| Esquerdinha and his usage 09:12 - Dec 30 with 2745 views | stevec |
Think the consensus is, not ready for this level and inclined to agree.
Horrible stats; 7 games, 2 wins, 5 defeats, goals for 10, goals against 20!
That said, I’d question how the manager is using him, he’s been flung into many games where, if anywhere in this league, there was a fair chance we could get a proper spanking.
We’ve got RND who looks the part, why play the young lad at Coventry, Boro, WBA, Ipswich?
He should be out on loan, hard to see what he’s gaining from this other than an inferiority complex. |  | | |  |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 16:38 - Dec 30 with 612 views | corse |
promising but not ready yet. its ok to give him minutes when we need to rest the key players. hope to see more of him towards the end of season as we are not going down and without a biblical size miracle we wont be in the play offs. |  | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 16:48 - Dec 30 with 576 views | HammersmithR |
I thought he was absolutely garbage last night. He played the other week and got hooked during the game due to being so poor. He’s not even been in the squad in recent weeks and got chucked into a night game at West Brom. Makes no sense. Could have put Field at left back. We also started with a centre mid at right back and a centre back who hasn’t played for 2 months. You could see last night’s result as soon as the side was announced. JCS played one game. Lasted until half time and has done his vanishing act again. I can’t believe he was given a new deal this year when he literally is never available except once a month.
I just wish we played players in their actual positions. Don’t start me on why with all our attacking players we started with Field in the number 10 role last night! | | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:25 - Dec 30 with 502 views | Northernr |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 16:48 - Dec 30 by HammersmithR |
I thought he was absolutely garbage last night. He played the other week and got hooked during the game due to being so poor. He’s not even been in the squad in recent weeks and got chucked into a night game at West Brom. Makes no sense. Could have put Field at left back. We also started with a centre mid at right back and a centre back who hasn’t played for 2 months. You could see last night’s result as soon as the side was announced. JCS played one game. Lasted until half time and has done his vanishing act again. I can’t believe he was given a new deal this year when he literally is never available except once a month.
I just wish we played players in their actual positions. Don’t start me on why with all our attacking players we started with Field in the number 10 role last night! |
It's never a good sign when you're in the pub beforehand and not only could none of us around a table of eight agree on what shape and style it would be, but we all ended up being wrong because none of us had "Sam Field's going to play up front". |  | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:33 - Dec 30 with 473 views | mart_Goblin |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 15:25 - Dec 30 by EN_Ranger |
Esquerdinha played quite well at Bristol City earlier this season, I would think he’s ok as back up left back learning his trade, but as others have said - just throwing him in randomly in random back 4s at random away games isn’t going to help.
Get him a loan, but let’s not write him off just yet - everyone looked crap last night |
Yes agreed.
There have been moments and times when bringing him on would have been ideal .
Last 20 minutes v Leicester. Last 15 v West Brom.
With experienced players around him , settled side and perhaps most important , the pressure off to a degree. |  | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:36 - Dec 30 with 456 views | Northernr |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:33 - Dec 30 by mart_Goblin |
Yes agreed.
There have been moments and times when bringing him on would have been ideal .
Last 20 minutes v Leicester. Last 15 v West Brom.
With experienced players around him , settled side and perhaps most important , the pressure off to a degree. |
Completely agree.
This is why I was angry about the Plymouth debacle.
As predicted, none of those kids have been seen since.
Performatively slinging in a load of 16 year olds for 45 minutes of getting their arse handed to them by a League One side and that's it for the season does nothing for anybody. | | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:39 - Dec 30 with 439 views | Lblock |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 16:48 - Dec 30 by HammersmithR |
I thought he was absolutely garbage last night. He played the other week and got hooked during the game due to being so poor. He’s not even been in the squad in recent weeks and got chucked into a night game at West Brom. Makes no sense. Could have put Field at left back. We also started with a centre mid at right back and a centre back who hasn’t played for 2 months. You could see last night’s result as soon as the side was announced. JCS played one game. Lasted until half time and has done his vanishing act again. I can’t believe he was given a new deal this year when he literally is never available except once a month.
I just wish we played players in their actual positions. Don’t start me on why with all our attacking players we started with Field in the number 10 role last night! |
What is JGS available for once a month?
No idea what you’re referring to but it can’t be professional association football at first team level.
He makes Matty Rose look like Hercules.
I’ve no idea how these things work but if possible all parties should be sitting around a table and discussing “career ending insurance”.
Currently his ample wage is nothing but a drain on the club and the ability to plan short and medium term. I’m sorry but his name is edging towards the bin labelled “SWP and other wasters” for me. |  |
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| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:42 - Dec 30 with 424 views | Northernr |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:39 - Dec 30 by Lblock |
What is JGS available for once a month?
No idea what you’re referring to but it can’t be professional association football at first team level.
He makes Matty Rose look like Hercules.
I’ve no idea how these things work but if possible all parties should be sitting around a table and discussing “career ending insurance”.
Currently his ample wage is nothing but a drain on the club and the ability to plan short and medium term. I’m sorry but his name is edging towards the bin labelled “SWP and other wasters” for me. |
The chance for that discussion probably sailed when they piled in with a lovely new contract because he'd completed 30 games in a season for the first time in his life 18 months ago. | | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:58 - Dec 30 with 388 views | HammersmithR |
It defies belief the board sanctioned a long term deal to someone who is never available. Make it make sense! Sam Field basically plays these when he does in any position except his actual position of centre mid! | | | |
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| Esquerdinha and his usage on 18:08 - Dec 30 with 368 views | Northernr |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 17:58 - Dec 30 by HammersmithR |
It defies belief the board sanctioned a long term deal to someone who is never available. Make it make sense! Sam Field basically plays these when he does in any position except his actual position of centre mid! |
I mean never feel sorry for footballers earning more in a month than most are getting in a year, but he's another one I don't think we've treated very well. Get's absolute dog's abuse on socials as well. Really unfair. | | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 18:14 - Dec 30 with 339 views | CateLeBonR |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 10:53 - Dec 30 by simmo |
He's not good enough for the Championship, miles off in fact, but there's been too much focus on individual performances last night. There were some absolute stinkers - but the performance and result is completely at the managers door.
Esq shouldn't be playing, it should be Field as backup to RND. He especially shouldn't have been asked to play in a makeshift back 4 that is 75% changed from 3 days ago alongside Morrison, neither of which have played a minute of football for weeks on end,
The fact you decide to / have to rest RND and choose to play his best replacement in Field as a fckin striker instead of the multiple more natural attacking options, all so you can stubbornly stick to your 2 'striker' system, has absolutely fried my brain. |
It sounds like an ambitious manager highlighting areas he thinks need strengthening just before a transfer window. Goalkeeper, left back, right back, left centre-back, striker. |  | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 18:28 - Dec 30 with 294 views | davman |
If the club is serious about developing these kids, they should be out on loan instead of doing sporadic minutes off our bench or in the cup games.
Esquerdinha is not ready. That is clear. He is, however a talent and has "growing space". Let him grow for a season at a L2 club for the rest of the season instead of winning another Dev Squad Cup.
Same as Bennie, Sutton, Akindeleni, Smith, Wilkie, Pearman, etc., etc.
I know Sutton is off warming Morecambe's bench (is he that good???), but the rest of them (aside from Smith) are wasting their time sitting in the Dev Squad at the moment.
The club should have done it with Armstrong and they should have done it with Kolli. It worked really well with Eze, Chair and maybe Cooper, but aside from Kelman, they do not seem to have pushed too hard recently. |  |
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| Esquerdinha and his usage on 18:51 - Dec 30 with 245 views | Dono77 |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 10:32 - Dec 30 by daveB |
As a club we can't bang on about the development club and then when we have a promising kid never pick him.
No issue at all with him playing last night and he did fine, neither brilliant or awful. I hope he ends up getting another 5-10 games before the end of the season
I'd much rather we made those changes last night than in the FA Cup |
You must have been watching a different player than I one i saw..his lack of effort to get back after losing the ball, which happened frequently, told me hes miles out of his depth at this level..it was his fault that we ended up going behind. Got to the halfway line, gave the ball away, watched his man then run down the wing whilst he jogged back, which led to dunne having to come across and clear the ball for a corner. 60 secs later its 1 nil.
In the second half he looked unfit and just waddled around doing a very good impersonation of paal when he was heading towards the end of his contract.
Unfortunately we created this mess..relying on larkeche to be our only senior left back who imo isnt good enough for this level to play 46 games with no back up told us everything. Luckily for us RND became available and we got him in. Hes been superb for the most part. Even RND at 50 percent is better than esqueedinha.. | | | |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 19:34 - Dec 30 with 180 views | Pdog |
Its interesting how the players you mention went straight to EFL clubs off the bat. I assume thats because they already had some 1st team games under their belt which gave the loaning club more confidence (Lloyd another one). Or with players like Chair / Eze you could see even in the DS they were already EFL standard?
Most of the current DS squad are taking National League level loans, needing to earn the right for an EFL job.
With Esquerdinha’s 1st team exposure, that should be enough for a L2 club short on LBs to take a punt. [Post edited 30 Dec 19:35]
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| Esquerdinha and his usage on 19:35 - Dec 30 with 178 views | Northernr |
| Esquerdinha and his usage on 19:34 - Dec 30 by Pdog |
Its interesting how the players you mention went straight to EFL clubs off the bat. I assume thats because they already had some 1st team games under their belt which gave the loaning club more confidence (Lloyd another one). Or with players like Chair / Eze you could see even in the DS they were already EFL standard?
Most of the current DS squad are taking National League level loans, needing to earn the right for an EFL job.
With Esquerdinha’s 1st team exposure, that should be enough for a L2 club short on LBs to take a punt. [Post edited 30 Dec 19:35]
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I'd love to see that lad at Grimsby Town. "Bring" as the kids say. | | | |
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