Davey on Odejayi

""Kayode (Odejayi) always takes the stick. Yes he has missed some chances but half the time other players would not get there to have those opportunities. He makes a lot of those chances himself. He is a very committed player and we have to be committed to him and look after our players. He is not a grump lad and sometimes you need to put your arm around his shoulder. Maybe we should have said that he was coming in here as a target man rather than a goalscorer and that would have given him more time."

Can't disagree with that, he has missed some sitters but I still have faith that he could come good i know i'm probably alone with this opinion. I like all barnsley fans am frustrated with him but as long as he wears the red of barnsley i'll get behind him.

 

It's time Davey took his medicine and admitted that Odejayi, for all his effort is simply not a Championship footballer.
He's had well over 50 games for us now, it's never going to happen.

 

I wish him and all Barnsley players all the best, but I'm afraid he doesn't score enough goals, and he is no good as a target man either. His control isn't good enough and so the ball comes back off him all the time.

The Chelsea performance in my opinion proves that he's somewhat lazy the rest of the time. Yes everyone raises their game for such matches, but he improved a million percent, which simply proves that in general, in a bog standard game, he doesn't try hard enough.

Every time he comes on I hope he'll finally realise that he's got to do the business and put in a Chelsea-esque performance, but sadly it never materialises.

 

Odejayi DOES contribute.

The guy who called up POG on saturday was frustrated and correct in some of the things he said.

1. Has no composure, therefore cannot finish.
2. Has been given lots of chances yet still can't seem to score.
3. Has the technique of a non league player.

However, when he said he was the worst striker he has ever seen at Oakwell i nearly choked. Dave Regis was bloody awful!

Odejayi's positives:

1. Wins anything in the air that is near him.
2. Can hold the ball up well (at times).
3. Very fast and strong.
4. Good for defending set pieces.
5. Creates chances on his own.
6. Scares the bejesus out of defenders.

Those who say he isn't trying, or can't be arsed forget that he isn't bionic. He is big and strong, but you can't expect a guy that rarely gets 90 minutes to suddenly be sprinting for a full 90. He gets up and down the pitch because he is TOLD to defend set pieces. Therefore we can't expect him to sprint after every hopeful ball into the corner. The only reason people are annoyed when he doesn't chase the ball is because WE ALL KNOW he is fast and strong enough to actually win the ball!

In short, Odejayi has a place at Barnsley. It might be as an impact substitute, it could be as a bruising centre forward winning flick ons. It might be as a centre half!

I honestly think if we got a specialist coach in to work with the strikers, and worked on Odejayi's technique (just watch how he shoots, passes or controls a ball) then we would have a VERY useful striker.

 

If he was ever going to score a lot of goals at this level he'd have done it by now.

He's had ample chances I'm afraid, in respect of appearances and opportunities to score in those appearances.

I really hope he bangs in 15 goals from now until the end of the season and I'll happily come on here and apologise, but it won't happen.

 

I must agree that surely its time to call it a day with Kayode. Chance after chance either goes wide or over. I'm not suggesting anyone gives him any stick - he is afterall still a Barnsley player, however I think it's time he moved elsewhere

 

I agree completely with that. He has shown on the odd occasion that he has blistering pace and sometimes looks like he means business. He Rarely shows it though.

 

the entire front line are not being managed correctly

all we do when we attack or get the ball forward is put everyone in a line up against the defenders.

There is NO movement, nobody taking defenders to create space for other people, nobody looking where the other strikers are. All that happens is we fatch the ball up field and then the midfield have nowhere to play the ball apart from a hopeless ball into the box. Its pathetic. Our strikers are like feckin statues all stood there ball watching waiting for the ball to come to them. Its either lazyness, plain clueless or poor coaching and team setup.

We are in desperate need of a striking coach to sort out the front line.

When a team like man utd arsenal attack watch how they pull the defence all over by having strikers do exactly as i have explained above.

We are simply clueless when it comes to getting the ball in the box.

Another thing - oddjobs main threat is his arial ability. We have the likes of JCR that can get down that wing and create space like lightning, yet all he does is beat a man then go and try and beat him again. Odejayi needs to be instructed to get into the box as fast as he can and get a run in on the far post, JCR can then with a slight look up check that he is there and get a fekin cross in. This way we can attack with pace and cause them alsorts of problems. At teh moment we a constantly fecking about infront of the defence or on the wing. Before we get the cross in the opposition has had time to get everyone back, regain their shape, have a cup of tea and a quick chinwag and then JCR is just trying to beat his 11th man. get the fooker over man. I am sure Odejayi would score a lot more goals if given this sort of ball into the box. If not macken could pounce on the rebound or cureton snaffle up the loose balls.

We are too predictive and clueless at the moment and it drives me fekin barmy at the games. At one point v reading we had cureton, macken and oddjob stood within 10 foot of each other all just along the back line staring and waiting for the ball in. No movement, no idea no nothing.

SORT IT OUT DAVEY

 

Davey is talking wet. Given him more time? Kayorgy as had a good 18 months now and done useless. What's all this ***** Davey is on about with goalscoring? Odejayi hasn't ever been a goal scorer.

 

So why doesn't Davey start with him?

Basically, KO isn't skilled enough (or mentally strong enough) to be a top professional footballer. What's all this about "putting an arm around him?"

Jeez, it's a hard world out there and he needs to toughen up and put the "wembley miss" behind him - as he is clearly still haunted by it (and this has gone on too long).

Come to mention it, we had FOUR strikers (and no goalie) on the bench last Saturday - and I think that says everything. Just what was SD's decision making process when he was deciding which one of those to bring on to try and save the game?

 

Davey = stubborness squared and multiplied by infinity, to the power of a million.

 

If we had a goal scorer at the side of Odejayi we wouldn't evan talking about him, Davey has to take some blame for not getting
the right type of player at the side of him.

 

54 Games 5 goals.

Nuff said.

 

odejayi when we played chelsea...

fair enough it was last season and iv had a few to drink at this point but i cant really remember him doing that much that game... yeah ok he scored the goal, a header against a keeper who has no confidense and is about 6 inches smaller than him... not all that great achiement, so perhaps hiding behind a goal that any decent tall striker could have scored...

rant over

 

Kayode wouldn't keep getting the stick if Davey didn't keep putting him in the firing line. Its time Davey put an arm around his shoulder and told him that he just doesn't have what it takes to be even an average Championship striker, let alone a good one. Also, if he seriously thinks that he could be an adequate Target Man then he has no right to call himself a Championship Manager. This lad has given all he has got and will continue to do so for as long as he is given a shirt but he just is not good enough.

 

RE: odejayi when we played chelsea...

Sorry but that's ballacks, he was outstanding.

 

Marc Richards 59 Games. 18 Goals. nt

 

5 in 64 nt

 

But still we look more like scoring when he's in the team than without him.
I'd start with Odejayi and Cureton against Swansea.

 

Ahhhhh, for f-u(k's sake, can we just kill off the Marc Richards analogy

he scored his goals in League fooking 1. Im not saying ODJ is a world beater, clearly on current form he's not good enough, but lets not make out Richards was prolific cos he was not. I recall him putting one wide at Derby that ODJ would have had difficulty missing. He's at Port Vale for a reason.