can you be taught awareness.................

because Odejayi needs some help-he has no awareness of what is going on around him-doesn't react quickly enough-stands still far too often-and all this wouldn't matter so much if he could shoot-which he can't-League 1 at best-still should do a job for us next year

 

Depends on what you mean by awareness. </p>

Aren't most things taught?</p>

I presume you mean his ability to read the game. </p>

This is the thing which sets Premiership players apart from lower League levels. You can make a guy fitter, faster, and stronger than a Pro Footballer. But developing awareness is much harder. Some people are able to read a game very early in their football career and use it to make correct decisions. For others it can be a long slow process.</p>

It's not only his reading of the game though is it. He is technically weak.
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It's too late for Odejayi

He's fast and he's strong, but that's it.

First time I saw him this season was v Scunny at home when he scored a cracking goal. I thought we had a world-beater on our hands but how wrong I was.

It's like he doesn't understand what's going on, I just can't work it out. The ball gets booted out in his direction but he just stands and watches it sail over his head or get cleared by opposition defenders that he doesn't challenge. He's either lazy or just genuinely hasn't a clue.

Ferenczi and Christensen must despair when they see that he's in the team ahead of them. A player with the physique of Odejayi and playing in his position should cause no end of problems for defenders in the way that Shipperley or Ward use to, but he just doesn't seem to have it in him.

It's taken a whole season for Davey to figure out that with the possible exception of Macken, none of the strikers we have are good enough for this league which is why we are in the position we're in.

Apparently Ade Akinbiyi is Odejayi's cousin, so I hope Ade told him to play footy when they were chatting during the warm up yesterday.

 

so are thee coachman technically unaware

 

Hes to football what Bruno was to boxing,hes not a natural.

 

so are thee coachman technically weak

 

not just awareness,its anticipation</p>

having confidence to anticipate where the ball is going,or may go.</p>

(N) </p>

 

Yes you can paul.b

(tumbleweed)

 

He's always a fraction of a second behind everyone else

And that split second makes a massive difference on whether it's him or his marker that get to the ball. Usually it's the latter. He had a great game against Chelsea and I'll always remember that, but he's not good enough and never will be.

 

But at least Bruno could punch, what you are saying is that Odejayi is **** but can score!