Cyle Larin

[Oisin]

Thought I’d let the euphoria die down before trying to analyse his performance …

And on reflection it was genuinely excellent. Goal aside (the desire, the movement, the header) he looked like he’s going to be every defenders nightmare. Big, strong yet mobile, able to hold, to lay off.  He totally put a shift in and showed constantly for the ball. He was on a mission. He’s exactly what a number 9 in this formation needs to be. And if he can get on the end of crosses with his movement and desire he may score some goals too.  He even made a strong defensive clearing header too from a corner.

Not enough evidence (I.e. none) to comment on his composure or finishing with his feet but based on everything we saw yesterday he’s the TYPE of player we’ve needed. He also appears to have the right attitude and desire (Mara), and enough skill, awareness and football intelligence (Downs) to be a major improvement on what we’ve gambled on before. I think he’ll be an asset. 
As much as anything he’ll occupy centre backs and thus create space for others. Its extremely early days but I’m really encouraged by what I saw.

[SNSUN]

Transfermrkt said he has a Hamstring injury. Do they know something we don't?

[Dr. Kucho]

That was one very fine header by Larin, in his celebration you could see what it meant to him after his time at Feyenoord.

My Dutch colleagues were laughing when we signed him and showed me videos how crap he was for Feyenoord. Just sent them a video of the goal and their response was, why couldn’t he do that here? Likely that the Championship suits him better than the Eredivisie.

Hope he can continue like he did and all works out for him. 

[Baird of the land]

8 minutes ago, SNSUN said:

Transfermrkt said he has a Hamstring injury. Do they know something we don't?

I did see him grimace during his last involvement. Really hope that’s not the case.

[BARCELONASAINT]

1 hour ago, SNSUN said:

Transfermrkt said he has a Hamstring injury. Do they know something we don't?

Unfortunately I did pick up on him looking in some discomfort soon after scoring and rubbing the back of his leg. He obviously carried on to the final whistle so hopefully was only a tweak.

[swedish dave]

On 03/02/2026 at 09:23, sadoldgit said:

Call me old fashioned, but

I am going to wait until he misses his first sitter before I write him off as a useless donkey.

Er ..what was that you said again ? 

[swedish dave]

13 minutes ago, BARCELONASAINT said:

Unfortunately I did pick up on him looking in some discomfort soon after scoring and rubbing the back of his leg.         He obviously carried on to the final whistle so hopefully was only a tweak.

.Ah YES, that was caused by his idiot teammates when congratulating him with wrestling holds and drop kicks...

[Sheaf Saint]

4 minutes ago, swedish dave said:

Er ..what was that you said again ? 

In all fairness, that wasn't exactly a sitter.

[Holmes_and_Watson]

8 hours ago, SNSUN said:

Transfermrkt said he has a Hamstring injury. Do they know something we don't?

Every player is hamstrung being with us. That's on all the profiles. 🙂

[Holmes_and_Watson]

8 hours ago, Oisin said:

Thought I’d let the euphoria die down before trying to analyse his performance …

And on reflection it was genuinely excellent. Goal aside (the desire, the movement, the header) he looked like he’s going to be every defenders nightmare. Big, strong yet mobile, able to hold, to lay off.  He totally put a shift in and showed constantly for the ball. He was on a mission. He’s exactly what a number 9 in this formation needs to be. And if he can get on the end of crosses with his movement and desire he may score some goals too.  He even made a strong defensive clearing header too from a corner.

Not enough evidence (I.e. none) to comment on his composure or finishing with his feet but based on everything we saw yesterday he’s the TYPE of player we’ve needed. He also appears to have the right attitude and desire (Mara), and enough skill, awareness and football intelligence (Downs) to be a major improvement on what we’ve gambled on before. I think he’ll be an asset. 
As much as anything he’ll occupy centre backs and thus create space for others. Its extremely early days but I’m really encouraged by what I saw.

I only saw him in the highlights, but hopefully that's what we get. It's certainly what we really need.

[suewhistle]

12 hours ago, Oisin said:

As much as anything he’ll occupy centre backs and thus create space for others. Its extremely early days but I’m really encouraged by what I saw.

Yes, as St Ciervo said, something we've been missing. The team has been less than the sum of its parts but perhaps one of the parts was wrong?

[trousers]

59 minutes ago, suewhistle said:

Yes, as St Ciervo said, something we've been missing. The team has been less than the sum of its parts but perhaps one of the parts was wrong?

And it's only taken the geniuses at Sport Republic 4 years to work out the bleedin' obvious....