Joshua Onomah

[Bing]

...looks like he's won a competition to play for t'North End.

Saw it on the back of a cereal box - "Unfit midfielder required for tinpot Championship club. Apply within."

Dreadful signing. Wheezing after their midfielders within seconds of coming on.

 

[JK]

He has no chance of getting fit by only playing injury time.

Both him and Woodburn nearly ended up costing us as neither look on it at all.

 

[Thracia]

I wonder who benefits from these awful signings?

 

[BAJPNE]

No wonder we got him so easy looking at the state he’s in atm.

On Woodburn, happy to never see him play for the club again, no surprise the performances have picked up since he’s been allowed little pitch time

 

[Lord Edgington]

He has no chance of getting fit by only playing injury time.

Both him and Woodburn nearly ended up costing us as neither look on it at all.

I thought the same
Ten minutes yes. 3 minutes - why ?

 

[RarkMankine]

Good job we have a reserve team he can get a couple of games under his belt with....oh wait...

 

[keithaw]

Didn’t Ryan Lowe not say that he kn his agent.

 

[NG White]

There isn't much point getting him on the pitch for 3-4 minutes. They need to get him fit enough to play 60-70 minutes or there is no point. If he can't get himself fit enough to do that then we've just wasted time and money.....again. Lets hope he can prove himself.

 

[Pennyhome]

Most pointless wasteful signing .

What the hell is the point of this lad ?

Came on for two mins and their lad skipped past him like he wasn’t there.


Shambolic signing .

 

[Dreyfuss]

I thought the same
Ten minutes yes. 3 minutes - why ?

Those decisions felt like desperate attempts to up their sub appearance counts. Both came on and immediately got walked past like they weren't even there.

Lowe said it was pointless Onomah playing in the central league game. I'm not sure what we or he gained from today's run out. He just looks way short of being ready for competitive action.

 

[Doyler]

Felt bad for him, he should never have been thrown on tonight.

 

[Lord Edgington]

Felt bad for him, he should never have been thrown on tonight.

He would take a bit of throwing
I think we now know why the catering thread has exploded with the news that the food ran out

 

[europne]

I think we got them of PNEbay.......

 

[york white]

See my comments on another thread. This signing wasn’t right.

 

[Pnebraddy87]

As others have said, bad use of the ‘reserve team’ haven’t helped him, get him some 60-70 minutes in somewhere. Same with Bauer, maybe even Delap and Parrot.

 

[StringbeanFan]

Didn't we miss out on some summer signings because the Riddler didn't want us to be paying players to sit on the beach? Yet he's happy to pay this guy half a seasons wages to "get upto fitness"...

Nothing against the lad, he might be a top bloke and a great player, but surely we can't be spending our limited money on punts like this?

 

[MattPNE17]

He clearly needs match fitness, and he's not going to get that without matches... so we're not playing him for more than 5 minutes at a time. Eh?

Does this club actually try to plan anything, or do we just enjoy spunking our increasingly precious money up the wall? I suspect the latter.

This wasn't his type of game tonight to be fair - we could have done with a more combative midfielder to be brought on at that stage in the game to help shore things up, but... the way he was getting breezed past by players who had been on for the whole game was alarming. Literally like he wasn't even there.

I'd love to see him, Whiteman and DJ in the middle with Browne at RWB, but only if he can get fit.

 

[Steve Elliotts Door]

I'll reserve judgement until I've seen him play at least 60 mins.

 

[MattPNE17]

I'll reserve judgement until I've seen him play at least 60 mins.

You might never be passing judgement on him in that case.

 

[simo]

Is there any intel on the terms of his deal. Are we actually paying him anything much?