Aston Villa v Watford Saturday 28th November 2015

mefromhere wrote:Don't forget that Okore was playing injured for the last month or so desperate to keep us up. An injury so bad the surgery has kept him out for 6 months since!

Sounds like someone with the type of attitude we need to get us out of the brown stuff. Bring him back in!

ember wrote:I like Okore a great deal but there is problem with him that some of the pundits flagged up, I think during the Cup Final. It was the fact that he wasn't looking around him when the attacks were coming in and consequently didn't have a fucking clue where anybody was outside his direct line of sight.

It could be that he's better suited to a full back role where the focus is more limited.

I can't say that I picked up the above weakness but one thing that I have noticed with Okore is that any ball coming at him at around knee height he really struggles to control or clear. In the air he's ok. On the deck he's fine. But a bouncing ball he struggles with.

Still, I'll take him over Clark at the moment. Clark seems truly switched-off during games. You can see him ball-watching gormlessly for ages.

Trotters wrote:

ember wrote:I like Okore a great deal but there is problem with him that some of the pundits flagged up, I think during the Cup Final. It was the fact that he wasn't looking around him when the attacks were coming in and consequently didn't have a fucking clue where anybody was outside his direct line of sight.

It could be that he's better suited to a full back role where the focus is more limited.

I can't say that I picked up the above weakness but one thing that I have noticed with Okore is that any ball coming at him at around knee height he really struggles to control or clear. In the air he's ok. On the deck he's fine. But a bouncing ball he struggles with.

Still, I'll take him over Clark at the moment. Clark seems truly switched-off during games. You can see him ball-watching gormlessly for ages.

That's a good notion having him at RB, I'm sure he'd do a fine job there defensively. Wouldn't offer much going forward, though but would defo shore us up on the right.