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I am tremendously worried our fan base will not appreciate just how young he still is, and that he still has a lot of room to grow.
He has proven to be good. But there will be ups and downs, just as there has been with our first team squad this year. Let's remember that.
He has proven to be good. But there will be ups and downs, just as there has been with our first team squad this year. Let's remember that.
Some of our so-called "fans" are only concerned with big fees and Carlos Kickaball names.
Rose, Walker, Tripps used to get it and now Doc is getting abuse.
Aurier and Sanchez feck up week in and week out and then after they have 1 good game they are suddenly the best RB and CB in the EPL.
If Winks had played like Ndombele in the NLD he would have been slaughtered. You just know that Ndombele will do a fancy turn in his next game and suddenly he is the best MF in the EPL.
I can guarantee some posters have already got "Skipp is champo", "Skipp is shit" on their clipboard ready to paste after he misplaces a pass.
Doherty is getting abuse because of a fee? Whatever.
He gets blame for being a traffic cone in a game where medicore winger and medicore fullback stepped past him like he was not there!
At the same time people have fallen in love with Alli, van der Vaart, Toby, Hjojberg pretty much right away even though they came for fairly low fees.
I get what you're saying, but Doherty gets stick because he has been poor since joining us. He's not a kid, and he isn't coming from a foreign/lower league that he needs time to adjust to the pace of the PL.
I don't criticize players for one bad pass/game, but he has been pretty awful.
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I see what you did there ;-)
I keep doing that - making jokes and not realising it
Can you give 3 instances where his poor play has specifically cost us?
I don't want to sidetrack the Skipp thread but Doc was our 1st choice RB at the start of the season and we were pretty much unbeatable.
He was RB for many of our recent wins with clean sheets and Doc made 2 assists. He has not been poor. We rarely lose when Doc starts.
Our results only began turning sour when Serge Aurier started giving away crazy free kicks and pens.
If a player outdoes a player by skill or speed I can accept that.
But not stupidity.
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Oh yea... all those massive wins we got with Doherty playing full game in EPL this season, truly the greatest of tests trusted to him. Against very biggest of sides the game has ever seen.
But to be more precise this list includes following teams - Leeds, Soton, Newcastle, Burnley, Brighton, West Brom, Fulham, Crystal Palace.
All teams, without an exception in bottom half of EPL table.
Give him the player of the season award right away. Never would have we managed to defeat such galacticos without his immense two assists!
I shall reply to this on the Doherty thread
Skipp subbed in 93rd minute
Skipp playing much more as a box to box player these days and pops up on edge of opposition penalty box quite a few times. Not just a DM
Gonna be horrible for the kid next season when he is told he'll be playing as an auxiliary centre back and is not allowed to pass the ball forwards.
he looks taller...
I was just going to say the same
That's a worry Jose will have him tied to the centre circle in his double-pivot bullshit so he won't be as mobile as he looks currently.
ITK Tier?