How am I on his back? I'm simply saying that he doesn't look to have fully recovered from his injury.
Got something to say or just want fewer pesky ads? Join us... 😊
[Albion] Solly March back in an Albion matchday squad?
- Thread starter Bozza
- Start date
How am I on his back? I'm simply saying that he doesn't look to have fully recovered from his injury.
I was there and couldn't believe how slow he was when running back, behind the ball and their player.
Well that's good if accurate.
- Oct 20, 2022
- 7,560
of course he is going to be slower running back but our right backs don’t have to run fast if they play deep - Hinshelwood isn’t fast, I wouldn’t say Veltman was especially fast either.
He was fast enough to do the job he came on to do for the length of time he was on imo.
Harping on about ‘how unbelievably slow’ he is as a winger or even FB is simply unfair grumbling imo. He’s had 14 months out of the first team literally playing 26 minutes of competition football with the U21s in October, operations on his knee to repair his meniscus and a ruptured ACL - he’s not going to get his long distance winger speeds back for weeks, if not months.
He deserves a heck of a lot of respect for the mental and physical journey he’s got through tbh.
Also if you noticed well into the second half our defensive line was much deeper - so no if we were playing as high as we were in the first 25 minutes of the first half, where Verbruggen was on the halfway line and our defenders in Brentford’s half, I wouldn’t have put March on but that wasn’t the case at 88 minutes went FH sent him on..
- Thread starter
- #64
He wouldn't be playing if he hadn't fully recovered from his injury.
What he hasn't recovered is Premier League match fitness. As he said himself in his post-match interview, that just can't be recreated on the training ground.
It will come if he has the opportunity to build match minutes.
I said I thought he was slow. That's not harping on.
I think we all want to see Solly back to his pre injury form as quick as possible. However, I thought it was an odd substitution as he was quite clearly not match fit , he admitted it himself in a post match interview, and with the game balanced at 0-0 it could have backfired. He did get badly caught out on the touchline that thankfully came to nothing. I guess it would be better to blood him with us 3-0 up but when does that ever happen nowadays !
It's ok, we can blood him when 3-0 down tomorrow.
- Oct 17, 2008
- 15,290
This isn’t funny or interesting but I need to get it off my chest - that phrase always tickles me.
Used to play Pro Evolution Soccer with a now sadly departed mate when we were teens, as was the style at the time.
We’d play Master League training mode for a laugh and “blood” the youngsters - by having the senior pros repeatedly two footing them from behind.
This morphed into the phrase “bludgeon the youth”. It’s all I can think of when I hear the phrase now
- Jul 10, 2003
- 28,129
If you think things could have been better lately, there's always this thread to cheer you up 
- Oct 20, 2022
- 7,560
And I’ve said several times in response to you saying that to me that on short spurts imo he was fine but he’s not 90 minutes match fit and doesn’t have the endurance to cover distance yet - that’s going to take weeks if not months build up.
Of course he’s not peak Solly. Who would be after 14 months out of the game and with the injury he’s had.
- Oct 20, 2022
- 7,560
I honestly don’t get this - what are people expecting?!
You don’t build up match fitness on a training pitch - you need the pace and intensity of actually playing competitive games.
That means building up minutes incrementally the same way you have to with any other player returning from long term injury - the same in fact as building up newly signed youth players (and sometimes older players) who have never played in the Premier League.
Not sure those negatively critiquing Solly’s 10 minutes really appreciate the physical demands of Premier League football and the condition it takes to play 90 mins ( or even 45)
Last edited:
Why do you view it as negative. He can play competitive games but not for the first team yet. Yes at some stage he needs to be tried out but it was clear he was way off against Brentford and it was a risk not worth taking - in my opinion.
Lifelong Supporter
Well-known member
Well I thought there might be an element of trying to wake up the crowd and create some interest as the match was rather petering out by that stage as far as BHA were concerned.
- Oct 20, 2022
- 7,560
I’m saying critiquing him or Fabian for giving Solly minutes is negative as that is exactly what he needs to build up stamina..nobody comes back from
14 months injury and plays 90 minutes.
Im sure we’ll give him a few cup matches and U21s too but the pace and intensity of PL is a bit of a leap from the U‘s and most cup matches so it won’t be enough if we want Solly starting in a PL match line up in the first team.