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No jokes allowed.Unlike you to be so obsessive
I may have a wrong memory of this but, didn't Harry only get in the team due to a) injuries and b) change of manager.Many have been on loan but apart from Harry I cannot recall any other player doing well enough to return and get into the first 11. I do hope Skipp can do it and reports are good but will he decide to stay where he can be first choice or return and have to fight for minutes. Only time will tell.
Danny RoseMany have been on loan but apart from Harry I cannot recall any other player doing well enough to return and get into the first 11. I do hope Skipp can do it and reports are good but will he decide to stay where he can be first choice or return and have to fight for minutes. Only time will tell.
Plenty of comments over the last few pages noting his good performances and the positive start to his loan. POTM likely skewed by Spurs fans voting on a Norwich poll.Spurs fans are weird.
Skipp gets player of the month and relative silence.
One poor game that no one watched and everyone's opinion comes out.
Danny Rose
Omg I went to school with that guy who two footed Skippy - Angus MacDonald, he was in the year above and would steal our ball and boot it miles away every fucking lunchtime.Horrific leg snapping challenge on Skipp in todays game with Rotherham which saw the Rotherham player get sent off.
And Skipp just gets up and walks off from it.
Can see why Mourinho thinks he's a future captain. Balls of steel that lad.
Many have been on loan but apart from Harry I cannot recall any other player doing well enough to return and get into the first 11. I do hope Skipp can do it and reports are good but will he decide to stay where he can be first choice or return and have to fight for minutes. Only time will tell.
It's two changes for Daniel Farke's in-form Norwich - Todd Cantwell drops to the bench along with Mario Vrancic, with Marco Stiepermann and Przemyslaw Placheta coming in.For anyone interested, he's playing on Sky Sports now.
I think it might have also been down to the fact that Soldado couldn't hit a barn door from the inside !I may have a wrong memory of this but, didn't Harry only get in the team due to a) injuries and b) change of manager.
I do remember him coming off the bench in a few games, scoring and forcing his way into the first team.
He is having another good match.Narch 3-1 up, how's Skipp looking?
I'm up to the 85th minute of the BC/Norwich game.
I don't think Skipp is wonder bread, but I would much, much rather be watching him getting time in our team than a bunter like Sissoko. Skipp is much better technically, happy to take the ball on the half turn and try to face forwards, generally has awareness or tries to see what's around him (rather than no awareness and constantly just panicking and bunting backwards from whence the ball has come) and he will try to play vertically when it's on, occasionally taking a risk with this type of pass.
He is tenacious, but he lacks some physical qualities, he's not got the physique to bully or impose himself on duels and not got that Kante type dynamism either.
He's much more willing to show for the ball than someone like Sissoko, but I still think there are times when he could show more, be a bit more dynamic in his efforts to show.
In short I think his movement without the ball, when his team are in and out of possession could be a little sharper, but he's still better in that respect than Sissoko, and probably Winks. His reading and positional sense is very similar to Hojbjerg's, not perfect, not the zippiest, but better than Winks or Sissoko.
And some will say the physicality argument is why Sissoko would get picked, but I think this is utterly bogus because Sissoko doesn't use that physicality well, he can't jump, he's clumsy in the tackle not imposing, and he trundles around less smartly or dynamically than Skipp in defensive phases. And what Skipp does have is better physical balance which evens out some of the physique thing.