well above & beyond in restricting meaningful opportunities from the opposition. Wilson is far better...