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Ben Davies

Randall Flagg

Randall Flagg

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What a gem we have here. Rolls Royce of a player. Can't remember a centre back with as much class since Mawene. Never looks rushed or flustered. Never dives in, looks comfortable with the ball at his feet. Magnificent.
 
Neil thought he could have made a stronger tackle before their goal and probably had no need to go to ground. Hypercritical, I'd say. I thought he had an excellent game, along with the rest of the defence and Browne.
 
Randall Flagg said:
What a gem we have here. Rolls Royce of a player. Can't remember a centre back with as much class since Mawene. Never looks rushed or flustered. Never dives in, looks comfortable with the ball at his feet. Magnificent.
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Erm, comments like that are a bit offensive to Ben Davies, as he's a far better player already than Mawene ever was. Mawene was decent but not as good as his fan boys on here love to make out.
 
princeinpieces said:
Erm, comments like that are a bit offensive to Ben Davies, as he's a far better player already than Mawene ever was. Mawene was decent but not as good as his fan boys on here love to make out.
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Please go and stand in the corner with a dunce cap on.
 
Yoowell said:
Please go and stand in the corner with a dunce cap on.
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regarding their goal Browne could have pulled back and taken a yellow too but you can't blame the two best guys on the pitch really. That Wolves attack is dangerous at the best of times.

Back to Davies he really is turning into the player the club hoped he would become as a teenager.
 
princeinpieces said:
Well don't you just go and prove the point.

Thanks for that.
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There was absolutely no need to have a pop at Mawene in your reply. In my humble opinion he’s been the best defender I’ve seen so far at Deepdale.
With a bit more pace who knows where he would have ended up.
However, I think that Ben Davies has the potential to be top drawer and it will be fantastic to watch his progress.
 
princeinpieces said:
Erm, comments like that are a bit offensive to Ben Davies, as he's a far better player already than Mawene ever was. Mawene was decent but not as good as his fan boys on here love to make out.
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Pre-injury Mawene was the best defender I’ve seen play for us since I started going in ‘86.


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Credit to the lad. At Accrington at the start of the season I turned to my companion and told him that we now had a hell of a CB on our hands.

He looks at times like he can piss this level of football, and at a young age too. Hopefully he will continue to improve.
 
At this moment in time Youl Mawene is the best centre back we have had in decades no two ways about it. Ben may match him in the future though.
 
Randall Flagg said:
What a gem we have here. Rolls Royce of a player. Can't remember a centre back with as much class since Mawene. Never looks rushed or flustered. Never dives in, looks comfortable with the ball at his feet. Magnificent.
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And a major reason for Fleetwoods success last season, they are desperately missing him this season.

Looks so cool even under pressure.
 
Yoowell said:
There was absolutely no need to have a pop at Mawene in your reply. In my humble opinion he’s been the best defender I’ve seen so far at Deepdale.
With a bit more pace who knows where he would have ended up.
However, I think that Ben Davies has the potential to be top drawer and it will be fantastic to watch his progress.
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I'm aware that many people think Mawene was the best defender they've seen at Deepdale but when he signed he was already 24 or 25 and was the "finished article" where as Ben Davies is still developing, even at 17 when he looked like Bambi on ice under Westley the potential in Ben Davies was there for all to see. I'm sorry, but Mawene's season out clouded a lot of people's judgement of him, to me he was in "good form", like Garner was for 18 months under Grayson, rather than the messiah some make him out to be and once he returned from injury he was "decent" at best. Even Claude Davis looked decent for us but a complete donkey once he left. If Mawene had have been that good then he wouldn't have signed for Preston NE in 2004 after what was essentially one good season at Derby County.
 
princeinpieces said:
I'm aware that many people think Mawene was the best defender they've seen at Deepdale but when he signed he was already 24 or 25 and was the "finished article" where as Ben Davies is still developing, even at 17 when he looked like Bambi on ice under Westley the potential in Ben Davies was there for all to see. I'm sorry, but Mawene's season out clouded a lot of people's judgement of him, to me he was in "good form", like Garner was for 18 months under Grayson, rather than the messiah some make him out to be and once he returned from injury he was "decent" at best. Even Claude Davis looked decent for us but a complete donkey once he left. If Mawene had have been that good then he wouldn't have signed for Preston NE in 2004 after what was essentially one good season at Derby County.
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Well he was my defensive messiah. Best I’ve ever seen. Derby were gutted he left.
 
The progression of Davies is remarkable and remember as a centre half he is only 22. A baby in central defender terms. He is, as the OP said, a Rolls Royce of a centre half. All our play is through him. If he had played against Hull we would have thrashed them. I hear he is causing major interest from big prem clubs. Enjoy him while he is here, it won't be long.
 
york white said:
The progression of Davies is remarkable and remember as a centre half he is only 22. A baby in central defender terms. He is, as the OP said, a Rolls Royce of a centre half. All our play is through him. If he had played against Hull we would have thrashed them. I hear he is causing major interest from big prem clubs. Enjoy him while he is here, it won't be long.
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He'll be here for a while yet. Given that we don't need to sell players Hemmings won't be willing to let him go cheap (the Hugill saga proves that) but no "top" Premier League side would dare touch him as their arm chair super fans will never have heard of him so they would go into a twitter meltdown if their "team" spent more than 5 or 6 million on him.
 
Davies is playing like St Ledger did when he was in his prime but the last player I can remember playing the way Davies is now when he was as young as Davies is now is Howard Kendall.
 
princeinpieces said:
He'll be here for a while yet. Given that we don't need to sell players Hemmings won't be willing to let him go cheap (the Hugill saga proves that) but no "top" Premier League side would dare touch him as their arm chair super fans will never have heard of him so they would go into a twitter meltdown if their "team" spent more than 5 or 6 million on him.
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John Stones says that's not true. He looks as good, if not better than Stones did at Barnsley. I am told both Liverpool and Man City are regularly watching Davies and will not blink at breaking our recent record transfer sale.
 
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