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Grendel

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #36
Skyblueweeman said:
I always tell the wife about the couple of extra inches as well to be fair.

Just googled Juninho Paulista...cracking player at Boro in the 90s, I know you're remember him. Apparently he's 1.65m and Dasilva is 1.7m (wiki).
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Jordan Clarke was 6 foot on wiki
 

Ccfcisparks

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #37
Grendel said:
Well clearly I have - Wise and Strachan were 5 6 I think but they weren’t disadvantaged at all - he is
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He’s 5 7 apparently.

tariq lamptey for Brighton is a genuine 5 4
 

fatso

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #38
Fusilier said:
what position would be best for him?
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In the fucking stand!
 
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PVA

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #39
Lorenzo Insigne had a pretty decent career at 5'4
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #40
Old Warwickshire lad said:
Bet this kid will have fond memories of the great Coventry city supporters.
Always there for you when things are tough.
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He’s hardly a kid and he was an awful signing
 
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ProfessorbyGrace

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #41
I’d put him as a CAM in training, and see how well he does. Passing, movements, vision, interplay etc.

Realistically, it’s the only place he could feasibly go, if a positional transition happened.

Either that or he can make fucking coffee all day for the squad.
 
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Skyblueabo1111

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #42
Terry_dactyl said:
Is he superb as LWB?? I mean I’m sure I’ll have seen him play there. I don’t remember ever thinking that of him, semi-final withstanding.
Having said that, if he were taller I think he’d be great…but he isn’t, so he’s not.
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Excellent against Sheff Weds
 
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Old Warwickshire lad

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #43
Grendel said:
He’s hardly a kid and he was an awful signing
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Haha sorry but at my age anyone under 40 is a kid. Dasilva may not have been a great signing,but was a regular starter last season.
Must be in double figures for this season ( not bothered checking so could be wrong).
And one of the handful of players who can control a ball,without it bouncing 10 feet off him when it comes to him.
Obvious weaknesses,size being one of them.
But nowhere near the disaster of a player some on here make him out to be.
I have watched the opposition target him with high balls over the top, I have also watched them do exactly the same to Bidwell as he is slow to turn and get back.
Good tactic a lot of teams use against a lot of fullbacks.
 
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Skyblueweeman

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #44
Grendel said:
Jordan Clarke was 6 foot on wiki
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God why are you such a negative responder?!

Multiple other websites have Dasilva at 1.7m and Juninho at 1.65m.

Lighten up a little.
 
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2024/25 League 1 Champs?

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #45
his height wouldn’t be an issue if he is coached positionally on how to avoid getting caught out with balls in behind / over the top
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #46
Skyblueweeman said:
God why are you such a negative responder?!

Multiple other websites have Dasilva at 1.7m and Juninho at 1.65m.

Lighten up a little.
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He also has the turning circle of an oil tanker when we lose possession going forward and the pace of a snail
 
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PVA

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #47
Bidwell has been rubbish this season too.

Not much point doing anything about in January as we have other more pressing concerns, but LB will have to be a priority in the summer.
 
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Fusilier

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #48
2024/25 League 1 Champs? said:
his height wouldn’t be an issue if he is coached positionally on how to avoid getting caught out with balls in behind / over the top
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Dasilva is 26 years old and has been coached positionally by lots of different coaches since he made his professional debut 8 years ago.
I doubt any coach in the world could make him a good Championship left back as he will always be the weak link in a team`s defence due to his physical limitations.
It is not only his lack of height that opposition target him for. He also lacks pace and strength which results in him winning very few duels.

It would be best for the club to sell him so that the money can be used towards a left back that has all of the attributes to be a good Championship left back but it is unlikely that there will be any interest in him
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #49
PVA said:
Bidwell has been rubbish this season too.

Not much point doing anything about in January as we have other more pressing concerns, but LB will have to be a priority in the summer.
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Bidwell hasn’t been rubbish though - he’s showing his age now and can’t play every game but is miles better as an option than Dasilva
 
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Skyblueweeman

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #50
Grendel said:
He also has the turning circle of an oil tanker when we lose possession going forward and the pace of a snail
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Tell me, in what year did you last say something mildly positive?

I'm guessing 2003.
 

Grendel

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #51
Skyblueweeman said:
Tell me, in what year did you last say something mildly positive?

I'm guessing 2003.
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Someone above me in the last post has called Bidwell rubbish and I’ve said he isn’t. Which by definition is positive.
 
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COVKIDSNEVERQUIT

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #52
Skyblueweeman said:
God why are you such a negative responder?!

Multiple other websites have Dasilva at 1.7m and Juninho at 1.65m.

Lighten up a little.
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That's what making 85,000 posts does to you, don't know where he gets the time of the day to do it.

 
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stupot07

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #53
Skyblueabo1111 said:
Excellent against Sheff Weds
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Excellent is over doing it somewhat
 
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alfielloyd

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  • Jan 16, 2025
  • #54
Grendel said:
Da Silva makes me look like a giant. He must be about 5 foot 4 - he also appears to be shrinking every time I see him
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Andy Ducros was talented but tiny, possibly in the same height league as Da Silva.
 

Torquay Sky Blue

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  • Jan 17, 2025
  • #55
Brian Flynn 5.3 decent career with Leeds and Burnley

One for the teenagers
 

Captain Dart

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  • Jan 17, 2025
  • #56
Torquay Sky Blue said:
Brian Flynn 5.3 decent career with Leeds and Burnley

One for the teenagers
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Alan Ball and Nobby Stiles were both 5' 6", two for the boomers.
 
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dadgad

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  • Jan 18, 2025
  • #57
Willie Carr was a midget, Micky Gynn no giant. There have been loads of successful dwarfs, ask Snow White
 

stevefloyd

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  • Jan 18, 2025
  • #58
alfielloyd said:
Andy Ducros was talented but tiny, possibly in the same height league as Da Silva.
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And look what happened to his 'career' from premier league to obscurity
 

stevefloyd

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  • Jan 18, 2025
  • #59
Nothing to do with this topic but just feel like saying 'Reece Brown' was fucking shit !!...feel better now
 

2024/25 League 1 Champs?

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  • Jan 18, 2025
  • #60
dadgad said:
Willie Carr was a midget, Micky Gynn no giant. There have been loads of successful dwarfs, ask Snow White
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yeah true, but only one of them was actually Happy
 
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Torquay Sky Blue

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  • Jan 18, 2025
  • #61
2024/25 League 1 Champs? said:
yeah true, but only one of them was actually Happy
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And we've ended up with the dopey one
 
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