Emile Smith Rowe (10)

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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby billie86 » Sat Apr 09, 2022 10:47 pm

He's been poor for a while tbh, very light weight
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby DiamondGooner » Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:00 pm

Ach wrote:Wouldn't be too hard on ESR

Youngsters have carried us this season and have ran out of steam.

Needed help. We all saw it. They didn't get it in January.

We have a terrible senior striker, terrible senior cm and a mediocre defence.

Not much the kids can do when they aren't helped by the one guy in a position to help them


Agreed.

I said in another thread, I think this was a season too soon for them to be made our starting 11.

We've basically made them responsible for getting top 4 in a league full of mid and late twenty somethings who are all competitive seasoned players.

Saka, Martinelli and ESR should really be our Europa or cup players, not our Prem League starting players, not just yet anyway, they each should have a senior ahead of them.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby Nuggets » Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:37 am

The guy has given his all, too much pressure has been put on him by our numpty manager he is not protecting him at all rather the opposite.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby Power n Glory » Sun Apr 10, 2022 7:29 am

Did he go off injured?
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby jayramfootball » Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:44 am

DiamondGooner wrote:
Ach wrote:Wouldn't be too hard on ESR

Youngsters have carried us this season and have ran out of steam.

Needed help. We all saw it. They didn't get it in January.

We have a terrible senior striker, terrible senior cm and a mediocre defence.

Not much the kids can do when they aren't helped by the one guy in a position to help them


Agreed.

I said in another thread, I think this was a season too soon for them to be made our starting 11.

We've basically made them responsible for getting top 4 in a league full of mid and late twenty somethings who are all competitive seasoned players.

Saka, Martinelli and ESR should really be our Europa or cup players, not our Prem League starting players, not just yet anyway, they each should have a senior ahead of them.


They've been excellent this year in the Premier League and played a large part in getting us into a top 4 race.
The issue is simply that we are in the middle of our rebuild and we need more players.
It's going to take time whether you like it or not. Buying the right players is not like going to the super market for the weekly shop.

We're ahead of schedule and right now the young players are getting fantastic experience.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby EliteKiller » Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:18 am

The problem with young players is they need to step up at some point - we can all list young players who have burst onto the scene and looked fantastic only to never make that next step - there are of course very good reasons for that.

Firstly a young player may have a few 'moves' which opponents will take a game or two to work out. Secondly any player will have weaknesses, especially young ones, which again opponents will take a game or two to work out. Thirdly young players will probably lack the physical stamina to play 40+ games a season, and finally a young player will likely not initially have the mental fortitude needed to cope with setbacks.

What's now very apparent is that teams playing us for the second/third time are working us out - double team Saka, draw wide players forward and get in behind them, press hard on our defensive pivot, isolate Laca. It's not hard to use those tactics. For a while it was just the top sides who were successfully exposing our weaknesses, now with the loss of two key players everyone can see how to play us.

We're not alone - just look at "top 100 best prospects" for any season - they all looked great, but only 20-25% actually make the grade. Just look at how many youth players have developed at City, Liverpool, Chelsea, or Spurs it's very, very hard.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby Santi » Sun Apr 10, 2022 10:20 am

Overrated by Arsenal fans imo. Decent player who makes an impact with his goals but lot to learn yet, no surprise with his age and match experience so far.

Would be on the bench for me more often than not at the moment.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby thebigbangtheo » Thu Apr 21, 2022 10:35 pm

I really do hope that Arteta is suitably poking and prompting the competitive edge to the characters of Saka and Smith-Rowe in priming their goalscoring prowess for the last 6 games so as to put in a kick and sprint to the finish line reminiscent of Steve Ovett and Sebastian Coe.

Joint top scorers with 17 goals apiece would be the dream you awake from with a child like cry of 'awwww', and an instant, vicious hatred of your alarm clock.

A likely by product of the dynamic duo doing the business, would be Martinelli busting a gut (please, only figuratively, touch wood) to get in on the act and be first choice sub ahead of Lacazette, in a fashion not too dissimilar to what Smith-Rowe himself experienced earlier in the campaign and learned to work to his advantage.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby Zenith » Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:08 am

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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby theHotHead » Fri Apr 22, 2022 6:25 am

Santi wrote:Overrated by Arsenal fans imo. Decent player who makes an impact with his goals but lot to learn yet, no surprise with his age and match experience so far.

Would be on the bench for me more often than not at the moment.

I don't agree with that at all, his constant movement and basic give and goes make him a nightmare to play against, his game is simple but effective and difficult to stop unless you man mark him. He will always make good runs and he will always find space, he keeps the ball moving.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby StockGooner » Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:29 am

That finish was class, just walked right on to it and barely even passed it in. He just stroked it so softly

Good pass from Ode so he didn't break stride.

Disagree Santi, like HH said he can do the very basics, very well. And he is a good outlet for carrying the ball out which I rate and not something we have had in abundance recently, but now we seem to
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby Power n Glory » Fri Apr 22, 2022 9:56 am

Really good finish from him.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby jayramfootball » Fri Apr 22, 2022 12:57 pm

Nobody better at carrying the ball at pace.
Has skill to beat players too and and has now added goals.
When you think about some of the players that other clubs have bought for massive transfer fees who are not as good, we're very fortunate to have ESR.
Also have to remember he's actually not as experienced as Saka even- played just over half the time Saka has this season and last season.
He's only going to get better if he avoids injuries and he's already one of the best goalscoring attacking midfield players the PL.
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby Marsbar100 » Fri Apr 22, 2022 1:07 pm

His bloody good
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Re: Emile Smith Rowe (10)

Postby 22-0 » Fri Apr 22, 2022 1:17 pm

Could be amazing but he needs to play weekly for that to grow.

how do we fit in esr/saka/martinelli and odegaard all in one tho? i cant really justify dropping any of em.
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