2024/25 Jake O'Brien

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He's now an enormous asset. He can do a job at RB and CB, and Ilm convinced he can step into midfield and dominate there like Rice does. His distribution is very good and he's never going to lose many challenges. The world is at this lad's feet.

His emergence is the high point of the season.
 

davek said:
He's now an enormous asset. He can do a job at RB and CB, and Ilm convinced he can step into midfield and dominate there like Rice does. His distribution is very good and he's never going to lose many challenges. The world is at this lad's feet.

(His emergence is the high point of the season.)
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who give him this emergence mate?

asking for a friend
 
davek said:
He's now an enormous asset. He can do a job at RB and CB, and Ilm convinced he can step into midfield and dominate there like Rice does. His distribution is very good and he's never going to lose many challenges. The world is at this lad's feet.

His emergence is the high point of the season.
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Like see more from him at cb and hopefully see him carry the ball forward more at cb as it looks like has it in him. If keep branthwaite maybe see a 3 at the back maybe but agree looks a great buy
 

davek said:
He's now an enormous asset. He can do a job at RB and CB, and Ilm convinced he can step into midfield and dominate there like Rice does. His distribution is very good and he's never going to lose many challenges. The world is at this lad's feet.

His emergence is the high point of the season.
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Shame your scotch egg headed mate didn’t recognise what we could all see eh bud.

Might have kept his job then, the coward.
 
mikel_88 said:
Like see more from him at cb and hopefully see him carry the ball forward more at cb as it looks like has it in him. If keep branthwaite maybe see a 3 at the back maybe but agree looks a great buy
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Would be nice to see these two centre backs a bit further up the pitch.

Worth trying things now to know if they could play a high line together.
 
Zatara said:
Would be nice to see these two centre backs a bit further up the pitch.

Worth trying things now to know if they could play a high line together.
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Me being the eternal pessimist is thinking Tarkowski and his injury may mean we will have to go with the two giant kids in the middle at the start of next season.
 
tommytowne said:
Me being the eternal pessimist is thinking Tarkowski and his injury may mean we will have to go with the two giant kids in the middle at the start of next season.
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Perhaps that could be a good thing?

Tarkowski only has a year on his deal. I suspect it gets extended 12months but he'll need to force his way back into the 11 and that should push the other 2 CBs further as well.

Perhaps these 2 giant kids are going to be the future and theres only one way to find out. Wonder how they'll do vs Delap and Isak.
 
I thought he started very slow if I’m honest, he was caught a few times up the pitch and one or two other technical things, he grew into it though.

All in, he did alright.
 

….i liked Jackson today, he came deep, he spun, he looked after the ball in possession and scored a terrific goal but I was really taken with our CB pairing.

With both our full backs badly exposed, O’Brien and Branthwaite both covered behind them whilst also dealing with anything thrown into the box.

We know how good Branthwaite is but that was a huge plus from O’Brien today, Moyes will be delighted if both those CBs are here next season.
 
Eggs said:
….i liked Jackson today, he came deep, he spun, he looked after the ball in possession and scored a terrific goal but I was really taken with our CB pairing.

With both our full backs badly exposed, O’Brien and Branthwaite both covered behind them whilst also dealing with anything thrown into the box.

We know how good Branthwaite is but that was a huge plus from O’Brien today, Moyes will be delighted if both those CBs are here next season.
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I thought they were ok and maybe more fairly grew into it - given they haven’t played together as a pair before.

Thought they were split once or twice to easy, felt the line was high at times and on different day could have been exposed, while I thought Jake was caught up the pitch once or twice caught behind the play particularly first half.

Thought they both grew into it though.

Mitigation as you that the full backs got Mullard!
 
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