Damion Downs

[saintant]

Just now, trousers said:

Yup... How many windows is it now that Sport Republic haven't properly replaced Danny Ings...?

Far too many. Yet again we are having to make do and mend in the striker department having wasted a good sized chunk of money on a young signing probably because SR feel he may make them a few quid in the future. Their decision making continues to fuck up the club.

[Mboto Gorge]

Seriously, how bad is this guy? Up against some pretty stiff competition lately, he’s well and truly nailed the “shittest centre forward under sport republic” award in record time. 
it’s not just his clumsiness, his lack of ability at finishing or holding the ball up, or winning the ball in the air. It’s the fact he also seems to be a complete wimp who isn’t up for a battle, to boot. SR have managed to find the most physically and mentally weak 6ft 4 striker on the planet - when you think who we could’ve brought in to be effective with the budget we have at this level and we sign this left field chump. I was in the Hull end today as missed out on getting tickets in our end, I was behind the dugouts and downs seemed eager to get off the pitch when he was subbed, looked happy to get off, which says all you need to know about him. I’d go as far as to say I never want to see him in a saints shirt again. Even worse than Mara

Edited Saturday at 17:51 by Mboto Gorge

[Pamplemousse]

For the amount of money we spent, this is up there as one of the worst signings we've ever made. Something is seriously wrong behind the scenes. Spors has to sort it out, that's his responsibility 

[ally_uk]

Shite would of rather signed Miovski 

[Mboto Gorge]

McBurnie is miles better than him, which again says it all. 

[Gloucester Saint]

Needs shipping off to the MLS as soon as their transfer window opens, although it will probably the level below that realistically. 

[Saint NL]

Imagine this guy might be playing in the world cup next summer.

The championship already looks several levels too high for him.

[Wade Garrett]

Could have signed Kone for £2.5m, Ings for nothing, but the clever-bollocks (probably that geek from Barclays Bank) thought spunking a load more money on Downs was the clever-bollocks thing to do.

I wish all the clever-bollocks wankers at the club would all fuck off.

[Turkish]

What is it with us and strikers? Where do we find them? He was absolutely clueless today, looks miles off it, no threat in the air, no movement, crap first touch, put wide a chance when he did finally get one on one with the keeper. He looks terrible 

[Wade Garrett]

1 minute ago, Turkish said:

What is it with us and strikers? Where do we find them? He was absolutely clueless today, looks miles off it, no threat in the air, no movement, crap first touch, put wide a chance when he did finally get one on one with the keeper. He looks terrible 

He did a fucking good job of not challenging for headers.  Absolute wank.

[Mboto Gorge]

Just now, Turkish said:

What is it with us and strikers? Where do we find them? He was absolutely clueless today, looks miles off it, no threat in the air, no movement, crap first touch, put wide a chance when he did finally get one on one with the keeper. He looks terrible 

He also had no strikers instinct either, was always on his heels when crosses came in, barely challenged the keeper on the few times we did get a half reasonable cross in towards the 6 yard box, worryingly it looked like he didn’t WANT to get on the end of anything either. Pathetic signing in a long list of pathetic signings by this joke of an ownership group. The Hull fans couldn’t believe how bad he was and couldn’t believe the amount we forked out for him either. Would be Laughable if it wasn’t our club, but none of us are fucking laughing at this shit show as we lie 19th in the championship

[AlexLaw76]

I get that “it takes time” for many when they come over to another country and to a different league.

there is taking time then there is this 

fucking hell.

I hoped that the ridiculous sitters missed were just unfortunate, but Christ alive 

 

Edited Saturday at 19:43 by AlexLaw76

[Turkish]

5 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

I get that “it takes time” for many when they come over to another country and to a different league.

there is taking time then there is this 

fucking hell.

I hoped that the ridiculous sitters missed were just unfortunate, but Christ alive 

He shows nothing to suggest he is even remotely close to being a championship level player. As @MB said he didn’t look like he wanted to get on the end of stuff. Didn’t attack the cross, no instinct, no movement.  He was just there not really do anything 

[AlexLaw76]

Bamford is a free agent, isn’t he?

get him in the building ffs

[Gloucester Saint]

41 minutes ago, AlexLaw76 said:

Bamford is a free agent, isn’t he?

get him in the building ffs

Was a good player but we’d be replacing Ross Stewart basically. 

[Gloucester Saint]

58 minutes ago, Turkish said:

What is it with us and strikers? Where do we find them? He was absolutely clueless today, looks miles off it, no threat in the air, no movement, crap first touch, put wide a chance when he did finally get one on one with the keeper. He looks terrible 

It’s amazing how high shit can be stacked.

[Mboto Gorge]

1 minute ago, Gloucester Saint said:

Was a good player but we’d be replacing Ross Stewart basically. 

May aswell have Rod Stewart up front at this fucking rate

[Mboto Gorge]

48 minutes ago, Turkish said:

He shows nothing to suggest he is even remotely close to being a championship level player. As @MB said he didn’t look like he wanted to get on the end of stuff. Didn’t attack the cross, no instinct, no movement.  He was just there not really do anything 

Exactly. There is a reason why Hulls crosses caused havoc several times and resulted in goals being scored, whereas ours resulted in the keeper claiming everything or their defenders nodding everything away with complete ease, and that’s because they had players willing to get on the end of crosses and put themselves about and time runs into our box, whereas our “centre forward” was incapable of getting on the end of anything, and didn’t really look like he wanted to either. Totally unforgivable and shouldn’t be picked again for a long long time . Not only is he crap, but he clearly lacks the desire as well

Edited Saturday at 20:28 by Mboto Gorge

[S-Clarke]

He has a very languid style, which doesn't help fans perception of him.

But the chance he had, was such a shit finish. pub level stuff. He scuffed it.

He's had a very, very slow start but he doesn't make it easy for himself as he looks lazy. He's got a Mara vibe about him which I don't like.

[Willo of Whiteley]

He looks lazy as anything.

 

[Mboto Gorge]

28 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

He has a very languid style, which doesn't help fans perception of him.

But the chance he had, was such a shit finish. pub level stuff. He scuffed it.

He's had a very, very slow start but he doesn't make it easy for himself as he looks lazy. He's got a Mara vibe about him which I don't like.

You’ve almost got to laugh though, we spent a couple of years praying to see the end of Mara at this football club, and as soon as we do, the owners spend another large chunk of money on an even worse clone of him 

[Gloucester Saint]

27 minutes ago, S-Clarke said:

He has a very languid style, which doesn't help fans perception of him.

But the chance he had, was such a shit finish. pub level stuff. He scuffed it.

He's had a very, very slow start but he doesn't make it easy for himself as he looks lazy. He's got a Mara vibe about him which I don't like.

He’s going to cop some serious shit (possibly the odd object - not that I ever condone that) from the stands if he plays again in the Boro game with that attitude. 

That’s three times he’s missed it/almost fallen over the ball in front of goal and three sitters missed.

Typical SR project signing - and whilst Mara was a lazy git too, technically he was miles ahead of this bloke. Paul Moody was tall, basic and not very good but at least he put himself about for Branfoot and did well at Oxford.

Where does the club find these players - Carrillo, Onachu, Downs? Austin was saying on the podcast that in the first training session Guido Carrillo was at, the players were astonished as what he cost, looked nowhere a PL player. 

 

[Osvaldorama]

Laughably bad

Every time I think our recruitment can’t get any worse.. they somehow manage it. 

Can’t hold it up. Can’t head it. Can’t pass it. Can’t finish. 

At this point I think our recruitment is done based purely off 2 minute YouTube videos 

[stknowle]

5 hours ago, Osvaldorama said:

Laughably bad

Every time I think our recruitment can’t get any worse.. they somehow manage it. 

Can’t hold it up. Can’t head it. Can’t pass it. Can’t finish. 

At this point I think our recruitment is done based purely off 2 minute YouTube videos 

Thing is he looked shit in his highlights reel. 

[disconnect]

I think he will take time, but initial signs not good, and clearly lacking in confidence. For a big guy, not wanting to challenge in the air is not good...

[pimpin4rizeal]

Seems a bit harsh to be ripping him apart already it was only his first league start ..  there’s bigger culprits then him like bazunu and thb to point the finger at. 
seems holding the ball up isnt really his game so far but I like the runs off the shoulder and when gets the right type of ball he’s got the acceleration to be through on goal If that shot went in all the hate probably wouldn’t exist. Anyway too much hate is only gonna destroy his confidence 

[Osvaldorama]

3 minutes ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Seems a bit harsh to be ripping him apart already it was only his first league start ..  there’s bigger culprits then him like bazunu and thb to point the finger at. 
seems holding the ball up isnt really his game so far but I like the runs off the shoulder and when gets the right type of ball he’s got the acceleration to be through on goal If that shot went in all the hate probably wouldn’t exist. Anyway too much hate is only gonna destroy his confidence 

 

i dont think its harsh at all. He’s clearly nowhere near ready for a team that’s supposed to be challenging for promotion. 
 

Striker has been a huge issue for us for a long time so I admit that he may be taking the brunt of that… but Christ he’s been poor. 

[sockeye]

Needs to be fined £1000 for each unattempted header

[Mboto Gorge]

2 hours ago, pimpin4rizeal said:

Seems a bit harsh to be ripping him apart already it was only his first league start ..  there’s bigger culprits then him like bazunu and thb to point the finger at. 
seems holding the ball up isnt really his game so far but I like the runs off the shoulder and when gets the right type of ball he’s got the acceleration to be through on goal If that shot went in all the hate probably wouldn’t exist. Anyway too much hate is only gonna destroy his confidence 

There’s absolutely nothing harsh about criticising a guy who’s been brought in clearly as our main striker signing this season, (i mean he must be , because he’s the only striker they signed), especially when he isn’t prepared to get himself on the end of balls into the box. As a big centre forward that’s usually your main job, and not only doesn’t he do it, he appears to be afraid to and lacking the commitment or bravery to do so. So yeah, it’s not harsh at all. He’s fucking shite, and he also doesn’t want to go in where it hurts. Combine the two and you’ve got a complete waste of a place in the squad. Useless, and id be absolutely amazed if he improves enough to be a starter in this team. 
 

Let’s not forget that spors identified that we needed height and strength in the squad. So either Downs isn’t doing what he was signed to do and we’ve seen him do for his previous clubs  when scouting him, or we’ve yet again completely fucked up and managed to sign a player who’s the exact opposite of what we needed, other than the fact he’s tall. Shambles all round but are we surprised?

Edited 8 hours ago by Mboto Gorge

[miserableoldgit]

My wife, who is not known for her football knowledge, was watching a Saints game on TV recently asked who Downs was as he didn't seem to be trying very hard.....