Player Watch: Serge Aurier
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SpursD22
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I don’t agree, he was poor for most of the game but he wasn’t the only one
Blake Griffin
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you can't on one hand say that he doesn't play because the people in charge don't think he's good enough and then go on to say he'll never be good enough. if he'll never be good enough then those same people in charge wouldn't keep signing him up to new long-term deals and refusing to loan him out.
tooey
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We're not going to agree so we'll leave it there.
southlondonyiddo
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Scapegoat alert
tooey
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dtxspurs
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Yeah a bit of bias. He was fine, the clearance was poor but he wasn't complete shit all game like everyone is making him out to be.
Blake Griffin
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he doesn't count as home grown currently and you do know that there is no such thing as a home grown quota don't you? just a limit on the number of foreign players you're allowed to have. keeping a player because he counts as home grown but never playing them achieves nothing for anyone.
tooey
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Thanks for your overly condescending reply! Yes I am aware, thanks. However it's probably handy to have a HG as a 3rd choice rb/lb, no? Bit of a freebie in the squad.
ajspurs
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I don't know, but I don't mind Trippier, I certainly don't hate him as much as others on here. I do unfortunately think he can be too weak when defending at times but like said, I like how tidy he is when on the ball. Just little things, like if someone zips a ball into him you know he'll trap it well or if he needs to play a first time pass that may look somewhat tricky he'll do it fairly comfortably and such and as a result there isn't that fear of a passing move being broken down when it comes to him like there can be with Aurier. Thing is more often than not we have most of the ball so someone of his attributes seem much more suited to our play than any other RB we currently have IMO.
dtxspurs
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Strongly disagree. Why wouldn't we want to keep HG players around so we wouldn't have to be up against it when it comes to who we can add?
Blake Griffin
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if he never plays then what does it matter? if there was a rule that you had to have x amount of hg players then i might understand it but seeing as that's not the case then no, i don't see any reason why you'd keep a player around if they're not going to play.
Sevens
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He started the game poorly. He then did reasonably well for the middle part and then ended the game poorly, not helped by the fact we were tactically all over the place.
The fact is Aurier has never really been given a run of games. At face value it seems to me he isn't good enough but it is hard to judge unless he gets a run of a few games under him.
The fact is Aurier has never really been given a run of games. At face value it seems to me he isn't good enough but it is hard to judge unless he gets a run of a few games under him.
nedley
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I do get your point but at the same time when he's been given a few games together he hasn't built on the previous game/s.
He needs to start doing that but in nearly two years at the club has he really improved any facets of his game?
Not really. And that's not good enough.
Mr Pink
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I found him extremely frustrating today. And I've been banging on about playing him over Trippier.
But at least Tripper offers a lot more going forward, even though he's a liability defensively against any pacey attack.
Aurier is the more robust defender but he didn't even get the basics right in that respect today, and it was his silly clearance that led to their second goal.
He was also played in, by Son I think, into a fabulous position with two or three in great positions in the box, basically any half decent ball probably results in a goal and he made an absolute mess of it.
Yes we lost, and it was really frustrating and it's easy to target some players... Hindsight is great etc... But you can't help but feel Tripper and Sanchez in that starting eleven would of made a significant difference today.
In fact this was a game for Trippier as Burnley are certainly not a lively attacking force.
But at least Tripper offers a lot more going forward, even though he's a liability defensively against any pacey attack.
Aurier is the more robust defender but he didn't even get the basics right in that respect today, and it was his silly clearance that led to their second goal.
He was also played in, by Son I think, into a fabulous position with two or three in great positions in the box, basically any half decent ball probably results in a goal and he made an absolute mess of it.
Yes we lost, and it was really frustrating and it's easy to target some players... Hindsight is great etc... But you can't help but feel Tripper and Sanchez in that starting eleven would of made a significant difference today.
In fact this was a game for Trippier as Burnley are certainly not a lively attacking force.
nedley
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I'll give him until the end of the season to turn it around otherwise I'd accept offers for him in the summer. 2 years is plenty of time to make a significant impact.
Gareth88
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We need alot more from both our Rb's but Aurier is simply not good enough for where we want to be.
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CoopsieDeadpool
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May just be me, but it also seems that Trippier seems to be the sunlight to Sissoko's kryptonite, if you get what I mean?.
Sissoko seems to know EXACTLY what his job is when he's in the middle, knowing he'll pretty much 'have to' drop in and cover while Trippier is up the other end using his ability going forward. When Trippier doesn't play, we seem to get the old Sissoko.
