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Tennai Watson - Aug 2025 signed for Barnsley (p14)

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  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,772
    edited October 2023
    I must have a blind spot because there’s a lot of people digging him out for today. We looked better when he was subbed off but I though that was more because of TC coming on for Tedic. And obviously then Aneke a few moments later.

    What did he do wrong? I apparently missed it
  • sam3110
    sam3110 Posts: 21,276
    Constantly caught up field or too narrow, same as on Tuesday. Isn't particularly dynamic when attacking and gets skinned pretty easily. I sit in the F Block so his first half performances both midweek and today are right in front of me and I can say with a lot of confidence there's not much to his game that makes him any better than any right back we've had in the past few season, and in fact he's quite a bit worse than some of them so far. 
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    I was first row behind the dugout - the kid was out of his depth 
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,321
    Asiimwe was assured on the ball, went forward, found his winger, supported attacks, made darts inside, looked like a confident and capable footballer. We were utterly transformed with him and Tyreese down the right. Watson more or less hid, including for their first goal 
  • mrbligh
    mrbligh Posts: 3,056
    Leuth said:
    Asiimwe was assured on the ball, went forward, found his winger, supported attacks, made darts inside, looked like a confident and capable footballer. We were utterly transformed with him and Tyreese down the right. Watson more or less hid, including for their first goal 
    Couldn’t agree more 
  • Asiimwe carries a real attacking threat and works well with Campbell.
  • cafcsinger
    cafcsinger Posts: 5,548
    Very early days but not been impressed so far. Bad positioning and doesn't seem to drive forward 
  • I must have a blind spot because there’s a lot of people digging him out for today. We looked better when he was subbed off but I though that was more because of TC coming on for Tedic. And obviously then Aneke a few moments later.

    What did he do wrong? I apparently missed it
    Thought it was just me that missed it 
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,503
    Thought he should've closed the man who turned and played the ball through that ended up as their 1st goal. Just hasn't appeared to be aggressive enough so far. 
  • cafc4life
    cafc4life Posts: 4,633
    Doesn’t do anything for me. Assimwe much better 
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  • NabySarr
    NabySarr Posts: 4,290
    cafc4life said:
    Doesn’t do anything for me. Assimwe much better 
    Different types of full back. Watson more likely to stay wide and put crosses into the box. Assimwe is very comfortable in possession and often drifts more central to support us in midfield 
  • Leuth said:
    Asiimwe was assured on the ball, went forward, found his winger, supported attacks, made darts inside, looked like a confident and capable footballer. We were utterly transformed with him and Tyreese down the right. Watson more or less hid, including for their first goal 
    In fairness to Watson he didn’t have a winger in front of him, he had a carthorse striker being asked to play wide. Watson would have looked better with TC in front.
  • jams
    jams Posts: 1,219
    The problem is at the moment he's not going forward enough and not especially good at defending
  • Not writing off Watson yet, but so far he doesn't look like the sort of player you wait all summer to sign, because he's that good.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,251
    Our two left and right backs are completely different players. 2 would suit the weird football that Postecoglu is playing at Tottenham where the fullbacks spend as much time in central midfield as they do wide. This fits Asimwe and Edun. Doesn't suit Watson or Thomas, I was not overly convinced about Watson, thought he was average for the franchise, but remain delighted if I'm proven wrong, I do remain to be convinced though. In his defence he hasn't had a pre-season like a lot of our signings and did really well when he came on against Wycombe. 




  • redman
    redman Posts: 5,285
    NabySarr said:
    cafc4life said:
    Doesn’t do anything for me. Assimwe much better 
    Different types of full back. Watson more likely to stay wide and put crosses into the box. Assimwe is very comfortable in possession and often drifts more central to support us in midfield 
    Sums it up well for me. More of a plus for me in this game as we were getting outnumbered in middle of the park so Assimwe drifting inside helped our balance. To me Watson is still finding his feet and too early to write him off 
  • Danny Addick
    Danny Addick Posts: 3,930
    Not writing off Watson yet, but so far he doesn't look like the sort of player you wait all summer to sign, because he's that good.
    He was probably second choice after the medical team decided Dabo wasn’t up to it. 
  • Sage
    Sage Posts: 7,278
    Certainly too early to write him off. However, not seen anything in his game to say he’s a better option than Asiimwe.

    Defensively he’s poor, he’s not very quick, he’s not aggressive in attack. I actually thought he only looked decent against Wycombe because they gave him the entirety of the right hand side and all the time in the world to get forward.

    Lots of the season left, but I think our best back 4 is without Watson and Thomas and instead it includes Asiimwe and Edun.
  • mendonca
    mendonca Posts: 9,405
    edited October 2023
    Agree with that. Asiimwe beats him in awareness, endeavour and physical attributes. Maybe Watson could play left back :/

    Wonder what or if any other teams were in for him?
  • Garrymanilow
    Garrymanilow Posts: 13,173
    edited October 2023
    I think people are being a bit harsh after one poor performance. He's made four appearances, has already got an assist and played 81 minutes in a clean sheet performance. He was fine against Exeter as well. He's not had a pre-season and has a lot of fitness to make up, as well as needing a bit more time to gel with the team. On top of that we only need him to be a good enough rotation option to help with Asiimwe's development. It'll be ok.
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  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,001
    I think people are being a bit harsh after one poor performance. He's made four appearances, has already got an assist and played 81 minutes in a clean sheet performance. He was fine against Exeter as well. He's not had a pre-season and has a lot of fitness to make up, as well as needing a bit more time to gel with the team. On top of that we only need him to be a good enough rotation option to help with Asiimwe's development. It'll be ok.
    I'm inclined to agree, he's unlikely to become a world beater but I hope/suspect we haven't seen his best yet. I don't know if he's a long-term solution to the FB dilemma but I think he'll do alright as a squad option.
  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,345
    He'll be fine. He looked really good in one performance as a sub overlapping and whipping in crosses, then sprinting back. 

    This couple of weeks focus time for the non intl squad should help him a bit too. 
  • DiscoCAFC
    DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,762
    Honestly he is the worst RB I witnessed in a Charlton shirt.

    He is so slow on the ball, can’t cross nor make decent forward runs.

    To top it off, Peterborough’s 2nd was down to him. The player who made the assist had so much time on ball and Watson was the nearest but he was just jogging back and not acknowledging the player. That is just basic and pathetic football.
  • He’s average, we’ve had worse. Good enough to be a squad player next year.
  • Looks like he’s not the player we hoped for.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,377
    edited January 2024
    DiscoCAFC said:
    Honestly he is the worst RB I witnessed in a Charlton shirt.

    He is so slow on the ball, can’t cross nor make decent forward runs.

    To top it off, Peterborough’s 2nd was down to him. The player who made the assist had so much time on ball and Watson was the nearest but he was just jogging back and not acknowledging the player. That is just basic and pathetic football.
    No the second Peterborough goal was down to Lloyd Jones

    Wing-Backs have to attack and defend - So when they do the former, its up to a Centre-Back to realise that there is a gap, and potentially cover - So a five man defence suddenly becomes a back four - No one did that.

    Tennai maybe should have got back quicker, but in which case all he's going to be doing all afternoon is sprinting back and forth - No person can do that its just not possible, its why you see even the Godly Blackett-Taylor jogging around for a while after going on a sprint.
  • DiscoCAFC
    DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,762
    DiscoCAFC said:
    Honestly he is the worst RB I witnessed in a Charlton shirt.

    He is so slow on the ball, can’t cross nor make decent forward runs.

    To top it off, Peterborough’s 2nd was down to him. The player who made the assist had so much time on ball and Watson was the nearest but he was just jogging back and not acknowledging the player. That is just basic and pathetic football.
    No the second Peterborough goal was down to Lloyd Jones

    Wing-Backs have to attack and defend - So when they do the former, its up to a Centre-Back to realise that there is a gap, and potentially cover - So a five man defence suddenly becomes a back four - No one did that
    Think you watched a different game.

    https://x.com/jimmyyy_____/status/1746219043164504482?s=46

    So this isn’t Watson’s fault? The fact he only jogged back?
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,787
    edited January 2024
    DiscoCAFC said:
    Honestly he is the worst RB I witnessed in a Charlton shirt.

    He is so slow on the ball, can’t cross nor make decent forward runs.

    To top it off, Peterborough’s 2nd was down to him. The player who made the assist had so much time on ball and Watson was the nearest but he was just jogging back and not acknowledging the player. That is just basic and pathetic football.
    Nope. If you look on page 1 of the post match thread, a number of people, myself included, corrected a poster who made the same assertion.
    This, for example, was my response:

    Just seen the second goal and complete lack of intelligence and effort from T.Watson. Awful. 
    Not having that. He’d just run up front and put in a lovely pass for a chance for us. Peterborough had a quick break and scored from that. 
    Two things: 1) Tennai was blowing out his arse because he’d had to sprint back. 2) Nobody dropped into his space to cover his run upfront.

    He’s not perfect by any means, but you can’t pin that goal on him.


    That earlier poster, like you, seemed to think T Watson was “casually jogging” back. 
    In the context of the previous thirty seconds and the failure of others (Lloyd Jones in particular) to cover him, there’s no way he can be blamed for that goal.
  • ForeverAddickted
    ForeverAddickted Posts: 94,377
    edited January 2024
    DiscoCAFC said:
    DiscoCAFC said:
    Honestly he is the worst RB I witnessed in a Charlton shirt.

    He is so slow on the ball, can’t cross nor make decent forward runs.

    To top it off, Peterborough’s 2nd was down to him. The player who made the assist had so much time on ball and Watson was the nearest but he was just jogging back and not acknowledging the player. That is just basic and pathetic football.
    No the second Peterborough goal was down to Lloyd Jones

    Wing-Backs have to attack and defend - So when they do the former, its up to a Centre-Back to realise that there is a gap, and potentially cover - So a five man defence suddenly becomes a back four - No one did that
    Think you watched a different game.

    https://x.com/jimmyyy_____/status/1746219043164504482?s=46

    So this isn’t Watson’s fault? The fact he only jogged back?
    Why isn't Jones further over to the right then... Covering the space?

    There are two other Centre-Backs who can come central... Edun is over on the Left

    You're still left with a back four.

    None of the four, who I've mentioned have just taken part in an attack, so arent in recovery mode.

    Dont think you understand what it takes out of a person sprinting.
  • His lack of effort to get back is pathetic 
    our footballers at the back are lacking in footballing nous
    hate em all utter shit