Asante (2 Viewers)

[oscillatewildly]

It was obvious Lampard would be given a somewhat 'free spin' when it came to team selection, he must be allowed total and utter abandonment now to check out what he's got in the rest of the squad.
By that I mean without recrimination from owner or supporters.

 

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[pusbccfc]

No I didn’t, but they got a point more than what we got

Against Plymouth at home...

 

[jto123]

My dad thought it was really odd that WBA would sell their top goal scorer. We can now see why they were happy for him to go.

 

[DT-R]

Looked a pish in the back on Lati ref has given then all day.

The entire squad is pish

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[CovLad94]

Looks well off the level tbf, had 1 good game since he's been here. Do Hull still want him?

 

[Wyken Sky Blue]

I thought their keeper did enough to put him off to be honest, not blaming him for not taking it

However his continuous bottling out of challenges is unacceptable

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[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

He is exactly how a couple of dribbling West Brom fans described him to me as. How on earth they knew what our scouting and management teams missed is just shocking.

Evo might have a point about his chance perhaps not being as easy as some think, but I had absolutely zero faith he would score it anyway.

he’s exactly as I described in back in August and got told he was a great signing for 2.5m.

Absolutely woeful signing

 

[TomRad85]

Fucking wank. Maybe Robins can take him to Stoke and make them suffer watching the donkey.

 

[Evo1883]

Sorry Evo, he doesn't even hit the target. That's criminal for a £2.5m striker.

And yes Joel should have done better, he should have just kicked it out.

I agree about him not atleast hitting the target

 

[EalingSB]

It was obvious Lampard would be given a somewhat 'free spin' when it came to team selection, he must be allowed total and utter abandonment now to check out what he's got in the rest of the squad.
By that I mean without recrimination from owner or supporters.

I think there was an element of this with the selection of Allen and Kitching for the first time - both of whom played well.

 

[Calista]

Sorry Evo, he doesn't even hit the target.

Realistically, any attempt 'on target' simply hits the keeper, who's only a yard away.

 

[Evo1883]

Realistically, any attempt 'on target' simply hits the keeper, who's only a yard away.

I think that would have made it feel alot less worse but that's true , it wasn't an easy chance

 

[Marty]

League one player at best.

 

[Gint11]

Fucking wank. Maybe Robins can take him to Stoke and make them suffer watching the donkey.

Well it’s Robins that has built this shite team……

 

[Terry_dactyl]

Do you think being honest that joel could have done better in the corner ? The asante chance wasn't a banker by any means

It’s his decision to try and side foot it past the keeper which is baffling.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

Well it’s Robins that has built this shite team……

According to BTA when we signed - we’ve been chasing him since 2017

 

[Evo1883]

It’s his decision to try and side foot it past the keeper which is baffling.

I get that but the keeper was basically in his face anyway

 

[Nick]

I get that but the keeper was basically in his face anyway

Touch to the side. Open goal

 

[Terry_dactyl]

I get that but the keeper was basically in his face anyway

Go for the legs. It seemed the obvious thing was to hit it hard into the ground. To not even hit the target…

 

[Tile Hill Phil]

Yep the

He scores that chance and it's game over. Simple as that

y wouldn’t have come back from that

 

[Legia Sky Blue]

I get that but the keeper was basically in his face anyway

The keeper was stood upright and not in position to spread himself. If BTA hit the ball hard and low there's every chance it would have gone in.

His other option was to take it round the keeper and possibly buy a penalty from the keeper or the retreating defenders, although I'm not sure BTA has that in his set.

 

[DrPoolittle]

BTA seemed to be a panic buy. He was about to go elsewhere and City rushed in.

And we are stuck with him. Odd how no other club wants to sign our shit players

 

[Cally Fedora]

He’s what you get in a striker for £2m. The proximity of his miss to us conceding has made it look worse. In reality he’s the least of our worries. The mentality of this squad is as brittle as you’ll see.

 

[HuckerbyDublinWhelan]

He’s what you get in a striker for £2m. The proximity of his miss to us conceding has made it look worse. In reality he’s the least of our worries. The mentality of this squad is as brittle as you’ll see.

We paid 700k for Godden and he looked twice the player of BTA in this league up until last season

 

[Nick]

He’s what you get in a striker for £2m. The proximity of his miss to us conceding has made it look worse. In reality he’s the least of our worries. The mentality of this squad is as brittle as you’ll see.

He's worse than a striker on a free.

He never won a header, he bottled so many tackles and missed a sitter.

 

[JoeCCFCPUSB]

Collins, Asante, Dasilva, Latibeaudiere, Kitching, Thomas, Eccles, Torp, Binks are all fucking shit, concede 2 a game, offer nothing in midfield, can't score open goals, can't control a pass. No first touch.

 

[stupot07]

He's worse than a striker on a free.

He never won a header, he bottled so many tackles and missed a sitter.

Yeah people get hung up on the £2-3m figure, but there's always bargains and frees. Sheffield got O'Hare and Tyrece Campbell on free's.

 

[Covcraig@bury]

Against Plymouth at home...

Yes

 

[ccfcchris]

I stand by my earlier post about BTA. He's going backward. I just can't see what he adds to the team. Like everyone I want him to come good but it looks a long way off atm.

 

[Speedies_Chips]

Taveres over Asant all day long, I don't even want to spell his name out

Good, cos you can’t even spell Tavares!

 

[JimmyHillsbeard]

I think there was an element of this with the selection of Allen and Kitching for the first time - both of whom played well.

If Robins had selected today’s starting XI, I would have assumed he was trying to send a message to the owner that we needed reinforcements in the transfer window.

As it turned out, Allen drove the midfield quite well and Kitchin recovered after a dreadful first 10-15 minutes.

Norwich aren’t good. They’ve taken six points off us this season. Robins never beat them in his stint as manager and Lampard seems to have inherited the same luck.

 

[quinn1971]

We can’t keep slagging players off when maybe they’re not the problem, assante was WBA top goal scorer last season , simms got 19 and was scoring when he was at Sunderland, they’ve come here and suddenly turn into shit players ?

 

[quinn1971]

once Wright and EMC are back our frontlines pretty decent, it’s what’s behind them the problem

 

[stupot07]

We can’t keep slagging players off when maybe they’re not the problem, assante was WBA top goal scorer last season , simms got 19 and was scoring when he was at Sunderland, they’ve come here and suddenly turn into shit players ?

Assante was top scorer with 11 goals, this is in the same territory as Clinton Morrison, adebola, Tudguy, etc. he also underperformed his xG last season (12.7), and the previous season (7 goals against xG of 9.9) he isn't a good striker.

 

[Nick]

We can’t keep slagging players off when maybe they’re not the problem, assante was WBA top goal scorer last season , simms got 19 and was scoring when he was at Sunderland, they’ve come here and suddenly turn into shit players ?