You are entitled to your opinion. But at least spell his name correctly.PEAR CIDER wrote:Really hate writing this and picking him out specifically today but christ on a bike.
It's like he's never kicked a football before. He got the nod ahead of gordon and Hewitt and he was seriously poo.
I watched him closely today mainily because it annoyed me that he got straight back in. I encouraged and got behind him all game. Opinion time
Anyway. Awful. 3 passes in particular was so poor.
Nigel need to let him bench .
Ps that 'fan' with his kid slagging the team off from the get go..
Only one embarrassment pal, clue.. it wernt their fans.the
Amber Andy wrote:You are entitled to your opinion. But at least spell his name correctly.PEAR CIDER wrote:Really hate writing this and picking him out specifically today but christ on a bike.
It's like he's never kicked a football before. He got the nod ahead of gordon and Hewitt and he was seriously poo.
I watched him closely today mainily because it annoyed me that he got straight back in. I encouraged and got behind him all game. Opinion time
Anyway. Awful. 3 passes in particular was so poor.
Nigel need to let him bench .
Ps that 'fan' with his kid slagging the team off from the get go..
Only one embarrassment pal, clue.. it wernt their fans.the
That's better.PEAR CIDER wrote:Amber Andy wrote:You are entitled to your opinion. But at least spell his name correctly.PEAR CIDER wrote:Really hate writing this and picking him out specifically today but christ on a bike.
It's like he's never kicked a football before. He got the nod ahead of gordon and Hewitt and he was seriously poo.
I watched him closely today mainily because it annoyed me that he got straight back in. I encouraged and got behind him all game. Opinion time
Anyway. Awful. 3 passes in particular was so poor.
Nigel need to let him bench .
Ps that 'fan' with his kid slagging the team off from the get go..
Only one embarrassment pal, clue.. it wernt their fans.the
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Amber Andy wrote:That's better.PEAR CIDER wrote:Amber Andy wrote:You are entitled to your opinion. But at least spell his name correctly.PEAR CIDER wrote:Really hate writing this and picking him out specifically today but christ on a bike.
It's like he's never kicked a football before. He got the nod ahead of gordon and Hewitt and he was seriously poo.
I watched him closely today mainily because it annoyed me that he got straight back in. I encouraged and got behind him all game. Opinion time
Anyway. Awful. 3 passes in particular was so poor.
Nigel need to let him bench .
Ps that 'fan' with his kid slagging the team off from the get go..
Only one embarrassment pal, clue.. it wernt their fans.the
Cool input
PEAR CIDER wrote:Now you've stopped picking up on petty things..
Do you not agree?
adamstag wrote:PEAR CIDER wrote:Now you've stopped picking up on petty things..
Do you not agree?
We may as well get behind akins as he will always get the nod to play like it or not
HitchcocksShins wrote:adamstag wrote:PEAR CIDER wrote:Now you've stopped picking up on petty things..
Do you not agree?
We may as well get behind akins as he will always get the nod to play like it or not
We may as well get behind him?
He's not a toddler in need of support and encouragement, he's a fully grown man, and a footballer, he's in the public eye and in need of criticism and at times, deserved ridicule
Yes, the spelling error has been corrected.adamstag wrote:Amber Andy wrote:That's better.PEAR CIDER wrote:Amber Andy wrote:You are entitled to your opinion. But at least spell his name correctly.PEAR CIDER wrote:Really hate writing this and picking him out specifically today but christ on a bike.
It's like he's never kicked a football before. He got the nod ahead of gordon and Hewitt and he was seriously poo.
I watched him closely today mainily because it annoyed me that he got straight back in. I encouraged and got behind him all game. Opinion time
Anyway. Awful. 3 passes in particular was so poor.
Nigel need to let him bench .
Ps that 'fan' with his kid slagging the team off from the get go..
Only one embarrassment pal, clue.. it wernt their fans.the
Cool input
really?
"It's not about whether he is up front or in defence. I think anyone who has ever kicked a ball at any level is amazed at how terrible his actual ability is in terms of his first touch and his ability to play simple 10 yard passes to feet.
I could honestly go down the local park and pick out ten Sunday League players with better ability.
Yes he works hard, and puts a shift in....but if that's your full time profession and you train every day, then that's standard stuff to expect, you should be fit enough to do just that.
Fans get frustrated because there are better players not getting played in preference of him.
I can only assume, given what Burton fans think of him and his longetivity there, that this wasn't always the case - hence Cloughie's blind loyalty to start him whenever he is fit.
But Burton probably saw the start of the decline, if he was any good they would have kept him on clearly....and he's 34 coming to the latter end of his career, we were never getting a good version of him anyway.
I don't find it a coincidence that some of the better performances we have put in so far (I include Orient away despite the result) where we played good to watch, free-flowing football, were games where Akins was out. In my opinion he breaks up so many good attacking moves with a terrible touch, a poor pass, bad decision making, or going backwards and slowing down momentum.
If he was all we had option-wise then he wouldn't be getting the stick he does, but we have two clearly better players to play on the right who must sit there scratching their heads as to how such a player with poor ability gets preferred to either of them.
If any other players performed as poorly as Akins does, do you think they'd be starting the next game? Not only do I think not, Clough would more than likely out them for poor performance in his interviews too - he does that regularly with the likes of Maris who is ten thousand times the player in terms of ability.
He has never criticised Akins once, yet he's not getting stick on here for no reason - it's not just everyone jumping on a mob mentality bandwagon - people are clearly all seeing the same thing!
I think I have seen him have one better than average game since being here, which was up front against Northampton.
Rest of the time I am still of the opinion that there are better Sunday League players who just aren't anywhere near as fit as him.
tmwilson wrote:He was definitely no worse than any of the other players yesterday. Clough isn't helping certain players situation by playing them in the wrong position.
I'm 100% behind Clough and do think he will gets us promoted but some of his team selections are baffling. Hewitt or Gordon should of starting before him in that position he played.
part time pete wrote:tmwilson wrote:He was definitely no worse than any of the other players yesterday. Clough isn't helping certain players situation by playing them in the wrong position.
I'm 100% behind Clough and do think he will gets us promoted but some of his team selections are baffling. Hewitt or Gordon should of starting before him in that position he played.
Clough could be saying his selection was justified as Hewitt gave away a soft free kick which resulted in Sutton’s winning goal.
Rob wrote:part time pete wrote:tmwilson wrote:He was definitely no worse than any of the other players yesterday. Clough isn't helping certain players situation by playing them in the wrong position.
I'm 100% behind Clough and do think he will gets us promoted but some of his team selections are baffling. Hewitt or Gordon should of starting before him in that position he played.
Clough could be saying his selection was justified as Hewitt gave away a soft free kick which resulted in Sutton’s winning goal.
But Hewitt wouldn't have been there, he'd have been where Alins was
Try harder Pete
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