Nuttall

[Drog]

I spotted the potential v Sheff Wed in Gestede in his second appearance which was his full debut I think. First time I saw him was as a late sub when he came on for 10 minutes and resembled George Weah's cousin. I don't remember many sharing my opinion in the pub after the Sheff Wed game but he went on to become almost unplayable in the air even though he resembled Bambi on ice on the floor.
Rhodes scored a lot of goals but has never been immense. More a posh Derbyshire, a fox in the box put an easy push over out of it. In my time the adjective 'immense' belongs solely to Alan Shearer.

 

[Skiptonrover]

I've no problem with that tbh. John Williams said a decade ago that we are not a 'selling club' but rather a 'trading Club'.
Lots of players move to better clubs, it's the dog eat dog nature of present day football. The trick is to make money on them AND use some of it to bring in the next one.

If it needs to be done to further the club so be it, I should imagine that scenario will be a long way off (market value too low ATM). I'm not slating the lad he's doing well but needs to keep it up that's the only way his career will progress & for the so called bigger clubs to take a interest.

 

[Alan]

If you mean Rhodes Amo I'm comfortable in the knowledge that you probably never saw him play. I did and everything that I said about him has been borne out. In fact I said many times that he'd not cut it in the Prem and I've been right about that too.

I'd swap him for Graham any day of the week.

 

[chor808]

https://www.rovers.co.uk/news/2017/november/joe-im-just-getting-started/

Like it, force him to play you Joe.

 

[chor808]

I spotted the potential v Sheff Wed in Gestede in his second appearance which was his full debut I think. First time I saw him was as a late sub when he came on for 10 minutes and resembled George Weah's cousin. I don't remember many sharing my opinion in the pub after the Sheff Wed game but he went on to become almost unplayable in the air even though he resembled Bambi on ice on the floor.
Rhodes scored a lot of goals but has never been immense. More a posh Derbyshire, a fox in the box put an easy push over out of it. In my time the adjective 'immense' belongs solely to Alan Shearer.

Was that first game when Dunn told him to jump for the header, I believe I was there and said to my Dad 'who is this dummy we have signed'. My god 40 years watching footy not a clue

 

[Drog]

I'm only a casual observer who says it as I see it. If I was a professional scout then I'd soon just base my recommendations of players whose agents give the biggest bungs.......

 

[chor808]

Not great today, struggled up front on his own. Had zero chances either, back to the bench?

 

[Drog]

Not only was he not great but his positioning was bloody awful. He played like he was playing off a centre forward..... even though he was centre forward.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

Not surprised. As I said he couldn't get in the Aberdeen team for 2 years and the SPL is currently ranked below Belarus' top division in the UEFA co-efficient.

As for the under-21s or under-23s or whatever, its a training exercise for kids, injury recoverers and players who aren't getting their contracts renewed. Barely a competition and I personally treat any exploits in it with an Everest-sized pinch of salt.

Not writing him off, hopefully he'll get better. But now he's being judged at the same level as our other strikers he's certainly lost the wow factor.

 

[Wilpshire Blue]

He deserved his chance to play in the first team and he’s been given a fair run of games.
He must now earn his place on merit like most other players.

 

[blueandwhitehalves]

He deserved his chance to play in the first team

I remember when we beat Everton 2-0 in an early round League Cup game under Ince with Warnock and Fowler playing centre mid and Everton barely touched the ball for 90 minutes. At the time we were getting beat every week in the league.

In my opinion reserve leagues and the checkatrade trophy are even more useless measurements of ability than early cup rounds. Both sides playing with such a lack of intensity, mish-mash of players, constant substitutions and experimental tactics as to be virtually glorified fitness exercises.

What I'd consider much more important would be performances in training where the manager can directly compare players to fellow team mates.

The trouble is fans can't analyse that because we don't watch training. So rather than just trusting the manager that someone is or isn't ready, reserve team performances get analysed instead because its more interesting and we can get involved in the process and make demands.

Nuttall only deserved a run in the team in my opinion if he was impressing in training. Maybe he was or maybe Mowbray just felt like he had to bow to fan pressure.