He was supposed to be able to beat the press, keep the ball in tight spaces

and move it forward. He does sometimes move it forward, or wide, with nice looking passes, but he's actually not very good when under pressure. Has coughed up possession so many times in the last two games (all game yesterday, and first half v United) when closed down.

Posted By: jamesward on December 15th 2021 at 10:09:58

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Billy Gilmour….FFS give the lad a break. He’s a good footballer (NCFC) - BINMEN8R, Dec 15, 08:56:34
- Skipp made a much bigger impact last year. Doesn’t seem like the right loan deal for us (NCFC) - NorskyNormann, Dec 15, 15:58:24
- I don't think people are being unpleasant to Gilmour (NCFC) - paulg, Dec 15, 10:05:38
  - James Bigglesworth is particularly unpleasant and pretty classless on his views on Billy (NCFC) - Steven_P_Morrissey, Dec 15, 11:33:08
  - He was supposed to be able to beat the press, keep the ball in tight spaces (NCFC) - jamesward, Dec 15, 10:09:58
    - Nobody can do that on their own though (NCFC) - mr carra, Dec 15, 10:21:48
  - I dunno, the comments were pretty harsh last night (n/m) (NCFC) - SimonOTBC, Dec 15, 10:09:32
    - lots of last night's comments were frankly ridiculous (NCFC) - paulg, Dec 15, 10:13:26
- the problem is we need players that are ready now (NCFC) - cardiffgali, Dec 15, 09:46:37
- People are projecting their issues with Chelsea fans / the media bigging him up on to him (NCFC) - norwaay, Dec 15, 09:26:38
- His biggest issue is off the ball. Players go past him too easily. (NCFC) - Knitted Jesus, Dec 15, 09:07:06
  - It is but we should have paired him with a proper DM as I think 90% of our fans (NCFC) - Jim, Dec 15, 09:09:42
- agreed, he's not lived up to the massive hype (NCFC) - Mecagoenti, Dec 15, 09:01:08
  - To be fair he needs quality around him too (NCFC) - MonkeyPuzzle, Dec 15, 09:13:48

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