James Tarkowski

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Personal opinion but I’ve just got no time whatsoever for this type of defender. The “hold me back lads I’m going to do him” antics make my skin crawl with second hand embarrassment. Looking forward to seeing JB paired with a proper centre back but in reality I’m more likely to be watching this donkey with his chuckle brother mate rolling back the years and treating us to a Burnley style relegation battle pairing after JB is sold in the summer.

Cant wait to see the pair of them launching 80mph hoofs to Barry’s head while the crowd moan that he can’t control fuckall.
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Bob Sacamano wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 6:54 pm Personal opinion but I’ve just got no time whatsoever for this type of defender. The “hold me back lads I’m going to do him” antics make my skin crawl with second hand embarrassment. Looking forward to seeing JB paired with a proper centre back but in reality I’m more likely to be watching this donkey with his chuckle brother mate rolling back the years and treating us to a Burnley style relegation battle pairing after JB is sold in the summer.

Cant wait to see the pair of them launching 80mph hoofs to Barry’s head while the crowd moan that he can’t control fuckall.
He's probably been our best player so far this season and this is the way our fans talk about him, ridiculous
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StirlingBlue wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2026 2:32 pm He's probably been our best player so far this season and this is the way our fans talk about him, ridiculous
Its been decided. Unless he suddenly starts shitting competent right backs hes useless regardless
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I think he has been good for us generally but the hard man shit is embarrassing
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Kerryblueboy wrote: Wed Oct 28, 2026 5:28 pm I think he has been good for us generally but the hard man shit is embarrassing
Its a bit much but its also about 1/100th of the nonsense Duncan ferguson did and hes treated like a hero.
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I dont see him being the agressor much, tbh. He winds people up and generally laughs if he gets under their skin and they become agressive towards him. But I dont see him being the agressor, on the front foot in people's faces much at all. He's also never been sent off.
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Nah he's done multiple stupid aggressive things over the years that have been mostly inexcusable, but he's been lucky/clever enough to largely get away with them. Only have to go back a weekend to that stupid body check against Chelsea, which could easily have been given as a red.

But he's also been playing really well so far this season, and has mostly been good for us since he signed. He looked ropy as anything at times last season with the amount of daft mistakes he was making, but has seemingly got over it and looked really solid again.
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Never been sent off in his career so he’s smart with what he does.

It’s just needless and a bit cringe.

Usually when players act like that it’s over compensating for a lack of ability at this level.

He’s better than that.
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Did it against us and we hated him for it, putting in dangerous dickhead challenges as a dick measurement and you’re lying if you don’t agree.

That said I do think football is an aggressive game that requires aggressive players sometimes and we have a team of absolute flannels so he’s badly needed in that respect.

One of our best signings of the modern era for me.
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He's just really good at winding strikers up, with just a little bit of snide added to the mix. Every team needs a snide, and Tarkowski offers just enough shithousery to be considered a snide.
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I think we need to take the lesson here of missing pre-season Vs having one, and apply it to Garner.

The difference between him this and last year is night and day, and it goes to show just how impactful missing pre-season can be, and that it doesn't just automatically mean someone's shite because they aren't performing as expected
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