Ola John: The New Jimmy Kebe?

[Snowball136]

"Half a dozen good games in 4-5 seasons"

Is that trolling, or a whoosh?

Most exciting player I've watched at RFC (including Gylfi)

190 Appearances

14,296 Minutes

31 Goals
45 Assists

and those stats don't tell half the story.

The pure EXCITEMENT when he was on song was amazing, and Sock-gate was the best thing I've ever seen on a football pitch

[Extended-Phenotype]

Jimmy was:

(1) Fast




And that's about it. Ola John isn't overly fast but is a technically gifted football player. So no, nothing like each other.

[Maneki Neko]

Jimmy was:

(1) Fast




And that's about it. Ola John isn't overly fast but is a technically gifted football player. So no, nothing like each other.

Dick

[Extended-Phenotype]

Jimmy was:

(1) Fast




And that's about it. Ola John isn't overly fast but is a technically gifted football player. So no, nothing like each other.

Dick

Yeah, that was for you

[Maneki Neko]

[leon]

Jimmy was:

(1) Fast




And that's about it. Ola John isn't overly fast but is a technically gifted football player. So no, nothing like each other.

Unlike you you fcuking fool.

[leon]

Jimmy was:

(1) Fast




And that's about it. Ola John isn't overly fast but is a technically gifted football player. So no, nothing like each other.

Unlike you you fcuking fool.

[leon]

Yeah e p you're such a fool you get it twice mother fcuker

[Extended-Phenotype]

I am two similar footballers?

[genome]

Has leon lost it?

[leon]

:?:

I am two similar footballers?

no, you're a hairy degenerate cnut.

[leon]

Has leon lost it?

a) no
b) I'm still blaming you for the Ipswich result. You massive cnut.

[genome]

Has leon lost it?

a) no
b) I'm still blaming you for the Ipswich result. You massive cnut.

You're gonna have to explain that one to me.

[Stuka]

Kebe had about half a dozen good games in 4 or 5 seasons. Complete waste of space most of the time and a heart the size of a pea.

He only has status on here because of thr West Ham incident.

No, it was the way he beat people, the crosses from nowhere, the speed he had, the goal in under 10 seconds against West Brom in the FA Cup, the languid grace, the bullet header away at Watford, the twists and the turns.

He was footballing elegance. Every time he got the ball you got the feeling something unexpected and breathtakingly magnificent could happen. The pulling up of the socks was just a rather brilliant cameo.

He was, quite simply, an outstandingly exciting footballer.

Nail on the head post.

[genome]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNH3Yk4Q_P0

That is all.

[Maneki Neko]

I miss him

[Maneki Neko]

Kebe had about half a dozen good games in 4 or 5 seasons. Complete waste of space most of the time and a heart the size of a pea.

He only has status on here because of thr West Ham incident.

No, it was the way he beat people, the crosses from nowhere, the speed he had, the goal in under 10 seconds against West Brom in the FA Cup, the languid grace, the bullet header away at Watford, the twists and the turns.

He was footballing elegance. Every time he got the ball you got the feeling something unexpected and breathtakingly magnificent could happen. The pulling up of the socks was just a rather brilliant cameo.

He was, quite simply, an outstandingly exciting footballer.

Nail on the head post.

footballing elegance is pushing it for a player often as likely to fall over his own legs as produce a moment of quality

but for me that only makes him gr8er
for every game where his god-like genius struggled to show itself, there were hilarious moments of comedy gangliness.
he was pure entertainment.

[RoyalBlue]

not as tall
blacker
not as quick
not a god

Not injured!

[Top Flight]

I think Ola John is more like Glenn Little. Almost impossible to tackle. He draws players towards him, sometimes three or four players and they still can't tackle him. His crosses tend to be slower floaters into the box requiring a striker with good neck muscles as they will need to add some additional power to the header.

But Ola looks like he is willing to have more of a pop at goal than Little so will likely score more goals. If we have two good strikers up front with a decent CM joining the attacks then we will get more goals coming from Ola Johns wing play.

[Forbury Lion]

Michael Gilkes = very fast, very committed, lacked skill
Jimmy Kebe = very fast, not always committed, had skill
Glenn Little = slow, committed, one of the most technically gifted players to have played for the club
Mass Sarr = fast when he wanted to be, lazy, had skills but too lazy to use them
Royston Drenthe = can't remember, non committed, natural ability wasted
Ola John = Not the fastest, committed in attack but needs work, has skills
Gareth McLeary = Fast (when fit), committed in attack, technically gifted (but seems out of sorts)
HRK = Faster than he looks, committed this season, has technical ability.


Glenn Little was playing in a 4-4-2 with Dave Kitson, Leroy Lita, Kevin Doyle and Shane Long vying to play up front, supported by the likes of Sidwell, Harper, and Convey from midfield. If he had our current strikeforce of Yann Kermorgant on his own trailing behind him in midfield then chances are he would have taken more shots at goal himself and scored more goals rather than send a pinpoint perfect cross into the box for nobody to tap in.....so you need to factor in assists as well as goals.