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RE: Heggebø - Hughie Reed 31 - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
Don’t think many have said that!
But if we don’t win & score goals then obviously the spotlight falls on the centre forward
RE: Heggebø - Sliced - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
Really bizarre. A quick look at the ratings thread from our match against Stoke was universal praise, now one game later he's not good enough. https://wbaunofficial.org.uk/showthread.php?tid=38533&highlight=heggebo
RE: Heggebø - Derek Hardballs - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 05:59 PM)Sliced Wrote:(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
Really bizarre. A quick look at the ratings thread from our match against Stoke was universal praise, now one game later he's not good enough. https://wbaunofficial.org.uk/showthread.php?tid=38533&highlight=heggebo
It’s the most abrupt turn in player analysis I’ve seen on here and that’s saying something. As you say bizarre.
RE: Heggebø - Ted Maul - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 05:59 PM)Sliced Wrote:(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
Really bizarre. A quick look at the ratings thread from our match against Stoke was universal praise, now one game later he's not good enough. https://wbaunofficial.org.uk/showthread.php?tid=38533&highlight=heggebo
Can those of us who've always raised his lack of goals not be lumped in with the knee jerkers please.
RE: Heggebø - HawkingsHalfpint - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
What a heap of shit. No one has said he’s a waste of money. But he isn’t doing the one thing we lack doing, while last season’s hot property kicks his heels on the bench.
Stop being deliberately divisive. He’s absolutely an asset to the side but he was poor yesterday while a better player was sat on his arse.
RE: Heggebø - Derek Hardballs - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 06:41 PM)HawkingsHalfpint Wrote:(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
What a heap of shit. No one has said he’s a waste of money. But he isn’t doing the one thing we lack doing, while last season’s hot property kicks his heels on the bench.
Stop being deliberately divisive. He’s absolutely an asset to the side but he was poor yesterday while a better player was sat on his arse.
He’s been one of our best players since he arrived, the idea he should have been dropped yesterday is nonsense, Maja may have been brought on earlier but we didn’t lose because Heggebo started.
RE: Heggebø - Shabby Russian - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 06:07 PM)Ted Maul Wrote:(09-14-2025, 05:59 PM)Sliced Wrote:(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
Really bizarre. A quick look at the ratings thread from our match against Stoke was universal praise, now one game later he's not good enough. https://wbaunofficial.org.uk/showthread.php?tid=38533&highlight=heggebo
Can those of us who've always raised his lack of goals not be lumped in with the knee jerkers please.
I was a bit of a Heggebo sceptic, but recognised he had started, was really good at Stoke, but goal scoring might be an issue, particularly as we are not blessed with others in the squad who can score.
But the turnaround in opinion after one game is staggering, verging on bewildering.
Are we that result fixated.
Heggebo has promise, but I would play Maja ahead of him. But he will definitely be needed as we head into the part of the season where there are midweek fixtures.
But please give him a break, he doesn't deserve the negativity that seems to have developed following this weekend's game.
RE: Heggebø - CA Baggie - 09-14-2025
Whilst we’re struggling to score then the centre forward will always be judged hardly for not scoring. Yesterday’s lack of chances was always going to be our Achilles heel following the window. We did well with PSR and have improved the back line, not sure on central midfielder or up top/wide.
I think Heg will come into his own more so in away games, but he needs runners off him, otherwise his strength of holding it up and linking play will be wasted.
If he can get double figures and the rest of the team score enough between from his link up strength then he’ll he just fine.
For those thinking £4/5m should buy better have lost reality to the current market and value of players (Fellows excluded, obviously).
RE: Heggebø - SW4Baggie - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 08:06 PM)CA Baggie Wrote: Whilst we’re struggling to score then the centre forward will always be judged hardly for not scoring. Yesterday’s lack of chances was always going to be our Achilles heel following the window. We did well with PSR and have improved the back line, not sure on central midfielder or up top/wide.
I think Heg will come into his own more so in away games, but he needs runners off him, otherwise his strength of holding it up and linking play will be wasted.
If he can get double figures and the rest of the team score enough between from his link up strength then he’ll he just fine.
For those thinking £4/5m should buy better have lost reality to the current market and value of players (Fellows excluded, obviously).
Indeed… but they are out there… Kone looks a real player for QPR and cost a million or so less than we paid for Heggebø for example.
For what we’ve spent on Heg we could have signed Poku, Kone and probably loaned Lankshear again.
RE: Heggebø - HawkingsHalfpint - 09-14-2025
(09-14-2025, 07:03 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote:(09-14-2025, 06:41 PM)HawkingsHalfpint Wrote:(09-14-2025, 05:47 PM)Derek Hardballs Wrote: Ffs the player has been a major reason we have started so well this season. The criticism because he hasn’t scored currently is over the top to say the least.
Go back a few pages he’s getting praised, one defeat and he’s a waste of money, can’t score, should be dropped.
What a heap of shit. No one has said he’s a waste of money. But he isn’t doing the one thing we lack doing, while last season’s hot property kicks his heels on the bench.
Stop being deliberately divisive. He’s absolutely an asset to the side but he was poor yesterday while a better player was sat on his arse.
He’s been one of our best players since he arrived, the idea he should have been dropped yesterday is nonsense, Maja may have been brought on earlier but we didn’t lose because Heggebo started.
I agree. And I don’t advocate the belief that anyone thought he should be dropped. He deserved a start on merit and effort yesterday.
But he looked tired. That’s understandable given the travel commitments. It would have been quite justifiable to hook him after an hour and change the strategy because it simply wasn’t working. I want him to do as well in blue and white as you do, but even my son recognised it wasn’t his day yesterday.