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by bishbosh92 » 07 Dec 2008 09:56
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by rg6royal » 07 Dec 2008 11:12
by loyalroyal4life » 07 Dec 2008 11:15
rg6royal He'll put Matejovsky on the right.
by loyalroyal4life » 07 Dec 2008 11:26
by winchester_royal » 07 Dec 2008 11:29
rg6royal Talking about the Championship...We need to sign that Chris Eagles.
by Avon Royal » 07 Dec 2008 11:40
winchester_royalrg6royal Talking about the Championship...We need to sign that Chris Eagles.
'Greed.
by rhroyal » 07 Dec 2008 12:53
by brendywendy » 07 Dec 2008 13:42
by SteveRoyal » 07 Dec 2008 14:24
rhroyal Some people here are being very harsh on Henry, without having seen him much. Here's the good and bad I know about him:
Good:
- He has been the star of the England U19s for a long time.
- Spurs and Arsenal were supposedly interested in him for a while.
- He scored 2 goals away to Stoke in the cup and was considered our best player.
- My friend (Orient fan) said he was head and shoulders above League 1 last year on his day. This was with a struggling Bournemouth side. It's only 1 step up and coming into a team doing well will make it easier for him.
Bad:
- Absolutely no impact for Norwich at this level this season.
- Last season Coppell thought it was better to try Oster, Rosenior, Fae and Hunt on the right rather than giving Henry a game before considering it necessary to sign Kebe. This hardly shows confidence in him.
- England U19s? Who plays for them? If he was that good he'd be at a higher level.
It's a risk playing Henry, but for me he deserves a chance as he has been waiting patiently a long time and there have been positive noises about him. More the the point, he's our only right winger available. If Coppell doesn't have the confidence to play him in this circumstance then what use is JH to Reading?
by Ian Royal » 07 Dec 2008 14:26
by SCIAG » 07 Dec 2008 14:54
rhroyal Some people here are being very harsh on Henry, without having seen him much. Here's the good and bad I know about him:
Good:
- He has been the star of the England U19s for a long time.
- Spurs and Arsenal were supposedly interested in him for a while. Chelsea, actually. We turned down bids of £1m and then £1.5m from Chelsea for him
- He scored 2 goals away to Stoke in the cup and was considered our best player.
- My friend (Orient fan) said he was head and shoulders above League 1 last year on his day. This was with a struggling Bournemouth side. It's only 1 step up and coming into a team doing well will make it easier for him.
Bad:
- Absolutely no impact for Norwich at this level this season. They had too many loanees, and they didn't need a right winger as much as they needed a centre back, left back, left winger and striker (Pearce, Bertrand, Gibbs and Evans were covering those positions). Or what Ian said.
- Last season Coppell thought it was better to try Oster, Rosenior, Fae and Hunt on the right rather than giving Henry a game before considering it necessary to sign Kebe. This hardly shows confidence in him. Oster was a senior right winger, he should have been played first. Fae needed a chance somewhere and wasn't defensively good enough to play CM. Rosenior's pace was another option whilst Henry was on loan, and the Hunt-Convey combo worked better than any other last season.
- England U19s? Who plays for them? If he was that good he'd be at a higher level. Landsbury, Wiltshire, Welbeck, Gibbs, Bertrand? Two of them have played in the first team for big four clubs this season.
It's a risk playing Henry, but for me he deserves a chance as he has been waiting patiently a long time and there have been positive noises about him. More the the point, he's our only right winger available. If Coppell doesn't have the confidence to play him in this circumstance then what use is JH to Reading?
by Royal Rother » 07 Dec 2008 15:21
We turned down bids of £1m and then £1.5m from Chelsea for him
by rhroyal » 07 Dec 2008 15:45
SCIAGrhroyal Some people here are being very harsh on Henry, without having seen him much. Here's the good and bad I know about him:
Good:
- He has been the star of the England U19s for a long time.
- Spurs and Arsenal were supposedly interested in him for a while. Chelsea, actually. We turned down bids of £1m and then £1.5m from Chelsea for him I really do find that hard to believe, if he was worth that much at his age surely he would have been given a chance by now.
- He scored 2 goals away to Stoke in the cup and was considered our best player.
- My friend (Orient fan) said he was head and shoulders above League 1 last year on his day. This was with a struggling Bournemouth side. It's only 1 step up and coming into a team doing well will make it easier for him.
Bad:
- Absolutely no impact for Norwich at this level this season. They had too many loanees, and they didn't need a right winger as much as they needed a centre back, left back, left winger and striker (Pearce, Bertrand, Gibbs and Evans were covering those positions). Or what Ian said. That is true to be fair.
- Last season Coppell thought it was better to try Oster, Rosenior, Fae and Hunt on the right rather than giving Henry a game before considering it necessary to sign Kebe. This hardly shows confidence in him. Oster was a senior right winger, he should have been played first. Fae needed a chance somewhere and wasn't defensively good enough to play CM. Rosenior's pace was another option whilst Henry was on loan, and the Hunt-Convey combo worked better than any other last season. It goes further than I originally stated, at the start of the season Oster was out too and Coppell still wouldn't give Henry a sniff of first team football. I'd say that was the Premiership and he was a year younger so I wouldn't hold it against him too much now. However you can't avoid the fact that Coppell looked at pretty much every other option ahead of playing Henry.
- England U19s? Who plays for them? If he was that good he'd be at a higher level. Landsbury, Wiltshire, Welbeck, Gibbs, Bertrand? Two of them have played in the first team for big four clubs this season. Wiltshire and Welbeck are 16 and 17 respectively, it would be a massive ask for them to push for U21s or something. JH is 19 and he just hasn't progressed enough in comparison
It's a risk playing Henry, but for me he deserves a chance as he has been waiting patiently a long time and there have been positive noises about him. More the the point, he's our only right winger available. If Coppell doesn't have the confidence to play him in this circumstance then what use is JH to Reading?
by SCIAG » 07 Dec 2008 17:48
Royal RotherWe turned down bids of £1m and then £1.5m from Chelsea for him
I really really find that hard to believe.
by Royal Rother » 07 Dec 2008 18:04
by SCIAG » 07 Dec 2008 18:07
Royal Rother The only thing I can see is reference to the fact that he turned down interest from Chelsea to join our Academy in 2005.
by Alan Partridge » 07 Dec 2008 18:10
by Archie's penalty » 07 Dec 2008 18:12
SCIAG Also, can we clear this up: Henry is pronounced as if he was French.
by Smoking Kills Dancing Doe » 07 Dec 2008 18:25
by SteveRoyal » 07 Dec 2008 19:07
SCIAGrhroyal - Absolutely no impact for Norwich at this level this season. They had too many loanees, and they didn't need a right winger as much as they needed a centre back, left back, left winger and striker (Pearce, Bertrand, Gibbs and Evans were covering those positions). Or what Ian said.
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