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JSL

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  • Oct 3, 2024
  • #106
I've just watched the City Unseen video from Tuesday night. Whats with the Keith Lemon style hand bandage BTA seems to wear all the time?
 
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Sky Blue Pete

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  • Oct 3, 2024
  • #107
lewys33 said:
Jumping on the bandwagon for a better song (purely because it would be class to sing)

to the tune of “Bella ciao”

his names is Brandon
Thomas Asante
He came to score, came to score, came to score score score!
**Boateng said sign him
He’s fucking rapid**
So he plays for Coventry!

la la la la la …. Etc etc

** not my finest work, it fits, but someone may do better!
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Surprised how slow he is with the ball
 
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wingy

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  • Oct 3, 2024
  • #108
JSL said:
I've just watched the City Unseen video from Tuesday night. Whats with the Keith Lemon style hand bandage BTA seems to wear all the time?
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It's quite common across football clubs seen it quite a bit!
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #109
At this point looking like one of the worst footballers we've signed under Robins

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Grendel

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #110
He’s garbage
 
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pusbccfc

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #111
Would help if we actually played to his and Haji's strengths. It's bonkers trying to play in the hole.

We have four strikers and each one of them wants to play in the channels and in behind.
 
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Cally Fedora

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #112
Come on. We had zero ideas or intensity first half. Asante wasn’t the issue. It was that our most creative ball player was playing left back and our trickiest winger was playing amongst the giants bang in the middle of the pitch.
 
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Esoterica

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #113
Cally Fedora said:
Come on. We had zero ideas or intensity first half. Asante wasn’t the issue. It was that our most creative ball player was playing left back and our trickiest winger was playing amongst the giants bang in the middle of the pitch.
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I don't know why, at any point in that first 60 minutes when we were struggling to string 2 passes together, we didn't just swap Saka and Rudoni for 10 minutes. Just to see how Derby coped with the change.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #114
Esoterica said:
I don't know why, at any point in that first 60 minutes when we were struggling to string 2 passes together, we didn't just swap Saka and Rudoni for 10 minutes. Just to see how Derby coped with the change.
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I was wondering the same thing.
 
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The watchmaker

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #115
Might get pelters for this but I feel like BTA, EMC, Wright and Bassette are all playing for the same position in this team. I like the look of them all individually but not sure any of look comfortable playing the Simms or Sakamoto role. BTA/Wright can work against certain set ups but I don't think it is ideal most of the time.
 
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Hobo

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #116
fernandopartridge said:
At this point looking like one of the worst footballers we've signed under Robins

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Dasilva for me.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #117
Hobo said:
Dasilva for me.
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Mason Clarke Lati and Dasilva wouldn’t make a decent player if you joined the three together.
 
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Calista

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #118
Terry Gibson's perm said:
Mason Clarke Lati and Dasilva wouldn’t make a decent player if you joined the three together.
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tbf they'd find mobility an issue if you did that
 
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shmmeee

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  • Nov 6, 2024
  • #119
Hobo said:
Dasilva for me.
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Dasilva is an excellent footballer. May not be a great defender but one of the best technically on the ball we have.
 
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stupot07

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #120
Thomas-Assante isn't very good, works hard but really lacks quality.
 
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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #121
shmmeee said:
Dasilva is an excellent footballer. May not be a great defender but one of the best technically on the ball we have.
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Can you be one of the best technically if you’re absolutely incapable of using your right foot? So many times tonight the pass was on but he refused to make it because it would have required using his right.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #122
SeaSeeEffCee said:
Can you be one of the best technically if you’re absolutely incapable of using your right foot? So many times tonight the pass was on but he refused to make it because it would have required using his right.
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Ranking the Top 14 Completely One Footed Players of All Time

When compiling a list of gifted but notoriously one-footed players, there are always a few names who immediately spring to mind: Maradona, Beckham and Vieri, to name but three...
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SeaSeeEffCee

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #123
shmmeee said:

Ranking the Top 14 Completely One Footed Players of All Time

When compiling a list of gifted but notoriously one-footed players, there are always a few names who immediately spring to mind: Maradona, Beckham and Vieri, to name but three...
syndication.bleacherreport.com
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lol
 

Chris1987

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #124
Absolutely no idea why we signed him. I have seen precious little from him other than running around a lot. His pass distribution and awareness are horrendous and he's been crap Infront of goal. Waste of money.
 
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Skyblue Bangkok

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #125
Chris1987 said:
Absolutely no idea why we signed him. I have seen precious little from him other than running around a lot. His pass distribution and awareness are horrendous and he's been crap Infront of goal. Waste of money.
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Maybe Hull might come back in for him in Jan lol
 
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Jamesimus

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #126
Hobo said:
Dasilva for me.
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Undeniably poor take.

Clearly a very good footballer, trapped in the body of a slightly overweight 12 year old boy. Would be class in a 5 a side team. Not very good as a defender (that 1v1 last night was embarrassing).
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #127
stupot07 said:
Thomas-Assante isn't very good, works hard but really lacks quality.
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Technically he's pretty poor for a Championship footballer.

Obviously it wasn't possible last night but ideally he'd be used as our go-to option for when opposition legs are tired and he can be brought on to harry defenders and help turn the ball over in dangerous areas.

Starting him over 90 minutes isn't at all productive.
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #128
Calista said:
tbf they'd find mobility an issue if you did that
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They do as single players da silva has to take ten steps for every average man step, Lati is so slow in thought and the other one I have no idea what we saw in him.
 
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alexccfc99

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #129
Can only be as good as the service behind you… He actually managed to sniff out one of our only half decent chances with his back to goal as well

Robbed of a goal on Saturday and was top scorer for a superior side to us last season but yeah he’s ‘shite’
 
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Terry Gibson's perm

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #130
alexccfc99 said:
Can only be as good as the service behind you… He actually managed to sniff out one of our only half decent chances with his back to goal as well

Robbed of a goal on Saturday and was top scorer for a superior side to us last season but yeah he’s ‘shite’
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He doesn’t suit the way we play.
 

alexccfc99

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #131
Terry Gibson's perm said:
He doesn’t suit the way we play.
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Agreed that wasn’t the game for him last night

Saturday however against a good side on the counter I’d start him
 
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djr8369

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #132
alexccfc99 said:
Can only be as good as the service behind you… He actually managed to sniff out one of our only half decent chances with his back to goal as well

Robbed of a goal on Saturday and was top scorer for a superior side to us last season but yeah he’s ‘shite’
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Yeah. Last night we couldn’t work the ball to him and when we did he was under too much pressure and doesn’t have the quality to find space in those situations. The games he’s been suited to he’s done a good job.
 

TomRad85

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #133
Corberan got a decent tune out of him
 

fernandopartridge

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #134
There was one moment in the first half where he received the ball in space and just needed to touch it and lay it into somebody's path who had acres of space to run into, he made a complete pig's ear of it, as he seems to most simple short passing. His head is almost constantly down looking at the ball. I am really really struggling to understand what was seen in him.
 
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CV22SBA

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #135
stupot07 said:
Thomas-Assante isn't very good, works hard but really lacks quality.
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Very polite way of saying he's shit!
 
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KenilworthSkyBlue

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #136
From my POV he has value, but as mentioned in a previous post he categorically shouldn't be starting. He's best deployed in the final stretch of games where tired legs kick in and defenders are more likely to make mistakes.

Often think he's better playing in an isolated position as well rather than up front in a striker partnership. He doesn't look up enough and isn't really all that capable of linking play.
 

Grendel

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #137
shmmeee said:
Dasilva is an excellent footballer. May not be a great defender but one of the best technically on the ball we have.
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To be an excellent footballer you have to have more pace than a snail and the turning circle of a Hummer when the opposition counter with the ball.

He'd be great in a Masters Five a Side Team
 

Grendel

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #138
fernandopartridge said:
There was one moment in the first half where he received the ball in space and just needed to touch it and lay it into somebody's path who had acres of space to run into, he made a complete pig's ear of it, as he seems to most simple short passing. His head is almost constantly down looking at the ball. I am really really struggling to understand what was seen in him.
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I assume we just looked at the fact he scored a few for West Brom last year and took a flier on him.
 
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Brighton Sky Blue

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  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #139
fernandopartridge said:
There was one moment in the first half where he received the ball in space and just needed to touch it and lay it into somebody's path who had acres of space to run into, he made a complete pig's ear of it, as he seems to most simple short passing. His head is almost constantly down looking at the ball. I am really really struggling to understand what was seen in him.
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Work rate is the main thing but it does look headless chicken quite often.
 

SkyBlue_Bear83

Well-Known Member
  • Nov 7, 2024
  • #140
No idea, only a few weeks ago Robins was saying his qualities were more aligned with what he wants in his strikers.
 
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