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Luke O'Nien

PaulG said:
Hard to believe that this nonsense has gone on for 114 pages. The only opinion that really matters is RLB's and he trusts 09 as a dependable (and somewhat versatile) squad player not as a starter. The other players, including Xhaka, show him respect. The small minority who think he isn't good enough for us are irrelevant.
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He's fine as a squad player like. Can come in and fill a gap for 5-7 appearances a season. Hardly any would have an issue with that.
 

PaulG said:
Hard to believe that this nonsense has gone on for 114 pages. The only opinion that really matters is RLB's and he trusts 09 as a dependable (and somewhat versatile) squad player not as a starter. The other players, including Xhaka, show him respect. The small minority who think he isn't good enough for us are irrelevant.
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This

If Luke is good enough for the praise of Granit Xhaka he should be good enough for anyone.
 
PaulG said:
Hard to believe that this nonsense has gone on for 114 pages. The only opinion that really matters is RLB's and he trusts 09 as a dependable (and somewhat versatile) squad player not as a starter. The other players, including Xhaka, show him respect. The small minority who think he isn't good enough for us are irrelevant.
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Which is what I've been saying but has upset at least one poster. Mental
 
Mowgli said:
He's fine as a squad player like. Can come in and fill a gap for 5-7 appearances a season. Hardly any would have an issue with that.
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Absolutely, even more so next season if we qualify for Europe. Helps with home grown quota, too
 
The soap powder said:
It would appear you do
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Happy for him to stick around next season, come off the bench when needed and fill in during a crisis, plus his backroom off the field presence. That's fine.

My issue was when he was starting games when Geertruida is sitting on the bench. Or put Mukiele CB and hume right back.

Both of them alternatives make us a better team than with o'nien centre bsck IMO. That is an opinion that is allowed.
 
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Mowgli said:
Happy for him to stick around next season, come off the bench when needed and fill in during a crisis, plus his backroom off the field presence. That's fine.

My issue was when he was starting games when Geertruida is sitting on the bench. Or put Mukiele CB and hume right back.

Both of them alternatives make us a better team than with o'nien centre bsck IMO. That is an opinion that is allowed.
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I mean that is more or less what he has done this season and other than the Man City game he has not let us down at all

He has made a few mistakes but so have plenty others
 
The soap powder said:
I mean that is more or less what he has done this season and other than the Man City game he has not let us down at all

He has made a few mistakes but so have plenty others
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He was part of a squad that let everyone down at Port Vale. I don't think I'll ever get over that result 😂
 
Mowgli said:
Happy for him to stick around next season, come off the bench when needed and fill in during a crisis, plus his backroom off the field presence. That's fine.

My issue was when he was starting games when Geertruida is sitting on the bench. Or put Mukiele CB and hume right back.

Both of them alternatives make us a better team than with o'nien centre bsck IMO. That is an opinion that is allowed.
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To be fair on RLB, he had a lot of players to suss out and find where they most helped the team so no huge surprise 09 got into the team. He's clearly going to be dedicated in training, but he's a very strong lad, more than many people think. His last game was his best ever in an SAFC shirt...the more games he gets the better he could become. Worked for many others!
 
Mowgli said:
Happy for him to stick around next season, come off the bench when needed and fill in during a crisis, plus his backroom off the field presence. That's fine.

My issue was when he was starting games when Geertruida is sitting on the bench. Or put Mukiele CB and hume right back.

Both of them alternatives make us a better team than with o'nien centre bsck IMO. That is an opinion that is allowed.
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Has happened twice this season. In one of those games, we kept a clean sheet and Geertruida's replacement scored the only goal.

In the next we unsurprisingly we kept the same back four. Absolutely no-one thought Geertruida should play going into that Villa game.

Barely even an issue really.
 
FulwellViaLeeds said:
Has happened twice this season. In one of those games, we kept a clean sheet and Geertruida's replacement scored the only goal.

In the next we unsurprisingly we kept the same back four. Absolutely no-one thought Geertruida should play going into that Villa game.

Barely even an issue really.
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Disagree. I did and few others I speak to did. So 'absolutely no-one' isn't true.
 
Mowgli said:
Disagree. I did and few others I speak to did. So 'absolutely no-one' isn't true
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Okay?

But you must be able to see that keeping our goalscorer and MOTM from the previous game in the same position was a logical and very uncontroversial decision, no?

We are talking about 1 game here out of 37.
 
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