[lindo-spireite]

kh83, on 06 February 2016 - 09:47 PM, said:

Talbot was poor today. Still a quality full back when fit

Not anymore, he's over the hill.

[Spire-ite]

lindo-spireite, on 06 February 2016 - 10:49 PM, said:

Not anymore, he's over the hill.

He sure is.

[60s 70s Spireite]

Spire-ite, on 07 February 2016 - 10:51 AM, said:

He sure is.

Younger than our new captain.

[dim view]

lindo-spireite, on 06 February 2016 - 10:49 PM, said:

Not anymore, he's over the hill.

It occurs to me that if the opportunity to loan Drew out arises, it should be snapped up. Plymouth, for instance, might remember the uplift he gave them. He surely won't be offered a new contract here.

[lindo-spireite]

dim view, on 07 February 2016 - 10:55 AM, said:

It occurs to me that if the opportunity to loan Drew out arises, it should be snapped up. Plymouth, for instance, might remember the uplift he gave them. He surely won't be offered a new contract here.

Sheridan is probably the only manager who'd take him on at this moment in time, and we'd be daft to loan him to one of our relegation rivals.

[Spire-ite]

60s 70s Spireite, on 07 February 2016 - 10:55 AM, said:

Younger than our new captain.

I mean as in football ability.
He looked lost out there yesterday, passes all going astray or at 100mph. offered nothing, was like playing with 10 men.

[Bonnyman]

lindo-spireite, on 07 February 2016 - 11:24 AM, said:

Sheridan is probably the only manager who'd take him on at this moment in time, and we'd be daft to loan him to one of our relegation rivals.

at the moment id loan him to a bottom team with pleasure he looks shot to bits.

[firedodger]

spireitewolf, on 06 February 2016 - 08:38 PM, said:

Second that ,and bringing on headless chicken gardner poor decision

Had to play him, we have almost no creativity without him. Whether you like him or not the opposition see him as a threat who will take them on as opposed to a lot of our other players who will slow play down and look for that oh so incisive square ball.

[kh83]

His problem is getting injured all the time and it probably would be the right decision to let him go at the end of the season as he doesn't seem able to have a run of games without taking another knock. Then when taken a knock it takes him a few games to get back to anything like the old Talbot.

Walsall at home in the cup, he was immense and the two following away games also, one was Bury, forget the other, he got man of match 3 games on trot so can still do it when fully fit, I've no doubt whatsoever. His problem is how many games over a season he is 100% fit is not that many..

I still think he's our best option at right or left back and will do more than a "job" when he plays. Looked out of sorts on the wing though.

I just hope these injuries that have no doubt played a massive part in his now downward spiral don't cloud the view of Talbot over his time here. Never in any game over about 8 years as he given anything less than 100% and in many of those games been consistently 7 or 8 out of 10 in a number of positions. IMO when he was at his best, he was one of if not the best right back I've seen at town.

Spireite legend

[Westbars Spireite]

Bonnyman, on 07 February 2016 - 12:19 PM, said:

at the moment id loan him to a bottom team with pleasure he looks shot to bits.

The role he was asked to play didn't help at all. Poor from Wilson I think. I'd have played him left back instead or Dion or left him out.

[Crack]

Martyg, on 06 February 2016 - 09:14 PM, said:

What I can work out is o'neil signed as a cm, Talbot a rb. So why on earth wasn't Talbot at rb?
Would like to see Simons get a run of games from the start & ariyibi is a must for starting

Start with Simons instead of the fat useless lardarse who starts every game before being subbed and waddling off not even shamefacedly.
Saved his face and abuse being hurled his way by not appearing for the second half.

[hilly81]

Crack, on 08 February 2016 - 01:13 PM, said:

Start with Simons instead of the fat useless lardarse who starts every game before being subbed and waddling off not even shamefacedly.
Saved his face and abuse being hurled his way by not appearing for the second half.

Don't hold back will you?

[Crack]

Adds or gives nothing to any game. Why play him just because he's costing a fortune. Accept it's money down the drain and give the young lads a chance, at least they will give effort.

[kh83]

We look far more likely to score with Simons up front rather than SEB