Coburn

Mentioned this to the Mrs, he was well off the pace today. But as you say, he's a young lad.
 
Bore off.

In a game where Matt Smith and Uche Ikpeazu grace the pitch with their 'mobility', you pick out the 18 year old lad.
 
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He seemed to playing more as a number 10 and was quite often getting the ball to his feet with his back to goal.

I don’t think we had the players on the bench to change it today. We could’ve maybe sacrificed one of the CB for the last 10-15 minutes but I thought we looked a bit short of quality today, to play the wilder way.
 
Uche should’ve come on for Sporar… The game changed at half time without Sporar.

Coburn didn’t have the physical presence to bother millwall
 
Can't really argue with bringing him in given Sporar was crocked, but he had absolutely no impact today.
 
Coburn wasn't the player to bring on today at that time. He isn't ready to handle the physicality of a side like Millwall, especially not in the way Wilder wants his strikers to play and especially not with a referee who seemed happy to let anything go as long as it wasn't by a striker in the oppositions box. Ikpeazu has a bit more experience and is a bit more physical than Coburn and is probably the player I'd have brought on if a substitution was forced. Didn't help that he wasn't warmed up at all before he came on either, he really should have been given a few minutes of a proper warm up during half time because he seemed to have to get himself warmed up during the match.
 
rbmfc1985 said:
Coburn wasn't the player to bring on today at that time. He isn't ready to handle the physicality of a side like Millwall, especially not in the way Wilder wants his strikers to play and especially not with a referee who seemed happy to let anything go as long as it wasn't by a striker in the oppositions box. Ikpeazu has a bit more experience and is a bit more physical than Coburn and is probably the player I'd have brought on if a substitution was forced. Didn't help that he wasn't warmed up at all before he came on either, he really should have been given a few minutes of a proper warm up during half time because he seemed to have to get himself warmed up during the match.
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Yes Millwall are a big side. Their No. 5 playing on the left of a central 3 was absolutely huge.
 
Coburn had a poor game today, but he is still a kid and he will have good games and bad ones. It's the nature of young players.
 
BoroFur said:
Yes Millwall are a big side. Their No. 5 playing on the left of a central 3 was absolutely huge.
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I think thars why having two mobile strikers worked so well for us in the first half, we seemed to be able to easily play around them. Coburn played exactly to their strengths and he didn't have the experience or physicality to beat them at their own game. Hopefully it'll help him learn, I just personally would have gone with Ikpeazu as he'd have been more likely to win those battles.
 
Harsh.... He's a completely different type of player than Sporar and Watmore. We suffered when both went off or tired.

Coburn is going to be a target man. I think Wilder said he'd have brought Uche on for his experience but he's only trained twice.

I thought Watmore was absolutely outstanding today. No suprise whatsoever that he tired. I'd love to see his sprint and distance stats👍
 
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Harsh.... He's a completely different type of player than Sporar and Watmore. We suffered when both went off or tired.

Coburn is going to be a target man. I think Wilder said he'd have brought Uche on for his experience but he's only trained twice.

I thought Watmore was absolutely outstanding today. No suprise whatsoever that he tired. I'd love to see his sprint and distance stats👍
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Duncan's industry deserves one of our players putting the ball into an empty net.
 
Josh will learn more from that game, than the games he scored in. Getting used to different more physical defences, playing in a game which didn't have much flow to it.
Weirdly if he'd have played in the first half he probably would have put away a couple of the chances, but that's football.
 
free_pint said:
Josh will learn more from that game, than the games he scored in. Getting used to different more physical defences, playing in a game which didn't have much flow to it.
Weirdly if he'd have played in the first half he probably would have put away a couple of the chances, but that's football.
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You are right about his education. Not sure he would necessarily have finished any of the first half chances though.
 
rbmfc1985 said:
Coburn wasn't the player to bring on today at that time. He isn't ready to handle the physicality of a side like Millwall, especially not in the way Wilder wants his strikers to play and especially not with a referee who seemed happy to let anything go as long as it wasn't by a striker in the oppositions box. Ikpeazu has a bit more experience and is a bit more physical than Coburn and is probably the player I'd have brought on if a substitution was forced. Didn't help that he wasn't warmed up at all before he came on either, he really should have been given a few minutes of a proper warm up during half time because he seemed to have to get himself warmed up during the match.
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He warmed up for the last 5 minutes (at least) of the half time break so can’t use that as an excuse. Was on the pitch doing warm up work with some back room staff.

He looked well off the pace of the game, but he’s just a young lad and we didn’t play to his strengths at all.
 
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