2025/26 James Tarkowski

[Simon Buttle]

Meanie.

Grow up ffs, Tarkowski is bottom half yard dog and has never been anything else. I remember watching him years ago when he played for Brentford and he was rubbish then. The game has changed and CB need pace and a bit about them in terms of being able to play a bit and he and Keane have neither. I will never understand this hero worshiping of bang average tat that our fanbase seem to do all the time its so strange and then they wonder why we never get anywhere.

 

[Neiler]

I don't remember him being particularly snidey. He did the occasional thing but his general focus was on the game. Tawks does at least three ridiculously dumb things per game. For no benefit.

Tim Cahill….. JT could learn a thing or two.

Opposition fans hated him.

 

[Benicetoourboys]

Grow up ffs, Tarkowski is bottom half yard dog and has never been anything else. I remember watching him years ago when he played for Brentford and he was rubbish then. The game has changed and CB need pace and a bit about them in terms of being able to play a bit and he and Keane have neither. I will never understand this hero worshiping of bang average tat that our fanbase seem to do all the time its so strange and then they wonder why we never get anywhere.

No sense of humour eh?

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Grow up ffs, Tarkowski is bottom half yard dog and has never been anything else. I remember watching him years ago when he played for Brentford and he was rubbish then. The game has changed and CB need pace and a bit about them in terms of being able to play a bit and he and Keane have neither. I will never understand this hero worshiping of bang average tat that our fanbase seem to do all the time its so strange and then they wonder why we never get anywhere.

Yeah,if you have football intelligence and are getting long in the tooth you do not need pace,reference Gough,Weir,Stubbs

 

[Simon Buttle]

No sense of humour eh?

You ain't funny

 

[Benicetoourboys]

You ain't funny

Okay.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Yeah,if you have football intelligence and are getting long in the tooth you do not need pace,reference Gough,Weir,Stubbs

Like I said the game has changed now though, CB need pace these days, we have two but won't play them there.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Okay.

Seriously though, we need to move away from these types of players, I get they are popular with fans but in the grand scheme of things they are not very good and if we want to progress and actually win things we need more Branthwaite types at the back, I don't even think O'Brien is that good tbh.

 

[the golden visionary]

Okay.

Welcome to the lowest common denominator my friend

 

[Dario Terracotta]

Like I said the game has changed now though, CB need pace these days, we have two but won't play them there.

It's helpful but not a total must,the ability to drop and buy a couple of yards and ability to read situations is still there,the game has changed but the ball is still round so to speak

 

[Kurt.]

Ah… ok… so Tarks is this week’s scapegoat because we lost…. I see

*scribbles furiously in notes

 

[Simon Buttle]

It's helpful but not a total must,the ability to drop and buy a couple of yards and ability to read situations is still there,the game has changed but the ball is still round so to speak

Nah that goal the other night showed exactly why, Branthwaite or O'Brien and it doesn't happen because they can keep pace with Sesko. Keane and Tarkowski can't. You look around the league at other teams and most of the CB (even some of the more suspect ones) they have all got legs on them yet our two are seriously lagging in any kind of foot race.

 

[davids]

Nah that goal the other night showed exactly why, Branthwaite or O'Brien and it doesn't happen because they can keep pace with Sesko. Keane and Tarkowski can't. You look around the league at other teams and most of the CB (even some of the more suspect ones) they have all got legs on them yet our two are seriously lagging in any kind of foot race.

If only Moyes realised it.

 

[blulouie]

16, 7, 15, 10, 17, 18, 17, 15, 13 - They are his Premier league finishes. Most of his career is in the bottom 5/6.

Have you checked Englands Number One Goalkeeper's Prem finishes

 

[Simon Buttle]

Have you checked Englands Number One Goalkeeper's Prem finishes

Pickford is the best of a bad bunch though, I'm old enough to remember plenty of decent english keepers but more recently its been slim pickings, its him or Henderson imo, the likes of Pope and Ramsdale are error prone and Trafford hasn't played enough yet for me to judge him.