Pre match: Union Saint-Gilloise (A)
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He already scored and assisted more than Gomez in his entire career. Had a goal disallowed recently too - definitely a threat on set pieces.
Let’s admit it - none of them are hungry enough to make it to the top.
I don’t see any future Stevie Gs, Salahs or even C.Ronaldos coming through. Players who eat, sleep and live football 24/7 and will run 20 laps without any complaints around the stadium if you tell them to or who would stay back at the training ground when everyone has gone home. Gone are those days. Now all you see are spoilt, pampered brats.
I had high hopes for Elliot but he’s dropped off too. Can’t blame him when he’s hanging around with losers like Jones, who thinks he’s already arrived.
Talent will only get you so far but it’s the hard work, hunger, and discipline that will get you to the top.
I don’t see any future Stevie Gs, Salahs or even C.Ronaldos coming through. Players who eat, sleep and live football 24/7 and will run 20 laps without any complaints around the stadium if you tell them to or who would stay back at the training ground when everyone has gone home. Gone are those days. Now all you see are spoilt, pampered brats.
I had high hopes for Elliot but he’s dropped off too. Can’t blame him when he’s hanging around with losers like Jones, who thinks he’s already arrived.
Talent will only get you so far but it’s the hard work, hunger, and discipline that will get you to the top.
More than likely
For me, I wouldn't have risked gakpo, endo konate (but I understand ibou just for match fitness), and I've no clue why we took szob as he should have been staying at home with his feet up.
Still,.they all came.back.unscathed do jobs a goodun. The result is secondary to that
It also gave us a bit more feedback in regards to the young'uns. Quansah is the real deal. Bradley was alright and has a bit of fight in him. Scanlon is (as said last game he played) probably the better left back talent and Elliot is currently a better sub than starter.
Yep - Gakpo et al need to have playing time to get into form - would have been nice to get a result, but it’s like a glorified pre-season friendly for us - not for them like - likely one of their biggest games of the year.
Suppose Gakpo had scored a hat trick - do you think Binomial would be arguing for him to start against Utd, or if Harvey had a stormer, would there be a call to play him instead of Slobbers.
You’re absolutely right though, no injuries was the most important outcome.
It's almost as if we treated the game like a pointless exercise to throw a bunch of individuals who've never played together and said to them "just go out and run about, oh and try not to embarrass yourselves"
Don't even know why half the first team squad travelled, would they have travelled if it was somewhere in Greece or Czech Republic?
I'm waiting for Moron to step in and tell us that Jones was worldclass.
Well, it's not like anyone of them have anything else to do do they? With this showing, bar Quansah and injuries, none of them will start this Sunday, not based on merit anyway.
If those days are gone then what's stopping spoilt pampered brats from reaching the top?
Don't they just have to be the least spoilt and pampered of the spoilt and pampered brats?
If an underage player comes into the regular 11 and doesn't perform over a few games, then yeah questions to be asked
But 8 young lads playing together in the team for the first team, without much of the regular team - against the best team in Belgium, well I'm not sure being judgmental and critical is the correct way to go. I'm just delighted we rested our senior players ahead of a big 2 week period.
I think on this one, we should take the benevolent grandfather stance, just smile, nod the head, and pause the judgement.
But 8 young lads playing together in the team for the first team, without much of the regular team - against the best team in Belgium, well I'm not sure being judgmental and critical is the correct way to go. I'm just delighted we rested our senior players ahead of a big 2 week period.
I think on this one, we should take the benevolent grandfather stance, just smile, nod the head, and pause the judgement.
Pretty much.
The likes of Sterling Trent Gerrard didn't progress by being thrown into the XI with a bunch of other kids for dead rubbers for the sole purpose of protecting the seniors, they were integrated properly with the rest of the team.
I’m not referring to this one match obv. I’m talking about our youth in general.
I think youth against youth doesn't help the youngsters understand the demands of their game. What happened yesterday playing our youth against a top senior team provided them with massive learning experience of how they need to apply themselves to the game. That's how you take out the spoilt brat in them. They need more of the same before we pass judgement if they have it or not.
Our u21s play in the Football league Trophy cup.
They lost 4-0 away to Bradford.
Interestingly they never showed the semi automated graphic of the goal to show that it was onside/offside which was telltale sign that something was wrong
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Konate and Jones were Terrible, endo and gakpo were worse again... Elliott was poor in the 1st half, better in the 2nd half. Gomez came on in the 2nd half and was poor as well..
The young players being out of their depth is one thing but those players in or around the first team were uttererly useless last night...
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