Jake O'Brien

[AjaxAndy]

I would lay blame on them all Keane included quiet how you can say he was playing well and we shipping goals for fun is laughable this topic is about o Brien and how a better coach has found a role for him in the team

Yes delighted Moyes is using him and finding a way to get him in the team. Also delighted with what Moyes has done so far. Everything is actually pretty good right now which is most welcome after the way this season has gone prior to Moyes coming in. Regardless of anything I'm sure everyone agrees on that.

[Big Nevs Vaz]

Listening to Paddy Boyland on the blue room say that Jake O'Brien was an Irish Amateur boxing champion when he was younger.
I'd say that Minteh chap didn't know that when he was squaring up to him at full time....good job Tarks whipped him away and saved his bacon. A good sort is our Tarky.

[Granite]

Glad to see him get some game time… but we still don’t have a modern solution at RB and we still don’t know if Patterson is good enough.

[brap2]

I remember a certain poster comments about the reasons why O’Brien is not starting, he’s crap with absolute certainty. Then a smug comment when he didn’t start against Villa, funnily enough, not heard anything else about him since?

Point is, feels like some people get strangely tied into a Dyche shaped argument and can’t shift themselves out of it when the evidence is presented.

Oh god was this me

[Jimmywhack]

Glad to see him get some game time… but we still don’t have a modern solution at RB and we still don’t know if Patterson is good enough.

Id imagine it will be solid until the end of season rather than modern

[Shogun]

Oh god was this me

Think you need to spark him out there Brapster, can't be having that

[UnsyisaRhino]

Where we lost 3-0 at home to Brighton 3-2 villa away 4-0 away to spurs which one was it

Using that logic we should be dropping pickford as well.

[brap2]

Think you need to spark him out there Brapster, can't be having that

Genuinely thought it was about me until I got to dyche shaped and was like oh yeah those guys! Boo!

[UnsyisaRhino]

I would lay blame on them all Keane included quiet how you can say he was playing well and we shipping goals for fun is laughable this topic is about o Brien and how a better coach has found a role for him in the team

I get what you're saying, but it's not that simple.

I'm not going to go match by match and goal by goal, but there were lots of people positive of his individual performance in games we lost, it's possible for one player in a defensive unit to play well, and still lose and concede goals.

I don't want him back in, I'm not advocating to keep him at the club, he needs to go. Maybe he looked better because Myko was crap at the time, and Tarks had a dip and looked to be carrying an injury, but my point still stands.

[sam of the south]

This is just eye test stuff and I have no data, but is it a coincidence that when I watch Keane play most of the other players around him seem to turn to shite?

Is it like a reverse Doucouré? As in Keane plays (allegedly) alright, but everyone else sucks and we ship a ton of goals, but Doucouré plays (allegedly) shite, but everyone else does alright, and we don’t concede loads and we sometimes win?

[Juanito]

Everyone prefers that Moyes is here instead of Dyche. Everyone would have taken it before he left, and everyone did once he was gone.

It seems sometimes that there is only black and white and no grey, no nuance, and few on the same page of a discussion in a room full of everyone shouting at and often misinterpreting each other. Nature of the beast I s'pose.

Think we all need to chill a bit.

I know I know, I was being facetious

[Silas]

I'm the one person who likes Keane but holy fuck the sooner he goes the better just for everyone's sanity

[biziclop]

One thing we've learnt over the years: when Moyes really likes a player, he will always find them a place in the team somehow.

Whether we like it or not.

[Jimmywhack]

One thing we've learnt over the years: when Moyes really likes a player, he will always find them a place in the team somehow.

Whether we like it or not.

I'm trying to work out of that the case here or he knew he needed to change something, anything really and this was possibly the easiest thing to do

[Escalator]

One thing we've learnt over the years: when Moyes really likes a player, he will always find them a place in the team somehow.

Whether we like it or not.

I wonder if Moyes tends to like a player because they give their all in training and perform well on match days ? Might be the reason he finds a place for them in the team ?