I do think, however, that he's not an ideal lone striker, we got a bit lucky today, but we won't bag 3 goals like that every game, play him with a partner in a 3-5-2, I wonder what manager plays that system...
He was an embarrassment tonight. Slow, sulky, poor touch and doesn't seem to give a ****. Also looks very unfit. Villa really did pull our pants down last summer.
Unfortunately it’s him, Britt, one of the kids, or the Portuguese guy as the lone striker to hold the ball up. While we continue to play that way Davis will be the first name in the team sheet.
What’s the alternative though without completely changing the shape of the team ? He’s been a huge disappointment.
I'm genuinely staggered anyone thinks he was anything other than a waste of space last night. He looked like a lost little boy with less footballing ability than Andre Gray. It also seems that this thing about 'it doesn't matter that he doesn't score goals, his hold up play is great' is seemingly a load of nonsense as well. Some players get panned for being **** because they are (Bayo) yet some players get excuses made for them week after week. The only good thing about his performance last night is that it has given me renewed hope that I can still have a future as a pro.
Called it early. Amazingly his levels have dropped since then and I think even a poundshop Troy Deeney would be an improvement at this point.
I don't understand how it's come to this after he was so good at NF last season and really popular with their fans.
He doesn't care. He knows he'll get picked regardless so does the absolute bare minimum to get by. Much like Sarr
Just not a 9 at all. Doesn’t show any indication he loves scoring goals, doesn’t really show any indication he enjoys football much to be honest. Think somehow him and Araujo would need to play together for either of them to work. We’ve signed two strikers that need to play in a pair to work it seems, just great.
I didn't see much of Forest last year so no idea really what he did that was so good. I'd guess it was general holdup play as on paper it doesn't look like it was scoring lots of goals? And, being blunt, I can't imagine Forest fans were a great judge of a player after their years in the wilderness. I'd be interested to see what they think of him now they've spent a few months watching PL players and after their own squad improvements. Suspect their reference points have changed!
The club didn’t exactly push the boat out to sign him as you might expect if he was that vital. Instead paid for 3/4 other strikers
From what I watched of Forest in the latter stages of last season (relatively limited sample size, admittedly), he seemed to play the later-stage Emile Heskey role pretty effectively for them. Don't overly worry about scoring goals or making runs into the box at the right time; that wasn't what he was broadly up to. It makes it all the stranger that those attributes seem to have abandoned him, and the fitness thing at this point in the season just makes it an absolute mockery. There were one or two small hints of this kind of play when he first arrived, but he seems to have gradually declined even from that somehow. On that note, interestingly enough, in the 15 regular-season league appearances he made for them in the second half of last season, he completed 90 minutes exactly... twice. His playoff record after he came back from a final-weeks injury is even worse: It's all still a bit baffling, really - perhaps it truly is that he came in halfway through and became a very visible character in a team that not only reversed its fortunes entirely, but ended with a first promotion to the top flight in over 20 years, as much as anything.
Yes general hold up play and the feeling that he was, towards the end of the season, beginning to score regularly too.
No, not good enough for the prem (nor were many of their promotion winning players given the number of signings....).
Not to sound facetious but that’s not my decision to make, although I honestly wouldn’t mind seeing Adeyemo get more of an opportunity - he plays like his life depends on it and puts in 100% more effort.
Yes was just suggesting that we don't have too many quality options if we want someone to lead the line and hold the ball up. I love Adeyemo's enthusiam and energy, not sure he's ready to be a starter, "leading the line" though....I think Davis pretty much gets his place by default, and seems to play as though he knows that.
I'd question whether he was good or just overhyped like so many modern day players are. If you were a fan of another club and you looked at Watford Twitter you'd think the likes of Quina are world class - reality is often different.
If we played without him it would be better. How many times is he offside making many of the balls played to him a total waste of time. Most times we play a long ball forward from defence under pressure, to our hold up player, he is offside.
There's one account on Twitter that holds a lot of sway amongst younger Watford fans and he went all in on the 'Keinan Davis is a complete forward' thing when he signed and some people massively bought into that.
Lou Orns? He’s never been one to score goals tbh. Just meant to be a big physical front man . Davis that is !
In fairness, Quina was a young lad who scored a few crackers while having his hand held by some quite excellent midfielders, Davis was a key member of the Forest team which earned promotion to the Premier League for the first time in about 3 decades
He would have been woefully inadequate at Premier League level, yes, but it doesn't change the fact that he was good for them in the Championship
Key in the champ but not good enough for the prem like most of their squad, and most other squads that win promotion. I assume the owner went berserk in the summer as the champ spending shackles were off and he wanted to assemble a strong squad while he could for best chnace of survival and in case they were relegated and needed to fight their way back ?
