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Daniel Johnson

Daniel Johnson

The reality is that DJ is nowhere as good as a lot of our fans think he is. Take Pearson for example, viewed on here as the second coming and now he can’t even make the bench at Bournemouth. If DJ was that good he’d have been snapped up by now, but premier clubs have an abundance of half paced midfield players who can pass the ball sideways.
Maybe true, maybe not but hes by far the most creative and technically gifted, been the case for most of the time back in the championship. We're seriously lacking and need a system which plays to his strengths-behind the strikers.
 
I’m calling it. Lowe likes players with a very British mentality. Anyone with an ounce of different opinions or personality or origin is not going to get a chance.

Woodburn over DJ? Lyndsey over Bauer? Storey over Diaby?

It’s pies over entrecôte
 
TBF to Lowe (and yes we are allowed to cut the bloke some slack) he's not the only manager who DJ hasn't impressed under.

If DJ's performances were that good he would be an automatic choice. The simple truth is that his performances haven't been that good, so he's not in the team.

DJ lovers, get over it.
Well by all means if any of our midfield have consistently performed well this season, please name them Tugg.
I'd be interested to know who they are!
 
I would look at it also from a different angle. If Johnson is not getting a new contract I very doubt his attitude will be good. Some fans we're too keen to push to recontact him and brown and lindsay(after a short good spell/after being rubbish before). Straight after contract he's been appalling. Brown is at least a Div 1 tryer, but on wages too high. Johnson is a poor Champ player paid too much, drifting through life.
 
Well by all means if any of our midfield have consistently performed well this season, please name them Tugg.
I'd be interested to know who they are!

Correct, no-one has been pulling up any trees. But Johnson is supposedly a senior player looking for a new contract and yet he continues to disappoint and plays well only when he feels like it, as he has done under at least 3 different managers now.
 
Correct, no-one has been pulling up any trees. But Johnson is supposedly a senior player looking for a new contract and yet he continues to disappoint and plays well only when he feels like it, as he has done under at least 3 different managers now.
Yes he does. But I'ld rather have a disappointing gifted player than a disappointing ungifted player in the team.

DJ IN!
 
Yes he does. But I'ld rather have a disappointing gifted player than a disappointing ungifted player in the team.

DJ IN!

So you'd rather have a team full of half hearted gifted players who only turn it on when they feel like it? Honestly?

Would be even worse than what we have now.
 
I would look at it also from a different angle. If Johnson is not getting a new contract I very doubt his attitude will be good. Some fans we're too keen to push to recontact him and brown and lindsay(after a short good spell/after being rubbish before). Straight after contract he's been appalling. Brown is at least a Div 1 tryer, but on wages too high. Johnson is a poor Champ player paid too much, drifting through life.
To be fair and in their defence, the club hasn’t got a good attitude either. The culture of it has always been 50 points and relax. We haven’t even attempted to pull up one tree never mind “trees”. So if we have players with attitude, slow and unremarkable that’s no more than what the hierarchy expect of the players. We haven’t won owt since 1938 so the locals aren't bothered is the club’s view Or certainly PR’s and the current ownership.
 
Correct, no-one has been pulling up any trees. But Johnson is supposedly a senior player looking for a new contract and yet he continues to disappoint and plays well only when he feels like it, as he has done under at least 3 different managers now.
Nah, he's a senior, established Championship quality player who has no interest in signing a new contract at this fucking car crash of a Football Club and who can blame him. Wish I could just move on to another club, I'm jealous as fuck.
 
Nah, he's a senior, established Championship quality player who has no interest in signing a new contract at this fucking car crash of a Football Club and who can blame him. Wish I could just move on to another club, I'm jealous as fuck.

The club hasn't suddenly changed and become thrifty. He should've left 3 years ago...you know, when there was that queue of clubs wanting to rob us of him...oh hang on...

Johnson has been well paid by PNE for doing very little. But some fans act like he's been doing us a massive favour.

Strange way of thinking.
 
The club hasn't suddenly changed and become thrifty. He should've left 3 years ago...you know, when there was that queue of clubs wanting to rob us of him...oh hang on...

Johnson has been well paid by PNE for doing very little. But some fans act like he's been doing us a massive favour.

Strange way of thinking.
I'm a DJ fan. I don't think he's been doing us a favour. But he has some flair that is rare in our squad.
 
So you'd rather have a team full of half hearted gifted players who only turn it on when they feel like it? Honestly?

Would be even worse than what we have now.
I think someone already said it. We already are seeing a team of half hearted ungifted players right now we don't have to imagine it.
 
The club hasn't suddenly changed and become thrifty. He should've left 3 years ago...you know, when there was that queue of clubs wanting to rob us of him...oh hang on...

Johnson has been well paid by PNE for doing very little. But some fans act like he's been doing us a massive favour.

Strange way of thinking.
DJ has been pretty poor this season I agree but nevertheless when he puts in a performance (admittedly the last outstanding one which comes to mind is Rovers) he's a class above anything else we have. I think it's ludicrous he was left out of the 18 on Saturday - beneath contempt so I will resist making any comments on our current manager. Having watched the vacant listless performances from footballers chosen over him though it beggars belief...
 
Not read all this thread, but some people are looking for any excuse to blame RL for anything or everything, shocking....

DJ has been poor for a good while, seems not to have his heart in it, little or no desire to work for the team, especially when he is on 19k a week.

There is no way he is going to be given a new contract at his age and what he has offered recently. I would rather have that wage on 2 younger lads with a bit of pace/skill who can go past a man, but they don't come cheap, unless you have a good scouting network, which we obviously don't
 
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