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daryl hannah

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The first NLD this season - he was awful. No two ways about it. But so were the whole team - they just didn't turn up.

The NLD just gone he was very good - and Kane gets all the headlines but it was largely down to the quality of Davies' cross. Put it in exactly the right area for Harry.

Quality. More please.
 

topper

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So apparantly I managed to order a shirt with Davies at the back before going to bed after a night out on saturday. Impressed that I actually managed to order the right size.

Drunk me knows his shit.
You only had to remembered 4 letters XXXL
 

Spurs 1961

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Just been talking with a neutral, lifelong Wolves supporter, who was raving about the performance of Davies in the NLD.

I am one of those people who got a lot of enjoyment out of watching Walker and rose at their best scare defences; yet have always felt that Davies and Trippier are perhaps more intelligent, versatile players if less naturally pacy and talented
 

SugarRay

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Just been talking with a neutral, lifelong Wolves supporter, who was raving about the performance of Davies in the NLD.

I am one of those people who got a lot of enjoyment out of watching Walker and rose at their best scare defences; yet have always felt that Davies and Trippier are perhaps more intelligent, versatile players if less naturally pacy and talented

If you added Walker and Rose’s pace to Trips and Davies, you’d have the ultimate full back.
 

glacierSpurs

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I thought Davis did really well. He really needs to be applauded. Getting booked and giving a penalty so early in the game not only did not shake him, he actually grew into the game and played very well.
 

ilya

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Still thinking about Rose when he was on form, much better than Davies and that's the level our lb should be if we want to challenge for the title. Davies is good player to have in team, but I have to say he just isn't good enough to be the first option.
 

tiger666

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I thought Davis did really well. He really needs to be applauded. Getting booked and giving a penalty so early in the game not only did not shake him, he actually grew into the game and played very well.

I think you're clutching a bit here. Davies was poor.
 

glacierSpurs

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I think you're clutching a bit here. Davies was poor.
Sorry mate, he was not poor. You can watch back how he constantly went forward in our play, making amends. He never gave up. With the penalty conceded and booking, he was highly focussed after that.
 

isaac94

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As said on BT, could of crumbled after that, but turned it around, to put in a solid performance, well done!!
 

Westmorland

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I think you're clutching a bit here. Davies was poor.
At that level Davies is just a bit short. A fully fit Rose is the better bet in the big games . Aurier is just a nightmare. Trippier would have struggled against Costa but doesn’t dive in like Aurier. At least Aurier is banned from the return game.
 

thelak

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Aug 31, 2012
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I thought Davies first half was poor. Penalty, few other bits of sloppy play and not getting past his man when crossing several times. Second half much better

Overall think he’s a v solid player and come so far vs when he signed. Don’t see him as a weak link at all. But still see Rose at his best as offering a bit more pace on the recovery allowing him to take more risks going forward but equally he can also be frustrating with his final ball
 

werty

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He really struggles with left-footers. Lets them cut in far too much and is afraid to show them down the line for some reason. I know he's not the quickest but that shouldn't stop him.
 

Dharmabum

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https://www.football.london/tottenh...ts/spurs-wembley-davies-son-juventus-14365103

On the other flank, Ben Davies continues his transformation into one of the team's real hard men. Where his newfound aggression this season has come from is anyone's guess, but if it's a suggestion from Pochettino or his coaches, it's a masterstroke.

Gentle Ben is now anything but, and one first half hard but fair challenge in particular almost sent the Huddersfield attacker flying into the crowd. He made an inch-perfect sliding tackle on Danny Williams in the Spurs box on 66 minutes to stop what very well could have been a Huddersfield goal.

Davies is making the left-back spot his own at the moment and Danny Rose can have few complaints.
 

cider spurs

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Likes a good hard tackle does our Ben. He's pretty damn good at timing a cruncher.

Been very impressed with him this season. Good on yer lad.
 

Hoops

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Still thinking about Rose when he was on form, much better than Davies and that's the level our lb should be if we want to challenge for the title. Davies is good player to have in team, but I have to say he just isn't good enough to be the first option.

Not nearly good enough. The knuckle heads seem to think a cruching tackle makes a good player.
 

BringBack_leGin

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Not nearly good enough. The knuckle heads seem to think a cruching tackle makes a good player.

1) don’t call people knuckle heads just because you don’t like their opinion, it’s not conducive to anything positive.

2) I don’t think anyone thinks a good crunching tackle makes him a good player, people just like seeing it, and it does have a positive effect as, so long as it’s clean, it gets the crowd going, injects some momentum where there was none, and makes the attacker hesitant to take Ben on next time.

3) what does make him a good player might be the fact that he’s played almost every match for us and we have the leagues third best defence, he’s only assisted one fewer than the highest assisting fullback in the league at the time of posting (in fewer starts) and he is both consistent and dependable.

If Ben Davies had a more exciting name or a stupid haircut or tattoos everywhere, or was from somewhere more exotic than Neath Port Talbot, he would be far more highly rated. As it is, he comes off as Mr Ordinary so people refuse to accept that he’s actually been top class for us for pretty much a calendar year now.
 
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