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Niall Huggins.


red mackem said:
It’s not agreeing or disagreeing your just wrong. It’s so obvious. Availability is key bruda.
Availability
Attitude
Talent

The fact your trying to argue against availability being key in a Huggins thread both makes me laugh and think its not worth the bother trying to educate you.
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It’s obviously better to have a player available fifteen games a season who can make telling contributions to win points rather than having a fit but crap try hard for a full season who contributes nowt.

I’m not really sure where Niall Huggins fits into that debate as he was neither regularly fit or particularly all that good. I feel for him as having the amount of injures he’s had can be no fun at all like.
 
Rocky77 said:
No it's an opinion
You can be utterly shit and available all the time and contribute next to nothing.
A player with much higher ability can play less and contribute more.

I quite like how condescending you are tbh. It doesn't suit but keep it up champ
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In a Huggins thread 😁😂
 
hoolio said:
Without the talent the other two attributes are meaningless
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09 is the perfect example of why attitude is more important than talent. And indeed Huggins (the title of the thread) is a very clear example of my availability is more important than talent and even attitude
 
People talk about luck and sometimes injuries can be bad luck. But some players are more durable than others as well. Durability is an attribute just like pace, strength, first touch, technique etc.
 
hoolio said:
Without the talent the other two attributes are meaningless
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They’re all co dependent really. I was rarely injured, tried really hard but was shite. No good to anyone above local leagues.
A mate was at Cov academy, brilliant, loads of interest from clubs but couldn’t be arsed. No use to anyone beyond local leagues.
My son has a mate that was set to sign for Chelsea academy at 13/14. Developed a rare bone disorder, probably won’t play again.
You need a reasonable sprinkling of all three and some luck to do really well.
 
Rocky77 said:
Now ha'way lad stop pretending you weren't talking in general .😂
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It’s funny because he is the perfect example of why you can have all the talent in the world and a great attitude but if your not available then it means fuck all.

Like I said in a Huggins thread 😁😂
 
red mackem said:
It’s funny because he is the perfect example of why you can have all the talent in the world and a great attitude but if your not available then it means fuck all.

Like I said in a Huggins thread 😁😂
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And you can't even have the opportunity to be available without....?
 
Chatty83 said:
I think Higgins had a higher ceiling than Hume or Cirkin tbh but his body wasn't up for it. You can't play 5 games or less and have a year out consistently and develop fully. He done well enough to come back and was possibly our best player when he did but then he was out for another year and eventually that catches up with you.

Unfortunate for the lad but if he had played consistently there's a good chance he woul shave been far better than what we seen of him.
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Just needs a Big Break
 
Scorer said:
They’re all co dependent really. I was rarely injured, tried really hard but was shite. No good to anyone above local leagues.
A mate was at Cov academy, brilliant, loads of interest from clubs but couldn’t be arsed. No use to anyone beyond local leagues.
My son has a mate that was set to sign for Chelsea academy at 13/14. Developed a rare bone disorder, probably won’t play again.
You need a reasonable sprinkling of all three and some luck to do really well.
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Aye but you don’t get through an academy’s doors without talent
 
red mackem said:
It’s funny because he is the perfect example of why you can have all the talent in the world and a great attitude but if your not available then it means fuck all.

Like I said in a Huggins thread 😁😂
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I don't think he is saying availability isn't important, as it is, rather that it isn't the most important quality to have as ultimately without talent a player is useless
 
An 8/10 player who plays every game is more useful than a 10/10 player who can only manage 10 games a season. The likes of Huggins and Alese are good players (potentially PL standard IMO) but they're simply not available enough to be of any use to us.
 
gatopreto said:
People talk about luck and sometimes injuries can be bad luck. But some players are more durable than others as well. Durability is an attribute just like pace, strength, first touch, technique etc.
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Agree. Look at the 2 contenders we had for the right back slot at the start of the 2022-2023 season:

Trai Hume - no great pace or dribbling ability, but solid as a rock, great in the air and NEVER gets injured. Genuinely cannot remember a game he has missed since he joined
Niall Huggins - pace to burn, 2 great feet, great on the ball but cannot stay fit. 3 major injuries in the first 2 seasons at the club, plus a load of niggles. Part of the reason he's now playing occasional games at L1 level

You could argue that Huggins is the better footballer, but Hume has that brilliant attribute of always being available for selection.

Before anyone starts, I'm not a Hume hater, I really rate the lad - just being objective in my comparisons with Huggins
 
Never got the Huggins love in. If he wasn’t injured all the time he’d be carving out a career in L1 and Championship. But because he’s injured all the time he’s carving out a career in …. Oh.

Aye, canny lad. Never PL level.
 
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