Damion Downs

[Harry_SFC]

11 minutes ago, Mboto Gorge said:

Rasmus may aswell have stayed in charge of recruitment based on this signing. Doubt he’d have even picked out a worse striker than this joker 

He picked Onuachu who whilst was a poor signing I'd snap your hand off to have at the moment. 

[Stripey McStripe Shirt]

Che Adams scored today for Torino. Just saying.

[Mboto Gorge]

Just now, Harry_SFC said:

He picked Onuachu who whilst was a poor signing I'd snap your hand off to have at the moment. 

The irony is, Onuachu would thrive at this level at a team who play to his strengths. 20 goals plus I’d be willing to bet

[Gloucester Saint]

4 hours ago, Matthew Le God said:

I have passed comment about him

Wibble

You’d have to go some for another striker to be worse in the FM database at this level than him, and one or two levels below as well.

I’ve seen Keith Cassels, Paul Moody, a totally past it and addiction-addled Kerry Dixon, a no-shit giving David Speedie, Ali Dia, Sekou Mara, and Guido Carrillo. Downs is worse, considerably, than any of those. The only one I never saw live was Stig Johansen.

One can only assume the scouts never saw him play live.

Edited 49 minutes ago by Gloucester Saint
Forgot Mara

[coalman]

If the lad is struggling for form and confidence you put him on when you're winning and comfortable. Not when it matters. That's twice in two games Still has hooked the winger that's looking most likely.

[Harry_SFC]

16 minutes ago, Mboto Gorge said:

The irony is, Onuachu would thrive at this level at a team who play to his strengths. 20 goals plus I’d be willing to bet

I said that as soon as we went down, I wouldn't be fussed if we had to keep Onuachu this season as he'd get a really decent return at this level. 

[bpsaint]

I thought Carrillo or Mara were the worst strikers I’d seen pull on a Saints shirt in recent years, but this lad is another level of shite.

Kinda feel bad for him because he probably jumped at the chance to join us, and is clearly not up this level. Perfect example of what happens when you follow data analysis bollocks to scout players instead of the old fashioned way of using your eyes.

[Baird of the land]

Has he played any games for the B team(or whatever it is called now)?

[Oh no Mick Mills]

On 09/07/2025 at 15:33, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Whilst off last week I watched the full 70 mins he played in Koln v Kaiserslautern on YouTube. 

Koln won 4 nil. 

He didn't score but had a decent assist for the 2nd goal. 

Apart from that and a couple of passes/layoffs he did very little else. 

On two occasions his first time passes went straight to the opponents and one was a perfect through ball that Kaiserslautern should have scored. 

Not going to pass judgement on him based on one game but from that first impression I was rather underwhelmed. 

More Mara than Che Adams going by that game.

Looking back at my view of him based on watching one game...feeling a bit smug but ultimately a damming indictment of our bozo recruitment team that some punter like me can watch one game on YouTube and see a dud . 

Did they actually use their eyes or computer data.? 

[Osvaldorama]

3 hours ago, Mboto Gorge said:

The irony is, Onuachu would thrive at this level at a team who play to his strengths. 20 goals plus I’d be willing to bet

Yeah 

 

We’ve signed wingers that love to cross, and a manager that clearly loves a target man JUST AFTER we let a target man go. 
 

WTF were the club thinking?!

[Gloucester Saint]

46 minutes ago, Oh no Mick Mills said:

Did they actually use their eyes or computer data.? 

The essence of a rhetorical question. We all know the answer…

By contrast pretty clear clear Derby had watched Agyemang live. He’s also raw but much more what I’d have expected from Downs and cheaper than Downs so Damian ought to be better https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/cwykgvxjwmko

SR getting their naive, lazy pants pulled down again.