Lewis Dobbin

[lambtiss]

On 03/11/2026 at 22:13, SuperSAINT said:

Dobbin has replaced Archer as the Saints player that I’m desperate to do well.

Gutted he missed that chance.

I was desperate for Fellows to do well, after Archer and before Dobbin. 

[lambtiss]

17 hours ago, stknowle said:

Gone to the same graveyard as the low diving header. Can’t remember the last time I saw one of those.

Didn't Larin score his first goal for Saints with a diving header? 

[Saint86]

2 hours ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

You’ve been watching Baz too much. The keeper was literally where every single keeper (apart from Baz) would have been. Stop with this “the keeper did well” , it’s as bad as the unstoppable shot nonsense we had previously. If anything the keeper went down a bit early, a competent finisher would have lifted it over his leg. It was an easy chance. 

Their keeper currently has statistically more "goals prevented" this season, than any keeper achieved last season - 14 games in 🤷‍♂️

[stknowle]

2 hours ago, lambtiss said:

Didn't Larin score his first goal for Saints with a diving header? 

He did actually yes but a/ my memory is f*#ked and b/ I was thinking more of the foot above the ground ones like Marian Pahars’ one against Everton (which I had also forgotten about until someone referenced it further up the thread)

[Lord Duckhunter]

2 hours ago, Saint86 said:

Their keeper currently has statistically more "goals prevented" this season, than any keeper achieved last season - 14 games in 🤷‍♂️

Goals prevented, what a load of old pony. 
 

This is the only statistic relevant to this thread “ points dropped by missing sitters”….Fucking four. 

[qwertyell]

Crap in every position. 

Lightweight, appalling touch. 

£9m that we didn't have, flushed down the drain by Spors. 

[washsaint]

Utterly pointless signing.  Can't shoot, can't hold the ball up, generally just shit.

They should have just kept Archer who is equally as poor but already here

[Lord Duckhunter]

Mubama gets stick, but this bloke is just as bad. Went back to his old club and showed them what they’re missing….. fuck all. 

[tdmickey3]

2 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Mubama gets stick, but this bloke is just as bad. Went back to his old club and showed them what they’re missing….. fuck all. 

Yep, pair of donkeys

[Patrick Bateman]

Not sure what happened to him today, but he was ridiculously bad, like 2/10. He's been showing some good touches and good positioning in prior matches, today, nope, awful - should've been hauled off earlier. 

[Lord Duckhunter]

The more I see this bloke, the more I’m convinced it was some sort of dodgy deal with Villa & THB. If he’s worth £9 mil my cocks a carrot 

[bpsaint]

Lewis Bobbins.

[Katalinic]

Archer from Temu

[stknowle]

22 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

Mubama gets stick, but this bloke is just as bad. Went back to his old club and showed them what they’re missing….. fuck all. 

He was shit today LD. He really was. I still see a player there but he is no leader of the line. Never will be. 

[egg]

43 minutes ago, Lord Duckhunter said:

The more I see this bloke, the more I’m convinced it was some sort of dodgy deal with Villa & THB. If he’s worth £9 mil my cocks a carrot 

Chantenay? 

Re Dobbin, I think the fee was £10.5 m, but I'm not sure how an inflated fee helped us given that we got fair money for THB.

That said, Villa have paid and received a lot of questionable fees over recent windows. £37.5m for that Maatsen lad from Chelsea, and Kellyman to Chelsea for £19m were eyebrow raising. Rogers going to Chelsea for £120m, and paying £50m for Jackson, equally so. 

[Badger]

1 hour ago, stknowle said:

He was shit today LD. He really was. I still see a player there but he is no leader of the line. Never will be. 

Wasn’t this the same line trotted out for Mara for about two years   

[Sidney Fudpucker the 3rd]

Should've just kept Archer.... And actually played him and given him a decent run in the team. 

[stknowle]

6 minutes ago, Badger said:

Wasn’t this the same line trotted out for Mara for about two years   

Yeah kind of I guess. Dobbin has a bit more pedigree behind him than Mara though with a decent scoring season last year. 

[Football Special]

1 hour ago, qwertyell said:

Crap in every position. 

Lightweight, appalling touch. 

£9m that we didn't have, flushed down the drain by Spors. 

I'm hoping 50% of that £9M was an add on based on promotion 

[saintant]

He needs to be doing a lot better because he's yet to demonstrate why we paid good money for his services. I was expecting to see some stand out performances with him playing a major role for us but he's been a huge disappointment. Him and Fellows are both underwhelming and should be shining in games at this level. We need them to massively up their output because they should be two talents who we can rely on but right now they are both missing in action.

[Turkish]

2 hours ago, egg said:

Chantenay? 

Re Dobbin, I think the fee was £10.5 m, but I'm not sure how an inflated fee helped us given that we got fair money for THB.

That said, Villa have paid and received a lot of questionable fees over recent windows. £37.5m for that Maatsen lad from Chelsea, and Kellyman to Chelsea for £19m were eyebrow raising. Rogers going to Chelsea for £120m, and paying £50m for Jackson, equally so. 

Remember they’ve probably been hit hardest by PSR given they’ve had years of European football and still got to sell to buy. I fully expect there are some manipulation of numbers to help with that. It still annoys me a lot that football these days is the biggest brand not the best performing clubs get rewarded. 

[Turkish]

3 hours ago, stknowle said:

He was shit today LD. He really was. I still see a player there but he is no leader of the line. Never will be. 

Coincidence his best games have been against teams who have come out and played against us and his worst games against teams who’ve sat back and we’ve dominated possession? Today was made for Larin, QPR game was right for Dobbin. Unfortunately when one of them is injured we can’t adapt 

[Sheaf Saint]

37 minutes ago, Turkish said:

Remember they’ve probably been hit hardest by PSR given they’ve had years of European football and still got to sell to buy. I fully expect there are some manipulation of numbers to help with that. It still annoys me a lot that football these days is the biggest brand not the best performing clubs get rewarded. 

Yeah there was definitely something fishy going on between Villa and Everton when they signed LD for £10m in 2024, with Tim Iroegbunam going the other way for a similar fee. Neither of them had shown any sign at that point that they were worth that amount, and both clubs were known to be at risk of PSR breaches so it was quite blatantly just an accounting trick to show large sales of home-grown talent. 

Lewis is yet to prove that he is worth the fee we paid for him, but the potential is there. I reckon he has a higher ceiling than Cam Archer, and we paid a lot more for him.

[Badger]

14 hours ago, stknowle said:

Yeah kind of I guess. Dobbin has a bit more pedigree behind him than Mara though with a decent scoring season last year. 

A Pedigree Chump perhaps 

[Miltonaggro]

On 07/11/2026 at 18:38, Badger said:

Wasn’t this the same line trotted out for Mara for about two years   

I felt that way at the time, Mara looked to have the lot as a striker but zero footballing brain often seemed mystified that he was in a football match most weeks. From what I have seen of Dobbin he is a tryer, but doesn't have the attributes (has zero physicality) to be played as a focal point forward - Larin being out has really shown this up.  New unit needed in January with LD used as a second striker from the bench.   

[disconnect]

I (luckily) didn't watch on Saturday but the few games before that Dobbin had been doing well and doing some lovely turns, through balls and was unlucky not to have more than the one goal. As @Miltonaggro has pointed out he's not a main striker, but probably better off the main striker / as a second striker. It's a shame he hasn't had more output as yet, but I'm sure he'll have some good output hopefully soon!

[saintant]

8 hours ago, disconnect said:

I (luckily) didn't watch on Saturday but the few games before that Dobbin had been doing well and doing some lovely turns, through balls and was unlucky not to have more than the one goal. As @Miltonaggro has pointed out he's not a main striker, but probably better off the main striker / as a second striker. It's a shame he hasn't had more output as yet, but I'm sure he'll have some good output hopefully soon!

If he'd scored the goals he should have we'd all be raving about him. He missed them and that puts him in a whole different light. It's a tricky one for Tonda but, if Dobbin is not going to convert a much bigger percentage of his chances, he's not really much use to the side other than as a sub brought on for 15-20 minutes.

[Turkish]

10 hours ago, saintant said:

If he'd scored the goals he should have we'd all be raving about him. He missed them and that puts him in a whole different light. It's a tricky one for Tonda but, if Dobbin is not going to convert a much bigger percentage of his chances, he's not really much use to the side other than as a sub brought on for 15-20 minutes.

Once he’s had Beattie and Lambert spend a few hours with him showing him how to shoot he’ll be cooking bro