2025/26 Jake O'Brien

[Cels]

Wasn't Sean Dyche reluctant to play Jake O'Brien, giving him hardly any game time?

 

[MACCA75]

Wasn't Sean Dyche reluctant to play Jake O'Brien, giving him hardly any game time?

Yeah would be nice if he scored.

 

[Cels]

Yeah would be nice if he scored.

I was thinking that too. Have a stormer at the back, then net the winner for us, and not from a set piece, a mazy forty-yard run, coasting past one player after another, then sliding the ball under their keeper and into the net. To be fair, I'd be happy with a header from a corner

 

[Eggs]

Wasn't Sean Dyche reluctant to play Jake O'Brien, giving him hardly any game time?

….i’d be thinking that was largely because Tarkowski and Branthwaite were so effective. Not sure anybody except Moyes would even think of playing him at RB.

 

[Dddddd]

Wasn't Sean Dyche reluctant to play Jake O'Brien, giving him hardly any game time?

Dyche was reluctant to play branthwaite as well! Took Keane being injured for him to change it

 

[Armaghtoffee]

….i’d be thinking that was largely because Tarkowski and Branthwaite were so effective. Not sure anybody except Moyes would even think of playing him at RB.

Wasn’t that big a surprise really for anyone who watched him play Lescott at left back.

It has been rumoured that Dyche didn’t want O’Brien signed and decided the best way to deal with this was to cut off his own nose to spite his face.

 

[davek]

Listening to what Moyes had to say about O'Brien today it's obvious that he sees Keane and Tarkowski as his preferred pair at CB in the absence of Branthwaite.

It's in ways like that he holds teams back.

 

[Bedfordblue]

Wasn't Sean Dyche reluctant to play Jake O'Brien, giving him hardly any game time?

Don’t think he ever got him fit, fit, what he liked to call premier league fit.

 

[Marius57]

….i’d be thinking that was largely because Tarkowski and Branthwaite were so effective. Not sure anybody except Moyes would even think of playing him at RB.

It was a Keane and Tarkowski partnership for 9 of the opening 10 games. Of those 9 games we conceded 16 goals and only won twice.

 

[Bluerover]

Listening to what Moyes had to say about O'Brien today it's obvious that he sees Keane and Tarkowski as his preferred pair at CB in the absence of Branthwaite.

It's in ways like that he holds teams back.

Would their managers at the time have played Jack Charlton, Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer, Kevin Radcliffe, Derek Mountfield, at right back when there was an alternative that worked?

Do not change the back four from Tuesday !!!!

 

[Eggs]

 

[Marcus Kendall]

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This group looks ridiculously easy

 

[davek]

Would their managers at the time have played Jack Charlton, Bobby Moore, Franz Beckenbauer, Kevin Radcliffe, Derek Mountfield, at right back when there was an alternative that worked?

Do not change the back four from Tuesday !!!!

Moyes is an utter plank. He just saw O'Brien get MOTM two nights earlier and then he uses his press conference to tell everyone that he did ok a couple of games last season and he played well the other night, and then tell him that the competition for CB places is fierce....oh, and that he's used him at RB but he hasn't been great this season there.

 

[Walken]

Keane deserves credit this season, but there was 2 or 3 occasions when we saw the value of pace from the center of defence. Especially when your LB is as awful as myko.

Hopefully O'brien keeps his head up and doesn't let playing out of position get to him.

 

[Nymzee]

Keane deserves credit this season, but there was 2 or 3 occasions when we saw the value of pace from the center of defence. Especially when your LB is as awful as myko.

Hopefully O'brien keeps his head up and doesn't let playing out of position get to him.

I think if Tim isn't suspended Keane doesn't come back in today.