31 Dec 2025 13:36:16
The more Dibling plays he looks like a young Jack Grealish there is a good player in there starting to emerge.
{Ed025's Note - hes very like Jack for me GB, very bright and strong on the ball but like Jack has a very ungainly gait that makes him look slow, seems to have a decent brain though and hopefully he will be an asset going forward mate..
31 Dec 2025 13:57:41
Barry aswell, ungainly. Mention for Barry, does some good off the ball stuff.
{Ed025's Note - really needs to improve his first touch though DMS, hes only young so has time on his side but if we do sign a striker he will be sitting on the bench for the most part i expect mate..
31 Dec 2025 14:21:30
Unless the floodgates have opened Ed and he now bags a goal a game until the end of the season….
{Ed025's Note - that will certainly change my mind on him BR.. :)
31 Dec 2025 16:12:02
When he finally gets the ball under control some of his passes were good and a tidy finish. Launching headers off the pitch and first time control and hold up leaves a lot to be desired though.
31 Dec 2025 17:24:07
23 in football terms isn't young when some call 35 past it. Reached my peak at 23 ?????, football lads, football.
31 Dec 2025 16:32:21
Dibling looks after the ball well and rarely wastes possession, a good trait for a young lad and a winger. The more minutes he gets and the more used he is to his surroundings, the more confidence will come and he will improve dramatically. Equally, the more the manager will actually learn to trust him.
On Barry, I don't know about you Ed but you either have a first touch or you don't, certainly by his age. That is something he should have taught himself at the younger ages. He keeps being addressed as a kid but he is 23.
I think he showed improvements in aspects of his game last night, most notably his passing and his runs. Instead of staying central, he looked to go wide a few times last night when the game was stretched and it helped us massively. He seems to take a few months to bed into his new teams (historically) , so let's hope he kicks on in the 2nd half of the season. I am yet to be convinced he will score us a lot of goals though, even last night's had a slice of good fortune in it - second touch was unintentional and actually takes it away from Zinchenko and onto his left, where he hits it into the ground and sends it over the keepers hand. That isn't digging him out, just simply an observation of the goal.
{Ed025's Note - Dibbs done well i thought BN, still think he lacks pace but the rest of his game looks fine to me mate, far from the finished article of course but i can see some green shoots, Barry for me will not be a decent footballer as long as hes got a hole in his proverbial imo, but would love to be proved wrong..