Josh Coburn Next Season.......

What will his role be next season?

  • Starter

    Votes: 9 5.4%

  • 3rd or 4th choice rotation option

    Votes: 95 56.9%

  • Loaned out to L1

    Votes: 60 35.9%

  • Loaned out to L2

    Votes: 7 4.2%
  • Total voters
    167
Caesium137

Caesium137

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I find it interesting the range of opinions on young Josh on here, from a must keep, to a loan to Hartlepool would do him good.

What's your thoughts?
 
Definitely keep and don't loan him out.

But he's far too young and inexperienced for us to gamble and go into the season as him being a guaranteed starter.

He should be a bench option at the start of the season and then if he hits form and breaks into the team then fair play to him.

But no chance we should be pinning our hopes on a 19 year old.
 
Needs game time if he's going to develop so send him out on loan.

I'd look to loan him out to a League Two club as well, so that he's pretty much guaranteed to start.

Hartlepool would be a great move for him and for them.
 
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Not a bad record at all, but from my (admittedly) vague memories I don't remember him looking great on the few occasions he started.
 
He needs to be playing week in week out. He's no where near ready to be getting lots of game time for a club for ambitions of being promoted.
 
At the moment our strikers are: Coburn and Watmore.

I say keep him, and play him.

Don't see why we would loan him out, as I think he has proven to be good enough to be part of the matchday squad here. The only way I would loan him out is if we sign 3 players who are much much better.
 
Steer said:
At the moment our strikers are: Coburn and Watmore.
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Was Akpom a loan-to-permanent?

Or is he coming back?

I assume we'll move Ikpeazu on also but haven't heard him linked with anyone since January.
 
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Mendieta14 said:
Don't see the value of keeping him here to watch. Get him out there to experience mens football.
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Totally agree, he needs to go to league one to see how he can perform on a consistent basis. Let him go to a decent side like Sheff Weds (maybe) and perhaps he can bang in 20 or so goals. If he can prove to himself that he’s able to perform better then you’d think there’s no holding him back.
 
Expat Smoggie said:
Totally agree, he needs to go to league one to see how he can perform on a consistent basis. Let him go to a decent side like Sheff Weds (maybe) and perhaps he can bang in 20 or so goals. If he can prove to himself that he’s able to perform better then you’d think there’s no holding him back.
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I fall somewhere slightly between the 3rd/4th choice rotation option and loan to L1 option. He's looked really good at times as an impact sub and seems an instinctive finisher. But in longer appearances he seems to have struggled to impose himself on games and get fully involved.

I think he's probably good enough to be a rotation option and scored enough goals (& his minutes per goal is good), but would probably benefit from a full season as a starter somewhere to hone his craft.

Any upper end L1 sides short of forwards who would see him as a step up from what they have?
 
VestasBoro said:
Loan him out, get him roughed up a bit, get his confidence up by scoring a load of goals on loan somewhere and replace him as our back up, back up striker with Kavanagh.
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I share the same thoughts.

The quiet hype around Kavanagh is still there, he could be a wildcard option for us as the season progresses.
 
Keep him. We need at least 4 strikers on the books, probably 5 given that Wilder likes to sub both most games. Presumably the manager won't want Ikpeazu and Akpom so that leaves us with Coburn and Watmore. If our money has to stretch to bringing in 4 strikers we'll just end up with dross. Better to keep Coburn as a backup and focus our resources on getting the best quality starters we can.
 
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