Has he played above league one level,Could he do what Ivan Toney has done and make the step up look easy? I’m not so sure.
Fair play though if he gets a big move,Probably easier to score in Scotland if Rangers were interested.
Half of this forum apparentlyLet's be fair which of us could have forecast JCH having this success when he left us?
I don't remember many people complaining at the time
Good luck to the lad, he seems to have sorted himself out and has done well
Let's be fair which of us could have forecast JCH having this success when he left us?
I don't remember many people complaining at the time
Good luck to the lad, he seems to have sorted himself out and has done well
Easy to forget Toney had a number of underwhelming seasons in League 1 before he joined Peterborough. Probably realised his potential a couple of years sooner tham JCH but certainly wouldn't rule out JCH doing well at a Championship side.This - not in the same class as Toney - but good luck to him.
Bright Enobakhare?I always said he was a cut above the other forwards we had. Robins just can’t play to the strengths of players they have to fit his way or else. He hasn’t sorted himself out it’s a failure of man management
100%. He seems to have kicked on since leaving us, good luck to him. He's scored 7 pens in the league this season , but from open play he is still averaging a goal every 176 minutes this season which is pretty decent.Intrigued by the idea JCHs failure to score in his second spell here was all down to Robins. His record prior to turning up here was hardly setting the world on fire.
Given the manner of his departure in his first spell here surely you have to at least consider there may have been an attitude problem?
Pity we didn't insert future sell on fees when we gave him away for free I was glad to see him go at the time didn't think he was a 5m playerLet's be fair which of us could have forecast JCH having this success when he left us?
I don't remember many people complaining at the time
Good luck to the lad, he seems to have sorted himself out and has done well
Who did you go and watch?It happens that some players are late developers. I myself wasn't ready for Premiership football at the age of 23.
The attitude issue is a stigma that stuck with JCH from his youth. It's clear there was always a player in there it just needed the right manager to realise his potential. Personally I don't consider it as a factor behind why he failed to find success at the club. Most managers he's played under have suggested that he just needs managing correctly and frankly I don't think Robins is patient enough with players to cater to such needs, not for the long-term anyway.
I think his failure to find form was by large down to Robins' failure to play to his strengths. Bristol's assistant manager at the time even alluded to this a few months after JCH signed. JCH thrives in a system that regularly puts crosses in for him to get on the end of and that looks to regularly feed balls into him where possible as he makes runs in behind. If memory serves, we used him predominantly as a target man, which just isn't his game. In actual fact he's quite good with the ball at his feet and is able to run at defences with the ball at reasonable speed and use his athleticism, aggression and physicality to cause the backline problems. But Robins seemed to strangely ignore this and instead chose to utilise him as a Biamou 2.0, when quite obviously he was so much more than that.
In hindsight, it's no wonder he often looked so frustrated when playing for us.
But ultimately Robins was right, as we were Champions last season. Bristol were nowhere near, so perhaps had we built our system around him he might of scored goals but we wouldn't of been promoted.
Was never a fan myself. Was a big signing in League 2 (on loan) but Biamou & McNulty were the first choices in the end. He just looked uninterested most of the time, and had a poor goalscoring record. Good luck to him, but Robins was right to move hin on.
Lets see how he does in the championship.
I will cut JCH some slack though ...he was basically a kid still back then9 goals in 57 career appearances (0.16 goals/game)
Biamou is at 0.14 goals/game [runs for cover]
I will cut JCH some slack though ...he was basically a kid still back then
18 - 23 years old at Rotherham
He wasn't right at all, the outcome just happened to work out for all parties involved. There's a difference.
9 goals in 57 career appearances (0.16 goals/game)
Biamou is at 0.14 goals/game [runs for cover]
How wasn’t he right? We won the league.
Robins job is to build the best team, if he’s got a good player that doesn’t fit his system getting rid is the right thing to do. Same with Chaplin.
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