Biamou still has lots to offer (3 Viewers)

Paul O Donoghue · Oct 31, 2020

Max justified his selection v Reading in spades in my humble opinion. Worked his arsenal off , won every header, was denied by a crossbar in his first Championship outing. Great attitude and an effective partner to Matty God. The contrast in the Reading game to the Boro match in terms of team shape was enormous and credit Robins for making the adjustment. In the Borough match God was expected to run all match for 96 minutes on his todd and it looked ridiculous. Biamou brought physical presence, aerial ability and decent work rate on top of his unpredictability and I was thrilled for him tonight. Viveash rightly hugged him after the match. Great win and vital 3 points after a torrid first few games. Hamer needs to cool it a tad but a great lad. Love Ostigard and Dom Hyam has been our best player so far this season. Don't know what Robins sees in Jamie Allen at all. Turned his arse to the cross that brought them their second goal. Too small and has no tackle. PUSB. Forest next.

ccfc92 · Oct 31, 2020

Agreed with all of that. Was surprised to see Allen coming on, when Kelly was on the bench.

Briles · Oct 31, 2020

I say time and time again biamou is such an integral part of our attack without scoring. He links midfield to attack.

Paul O Donoghue · Oct 31, 2020

He is just an honest grafter with an ability to do magical stuff at times. The goals he has scored for Coventry are often bizarre and spectacular but at least he has a go ,backs himself. His career path has been unorthodox but I love the player's cavalier style. It would be very hard to drop him after the Reading game and I find it difficult to understand why he was being shown the door a few weeks back. He's not Messi but he'll do me.

Paul O Donoghue · Oct 31, 2020

Giles was more deserving of MOTM than Sheaf .

hill83 · Oct 31, 2020

Deleted member 2477 · Oct 31, 2020

Agree

Otis · Oct 31, 2020

He certainly made a difference last night. Godden has been so isolated previously.

Sky Blue Pete · Oct 31, 2020

Would have loved him to have scored the second. He was excellent

letsallsingtogether · Oct 31, 2020

No secret I am a fan of Max, was wishing he would have a good game. Wasn't disappointed.
Just means their defence had to split up and mark 2 instead of one,this gave us that bit of room in the box to get those 3 excellent goals.

cc84cov · Oct 31, 2020

letsallsingtogether said:
No secret I am a fan of Max, was wishing he would have a good game. Wasn't disappointed.
Just means their defence had to split up and mark 2 instead of one,this gave us that bit of room in the box to get those 3 excellent goals.

Offers a lot more than Baka

Magwitch · Oct 31, 2020

Played well gave us options up top and kept Reading defence occupied allowing Godden more space to play too. Pleased for him.

Great_Expectations · Oct 31, 2020

Completely agree. Foolish to write him off based on his age and relative lack of experience.

Of course there are better link type players out there, but none that we could afford/attract that would be any better than Max. He’s the only striker in our squad capable of playing that role and his technical ability is very good - something that actually matters more in this league than previously.

He was written off in L2 and L1 by some, and he proved them wrong on both occasions. Let’s hope he does the same again.

Godden looked better last night and thats no coincidence. The same way McNulty did alongside Biamou.

I’m sure someone will quote his goal scoring record, but rating a striker based solely on goals scored is Dinosaur stuff.

PUSB-We_are_going_up · Oct 31, 2020

Grendel won’t like this page

But I agree Max does have a lot left in him just because he is 29/30 does not mean his career is over becould hit his prome late as he started professionally when he was 22

Magwitch · Oct 31, 2020

I like Max too always have and as I’ve said played well and made a difference last night BUT we need better I’m hoping that will be young Walker and he can produce once fit. Get the forwards right we can climb up this league imo.

skybluesam66 · Oct 31, 2020

is that the end of Baka now - disappeared from the match day squad altogether

stevefloyd · Oct 31, 2020

love him or hate him you cannot deny, considering his fitness levels are not up to 100% match fitness, he put in hell of a shift

stevefloyd · Oct 31, 2020

skybluesam66 said:
is that the end of Baka now - disappeared from the match day squad altogether

Wouldnt worry me at all if he wasnt to feature anymore for us, he has been given chances but has shown fuck all, I would think Ponticelli has more of a chance of playing before him now

ccfc1234 · Oct 31, 2020

Magwitch said:
I like Max too always have and as I’ve said played well and made a difference last night BUT we need better I’m hoping that will be young Walker and he can produce once fit. Get the forwards right we can climb up this league imo.

Not sure he is the same kind of player as Max. Godden and Walker seem like our best strikers on paper but combinations and how they link are far more important. If we're playing 2 up top there will be enough game time for all of them.

What I like about last night is Robins DNA was also not compromised. For me Robins likes wing backs and 3 CBs. I feel we can retain that philosophy and 2 up top or 1 up top and 2 ACMs does not change our style too much.

superskyblue · Oct 31, 2020

I don't think Max played that well last night, he is capable of much better. But still think he made a big difference. Godden was much better for having him up there. Would definitely persist with the front two and Walker should be pushing Max for his place.

RegTheDonk · Oct 31, 2020

As a person, love Max and thought he did OK. Had some good flick ons and helped Godden out well. Tucked that one away and there would be a meltdown here lol!

Anyone with some proper footballing knowledge please explain why Max started as opposed to Walker? Seems strange as the bloke is supposedly a higher quality player. Is it style, physique, technique, or fitness?

Evo1883 · Oct 31, 2020

I'm not his biggest fan... But thought he had a solid game... Still think if we play 2 up walker will be the man next to godden going forward

Evo1883 · Oct 31, 2020

RegTheDonk said:
As a person, love Max and thought he did OK. Had some good flick ons and helped Godden out well. Tucked that one away and there would be a meltdown here lol!

Anyone with some proper footballing knowledge please explain why Max started as opposed to Walker? Seems strange as the bloke is supposedly a higher quality player. Is it style, physique, technique, or fitness?

Wasn't fit anyway, then had to isolate for 10 or so days... Simply fitness

stupot07 · Oct 31, 2020

RegTheDonk said:
As a person, love Max and thought he did OK. Had some good flick ons and helped Godden out well. Tucked that one away and there would be a meltdown here lol!

Anyone with some proper footballing knowledge please explain why Max started as opposed to Walker? Seems strange as the bloke is supposedly a higher quality player. Is it style, physique, technique, or fitness?

Style and physicality. For me Walker looks more like a Godden type player than a target man/link player, which is what Max is. I think Robins has finally woken up to how physical this league is. I expect Biamou to start on Wednesday.

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Terry Gibson's perm · Oct 31, 2020

I have written him off many times in the past but he was a nuisance last night.

Terry Gibson's perm · Oct 31, 2020

ccfc92 said:
Agreed with all of that. Was surprised to see Allen coming on, when Kelly was on the bench.

He brought Allen on for his energy

Evo1883 · Oct 31, 2020

I think Robins will stick Wednesday though... But only because walker still won't be ready to go for a few days

Sky Blue Pete · Oct 31, 2020

RegTheDonk said:
As a person, love Max and thought he did OK. Had some good flick ons and helped Godden out well. Tucked that one away and there would be a meltdown here lol!

Anyone with some proper footballing knowledge please explain why Max started as opposed to Walker? Seems strange as the bloke is supposedly a higher quality player. Is it style, physique, technique, or fitness?

Fitness

Sky Blue Harry H · Oct 31, 2020

Evo1883 said:
I think Robins will stick Wednesday though... But only because walker still won't be ready to go for a few days

Walker will be desperate to turn out against Forest, you would have thought.

sw88 · Oct 31, 2020

Thought he had a good game. Linked up well and he and Godden almost complimented each other where as before maybe he would be too close to a strike partner and his flick ons would usually come to very little unless picked up by midfield
Shame his shot didn't go in

eastwoodsdustman · Oct 31, 2020

RegTheDonk said:
As a person, love Max and thought he did OK. Had some good flick ons and helped Godden out well. Tucked that one away and there would be a meltdown here lol!

Anyone with some proper footballing knowledge please explain why Max started as opposed to Walker? Seems strange as the bloke is supposedly a higher quality player. Is it style, physique, technique, or fitness?

Fitness but also strength and aerial ability. By playing Max last night a lot of pressure was taken off us defensively. It gave them time to recover instead of the constant bombardment they’ve had playing 1 up front. Walker is similar to Godden as far as I can see in the he will play off someone rather than the target man.

mrtrench · Oct 31, 2020

sw88 said:
he and Godden almost complimented each other

"Hey Max, I think you played quite adequately"
"Thanks Matt. Your hair is OK,"

larry_david · Oct 31, 2020

Walker is long term for sure. Hardly featured at this level but excelled below. We have to bide our time. Max did almost everything right last night and it seemed to fire up godden as well. Just the hold up play, support etc.

Walker will be long term, Max has to do that job now and if he'd played against that bag of shite boro, all those ridiculous long balls we did would have stuck allowing us out.

Also I'm a massive Kelly fan that's obvious but to bring allen on with 5 mins to go instead of the one player we have who can buy time, composure, captain... Just seemed bizarre to me. Think Allen touched it once

Sky Blue Pete · Oct 31, 2020

larry_david said:
Walker is long term for sure. Hardly featured at this level but excelled below. We have to bide our time. Max did almost everything right last night and it seemed to fire up godden as well. Just the hold up play, support etc.

Walker will be long term, Max has to do that job now and if he'd played against that bag of shite boro, all those ridiculous long balls we did would have stuck allowing us out.

Also I'm a massive Kelly fan that's obvious but to bring allen on with 5 mins to go instead of the one player we have who can buy time, composure, captain... Just seemed bizarre to me. Think Allen touched it once

Its almost as if robins knows better than us

Grendel · Oct 31, 2020

Sky Blue Pete said:
Its almost as if robins knows better than us

Well he’s signed players to play a style of football he’s rapidly had to abandon

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