by Snowflake Royal »
08 Feb 2024 13:01
Hound Brogue URZZZZ
Bit late to the party with this one but it’s really noticeable how many players have struggled since leaving us over the course of the past couple of seasons
Talking about the likes of Laurent, Rinomhota, Meite, Ince, Hendrick and Fornah (doesn’t even make the bench for a L1 side!). Moore and Drinkwater never found clubs (can add Ejaria although he is a recent one). Lumley hasn’t played a minute of league football. Joao and Puscas haven’t kicked on. Swift has been largely underwhelming for West Brom although alongside Dele-Bashiru, probably the best of a bad bunch. Imagine we can add McIntyre to this list if he carries on his trend of not being able to play more than 3 games without pulling up.
Don’t blame any player for wanting out given the situation we find ourselves in. But just a thought that perhaps the grass isn’t always greener
also goes to show that they were all pretty shit and the reason we've been shit for years isn't just manager related, its that the players were never really good enough. But for some reason the players never really got the grilling they deserved, and got off lightly imo. Always pointing the finger at the managers yes they have been pretty shit too, but we simply had too many journey men who were not interested or showed any passion to be here.
It is a bit weird though - some of those like Ince and Laurent were generally good for us. I mean we can say they were shit and the managers were shit but they were good enough to keep us up or be in teams close to the play offs under Pauno
Didn’t realise Fornah wasn’t playing. Had noticed Meite’s Cardiff record is appalling (1 goal 0 assists in 25+ games), Ince not playing etc
Think Laurent and Swift have had good and bad spells - similar to what they had here.
Has there actually been any successes of who have left us in the last 2-3 years bar the mighty Olise and Osho?
I think it shows just how much of succeeding is about being in the right place at the right time.
There's no doubt that Meite, Joao, Laurent, Swift, Rinomhota and Moore etc were good players who performed well for a sustained period with us.
Yes, they all had limitations. Yes, none of them have really gone on and succeeded elsewhere. Although Joao hit his peak with us, and Meite had a career threatening injury.
Laurent and Rino were good but had clear limitations in their strengths and weaknesses. Swift was always a bit up and had career threatening injury.
We've also seen plenty of good players fail at Reading for various reasons despite doing well before and/or after.
