Bobby is an interesting debate. I was chuffed when we signed him but other then the first four months from we he signed (I thought he played his part in keeping us up) he has been a shadow of the player he was at Fulham.
I watched him closely yesterday and in fairness to him he does take some treatment from centre backs which the ref never blows for. For one goal kick he had a defender behind holding him down by his top and one infront with his arm wrapped and locked round his to stop him getting of the floor, now to me one of those actions is a foul both at the same time is 100% a foul but the ref let it go.
Bobby is never going to get 20+ goals a season but he seems to have lost what he was good at and what he based his game on. I think he needs to go back to basics and concentrate on what he has always done well i.e. planting his feet, holding off the defender, taking the ball down and giving it off before getting in the box (Austin has been doing it and hes great at it never realised he had that in his game). If we can get that from him then I think he is contributing but at the moment he is failing to do that and that has to be the absolute minimum if hes going to get in the team.
I watched him closely yesterday and in fairness to him he does take some treatment from centre backs which the ref never blows for. For one goal kick he had a defender behind holding him down by his top and one infront with his arm wrapped and locked round his to stop him getting of the floor, now to me one of those actions is a foul both at the same time is 100% a foul but the ref let it go.
Bobby is never going to get 20+ goals a season but he seems to have lost what he was good at and what he based his game on. I think he needs to go back to basics and concentrate on what he has always done well i.e. planting his feet, holding off the defender, taking the ball down and giving it off before getting in the box (Austin has been doing it and hes great at it never realised he had that in his game). If we can get that from him then I think he is contributing but at the moment he is failing to do that and that has to be the absolute minimum if hes going to get in the team.
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