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Prowsey has played every Prem minute


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3 hours ago, HarvSFC said:

https://www.premierleague.com/stats/top/players/mins_played

 

Joint fourth in the list, eight outfield players joint, or ahead.

Eh? If he’s played every minute, how can others be ahead?

According to those prem league stats the other outfield players currently to have played throughout are

Tarkowski (Burnley have played 37)

Baldock

Coady

Maguire

Rice

Van Dijk

 

Six, as correctly stated by the OP. And apart from Rice, all the others are defenders. Pretty impressive feat from JWP, particularly given the amount of running he does and the frequency of games since lockdown.

 

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8 hours ago, Saint Pete said:

Eh? If he’s played every minute, how can others be ahead?

According to those prem league stats the other outfield players currently to have played throughout are

Tarkowski (Burnley have played 37)

Baldock

Coady

Maguire

Rice

Van Dijk

 

Six, as correctly stated by the OP. And apart from Rice, all the others are defenders. Pretty impressive feat from JWP, particularly given the amount of running he does and the frequency of games since lockdown.

 

Because they’ve played one more game than we have.

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2 hours ago, Charlie Wayman said:

Just proves that all you need to do to become a club legend is hang around long enough to know where the light switch is. Wasn't that long ago was it that everyone groaned when his name was read out in the starting eleven.... 

Everyone? Really?

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On 19/07/2020 at 12:23, Matthew Le God said:

Everyone? Really?

Certainly not me. I've maintained for ages he has been a crucial cog in the machine. Take him out, and the machine didn't function.

Yes, at times he was criticised for sideways and backwards movement, but that was mainly down to the lack of movement and imagination of others and poor coaching.

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4 hours ago, Shroppie said:

Certainly not me. I've maintained for ages he has been a crucial cog in the machine. Take him out, and the machine didn't function.

Yes, at times he was criticised for sideways and backwards movement, but that was mainly down to the lack of movement and imagination of others and poor coaching.

I admit to being a long time critic of JWP - and until this season a lot of the criticism and frustration seemed justified.     Fair play to him though; he has found a position in midfield, continued his high energy work rate and improved the quality of his pressing, tackling and interceptions.     Much bolder with his passing and seems more confident in his own skin.    Deserves all the praise he's getting this season.

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7 hours ago, austsaint said:

I admit to being a long time critic of JWP - and until this season a lot of the criticism and frustration seemed justified.     Fair play to him though; he has found a position in midfield, continued his high energy work rate and improved the quality of his pressing, tackling and interceptions.     Much bolder with his passing and seems more confident in his own skin.    Deserves all the praise he's getting this season.

Ralph deserves praise too. He's instilled a very different mindset in all the players: aggressive out of possession and quick, positive movement if we can win the ball with the opposition out of shape. I'd say JWP gas embraced that as well as anyone.

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1 hour ago, Shroppie said:

Ralph deserves praise too. He's instilled a very different mindset in all the players: aggressive out of possession and quick, positive movement if we can win the ball with the opposition out of shape. I'd say JWP gas embraced that as well as anyone.

Yes; incredible really that Ralph could absorb the Leicester debacle and stay true to his beliefs and methods.      As you say, the aggressive out of possession style and the quick, positive movement upon winning the ball has been embraced by all our players......well maybe Obafemi needs to buy in a bit more.

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On 19/07/2020 at 00:44, Saint Pete said:

Eh? If he’s played every minute, how can others be ahead?

According to those prem league stats the other outfield players currently to have played throughout are

Tarkowski (Burnley have played 37)

Baldock

Coady

Maguire

Rice

Van Dijk

 

Six, as correctly stated by the OP. And apart from Rice, all the others are defenders. Pretty impressive feat from JWP, particularly given the amount of running he does and the frequency of games since lockdown.

 

Baldock is a wing back to be fair, that is a lot of running as well. 

But should also be noted that we are not a possession side and he (JWP) is not just a sitting midfielder in a 3, so it is very impressive. 

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On 19/07/2020 at 00:44, Saint Pete said:

Eh? If he’s played every minute, how can others be ahead?

According to those prem league stats the other outfield players currently to have played throughout are

Tarkowski (Burnley have played 37)

Baldock

Coady

Maguire

Rice

Van Dijk

 

Six, as correctly stated by the OP. And apart from Rice, all the others are defenders. Pretty impressive feat from JWP, particularly given the amount of running he does and the frequency of games since lockdown.

 

Because their games have had more injury time than ours have.

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8 hours ago, austsaint said:

Yes; incredible really that Ralph could absorb the Leicester debacle and stay true to his beliefs and methods.      As you say, the aggressive out of possession style and the quick, positive movement upon winning the ball has been embraced by all our players......well maybe Obafemi needs to buy in a bit more.

The Covid break has really helped us. Before that we had turned a corner from the rubbish we were serving up in the first third of the season but we still rarely put a decent 90 minutes together. Since the break we've had one bad game but have been very consistent apart from that.

The acid test will be the start of next season to see if we can carry on this consistency (of performance, if not result).

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1 hour ago, benjii said:

The Covid break has really helped us. Before that we had turned a corner from the rubbish we were serving up in the first third of the season but we still rarely put a decent 90 minutes together. Since the break we've had one bad game but have been very consistent apart from that.

The acid test will be the start of next season to see if we can carry on this consistency (of performance, if not result).

The players didn't really embrace Ralph's methods for that first run of tough fixtures, after that result, it seems everyone was on board to turn it around and we've been more like a top 8 team than a bottom 3 team in pretty much everything. Shows how far application, hard work and teamwork can get you considering the massive change in performances and results from the same bunch of players.  

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Have always thought JWP a skilful and clever player, but in the last couple of years he has got musch stronger and now  can't be bullied off ball. He is maturing into a very fine player and I there is still more to come

Saint's players' fitness has amazed me after the break, they have been good for every game, always finishing much stronger than their opponents.

Well done to all concerned., especially Ralph. He has moulded what was always a good squad of players, although  not well led, into an excellent team.

Just hope we can buy KWP, but would you sell him????

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3 hours ago, skintsaint said:

If he stays injury free could rack up a fair number of PL appearances, same as Barry & Milner.

He'd need to play every game for 9 more seasons to get close to 600 appearances, he ain't getting that far. Shame that he was so out of favour the last couple seasons really.

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