If that is someone that is 'unfit' and 'not ready', then we need a lot more unfit players in the squad.
When uninjured, he should play an hour every single game from here on out. Makes us far better as a team.
What makes you say Bowyer dislikes him
He made a comment saying he hasnt impressed him in training fitness wise which is why he hasnt been playing.
I am guessing he made them comments publicly to give Williams a kick up the backside and it worked, he has improved in training over the past week and thats why he was able to start today
Why did he take him off, looked fit? Was covering well. Was he injured?
Lapslie got his rinsed all over the pitch when he came on.
I certainly didn't see why he was take off so soon.
Agreed - he had at least 15 more mins left in the tank. Don’t mind a like for like swap, but Lapslie for Williams is so negative. Might as well have put Amos on for him.
I'm not sure why people are overly surprised. Williams has always been a 60 min player for us. A player like him gets fouled conatantly and are always at a higher risk of getting injured.
And there I was thinking that these guys are professional footballers ie that’s all the fuck they do during a week. But still find it difficult to run around for 90 minutes, with quarterly intervals and yet can’t last the distance. Are these guys wrapped in cotton wool. FFS
Williams is made of glass so needs protecting. Bowyer, like Curbs almost certainly would have done, tried to hold on to what he had knowing that we have 3 games coming up that we need points from where a fit Williams will certainly have a role.
I thought we looked as good as we've been since the break and I put a lot of that down to Williams. He can keep hold of the ball and if the opposition touch him he goes down, wins the free kick, slows the game down and stops the opposition building momentum.
Williams can't usually manage more than 60 mins, but he did look full of running. Brentford were not kicking him and weren't about to.
As soon as Lapslie came on for Williams I suspected the game would turn rapidly and it did.
I presume Bowyer knows that if he keeps him on we risk losing him for the last 4 games, so felt he had no choice, but what a predictable outcome.
I thought we looked as good as we've been since the break and I put a lot of that down to Williams. He can keep hold of the ball and if the opposition touch him he goes down, wins the free kick, slows the game down and stops the opposition building momentum.
Williams can't usually manage more than 60 mins, but he did look full of running. Brentford were not kicking him and weren't about to.
As soon as Lapslie came on for Williams I suspected the game would turn rapidly and it did.
I presume Bowyer knows that if he keeps him on we risk losing him for the last 4 games, so felt he had no choice, but what a predictable outcome.
You could understand it if Brentford were a physical, dirty side but that wasn't the case tonight. He'll get far more kicked in the next 3 matches
Told you he has been sexting Mrs B during lock down!!
I have no idea to be honest, I would play him for the first hour every week, I would have McGeady as 4th choice for the "10" shirt. But what do I know.
As an aside Len Glover just got a mention in the sky comms of Arsenal v Leicester.
You've been pedaling this notion that Bowyer doesn't like Williams all evening. If he isn't fit enough to play games then why should he play ahead of anyone else? Don't get me wrong Williams is one of our best players, but if he's came back from lockdown unfit and has been poor in training, he doesn't deserve a place in the side, end of. I'm hoping his involvement in the last 2 matches means he's turned a corner and I'd argue that his starting berth tonight shows that Bowyer is now happy with the work Williams has put in
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He made a comment saying he hasnt impressed him in training fitness wise which is why he hasnt been playing.
I am guessing he made them comments publicly to give Williams a kick up the backside and it worked, he has improved in training over the past week and thats why he was able to start today
Even if Williams is only fit enough for 45 minutes, I'd rather that than not playing him at all.
Five times last season: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/jonathan-williams/leistungsdaten/spieler/170322/plus/0?saison=2018
And Lapslie is half the player Williams is. Runs about like a headless chicken & got done numerous times.
It didn't work but I can see why he did it.
He can keep hold of the ball and if the opposition touch him he goes down, wins the free kick, slows the game down and stops the opposition building momentum.
Williams can't usually manage more than 60 mins, but he did look full of running.
Brentford were not kicking him and weren't about to.
As soon as Lapslie came on for Williams I suspected the game would turn rapidly and it did.
I presume Bowyer knows that if he keeps him on we risk losing him for the last 4 games, so felt he had no choice, but what a predictable outcome.
I have no idea to be honest, I would play him for the first hour every week, I would have McGeady as 4th choice for the "10" shirt. But what do I know.
As an aside Len Glover just got a mention in the sky comms of Arsenal v Leicester.