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Post by mortillsy on Sept 19, 2021 22:51:32 GMT
He's had a few great moments, but he was also completely bullied out of the game against Cardiff where Ng had his number. He's also generally been very quiet when I've watched him at club level and in his games for us. But he definitely has a lot of talent, hopefully the new manager / different style of play will bring i tout of him a bit more It was a tough game for him and he did get bullied a bit. But, saying Ng had his number is incorrect. Ng didn’t have a great game himself. Brennan was also heavily involved in the Forest goal and looked a threat in the first half. The second half was a disaster for Forest, the whole team were a shambles. |
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Post by jimexotic on Sept 19, 2021 23:13:45 GMT
He's not long turned 20 and still very green in terms of experience, I'm delighted for both him and our situation that he's started the season pretty well, all things considered.
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Post by CrackityJones on Sept 29, 2021 20:19:10 GMT
Goal and an assist tonight
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Post by saturn9 on Sept 29, 2021 20:27:56 GMT
Excellent news.
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Post by iot on Sept 29, 2021 20:43:14 GMT
He started up front too as a false 9. Did anyone watch the game? Is that a job he could do for us?
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Post by hooky on Sept 29, 2021 21:21:26 GMT
Just saw the 2 minute highlights
He looks so slick, so quick with loads of football intelligence.
Brilliant pace and composure to assist for the first goal when it would have been more instinctive to shoot and then to slot into the corner when he could have attempted to pass. He does this when his team have had a terrible start and are in the relegation zone!
His decision making is the impressive thing for me
I am raging at Page! I think we so glimpses versus Belarus that he had this quality. How on Earth he could bring on Joinesta to replace Wilson and not Johnson is just bizarre. Page would have seen this ability in training. He's probably got two to three times as many career assists and goals than Joniesta now
I love Joniesta and his commitment but what Page did was beyond lacking football intelligence. Johnson definitely looks a Premiership player of the future - we just don't know if he'll end up operating at the top, middle of bottom of the table
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Post by saturn9 on Sept 29, 2021 21:39:05 GMT
Just saw the 2 minute highlights He looks so slick, so quick with loads of football intelligence. Brilliant pace and composure to assist for the first goal when it would have been more instinctive to shoot and then to slot into the corner when he could have attempted to pass. He does this when his team have had a terrible start and are in the relegation zone! His decision making is the impressive thing for me I am raging at Page! I think we so glimpses versus Belarus that he had this quality. How on Earth he could bring on Joinesta to replace Wilson and not Johnson is just bizarre. Page would have seen this ability in training. He's probably got two to three times as many career assists and goals than Joniesta now I love Joniesta and his commitment but what Page did was beyond lacking football intelligence. Johnson definitely looks a Premiership player of the future - we just don't know if he'll end up operating at the top, middle of bottom of the table When he does make the move from Forest. I don't think he'd look out of place at a top six Bundesliga club. |
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Post by iot on Sept 29, 2021 22:17:16 GMT
Just saw the 2 minute highlights He looks so slick, so quick with loads of football intelligence. Brilliant pace and composure to assist for the first goal when it would have been more instinctive to shoot and then to slot into the corner when he could have attempted to pass. He does this when his team have had a terrible start and are in the relegation zone! His decision making is the impressive thing for me I am raging at Page! I think we so glimpses versus Belarus that he had this quality. How on Earth he could bring on Joinesta to replace Wilson and not Johnson is just bizarre. Page would have seen this ability in training. He's probably got two to three times as many career assists and goals than Joniesta now I love Joniesta and his commitment but what Page did was beyond lacking football intelligence. Johnson definitely looks a Premiership player of the future - we just don't know if he'll end up operating at the top, middle of bottom of the table Some serious revisionism going on there. Aside from one shot that just went over the bar (which the keeper probably had covered), Johnson was extremely quiet against Belarus. Joniesta, meanwhile, completely changed the game when he came on and we probably wouldn't have won without him. If you look back at the comments on here at the time, you would see pretty much everyone agreed on that. When he came on against Estonia, I (and I'm sure most others) were happy to see him given the impact that he just had against Belarus. In hindsight, it didn't work at all with no space in the 10 position for him to operate in, so someone like Johnson probably would have been much more effective. But that's so easy and unfair to say in hindsight. What I will say is that it was very poor management from Page, in my view, not to bring someone like johnson on instead of one of the two deep midfielders at the 60-70min mark and drop Joniesta back. That's what we did against Azerbaijan and it worked brilliantly. |
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Post by dragons on Sept 30, 2021 7:25:42 GMT
Brennan Johnson: Came to life in the second half. His pace terrified the hosts, and Forest were able to make the most of it. Great composure to set up the equaliser and then again for the winner. Rating: 8.5/10
Nottingham Post Player Ratings
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Post by allezlesrouges on Sept 30, 2021 15:32:38 GMT
If we play 4-2-3-1 I can see a rationale for him starting on the right. I think he might actually be better in that position than on the left
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Post by insertname on Sept 30, 2021 19:58:30 GMT
Just saw the 2 minute highlights He looks so slick, so quick with loads of football intelligence. Brilliant pace and composure to assist for the first goal when it would have been more instinctive to shoot and then to slot into the corner when he could have attempted to pass. He does this when his team have had a terrible start and are in the relegation zone! His decision making is the impressive thing for me I am raging at Page! I think we so glimpses versus Belarus that he had this quality. How on Earth he could bring on Joinesta to replace Wilson and not Johnson is just bizarre. Page would have seen this ability in training. He's probably got two to three times as many career assists and goals than Joniesta now I love Joniesta and his commitment but what Page did was beyond lacking football intelligence. Johnson definitely looks a Premiership player of the future - we just don't know if he'll end up operating at the top, middle of bottom of the table Some serious revisionism going on there. Aside from one shot that just went over the bar (which the keeper probably had covered), Johnson was extremely quiet against Belarus. Joniesta, meanwhile, completely changed the game when he came on and we probably wouldn't have won without him. If you look back at the comments on here at the time, you would see pretty much everyone agreed on that. When he came on against Estonia, I (and I'm sure most others) were happy to see him given the impact that he just had against Belarus. In hindsight, it didn't work at all with no space in the 10 position for him to operate in, so someone like Johnson probably would have been much more effective. But that's so easy and unfair to say in hindsight. What I will say is that it was very poor management from Page, in my view, not to bring someone like johnson on instead of one of the two deep midfielders at the 60-70min mark and drop Joniesta back. That's what we did against Azerbaijan and it worked brilliantly. Exactly, I feel sorry for Johnny, hero to zero in the space of 48 hours because some fans are convinced that a lad who had a poor game 48 hours previous is secretly a world beater. I would have done exactly the same as Page in that instance. It didn’t work out but it’s not like you can’t see the logic behind it. Persisting with Tyler Roberts after Harris’s cameo 48 hours earlier is the literal inverse of Johnny vs Johnson and that’s the one that Page can’t really defend, imo. Also bringing Johnson on in the 93rd minute was a clear sign of a man who had lost the plot. |
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Post by conwy10 on Sept 30, 2021 20:32:57 GMT
Some serious revisionism going on there. Aside from one shot that just went over the bar (which the keeper probably had covered), Johnson was extremely quiet against Belarus. Joniesta, meanwhile, completely changed the game when he came on and we probably wouldn't have won without him. If you look back at the comments on here at the time, you would see pretty much everyone agreed on that. When he came on against Estonia, I (and I'm sure most others) were happy to see him given the impact that he just had against Belarus. In hindsight, it didn't work at all with no space in the 10 position for him to operate in, so someone like Johnson probably would have been much more effective. But that's so easy and unfair to say in hindsight. What I will say is that it was very poor management from Page, in my view, not to bring someone like johnson on instead of one of the two deep midfielders at the 60-70min mark and drop Joniesta back. That's what we did against Azerbaijan and it worked brilliantly. Exactly, I feel sorry for Johnny, hero to zero in the space of 48 hours because some fans are convinced that a lad who had a poor game 48 hours previous is secretly a world beater. I would have done exactly the same as Page in that instance. It didn’t work out but it’s not like you can’t see the logic behind it. Persisting with Tyler Roberts after Harris’s cameo 48 hours earlier is the literal inverse of Johnny vs Johnson and that’s the one that Page can’t really defend, imo. Also bringing Johnson on in the 93rd minute was a clear sign of a man who had lost the plot. The Estonia mistakes were playing a back 6 when Belarus showed it doesn't work. Might against the teams whi'll press you but 4 attacking players to break down a team of 8/9 camped in their own half... Even if we played Johnson and he gets around them it'd have to be a world class delivery to even pick out a player. |
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Post by allezlesrouges on Sept 30, 2021 22:05:38 GMT
Exactly, I feel sorry for Johnny, hero to zero in the space of 48 hours because some fans are convinced that a lad who had a poor game 48 hours previous is secretly a world beater. I would have done exactly the same as Page in that instance. It didn’t work out but it’s not like you can’t see the logic behind it. Persisting with Tyler Roberts after Harris’s cameo 48 hours earlier is the literal inverse of Johnny vs Johnson and that’s the one that Page can’t really defend, imo. Also bringing Johnson on in the 93rd minute was a clear sign of a man who had lost the plot. The Estonia mistakes were playing a back 6 when Belarus showed it doesn't work. Might against the teams whi'll press you but 4 attacking players to break down a team of 8/9 camped in their own half... Even if we played Johnson and he gets around them it'd have to be a world class delivery to even pick out a player. Spot on. I was calling for a 4-3-3 beforehand I wanted something like; Ward Gunter-Mepham-Ampadu-Davies Allen Wilson-Tyler Bale-Harris-James We had so much of the ball we didn't need 2 DMs, and I feel with that front 5 we'd have stood a better chance, also with an orthodox 9 |
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Post by jimexotic on Oct 3, 2021 19:38:27 GMT
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Post by hooky on Oct 3, 2021 19:41:35 GMT
I would start Johnson.
Page won't though
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Post by jimexotic on Oct 3, 2021 19:44:52 GMT
I would start Johnson. Page won't though He's surely got to at least feature in the games coming up, in form pacey youngsters tearing it up at a decent level can't be ignored, let's hope Page realises what's at stake here |
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Post by hooky on Oct 3, 2021 19:46:18 GMT
Maybe an injury time substitution again when we are losing 4-0!
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Post by CrackityJones on Oct 16, 2021 14:25:41 GMT
Another goal for the EFL young player of the month
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Post by welshrover on Oct 16, 2021 14:41:26 GMT
Another goal for the EFL young player of the month As stated previously I would put him in for Keifer.. No defence likes pace and trickery against them. |
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Post by dai on Oct 16, 2021 14:43:41 GMT
Since Giggs took over, him and Page have always been very keen on pushing youngsters - but I feel Page is holding back on Brennan. Strange, and why?
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Post by welshrover on Oct 16, 2021 14:45:46 GMT
Since Giggs took over, him and Page have always been very keen on pushing youngsters - but I feel Page is holding back on Brennan. Strange, and why? Yes, have to say more of a goal threat than Tyler who has been given a few opportunities. |
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Post by allezlesrouges on Oct 16, 2021 14:52:47 GMT
Since Giggs took over, him and Page have always been very keen on pushing youngsters - but I feel Page is holding back on Brennan. Strange, and why? Lot of competition for his position to be fair. Bale, James, Brooks, Wilson have all been ahead in that time. I'd say he's worked himself into the top 4 for the wide forwards now though 1. Bale 2. James 3. Wilson 4. Brennan |
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Post by allezlesrouges on Oct 16, 2021 14:56:54 GMT
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Post by hooky on Oct 16, 2021 15:07:35 GMT
Johnson has shown this season he has the attributes to be a very good forward. One who can create, assist and score. That is priceless
Never mind Roberts - why the hell does Page believe someone like Harris who has done NOTHING and is not a first team pick for Cardiff is a better option than Johnson? I honestly believe Page is a dreadful selector. Harris who has scored and assisted a maximum of 2 or so goals in his career - who tries hard but is not going to be a game changer. Or Johnson who is fast, creative, can finish, has great appreciation of the situation / players around him? As a defender who would you prefer to play?
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Post by dai on Oct 16, 2021 15:27:04 GMT
Johnson has shown this season he has the attributes to be a very good forward. One who can create, assist and score. That is priceless Never mind Roberts - why the hell does Page believe someone like Harris who has done NOTHING and is not a first team pick for Cardiff is a better option than Johnson? I honestly believe Page is a dreadful selector. Harris who has scored and assisted a maximum of 2 or so goals in his career - who tries hard but is not going to be a game changer. Or Johnson who is fast, creative, can finish, has great appreciation of the situation / players around him? As a defender who would you prefer to play? That's precisely why I asked why hasn't Johnson been given more chances. First team player for Forest and playing REALLY well, yet bit part player Harris seems to be given more chances by Page. Like I said, strange. |
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Post by iot on Oct 16, 2021 19:21:16 GMT
Johnson has shown this season he has the attributes to be a very good forward. One who can create, assist and score. That is priceless Never mind Roberts - why the hell does Page believe someone like Harris who has done NOTHING and is not a first team pick for Cardiff is a better option than Johnson? I honestly believe Page is a dreadful selector. Harris who has scored and assisted a maximum of 2 or so goals in his career - who tries hard but is not going to be a game changer. Or Johnson who is fast, creative, can finish, has great appreciation of the situation / players around him? As a defender who would you prefer to play? Johnson started against Belarus, was mostly anonymous and got subbed by Harris, who had a significant impact on the game. Johnson was also very quiet on his first start for us against Mexico, and apart from winning this penalty, didn't do much at all against Finland. So he's hardly made a compelling case in his appearances for us so far. But he'll get plenty more opportunities, and I'm sure he'll come good soon. |
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Post by hooky on Oct 16, 2021 21:06:18 GMT
Johnson has shown this season he has the attributes to be a very good forward. One who can create, assist and score. That is priceless Never mind Roberts - why the hell does Page believe someone like Harris who has done NOTHING and is not a first team pick for Cardiff is a better option than Johnson? I honestly believe Page is a dreadful selector. Harris who has scored and assisted a maximum of 2 or so goals in his career - who tries hard but is not going to be a game changer. Or Johnson who is fast, creative, can finish, has great appreciation of the situation / players around him? As a defender who would you prefer to play? Johnson started against Belarus, was mostly anonymous and got subbed by Harris, who had a significant impact on the game. Johnson was also very quiet on his first start for us against Mexico, and apart from winning this penalty, didn't do much at all against Finland. So he's hardly made a compelling case in his appearances for us so far. But he'll get plenty more opportunities, and I'm sure he'll come good soon. Sorry - don't completely agree His first 2 starts: 1. He gets a penalty vs Finland away 2. He had a great curling effort vs Belarus I totally agree he was not involved as much as we would have wanted but while that can partly be attributed to him, the team was pretty disjointed too Harris had a great 15 mins vs Belarus and that is it. However, lets not forget that even in that 15 mins he blew a double chance and thankfully was able to find Bale. I think everyone would agree that Johnson looks much more of a threat than Harris. I hope Harris does come good but he is coming up to 23. Johnson is just 20 and after doing extremely well in the first division last year, has carried that form into the Championship this year. His only weakness is perhaps physical - maybe he is a bit slight. Besides that he just looks class |
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Post by marsvolta on Oct 16, 2021 22:04:21 GMT
Johnson definitely has the most potential but I’m not convinced that Johnson and Harris play in the same position.
Harris is in the squad as a striker while Johnson seems to play a bit wider.
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Post by hooky on Oct 16, 2021 22:10:32 GMT
If Harris is a striker then we should all be worried! He never seems confident in front of goal and there is no way someone nearly 23 just turns that around.
Johnson does not just have much more potential - he is already delivering on it. Just look at his stats and the quality of his play
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Post by allezlesrouges on Oct 16, 2021 22:54:17 GMT
Johnson has shown this season he has the attributes to be a very good forward. One who can create, assist and score. That is priceless Never mind Roberts - why the hell does Page believe someone like Harris who has done NOTHING and is not a first team pick for Cardiff is a better option than Johnson? I honestly believe Page is a dreadful selector. Harris who has scored and assisted a maximum of 2 or so goals in his career - who tries hard but is not going to be a game changer. Or Johnson who is fast, creative, can finish, has great appreciation of the situation / players around him? As a defender who would you prefer to play? Harris is in the squad as a striker, someone to run the channels and create space for our other forwards. Something he did very well against Belarus, which won us the game, and something he did quite well against Estonia which helped us but didn't result in a goal Brennan is a wide forward, he plays in a different position. Brennan has some of our best players in front of him blocking the path to starting. Brennan is clearly more talented than Harris, but plays in a different position so there is no comparison to be made If you think Brennan is good enough to start (for example these recent games) you have to argue why Wilson, James, Ramsey should be dropped to the bench, and it's difficult I think it's far too easy to criticise Page without actually analysing the decisions he makes in any depth |
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