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Player Dane Scarlett

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Does a players’ ability get randomly generated every season?

Tel is the same person he was last season.

What’s changed is that he hasn’t played much and, as you and Ange have both pointed out, hes rusty. This isn’t a mentality issue it’s something you fix by playing and training well. Ange has said his mentality is great and he’s training well. His performance levels will rise through playing, not sitting in the bench.

Extreme rust means he has the same attributes as last season but cannot get the same output as last season.

Mentality/confidence is essential to a player - as is stress. Better to take player out of the firing line for a game or two and let him recover his confidence a little on the training ground.

The easiest example of the mental state of Tel and Scarlett is Dane coming off the bench v Elfsborg and score within about 4 minutes followed up by an assist - so despite not playing for a while he had confidence from training. Tel has shown the exact opposite in being ready for a game ........ despite his form last season
 
Extreme rust means he has the same attributes as last season but cannot get the same output as last season.

Mentality/confidence is essential to a player - as is stress. Better to take player out of the firing line for a game or two and let him recover his confidence a little on the training ground.

The easiest example of the mental state of Tel and Scarlett is Dane coming off the bench v Elfsborg and score within about 4 minutes followed up by an assist - so despite not playing for a while he had confidence from training. Tel has shown the exact opposite in being ready for a game ........ despite his form last season
I find Ange’s take very reasonable and better informed:

With Mathys, and I’m not on social media but I can just imagine the comments about him, he’s 19-years-old, he hadn’t played a lot, we’ve thrown him in and kept him in there because I want to build up his fitness.”

"But if anyone is expecting him to come in as a 19-year-old and take the Premier League by storm by scoring multiple goals, it’s not realistic. It just can’t happen. What we’re trying to do is work with him. He needs to get his physical fitness up because he hasn’t played a lot of football.”"

At 19, I see really outstanding attributes in him that I think he could be a really good number nine, he can play wide as well, but he’s not going to be a Dom or a Delap, he’s a different type. Looking at him in training, his movements are becoming a bit more fluent, he’s getting used to the way we play. He’s getting used to the level of competition.”"What I do love about him is that he’s a hard worker. You watch him in games, he’s closing people down, he’s doing the things we need him to do at the moment to help us. He may not be getting the goals and the accolades, but he’s certainly contributing to the way we want to play. That’s the most important thing. He’s got so much growth in him and I’m sure we’ll see that."
 
Scarlett has 4 in 22 for Oxford United this season. It’s like we’re leaving Kane on the bench reading these comments. Hes not there yet
He flicked on a great header for a great goal for us two games ago. No one is saying he needs to start- but certainly when we are desperate for a legit aerial target we could find 20 minutes for him at the end of a game, no? Like I just said, it literally worked for us two games ago. Ange decided to put on Werner instead- Werner who hasn't even played a minute for us in the last two months.
 
He flicked on a great header for a great goal for us two games ago. No one is saying he needs to start- but certainly when we are desperate for a legit aerial target we could find 20 minutes for him at the end of a game, no? Like I just said, it literally worked for us two games ago. Ange decided to put on Werner instead- Werner who hasn't even played a minute for us in the last two months.
Completely fair
 
I find Ange’s take very reasonable and better informed:

With Mathys, and I’m not on social media but I can just imagine the comments about him, he’s 19-years-old, he hadn’t played a lot, we’ve thrown him in and kept him in there because I want to build up his fitness.”

"But if anyone is expecting him to come in as a 19-year-old and take the Premier League by storm by scoring multiple goals, it’s not realistic. It just can’t happen. What we’re trying to do is work with him. He needs to get his physical fitness up because he hasn’t played a lot of football.”"

At 19, I see really outstanding attributes in him that I think he could be a really good number nine, he can play wide as well, but he’s not going to be a Dom or a Delap, he’s a different type. Looking at him in training, his movements are becoming a bit more fluent, he’s getting used to the way we play. He’s getting used to the level of competition.”"What I do love about him is that he’s a hard worker. You watch him in games, he’s closing people down, he’s doing the things we need him to do at the moment to help us. He may not be getting the goals and the accolades, but he’s certainly contributing to the way we want to play. That’s the most important thing. He’s got so much growth in him and I’m sure we’ll see that."



Dante Cassanova replied to Lilywhite saying the pic was from January, ad not recent
 
Something very political going on in the club here. The academy have posted some pictures of Dane training with the U21s and then deleted them. Cassanova has tweeted they are old and deleted the tweet saying they are old. LilywhiteRose still has the tweet up for now.⁸
 
He flicked on a great header for a great goal for us two games ago. No one is saying he needs to start- but certainly when we are desperate for a legit aerial target we could find 20 minutes for him at the end of a game, no? Like I just said, it literally worked for us two games ago. Ange decided to put on Werner instead- Werner who hasn't even played a minute for us in the last two months.
Come off it that back header could have gone anywhere.
 
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