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Zach Mitchell - Sept 2025 on a season long loan to Hibernian (p22)

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  • jose
    jose
    I can’t see a loan happening as we need him as cover, especially if Ramsay and Burke are both out at the same time.
    I suppose a back three might be Alex, Jones and Gillesphey in some circumstances.
    Zach will make it as a pro footballer.
    His reputation in Scotland alone ensures that. The majority of us are able to be supportive even if we have home grown bias.

  • _uptheaddicks
    _uptheaddicks
    Was hoping to be impressed :/ 
  • supaclive
    supaclive
    I don't think he's all that I'm afraid
  • Radostanradical
    Radostanradical
    For aall of his technical ability, IMO if that was Alex Mitchell we dont concede
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123
    Really bad tonight .  I still think he has the fundamentals but seems to have gone backwards 
  • sammy391
    sammy391
    Have to hope Burke is back soon, as Mitchell has no chance of being a solid option
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123
    Bostonaddick said:
    We loaned out the wrong Mitchell.  If Burke is still out, we are really thin if any of our CBs get injured
    Yes I’d loan Zach out and bring someone else in , permanently- someone that’s first team ready . 
  • Scoham
    Scoham
    Wouldn’t surprise me if we brought in a CB and loaned Zach out.

    I wouldn’t write him off yet, but a season of regular football in L1 or the SPL again could do him good.
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  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks
    I'd be very worried about an injury to Ramsay after that. Definitely not a ready replacement. 
  • gmantaxi
    gmantaxi
    Wasn’t good enough for league 1 , god help us if we get any injuries at the back 
  • Carl_bratton
    Carl_bratton
    Had a Joe piggott vs. Millwall kind of game today. No where near ready and liked shocked at the end 
  • _uptheaddicks
    _uptheaddicks
    I've been surprised by how slow and weak he is for a central defender. I was going to say he'll go the way of Charlie Barker but hes forging a decent career for himself (slowly).
  • Croydon
    Croydon
    Awful this evening. Never been impressed on the few occasions I've watched him play but tonight was a car crash

  • charente addick
    charente addick
    Seems to be on the wrong trajectory
  • Chunes
    Chunes
    edited August 26
    I don't see how he's a CB. Unless he sizes up considerably in the next few years, he doesn't have the size or frame to compete with the strikers you find at L2 level and above.
  • FishCostaFortune
    FishCostaFortune
    Bostonaddick said:
    We loaned out the wrong Mitchell.  If Burke is still out, we are really thin if any of our CBs get injured
    This is my worry. If Bell and Edwards get injured/need a rest/suspended at the same time, all of a sudden we’re looking very light at the back. 
  • sam3110
    sam3110
    Bedsaddick said:
    Ever time I’ve seen him in the past I’ved likes what I have seen . Not tonight . I suppose everyone is entitled to having a stinker . Im not writing him off . 
    Unfortunately I'm the opposite, whenever I've watched him I've thought he's ok, but not a cut above wherever he's been playing, and haven't quite got the hype around him. I think tonight showed off the flaws in his game pretty harshly, and nothing I've seen of him tells me he's going to go on and become a star at the heart of our defence
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  • Watameire
    Watameire
    He was shocking today . Worst on the pitch and he had serious competition 
  • Braziliance
    Braziliance
    Extremely overrated. Hope people see now he needs a loan and some progress, shouldn't be anywhere near a Championship bench.
  • wolfgang
    wolfgang
    Shows what crap Scottish football is. But then we knew that anyway.
  • wmcf123
    wmcf123
    Playing with novices outside him didn’t help, but he was poor .  
  • blackpool72
    blackpool72
    Looked out of his depth against league two opposition. 
    Nowhere near ready for championship football. 
  • _uptheaddicks
    _uptheaddicks
    Garrymanilow said:
    20 for a centre back is a baby. He did everything last night that a young centre back does that helps them learn but causes them not to be trusted by managers. Getting wrong side, not communicating with his teammates, getting drawn to the ball and letting his man run. It's no accident that when Zach did play last season for us before he got injured it was at right back. The same for Joe Gomez and Ezri Konsa at first, a lot of future centre backs get put at fullback or in midfield where their mistakes are punished less. It might even have been worth putting Gillesphey in the middle and the youngsters either side of him rather than ask Zack to do the difficult job of marshalling the middle when he had two inexperienced teenagers outside him on the right, which is where the first two goals came from. I don't think you can draw a lot of conclusions from his performance last night beyond him doing pretty much what every young centre back does regularly at first team level. He looked good against Southend at RB, I wouldn't write him off just yet. Loan him out and let him make his mistakes and learn in a different environment.
    Let's analyse his performances according to what we see. Also, there's little value in citing a RB performance against a National League side in a friendly. 

    His followers have constantly said that we will be wowed when he gets to play his preferred position, CB. He's played RB, RCB and CB and looked equally poor in each (sadly).
  • Billy_Mix
    Billy_Mix
    Bostonaddick said:
    We loaned out the wrong Mitchell.  If Burke is still out, we are really thin if any of our CBs get injured
    Alex probably gets paid more, so a better option for balancing the books.  More likely AM was the one sought by Argyle (& others) for the reasons we can see when Zach plays 😞

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