He was fine for a 3rd/4th choice striker for a team that is at the bottom end of the league.
The other 3rd/4th choice striker came on and scored the equaliser.
He was fine for a 3rd/4th choice striker for a team that is at the bottom end of the league.
The other 3rd/4th choice striker came on and scored the equaliser.
Skybluebeliever
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I’d heard he was almost back to training last week but then had a set back / flare up ,they are awaiting to calm down with him resting his foot completely at the moment
AFCCOVENTRY
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We need to ship Baka out in Jan and at least get a loan striker in.
87 n all that
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Now Max is off the mark maybe he’ll be able to step up.
Rich
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This might be controversial, but I see Max as an impact striker. He comes on last 20 minutes when you need a big goal. I don't see him as a first choice.
87 n all that
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If we go 2 up front then he’ll probably start but he’s like you said, an impact player off the bench. We don’t have a consistent attacking midfielder so 2 up top, with Giles and Dabo putting in crosses might be the way forward.
Warwickhunt
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i see MR as using Baka as a burn out striker that tires the opposition defence , then he brings on Walker and Max when he goes back to 5-3-2
clint van damme
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We're not going to sign a proven Championship striker - we can't afford one.
Fine, get rid of them pair, but whoever we get in will be a punt who may be no better.
BornSlippySkyBlue
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There’s a poster who is, I think, a physio which gave a fairly good summary somewhere (might even be this thread if I could be bothered to look!) but my layman’s understanding of it is that it is inflammation (...itis) of the fascia which is a membrane surrounding muscles. When you take the skin off a chicken breast the thin membrane underneath is the fascia, when this is damaged or inflamed (the plantar bit is the bottom of the foot) it can ‘snag’ on the surrounding muscle etc. “Myofascial release” is what a personal trainer taught me to do for that issue, with the foot you can roll a tennis ball around under the sole to help, but I imagine a pro sportsman will have some hands-on from the medical team. I think it can be one of those niggly ones, sometimes goes away reasonably quickly, but can take longer. So I’m not sure if they will know for sure how long.
Apologies if I’m repeating anything (haven’t read the whole thread) or if my limited knowledge is incorrect, but that’s my understanding of it.
BornSlippySkyBlue
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You can get padded insoles (mainly the heel) to help relieve the pain, as others have said, can be bloody painful.
Rich
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I hated getting out of bed when I had it.
Grendel
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blimey is he out until 2030?
BornSlippySkyBlue
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I snapped 3 metatarsals walking up the stairs one morning(!) which healed with a “significant callus”. Feels like a marble taped to the bottom of my foot if I walk barefoot. I know the feeling!
Greggs
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ouch, they must be pretty tough stairs
Rich
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BornSlippySkyBlue
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Normal stairs. Still got the kids to school (on crutches). I don’t have the best of luck with the bony bits of my body it is fair to say.
eastwoodsdustman
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I had it come on a couple of years ago. I bought 2 pairs of insoles with extra arch support and it went and hasn’t come back. Nice and cheap at about a fiver a pair.
BornSlippySkyBlue
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Wasn’t it his hip last season that was a niggly one he played with for a bit?
Ccfcisparks
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Clint where have I said we will sign a proven championship striker. Bakayoko isn’t a good enough backup at league 1 level really. If losing him and getting in a better player on loan for 6 months was an option I’d take it every time.
clint van damme
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I never said you said we'd get a proven championship striker.
Just poonting out that due to budgetary constraints we would be taking a punt on whoever we did get in so there's a chance they may not be up to scratch either.
Ccfcisparks
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I’d rather take a punt and hope it comes good then persist with Baka any longer. He offers nothing.
cc84cov
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Sure he’s had it most his Career,we need a striker in January if walker picks up a knock we’re in trouble
Grendel
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Can’t be much worse through really and could go for a different stuke if player - a real number 9 type
shmmeee
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Robins seems to think differently. Seemed happy with his performance Saturday. We’re going to need someone who can get on the end of long punts especially while Marosi is out. I really don’t get why people get so angry about Baka.
cc84cov
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We see what a player of his size and speed could do...we see what he does for us is most probably why we all get pissed off
Ccfcisparks
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Robins doesn’t really seem too different to me because when we have a fit squad Baka doesn’t even make the 18 and was only used Saturday out of necessity. Also Robins is hardly going to come out in front of the press and say he had a shit game really.
clint van damme
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Possibly not. There was an occasion on Saturday where he muscled one of their CBs out of the way and got in front of the other one to win a header in the centre circle yet not once did he give them that sort of hassle in the box.
I've heard of strikers only coming to life in the box but never only in the centre circle.
Though as others have said,,.He's more than likely on a pittance so I'm not sure what we'd get for the same money
shmmeee
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Why not? He’s done it before. Or he’s just not mentioned people. Robins is quite blunt in his assessments of players.
Baka did a job on Saturday and did it well. Why does that upset you so much?
We don’t have unlimited resources to sign some great player to sit on our bench or U23s. I just don’t understand why people get so irate and yet often the same people drool over Max who is a far more limited player and far further out of his depth, but has a knack for poaching a goal.
Anyone other than Baka and we’d have gone in further behind against Norwich. He gets his head to long balls and harries defences, which is more than Max does. That’s why he played ahead of Max and why Robins was happy with him.
Our budget is tiny. Limited players will come in for the odd match and have a job to do. I’ll never understand this idea on here that we should maintain a squad of 11 pros and a few promising kids and that’s it. Or that our squad should all be as good as our best player in that position. We aren’t Man City.
Brighton Sky Blue
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He seemed to just get it as he landed
87 n all that
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Kasta can play anywhere across the forward line apparently so we still have another forward option
Ccfcisparks
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If Baka did such a job saturday how come the majority of people rated him either a 5 or 6 on the ratings thread? we could easily upgrade on him January.
87 n all that
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I think that also. I’m sure some money has been held back for January. In the current climate they would have been stupid not too. Robins wanted one more signing in the summer but couldn’t. Maybe the money was held back for January.
