WestStandBlue
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Ladapo is worse than Theo Robinson
We only played 2 kids, one of them (Yearwood) was one of the only players that looked remotely threatening today, Harrison was poor but to be fair to him he's a striker being played out of position on the wing.
Wasn't Ladapo playing ?
I suppose compared to the average age of our squad he's young, but I wouldn't call a 25 year old a kid.
I can’t even begin to describe how utterly disgusted with that performance I am. Talk about throwing it back on the faces of the fans and staff who had worked so hard since the crack of a sparrow’s fart to get the match on. The attitude was a disgrace across the board and they all looked like they were disappointed that they had to play in the end.
Alarm bells rang in the first 10 minutes for me. There was absolutely no aggression or intensity to our game. Where was the “quick out of the blocks” high pressing and “in their faces” intensity of the last 5 games? It disappeared. We’ve seen from those first 5 games under SCP exactly what he is drilling into the players on the training pitch and today they have just ignored him.
What makes it even worse is that Walsall are quite probably the poorest team I’ve seen this season, apart from Oztumer.....who pretty much IS their team. If we had turned up today with the same intensity, attitude and will to win of the last 5 games then we’d have dispatched them with ease.
At least Powell will have learned more from that than he did from the victories. That today should have shown him the extent of the clear-out needed in the Summer.
Oxley 5 - poor kicking and should have done better with first 2 goals.
Demetriou 6 - ok, tried to get things going down the right.
Ferdinand 6 - despite conceding 3 goals, didn’t really put a foot wrong. Could have done better to combat Oztumer’s movement for 3rd goal.
Turner 6 - as above.
Coker 6 - decent enough, tried to get things going down the left.
Harrison 5 - tried but not a winger.
Timlin 4 - poor. No big tackles, didn’t press without the ball and too many misplaced passes.
Yearwood 6 - does neat things with the ball and tackles well, went off the boil a tiny bit at the end as everything around him fell apart.
McLaughlin 5 - didn’t look to beat his man or pose a threat enough.
Cox 5 - nothing came off for him today and fed off scraps since nobody was getting the ball into his feet.
Ladapo 4 - a luxury if he carries on playing like that. Off the pace. Doesn’t win enough in the air, doesn’t hold the ball up we’ll enough and static when he should be moving off the ball, running into space, pulling the centre halves out of position etc.
All subs 5 - tried to make an impact but the game was gone.
Cox almost hit the goal line flag with one, so I guess that was a chanceCox had two chances, Yearwood one. Think Ladapo had one.
Also, for me. I've yet to be impressed with Ladapo. If we keep MAF, then we should let him leave.
Wasn't Ladapo playing ?