Aaron Connolly F Hull b.2000

[Kingdom]

Are you telling us that you'd turn down a young/in prime Aiden McGeady in our squad right now?

[passinginterest]

Connolly drove me crazy during the game yesterday, but reflecting on it today I think theres a footballer in there if he allows himself to be coached. His movement is excellent, but his decision making is awful. Hopefully as he matures he will improve. He missed some good chances but he also got into positions for those chances that other players wouldnt have.

Hes still on the cusp of being a Premiership or L1 player in the long run

He actually had me on my knees in the middle of the living room floor at one point, screaming at him, I think it was when he didn't get his head up to see Idah completely unmarked bursting forward on the far side. He really does get into some great positions, but too often is looking for contact to fall over and win a free, rather than actually trying to progress the play and either score or create something. I'm sure it's partly down to not playing regularly, similarly I think Idah gets better the more regularly he plays.

With Connolly, I'm sure there's a confidence issue with his finishing at the moment too, he's missed a few really good chances for club and country and that's a bit of a monkey on his back now. There was some interesting stats on the whoscored link posted earlier regarding touches and passes, Idah attempted 20 passes to Connolly's 9 off the same amount of touches (34). I think it probably shows Connolly has a little bit of tunnel vision on the ball (although to be fair to him he also was the one with the most shots and had 8 touches in the penalty area compared to Idah's 1 and 2 on the edge). No doubt Connolly was the bigger goal scoring threat, and if he starts to covert chances he could be phenomenal.

[paul_oshea]

As we have you here, and seeing as you have your ear to the ground in Brighton, a capable and devout network of eyes and ears, its a small city, his off field shenanigans if as bad as rumoured, would be known about, what are your lads saying about that ?

A bit more here if still interested

http://www.wearebrighton.com/newsopi...ly-to-grow-up/

[Eirambler]

Hard to argue with that article. The thing is though, Potter continues to stick with him, he must see something there.

But if he doesn't change his ways he will throw away his career, no question.

[seanfhear]

A bit more here if still interested

http://www.wearebrighton.com/newsopi...ly-to-grow-up/

Out on loan to a tough school has to be worth a go or perhaps Brighton should sell him if they can get anyone to pay a decent bit of dough for him.

[paul_oshea]

Hard to argue with that article. The thing is though, Potter continues to stick with him, he must see something there.

But if he doesn't change his ways he will throw away his career, no question.

I feel bad I should never have said anything at knock airport

[paul_oshea]

Out on loan to a tough school has to be worth a go or perhaps Brighton should sell him if they can get anyone to pay a decent bit of dough for him.

He needs to go somewhere where he doesn't have the luxury of 4 or 5 missed chances. That's not league 1 or so or even championship !

[Olé Olé]

Whisper it but Connolly has gone and scored two against Swansea in the EFL Cup. 40 minutes gone.

[paul_oshea]

Has he found his level?

[Olé Olé]

Has he found his level?

You certainly have found your's.

[EAFC_rdfl]

You certainly have found your's.

Nicely done!

[Kingdom]

Fap fap fap fap fap.

[paul_oshea]

You certainly have found your's.

Good one ole ole ole, you've been waiting a while for that one : D

[Diggs246]

Connelly defo gets into great positions, he needs confidence and also to grow up

We might yet have a good player there

[seanfhear]

Connelly defo gets into great positions, he needs confidence and also to grow up

We might yet have a good player there

Do they also say that about him in the Brighton Night Clubs ?

[Diggs246]

His goals

[seanfhear]

His goals

A couple of nice goals. Swansea missed a whole pile of chances going by that.

[seanfhear]

His goals

Looking at them again Connolly was given a freedom he is not getting a a higher level or international level.

[passinginterest]

You can see the difference a bit of confidence makes just between the first and second. There's not a lot of conviction about the first and gets a very favourable deflection. Immediately, for the second, he puts it away with genuine confidence, it's never missing. I think Idah is similarly struggling for confidence a bit too, the fact he was the designated peno taker the other night and let another young player take it off him and miss says a lot about his mentality at the moment too. Hopefully both keep getting opportunities and start scoring regularly.

[seanfhear]

You can see the difference a bit of confidence makes just between the first and second. There's not a lot of conviction about the first and gets a very favourable deflection. Immediately, for the second, he puts it away with genuine confidence, it's never missing. I think Idah is similarly struggling for confidence a bit too, the fact he was the designated peno taker the other night and let another young player take it off him and miss says a lot about his mentality at the moment too. Hopefully both keep getting opportunities and start scoring regularly.

Idah should have imposed his physicality in that situation ~ un-ambigiously.