Player Watch: Emerson Royal

[DJS]

It’s different types of right backs for me.

You have someone like Stevie Carr, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Kieran Trippier, etc who are either right backs or right wing backs.

Then you have players such as Gary Neville or Vedran Corkuka that comes to mind who were right backs that were suited to playing right centre back in a three rather than a wing back.

For me Emerson comes into the latter bracket, you wouldn’t have played Corkula or Neville as a right wing back, but happy to have them as a right back in a flat back four or right centre back in a three.

Kyle Walker is interesting though as he’s effective as a right back, wing back and has been used to decent effective in a three, but as an athlete he’s a machine.

 

[newbie]

Nobody has an issue with criticising players, but when that takes on a life of it's own, when people start to see things that aren't there and stretch events on the pitch to unbelievable levels in order to hang something around the players neck, then you end up with multiple pages of arguing. I've seen at least three posters who only come on here to post OTT and made up moans. I'm not kidding, it's the only thing they do. And it kicks it all off.

Literally every time he is picked, there are a block of people who will leap on anything at all to beat him with, they are just waiting for it. Sometimes they can't even wait. Game after game after game, the same people, the same bullshit, the same arguments. It's been this way with scapegoats for a long time, it's just how it is. But it's getting worse. You add up the over the top nature of it, the spite, the persistence, the repetitive nature of it, all from pretty much the same people, then it gets very VERY tiresome, worse, it makes reading threads a chore and it shouldn't be like that.

I know for a fact that it's driving people away, it's directly making SC less enjoyable for a LOT of people, perhaps a spell of COYS-like culling is needed

FWIW and from me that's not much, we all (ought to) understand it's a process. I can't see him being a part of the finished product (if Conte stays that long) so at some point someone 'better' will take his place in the team. But we can't fast forward that, it'll happen when it's seen as a priority and in turn, so until then, he's the managers choice and all the bitching in the world isn't going to change it. So for now, why not temper expectations a bit, understand that despite his limitations, real or imagined, he's part of a team that's made one of our best ever starts to a season so things aren't that bad and just ease off a bit on him. It'll do everyone and SC in general, the world of good.

bah, it'll never happen

Spot on

Emerson gives his all, maybe more confidence he will improve going forward. Personally I think Djed and Matt will replace him

 

[Freddie]

It’s different types of right backs for me.

You have someone like Stevie Carr, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Kieran Trippier, etc who are either right backs or right wing backs.

Then you have players such as Gary Neville or Vedran Corkuka that comes to mind who were right backs that were suited to playing right centre back in a three rather than a wing back.

For me Emerson comes into the latter bracket, you wouldn’t have played Corkula or Neville as a right wing back, but happy to have them as a right back in a flat back four or right centre back in a three.

Kyle Walker is interesting though as he’s effective as a right back, wing back and has been used to decent effective in a three, but as an athlete he’s a machine.

Gary Neville always knew when to overlap to create space for Beckham to cross, and Neville himself had a very good cross on him too so he was providing more than just a decoy run in those situations. I think he'd have had the ability to adapt to a wing back roll if required. Emerson doesn't have these skills so moves just break down at his feet.

 

[cliff jones]

This honestly makes zero sense

well try making some yourself then?

He didn't slip up when we were four up on Bournemouth, his "moment" extinguished our chance of a comeback against our biggest rivals who now have four points on us. It was a stupid, totally unnecessary challenge. Because they got to him.

 

[Spurslove]

Spot on

Emerson gives his all, maybe more confidence he will improve going forward. Personally I think Djed and Matt will replace him

I absolutely agree, more in hope than expectation mind.

 

[newbie]

I absolutely agree, more in hope than expectation mind.

I hope so confidence can make a huge difference, if we all support him it’s the only way we will ever find out

 

[synththfc]

admittedly i’m a little younger than most, but he may be the worst player i’ve ever seen at the club.

he wasn’t even at his worst today, but his complete lack of any technical quality is appalling

 

[Spurslove]

admittedly i’m a little younger than most, but he may be the worst player i’ve ever seen at the club.

he wasn’t even at his worst today, but his complete lack of any technical quality is appalling

He's been getting absolute pelters from all of us most of the season, and deservedly so, but to be fair to him, he was nowhere near the worst player on the pitch today.

 

[spurmin]

admittedly i’m a little younger than most, but he may be the worst player i’ve ever seen at the club.

he wasn’t even at his worst today, but his complete lack of any technical quality is appalling

You must be about 8 years old

 

[agrdavidsfan]

Actually don’t think he was that bad

 

[matthew.absurdum]

Actually don’t think he was that bad

The bar is low but he was one of our better players today. The same attacking issue, but at least he did nothing wrong

 

[EQP]

admittedly i’m a little younger than most, but he may be the worst player i’ve ever seen at the club.

he wasn’t even at his worst today, but his complete lack of any technical quality is appalling

He's not the worst Spurs player to ever wear the shirt, he's just the worst option for us as a RWB in Conte's system.

 

[pippo]

admittedly i’m a little younger than most, but he may be the worst player i’ve ever seen at the club.

he wasn’t even at his worst today, but his complete lack of any technical quality is appalling

What do you think of Sanchez then?

 

[mil1lion]

He defends well but isn't a wing back and never will develop into one. I actually liked seeing him go right centre back for a bit as feel that is the best position for him in this system.

 

[dude573]

He was actually quite good defensively today. But his awful through ball at the end of the game really highlighted how poor he is as an attacking fullback.

Not a player to fit Conte's system yet he plays almost every game. It is madness.

 

[Wick3d]

Going forward, he is so poor. The wingback position is critical for Conte's system, yet we are stuck with him. At this point we are still losing points, so its best to just bench him as he offers nothing where it matters

 

[TheVoiceofReason]

WHAT is Conte playing at here? It’s beyond a joke.

 

[Gilzean at the near post]

Going forward, he is so poor. The wingback position is critical for Conte's system, yet we are stuck with him. At this point we are still losing points, so its best to just bench him as he offers nothing where it matters

Spence is worth a try as Royal is bang average

 

[dtxspurs]

WHAT is Conte playing at here? It’s beyond a joke.

Straight back in the team for a full 90 minutes, Conte has blinders on here.

 

[Stamford]

Quite taken aback by the comments as he was solid but did nothing going forward. I expected to see the Sess thread this high not Royal.