adamnich Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 8th in Power rankings today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelowl Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 4 hours ago, s6 owl said: Abdi will never play for us again, he's been for fit for a while. this conjecture or itk ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 7 hours ago, cookeh said: Does the example of Matias, a guy that most had written off as "a waste of a wage who'd never kick a ball for us again" not highlight the silliness of slating Abdi for being injured? Matias has show he's hungry and wants to play. he's willing to work hard, is doing it on the pitch and has his shooting boots on. If Abdi gets back fit, then fingers crossed he makes a whole lot of folk eat their words in the same manner. Nowt to do with his fitness that's why he isn't even considered at present for the u23's. Jos as already said he ain't going to disrupt them for him. Strange he did it for Hooper and Lee so that tells you everything you need to know about Abdi. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stoop Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 30 minutes ago, steelowl said: this conjecture or itk ? Abdi was fit for the last few weeks of last season too, which would have been the perfect time to get him back involved. We’ve just got to accept that it isn’t gonna happen for him at Hillsborough Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steelowl Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 1 minute ago, Stoop said: Abdi was fit for the last few weeks of last season too, which would have been the perfect time to get him back involved. We’ve just got to accept that it isn’t gonna happen for him at Hillsborough can't get my head around that if true Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarnsleyOwl96 Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 Still undecided in a way, played well sat but needs to stay on feet more and try to attack players and provide more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sweetsheri Posted September 24, 2018 Share Posted September 24, 2018 2 hours ago, steelowl said: can't get my head around that if true Jos sees him everyday in training.. Maybe he just to$$es it off Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buxtongent Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 Typical Owlstalk post. Starts ofv talking about one player, then gets hi-jacked by talk of a completely different player. If youwant to talk about Abdi, start a topic on him. As for Matias, I must admit I was begining to have doubts , but ollowing Sat's game, the influence of Jos on various players is immense. To see two young lads playing full back and bombing down the wing like experienced players was immense, and both, especially Penney, are future stars.. As for Matias. he was everywhere on Sat. The Villa chap's goal was immense and I wouldn't take credit away from him, but has anyone replayed the Matias goal back? The initial move took place in the centre circle, where Matias cleverly took the ball off the toe of a Villa player, and played it outside to Reach. After a short period of attacking, Villa cleared the ball to one of their defenders, ostensibly, only or him to have the ball taken from his toe by Matias, who's shot was bound for the bottom corner and never left the floor - a superb strike by anyone. He'll have his off days. This is true of all the team including BB & FF. But I can only see his work rate, and footballing brain being invaluable to us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitcat Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 I want to touch his winkle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookeh Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 18 hours ago, CLswfc said: Nowt to do with his fitness that's why he isn't even considered at present for the u23's. Jos as already said he ain't going to disrupt them for him. Strange he did it for Hooper and Lee so that tells you everything you need to know about Abdi. That's an easy thing to assume if you're coming from the side that has already decided that Abdi is a waste of space. What Jos said was this: "He has been completely back in team training for a couple of weeks. But for how long has he been out? He has been here two years and for most of that time he has not been available. He is a player who needs time to find his performances and a way back to his best quality. He has had problems with different injuries in the last two years. We must see how he does at 100 per cent intensity in training before we can say how close he is to playing games." For me that's saying he's fit to train, but he's incredibly rusty having barely kicked a ball since March last year. The suggestions seems to be that for the 6 matches where Abdi did appear last season, he was shuffled back in too fast and so broke down. He was never at 100% and didn't spend a lot of time in training after getting back fit before being thrown in and getting injured again. Gross mismanagement by Carlos, sadly. So now, he's fit to train, but he's got to get back to a good level. The comment about not putting him in the u21s a few weeks ago, i think is more about respect for the youngsters. Jos has made it clear there will be no more Hirsts under him. Dawson and Wildsmith being the 1 and 2 keepers seems to be primarily for the very reason that we don't want one or both of them walking away to get first team football. If we don't offer your players opportunities then they'll leave like Hirst did. Part of the silliness of Clare is that he was starting to get those opportunities, but didn't seem to realise it and left anyway. In order to show he respects the u21s, Jos is saying he's not going to put a player into the u21 lineup who isn't even ready to play for the u21s. The u21s will probably react well to that, and Abdi will likely turn out for the u21s in the relatively near future (month or so) once he's actually ready for a football match. Certainly has the ability, there's no reason to think he doesn't care, and that was something people accused Matias of while he was out. Look how wrong they were about him. So if he's fit and willing, the only reason that seems logical is that he's just so far off match fitness that the u21s would have to carry him and with them doing well we want to protect them from playing with 10 and 1/4 men. There is of course the other possibility, which I'm reticent to mention since it's 100% speculation, and that's that his mental health is not as good as it might be. If that is the case he should have our sympathy and support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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