Kayode and Davey

Bored of all of this protest and Davey out stuff so here is something new!

I'm not in the 'Davey In!' or 'Davey Out!' group... I just want Barnsley to do well... but one thing that has been bothering me is this:

In the Preston game just before half time when Odejai got booked, straight after he charged at the defender, tackled him, ran with the ball at about 100mph scaring the crap out of not only the defenders, but our team and supporters as well, burst into our half and sent Humey down the left which we should have scored from.

If the guy has got that in him somewhere... no matter how rare it is that he shows that ability surely the manager should see it and spend all of his time trying to get it out of him for 90 minutes... not just when he is mad or when he is playing Chelsea. I'm not sure if this is Kayode's or Davey's fault!

 

To be fair to ODJI I think he has done ok so far this season. No goals but he has contributed to the games he has played.

 

he plays better when he's angry

which is very rare.

reckon Davey should say his Missus was ***** or sumat

 

Yeah he hasn't been too bad... nothing to complain about anyway. I just find it frustrating that he can show glimpses of brilliance and of been a very influential player for us but can't do it consistently.

Againt Preston at home, from all but one of our kick offs, Anderson looped it into the air, Kayode ran towards it and made a couple of great headers into their box but no other of our players had followed him! Surely the plan is for that to happen, the ball to come down near or in the box and for us to run onto it... Well played Kayode lad!

 

I've justed watched the first half of the preston game and kayo wins 99.99% of the flick ons. The only time he flicks it on to nobody is when hume does not shout leave it to him. That's not odis fault because he could not see hume. His hold up play is good and he was a good championship target man in that game. the only problem is that he did not score but he didn't have any chance to score in that game. that header in first half from about 14 yards out was very good and the keeper had to push it around the post.

 

Yeah you can't complain at the guys target man play this season at all... he wins the ball in the air and/or cause a lot of problems for defences. It just seems like he has got a lot more in him if we, as a club can get it out. He could be a player that could really make a difference for us this season.

 

I've said this before about Odejayi...................at a meeting with Davey

..............a couple of years ago a question was asked about Odejayi and Davey said this

"if we can get Kayodi to play in games in the same way as he shows us in training then we have a player thats worth millions"


A few weeks later Kayodi was sub and at half time he was signing autographs for kids near the dugout, so i went and had a word with him and told him what Davey had said about him.

The first thing that hit me about Odejayi is that he is a very gentle sort of person.
My thoughts are that the guy has very little agression...........but he showed a flash of that aggression against PNE
And everybody in the crowd were

If I were Davey i would hide in the changeing rooms with a miners deputies stick and jump out and hit Odejayi over the head with it..........we might see some aggression from the guy after that

 

It astounds me that people still think he's any good

He's ****. End of

 

RE: I've said this before about Odejayi...................at a meeting with Davey

Yeah that's exactly what I thought... the guy could be a monster who teams are really scared of... It's no use people saying 'He's crap, end of' if he clearly has the ability to be a very good player... the challenge is to get it out of him, not to get rid of him. He hasn't played bad this season anyway, he could just be a lot better

 

RE: It astounds me that people still think he's any good

I don't think that's really fair to say this season at all. He is probably our only striker to play and actually influence a game at all. Obviously his goals aren't very common... I think that my record for Barnsley isn't too far away from his! That isn't his role in the team though and he shouldn't be judged on it. Clearly he isn't an amazing player yet, but his potential is there for everyone to see... maybe his potential is too trapped to ever get out though????? I just hope that Davey is right to be so stubborn about playing him

 

"That isn't his role in the team"

Just think about what you've just said. He's a striker - a strikers main objective is to score goals and Oddy doesn't. Its like saying Steele's job isn't to make saves!

 

Is it so hard for you all, HE'S FECKING GARBAGE. nt

 

RE: "That isn't his role in the team"

Well he plays upfront obviously... but as a target man, with someone like Hume or Boggy playing off him. So his role is to be the target for passes/long balls, not to put them in the net. Clearly goals are expected of an attacking player, but it is blatantly obvious that he is never going to get past 10 goals in a season... so this should never be his primary role in a team, which it isn't... therefore he shouldn't be judged on it.

Why is Emile Heskey always in and around the England team? He rarely scores consistently...... he's a target man.

 

Kayode and Davey - get shut of both ASAP nt

 

If a manager keeps telling the supporters that a certain player......

is going to come good and then after 100 apps and 4 goals he still insists that same player will still come good then 2 things strike me as blatantly obvious, 1, the manager is an idiot, 2, the player is not up to scratch. END OF!!

 

AWES certain people on here say we should fee get what davey did when he got us to the fa cup semifinal but certain people should forget what he did in that game. If you ask macken/bogdanovic/hume/coulson who would they like to play with them it would be odi.

 

your joking, you must be joking. either that or you dont go to games or your some kind of football stevie wonder fan. do you sit in the disabled stand (clown)

 

RE: If a manager keeps telling the supporters that a certain player......

Yep it's hard to argue against that!

A quality player is a quality player because they can consistently play at that standard, a couple of glimpses and flashes are possible from anyone... I just can't help thinking that we have missed the chance of having a really good player... manager and coach's fault??? Fan's fault for giving up on him? Surely if a player is worth having he should be able to give the performances to his best ability through self motivation??? Without caring what other people think.

 

Sorry but that comparison just doesn't hold

Heskey has averaged 1 goal every 4 games, throughout his (mainly premiership) career. Odejayi had scored nothing like that. If ODJ was a target man who got 10 goals a season and set up a strike partner for more, there'd be no problem.

He isn't. He doesn't score and he doesn't hold play up well enough. He will not score 10 championship goals in his carrer, let alone a season. You can only put 11 players on the pitch, and no matter what context you judge his contribution in - goals, assists, running off the ball, link-up play, whatever - he doesn't contribute enough to earn a shirt in a Championship team.

No-one would be happier to see him succeed than me but it isn't going to happen.

 

Listening to the commentary...

sometimes it can go pretty much an entire half without certain strikers getting mentioned. They get marked out of the game, go missing, run out of ideas, whatever. That never happens with KO. He's definitely a route to shaking things up. Trouble is it's all about consistency. Oh, and being able to belt the ball into the top corner.