"Ronnie Schwartz is a bit short at the moment, he needs a bit more work, but at least he's in at the training ground now and running round a bit."
Hardly critical, Adkins is talking about fitness not his quality and he's right. Schwartz had been away for his personal stuff and on returning had to isolate, but he's back at the training ground now and has started running outside.
He's likely not been frozen out but is working with the fitness guys until he's fit enough to start interacting with the contact side of training. I'd be surprised if he's not back in the group by Sunday.
I don't think he's ever going to be the equivalent of Washington, Davison or Stockley as he's not quick or physical enough for those roles. He's more your 18 yard box finisher, but his fitness coming in last January was nowhere near where it needed to be. The slower games in the Danish division are probably the main reason (as suggested by our Danish based posters)
Sounds like some people don't want to give him a chance. Hopefully Ronnie is willing to work for his chance too
Yes he can't work on the technical stuff by himself, but he can still keep himself fit, as he hasn't been ill. Running in the park, doing weights whether in the gym (I don't know if they're open in Denmark) or at home. Indeed surely the club medics would have given him a fitness routine
"Ronnie Schwartz is a bit short at the moment, he needs a bit more work, but at least he's in at the training ground now and running round a bit."
Hardly critical, Adkins is talking about fitness not his quality and he's right. Schwartz had been away for his personal stuff and on returning had to isolate, but he's back at the training ground now and has started running outside.
He's likely not been frozen out but is working with the fitness guys until he's fit enough to start interacting with the contact side of training. I'd be surprised if he's not back in the group by Sunday.
I don't think he's ever going to be the equivalent of Washington, Davison or Stockley as he's not quick or physical enough for those roles. He's more your 18 yard box finisher, but his fitness coming in last January was nowhere near where it needed to be. The slower games in the Danish division are probably the main reason (as suggested by our Danish based posters)
Sounds like some people don't want to give him a chance. Hopefully Ronnie is willing to work for his chance too
Yes he can't work on the technical stuff by himself, but he can still keep himself fit, as he hasn't been ill. Running in the park, doing weights whether in the gym (I don't know if they're open in Denmark) or at home. Indeed surely the club medics would have given him a fitness routine
Yes you have general fitness programmes and then you have getting match fit/sharp.
I'm not discounting the potential that he can't be fudged or that he's past it.
I just don't want to give up on him yet. If he leaves so be it. Will be a case of it just didn't work out, rather than any ill feelings. I doubt that's the same for all of us.
It’s a weird one - kinda feels like TS has got away with brushing this one under the carpet. His marquee signing has been more budget tent from Millets
"Ronnie Schwartz is a bit short at the moment, he needs a bit more work, but at least he's in at the training ground now and running round a bit."
Hardly critical, Adkins is talking about fitness not his quality and he's right. Schwartz had been away for his personal stuff and on returning had to isolate, but he's back at the training ground now and has started running outside.
He's likely not been frozen out but is working with the fitness guys until he's fit enough to start interacting with the contact side of training. I'd be surprised if he's not back in the group by Sunday.
I don't think he's ever going to be the equivalent of Washington, Davison or Stockley as he's not quick or physical enough for those roles. He's more your 18 yard box finisher, but his fitness coming in last January was nowhere near where it needed to be. The slower games in the Danish division are probably the main reason (as suggested by our Danish based posters)
Sounds like some people don't want to give him a chance. Hopefully Ronnie is willing to work for his chance too
Yes he can't work on the technical stuff by himself, but he can still keep himself fit, as he hasn't been ill. Running in the park, doing weights whether in the gym (I don't know if they're open in Denmark) or at home. Indeed surely the club medics would have given him a fitness routine
Yes you have general fitness programmes and then you have getting match fit/sharp.
I'm not discounting the potential that he can't be fudged or that he's past it.
I just don't want to give up on him yet. If he leaves so be it. Will be a case of it just didn't work out, rather than any ill feelings. I doubt that's the same for all of us.
I've no ill feeling towards him, but he has to shows he wants to make a go of it in England, or it's better we cut our losses now, and he returns home and the club writes it off as "one of those transfer failures that happens sometimes"
Our record with goal scorer transfers, since the PL years has been pretty patchy really
Luke Varney, Izale McLeod, Paul Benson, Nicky Ajose have all disappointed, after being (for their times) relatively big buys
"Ronnie Schwartz is a bit short at the moment, he needs a bit more work, but at least he's in at the training ground now and running round a bit."
Hardly critical, Adkins is talking about fitness not his quality and he's right. Schwartz had been away for his personal stuff and on returning had to isolate, but he's back at the training ground now and has started running outside.
He's likely not been frozen out but is working with the fitness guys until he's fit enough to start interacting with the contact side of training. I'd be surprised if he's not back in the group by Sunday.
I don't think he's ever going to be the equivalent of Washington, Davison or Stockley as he's not quick or physical enough for those roles. He's more your 18 yard box finisher, but his fitness coming in last January was nowhere near where it needed to be. The slower games in the Danish division are probably the main reason (as suggested by our Danish based posters)
Sounds like some people don't want to give him a chance. Hopefully Ronnie is willing to work for his chance too
Yes he can't work on the technical stuff by himself, but he can still keep himself fit, as he hasn't been ill. Running in the park, doing weights whether in the gym (I don't know if they're open in Denmark) or at home. Indeed surely the club medics would have given him a fitness routine
Yes you have general fitness programmes and then you have getting match fit/sharp.
I'm not discounting the potential that he can't be fudged or that he's past it.
I just don't want to give up on him yet. If he leaves so be it. Will be a case of it just didn't work out, rather than any ill feelings. I doubt that's the same for all of us.
But he's so far off the pace he's not even worth a 15 minute run in a PSF. That's not really good enough, 2 weeks from the season's opener.
You can list all of the sub par strikers we have had over the decades but I honestly don't recall a player that the manager thought so badly of he didn't even bring him on, when he had 5 subs, in a must win game at 0-0 at home.
At that stage he wasn't 5th choice of 5 or what ever he was literally 2nd choice of 2 and still didn't get on.
"Ronnie Schwartz is a bit short at the moment, he needs a bit more work, but at least he's in at the training ground now and running round a bit."
Hardly critical, Adkins is talking about fitness not his quality and he's right. Schwartz had been away for his personal stuff and on returning had to isolate, but he's back at the training ground now and has started running outside.
He's likely not been frozen out but is working with the fitness guys until he's fit enough to start interacting with the contact side of training. I'd be surprised if he's not back in the group by Sunday.
I don't think he's ever going to be the equivalent of Washington, Davison or Stockley as he's not quick or physical enough for those roles. He's more your 18 yard box finisher, but his fitness coming in last January was nowhere near where it needed to be. The slower games in the Danish division are probably the main reason (as suggested by our Danish based posters)
Sounds like some people don't want to give him a chance. Hopefully Ronnie is willing to work for his chance too
Yes he can't work on the technical stuff by himself, but he can still keep himself fit, as he hasn't been ill. Running in the park, doing weights whether in the gym (I don't know if they're open in Denmark) or at home. Indeed surely the club medics would have given him a fitness routine
Yes you have general fitness programmes and then you have getting match fit/sharp.
I'm not discounting the potential that he can't be fudged or that he's past it.
I just don't want to give up on him yet. If he leaves so be it. Will be a case of it just didn't work out, rather than any ill feelings. I doubt that's the same for all of us.
I've no ill feeling towards him, but he has to shows he wants to make a go of it in England, or it's better we cut our losses now, and he returns home and the club writes it off as "one of those transfer failures that happens sometimes"
Our record with goal scorer transfers, since the PL years has been pretty patchy really
Luke Varney, Izale McLeod, Paul Benson, Nicky Ajose have all disappointed, after being (for their times) relatively big buys
Paul benson did his job, put the ball in the back of the net when we played to his strengths. But he was a very one dimensional striker. Bit unfair to put him in the same list tbh
Benson scored 10 in 33 league games, decent record, he was just a very limited player and offered little outside the box. We knew what we were getting though. The others were supposed to be goalscorers with pace and/or a better all round game.
Bar that game against Palace , Varney was a disappointment. Thought we were getting an out and out goalscorer there.
varney was decent but nowhere near his valuation of 2 mil, if he'd have been 500k at the time i think we would've been happy. Mcloud was the worst though, barring a couple of sub appearances where he looked electric and won a pen he was dire. Genuinely thought we had the next bent on our hands.
Bar that game against Palace , Varney was a disappointment. Thought we were getting an out and out goalscorer there.
varney was decent but nowhere near his valuation of 2 mil, if he'd have been 500k at the time i think we would've been happy. Mcloud was the worst though, barring a couple of sub appearances where he looked electric and won a pen he was dire. Genuinely thought we had the next bent on our hands.
All I'll ever remember Mcleod for was the elbow at Northwich.
IMO Schwartz is a decent player. He looks to be an instinctive, out and out goal poacher. The finish for his one and only goal was out of the top drawer. I also don't think his penalty at Oxford was a poor effort it was a great save.
He is a victim of circumstance. Clearly he has struggled to settle here without his partner. Add in the fact that neither manager he has played under has operated with two up front and he hasn't had much go in his favour.
I honestly believe in a 442, with a decent run in the side alongside Stockley he would thrive. There is a player in there for sure. It's a shame that we are unlikely to see it as he just doesn't fit Adkins style of play.
Adkins on Ronnie Schwartz: He's a long way from being involved in Saturday's game. He won't be considered for the game on Saturday.
So he's got to be leaving this window right?
I don’t know what’s happened, but unless we bring in another striker I would prefer Schwartz stays in the hope that he can at least be an effective squad player in L1.
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Its déjà vu all over again
I'm not discounting the potential that he can't be fudged or that he's past it.
I just don't want to give up on him yet. If he leaves so be it. Will be a case of it just didn't work out, rather than any ill feelings. I doubt that's the same for all of us.
Our record with goal scorer transfers, since the PL years has been pretty patchy really
Luke Varney, Izale McLeod, Paul Benson, Nicky Ajose have all disappointed, after being (for their times) relatively big buys
At that stage he wasn't 5th choice of 5 or what ever he was literally 2nd choice of 2 and still didn't get on.
Paul benson did his job, put the ball in the back of the net when we played to his strengths. But he was a very one dimensional striker. Bit unfair to put him in the same list tbh
Hard to believe that Kasper Schmeichel was the Goalkeeper given we beat Coventry 4-1
*edit it was Powell's last game for us, when he scored in the last minutes... Had such a feel good factor.
So he's got to be leaving this window right?