Richarlison

[braineclipse]

I really hope our supporters can STFU and support the fudging player whilst he is in our shirt during this time when nature (???) has conspired to deprive us of TWO centre-forwards most likely through the New Year.
Get behind Richy.
He thrives on support, everyone knows it, everyone knows his mental health issues because he's been honest about, yet he's 'brick' or he's 'stealing goals from others' or it's his fault we gave up a point at home to Man U because he took his shirt off...FFS.

IS he good enough to be our CF? Probably not. Is he a decent player on his day? Absolutely. Do we need to help him find his day more often? Absolutely. Is this likely his final season here? I'd say so.

Get behind the bloke.

And also, get behind Scarlett because we are going to need him too!

Fully agreed.

Leaves everything on the pitch every time he plays. Doesn't hide even when struggling for confidence. Compared to most PL centre backs he's not particularly big or strong, but never shirks a duel.

We obviously also need quality. And particularly when low on confidence he doesn't exactly have that in abundance. But he is the player he is and he should get our support.

We've had "better" players letting us down (imo) in part through a lack of effort and professionalism. We've had worse players end up playing an important part in us winning games and even (rare as it has been in the last decades) trophies. Richarlison himself played an important part in us lifting the EL last season. He helped give us that experience. In part through some of those qualities I mentioned above.

 

[Jurgen the German]

Fully agreed.

Leaves everything on the pitch every time he plays. Doesn't hide even when struggling for confidence. Compared to most PL centre backs he's not particularly big or strong, but never shirks a duel.

We obviously also need quality. And particularly when low on confidence he doesn't exactly have that in abundance. But he is the player he is and he should get our support.

We've had "better" players letting us down (imo) in part through a lack of effort and professionalism. We've had worse players end up playing an important part in us winning games and even (rare as it has been in the last decades) trophies. Richarlison himself played an important part in us lifting the EL last season. He helped give us that experience. In part through some of those qualities I mentioned above.

I don’t think anyone doesn’t support him. It’s counter productive to not want your own players to succeed but we may need to upgrade on players if we want to be successful.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

I don’t think anyone doesn’t support him. It’s counter productive to not want your own players to succeed but we may need to upgrade on players if we want to be successful.

We need players who aren’t overwhelmed by playing
With Richy he always seems to be scared of the moment
And then when it happens he flips to the other extreme

 

[Bishop]

I don’t think anyone doesn’t support him. It’s counter productive to not want your own players to succeed but we may need to upgrade on players if we want to be successful.

Not may. Will.

We can support them all we want, supporting Richy isn't going to make him a top player. That's just never going to happen.

 

[braineclipse]

I don’t think anyone doesn’t support him. It’s counter productive to not want your own players to succeed but we may need to upgrade on players if we want to be successful.

Depends what we mean by support I guess.

Enough has been written about what footballers experience on social media. Does supporting mean wanting him to do well or does it mean cheering him on, singing songs supporting him and the team? Does support mean booing the team off at half time?

If the bar for support is "I want him to succeed" that's not much.

 

[parklane1]

I really hope our supporters can STFU and support the fudging player whilst he is in our shirt during this time when nature (???) has conspired to deprive us of TWO centre-forwards most likely through the New Year.
Get behind Richy.
He thrives on support, everyone knows it, everyone knows his mental health issues because he's been honest about, yet he's 'brick' or he's 'stealing goals from others' or it's his fault we gave up a point at home to Man U because he took his shirt off...FFS.

IS he good enough to be our CF? Probably not. Is he a decent player on his day? Absolutely. Do we need to help him find his day more often? Absolutely. Is this likely his final season here? I'd say so.

Get behind the bloke.

And also, get behind Scarlett because we are going to need him too!

Well said mate.

 

[Bishop]

Depends what we mean by support I guess.

Enough has been written about what footballers experience on social media. Does supporting mean wanting him to do well or does it mean cheering him on, singing songs supporting him and the team? Does support mean booing the team off at half time?

If the bar for support is "I want him to succeed" that's not much.

We can want him to succeed (and we all do I would expect). But wanting it and it happening are two entirely different things. I don't believe in chasing after proven lost causes with pure hopium (and with Richy that's all its ever been on here, hope), hope isn't going to improve touch, control, anticipation etc.

Support the player, give praise when they deserve it and by that I don't mean lower the standards so much that now achieving the absolute basic minimums are now seen as a triumph (Sissoko). If you accept mediocrity, you will be mediocre, its really that simple.