To be honest I for one along with many others certainly recognised his quality while he was here .
He wasnât lazy or uninterested. He was simply a level above.
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Spot on!
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Problem last season is talented young players from local teams like Ronan and Corey Blackett Taylor werenât played much and were derided as not good enough by fanbase/management so guess those clubs wonât be so willing to loan out.
Ronanâs career has stalled but CBT seems to be doing o.k for himself at Tranmere.
As much as I thought Sawyers was a class act when playing for us, heâs gone, ffs heâs yesterdayâs news, I wish him well, but likewise couldnât give a â â â â if he nosedives, letâs move on from this my girlfriends left me feeling.
Thatâs the nature of loans though. Loaning teams expect their players to go away to the hinterlnd of lower grade football and come back 1000% better and ready for the next big step up. Thatâs what weâll be expecting of Candlin and Little but its a risky business. Take Elias Sorensen at Newcastle, the supposed next big thing, couldnât get a game at Blackpool last season and now getting splinters at Carlisle. Its very much a two way street, because the lower clubs also have their agenda for success, manager whoâs job might be on the line etc etc. Just because a particular player doesnât get game time should never count against the loaning club in my opinion because its all about results at all levels. When it does work out however you can end up with another Harry Kane, Sean Longstaff, or Jordan Pickford. Its just a balancing act that all levels of the process should be mindfull of.
Just ignore the thread
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Andy Cook though, he deserved all he got.
Be a boring board if we canât speak about any player thatâs ever left us, especially the good ones.
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He was booed and jeered by a small minority in a few games when he wasnât contributing much. It was hardly an orchestrated campaign. He did have a tendency to disappear in the really big games such as Wembley and both play-off gamesâŚbut on his day he was class.
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A small minority of complete morons ,
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one of the best CMâs well see in our colourâs in most of our life timesâŚ
Controlled games with ease and too think he was only really a kidâŚ
Amazing talent.
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Absolutely correct especially considering he was lazy and disinterested !!!
Thereâs a narrative that we (as Walsall fans) have more or less written ourselves which goes âRomaine Sawyers - Walsall fans didnât really rate him - which is bizarreâ.
It is also deeply flawed.
Before building a team to fit around Sawyers, we had to fit Sawyers into a team. And it wasnât always successful early doors. We asked him to do things that obviously werenât his forte and he obviously struggled. These struggles and his frustrations led to the odd ineffectual game that paying punters called out. In fact he had some stinkers. The lazy tag was just laziness itself spouted by the 1% that for some reason didnât seem to rate Ricketts, Deeney or Fryatt either.
As he grew as a player and Smith grew as a manager, not forgetting Okellyâs important coaching input he became this sublime artisan. A craftsman who we all got to know we were privileged to watch. We all rated him. We all loved him. We all miss him.
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Do you have proof that fans who slated sawyers also didnât rate rickets , fryatt, deeney?. Like Iâve already said I rated sawyers I just didnât rate him has a number10, he was wasted in that position but we got away with it cause Bradshaw amount of goals. Anybody who didnât rate Fryatt or deeney are complete morons. Ricketts in his first spell here can be forgiven for! I remember him missing 2/3 one on ones against Charlton at home in a game we ended up losing but should have been out of sight. There was noway in this world from the first spell he would go on and do what he did.
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I remember he missed 3 against Man City away in 1-1 draw
I donât have proof that it was the same fans.
But what I do know is that we have a section of our support who consistently undermine players who are wearing their virtual L-plates.
To be fair, it doesnât help when managers try to wedge those youngsters into a team in positions that they just donât know. Iâve witnessed both Martin Butler and Michael Ricketts playing left back. They were never left-backs. And in his early games, Sawyers was sometimes asked to play a conventional wide midfield role thus exposing the weakest parts of his game against marauding full-backs.
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Most of our young centre forwards seem to be shoved out on the wing Deeney among them at times
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It is a strange phenomenon. With Butler I think his time wide was because we had Wilson and Lightbourne who were proven and very very good. The others were just strange calls.
There has been some slight revisionism of Whitney on here in recent weeks but he was another one who had a ÂŁ3m/ÂŁ4m talent at centre forward available to him (Tyler Roberts) and chose to either bench him or play him wide.
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Best player Iâve seen down the bescot that year was so good that team !!