Josh Coburn

pierrequiroule said:
Not without breaking the agreement - they took him for the season. Leave the lad there to grow and come back stronger.
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https://twitter.com/x/status/1585384044149309444

There's definitely a recall clause.

I don't think we should be recalling him though.

We've already got too many strikers on the books with the way they're used now, and I expect he'll get far more game time and experience there than here.
 
Cheers - although I remember it being reported as a season-long loan in the Gazette as it was noted that if he came back he could not be loaned out again.
 
I’m absolutely confident Coburn has it in him to become a starter and goalscorer at Boro. His finishing is right up there. The reason he is loaned out is not because he can’t finish, we all know he can, it’s to get used to playing week in week out in proper football and to learn the other sides of the game and improve his general play. A season long loan is definetly the right decision for me and then we hopefully could have some player on our hands on his return.
 
Really tough call this as no doubt whatsoever he comes back to us a far better player with a seasons worth of playing time under his belt.
My problem is I would genuinely have Josh involved with our first team right now.
 
Diego said:
I’m absolutely confident Coburn has it in him to become a starter and goalscorer at Boro. His finishing is right up there. The reason he is loaned out is not because he can’t finish, we all know he can, it’s to get used to playing week in week out in proper football and to learn the other sides of the game and improve his general play. A season long loan is definetly the right decision for me and then we hopefully could have some player on our hands on his return.
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It’s also to develop him as a person, not just a footballer. He needs to live away from home for a year and mix with blokes who need their win bonuses, cook for himself and sort his own bills and travel and Tupperware and do his own laundry.

They sound like small things but these are the things you learn in the first year of living away from home, fending for yourself and growing as a responsible adult. These loans aren’t just to play, they’re to develop the person as well.

It’s great to see him amongst the goals. He’s far better off banging in the goals in Bristol than he is sat on our bench and living at home, that’s for certain.
 
viv_andersons_nana said:
It’s also to develop him as a person, not just a footballer. He needs to live away from home for a year and mix with blokes who need their win bonuses, cook for himself and sort his own bills and travel and Tupperware and do his own laundry.

They sound like small things but these are the things you learn in the first year of living away from home, fending for yourself and growing as a responsible adult. These loans aren’t just to play, they’re to develop the person as well.

It’s great to see him amongst the goals. He’s far better off banging in the goals in Bristol than he is sat on our bench and living at home, that’s for certain.
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This must be a wind up ?
He's not doing History and Politics at Bristol University. FFS 😕
 
TeaCider said:
https://twitter.com/x/status/1585384044149309444

There's definitely a recall clause.

I don't think we should be recalling him though.

We've already got too many strikers on the books with the way they're used now, and I expect he'll get far more game time and experience there than here.
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yeah always will be a recall clause when just going out for experience, just incase they get nothing out of it
its more the loans to get someone off the books to save money where its more set in stone

if we can live without him leave him there for me, will come back busting to go
 
Leave him where he is, we might be struggling but its down to creating chances. Muniz and Watmore will finish chances they're given. Forss is itching to play, Akpom is doing alright it isnt a striker we need. Let him stay there, smash a few in bulk up, and then come back and take a place among the first team squad next season.
If he came back and didn't score in a few games he'd back in the U23 with Hoppe.
 
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