Adam Forshaw

[Forever Blue]

Welcome to the club, midfield maestro 🔥

He could be a good stop-gap until Travis is back.

Edited January 11 by Forever Blue

[DeeCee]

The race to the bottom is on!

[wilsdenrover]

10 minutes ago, DeeCee said:

The race to the bottom is on!

Kinky 

[RevidgeBlue]

Has anyone checked his birth certificate?

[Plastics]

I don't understand the levels of dislike towards this guy. He reminds me of Grella, despite perhaps not being a 90 minutes a game player (certainly not regularly). Sensible head who will put a tackle in. How come people are obsessed with making him out to be below championship quality?

[roversfan99]

Hard to excel in limited game time but I dont think his performances have done anything to suggest that Plymouth were wrong to not want him.

[Plastics]

1 minute ago, roversfan99 said:

Hard to excel in limited game time but I dont think his performances have done anything to suggest that Plymouth were wrong to not want him.

Do you want to expand? What's been the issue?

[roversfan99]

1 hour ago, Plastics said:

Do you want to expand? What's been the issue?

He keeps giving the ball away, including in the build up to the Oxford goal. And he lacks the mobility to get about the pitch.

[Waggy76]

2 hours ago, Plastics said:

I don't understand the levels of dislike towards this guy. He reminds me of Grella, despite perhaps not being a 90 minutes a game player (certainly not regularly). Sensible head who will put a tackle in. How come people are obsessed with making him out to be below championship quality?

If I remember correctly Grella on his very few appearances could put himself about a bit , this bugger is like watching still life !

[Hasta]

On 04/02/2025 at 13:24, Plastics said:

Do you want to expand? What's been the issue?

At Oxford where he played most of the game, he showed he had a turning circle like a truck. It was so easy to play the ball up to a midfielder who would turn him and run at out goal. This led to him eventually having to drop off his man in order to offer more protection. The problem with this is that against Coventry in the second half, him trying to stay dropped off his man meant that he allowed them too much space to advance in the midfield area onto our back line. He's basically too slow / not mobile or agile enough to handle a midfield two as we do when we play as we do with Tronstadt / Travis.  Add into that I believe technical distribution is not his game I'm not sure what he brings.

It's no surprise the Preston pressure all started almost as soon as this guy come on last Friday.

I was sceptical based on what I was reading before he signed, and I've seen nothing so far to make me think he is a better option than Buckley or JRC, who themselves are inferior to Baker.

 

Edited February 7 by Hasta

[simongarnerisgod]

nothing against him but he`s at the end of his career and literally can`t move ,i cannot believe eustace thinks he`s worth more to the side than garrett,who at least can run and tackle

[johnradfordsubbuteo2]

On 04/02/2025 at 13:24, Plastics said:

Do you want to expand? What's been the issue?

Either you are Adam Firshaw or his agent.

Or his mum.

[johnradfordsubbuteo2]

Forshaw

[Plastics]

Still don't see him as the boogeyman that this forum sees him as. 4th choice CM on a free, how can you complain?

[roversfan99]

I know you seem keen to be a contrarian. But even if you have seen evidence to suggest that he is good enough even to be 4th choice, at odds with everyone else.

Why considering our position are we replacing a decent 3rd choice midfielder with a 4th choice midfielder when supposedly going for promotion?

[Hasta]

38 minutes ago, Plastics said:

Still don't see him as the boogeyman that this forum sees him as. 4th choice CM on a free, how can you complain?

Because in the squad he is a direct replacement for Baker, and he is inferior as everything implied he would be.

Due to availability, he's currently 3rd choice CM (as he was when he was brought in), and for spells here has been 2nd choice.

Therefore from the start of the window to the end of the window we downgraded. Why would that not be a reason to complain??

 

Edited February 9 by Hasta

[Bohinen1983]

Signing players from Plymouth when we needed bodies for a play-off push..  Exactly why Eustace wants out..  Could have been O'Brien or an emerging talent from league one or two.. I don't dislike Forshaw, but he is not what we needed..   

[LeftWinger]

My son wanted to get autographs and pictures with players today (he's 11). Most of the players were very accommodating and friendly.

Adam Forshaw walked past and I told my lad not to bother. Can't see him being here next season. Nothing signing.  

[Plastics]

On 09/02/2025 at 18:57, Hasta said:

Because in the squad he is a direct replacement for Baker, and he is inferior as everything implied he would be.

Due to availability, he's currently 3rd choice CM (as he was when he was brought in), and for spells here has been 2nd choice.

Therefore from the start of the window to the end of the window we downgraded. Why would that not be a reason to complain??

 

Because we didn't say that we wanted to get rid of Baker. Baker was taken back against our wishes. So we were forced to act. I think that Baker is better, too, but I don't understand the vitriol aimed at Forshaw and I don't think he's crap

[RoversClitheroe]

2 hours ago, Plastics said:

Because we didn't say that we wanted to get rid of Baker. Baker was taken back against our wishes. So we were forced to act. I think that Baker is better, too, but I don't understand the vitriol aimed at Forshaw and I don't think he's crap

Your username is very apt.

Foreshaw is shit.

[Aqualung]

2 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Your username is very apt.

Foreshaw is shit.

Bit harsh that mate. I thought he did OK v Wolves where we thought we were going to capitulate in midfield. 

Not the best but not the worst. 

[Plastics]

9 minutes ago, RoversClitheroe said:

Your username is very apt.

Foreshaw is shit.

Forshaw* is not shit, as much as people want him to be and seemingly want as many scapegoats as possible. We have worthy scapegoats and they run the club.

 

My username is a reference to a scene from The Graduate

[levi]

28 minutes ago, Aqualung said:

Bit harsh that mate. I thought he did OK v Wolves where we thought we were going to capitulate in midfield. 

Not the best but not the worst. 

I thought he did well v wolves was very surprised tbh...maybe needs games to get up to speed 

 

He was woeful in all his other games for us

[Hasta]

3 hours ago, Plastics said:

Because we didn't say that we wanted to get rid of Baker. Baker was taken back against our wishes. So we were forced to act. I think that Baker is better, too, but I don't understand the vitriol aimed at Forshaw and I don't think he's crap

Fair play mate. Hope he continues to impress people. I don’t think he’s very good, but we’ve now got far bigger issues atm.

[Ferrit]

I didn't think he could be as bad as how others were making him sound, I was wrong. Could go down as one of the worst signings we've ever made and we've had some whoppers.