Jake Thomson's fall from grace

[gulltom]

Within 2 years he's gone from a young hopeful at Southampton to warming the bench at Forest Green. After being released from Southampton after half a season with us, he spent a year with the pikeys up the road, then eventually signed for Kettering. After playing 2 games for them, he was sent on loan to the hippy colony where no red meat is allowed....

Important lesson here... A good attitude in the game gets you a long way!

[ferrarilover]

Wow, that is quite a fall. Just goes to show where the real talent lies. Just last night we saw another former player, Adam Smith, who was with us for a short while and could have gone either way, look at him now, smashing in goals like the one he got yesterday for Bournemouth. That's just the difference between doing things right, and doing them wrong.

Matt.

[Plymouth Gull]

To be fair though, Smith was quality!

[tufcbrett]

Thomson wasnt that bad though, he had the ability but he just couldnt be bothered which has let him down. Sad to say if the guy could be bothered to run and make an effort for the team at Torquay and Exeter. Hes going to be less motivated at FGR.

Lesson to Macklin there. Put the effort in, as its well known he doesnt try very hard in training which is why he doesnt get games. And again he has to ability/protential

[AustrianAndyGull]

Lesson to Taiwo also. If you are given a second chance then take it. If you don't then there is nobody else to blame.

[ferrarilover]

Lesson to Taiwo also. If you are given a four hundredth chance then take it. If you don't then there is nobody else to blame.

Edited for accuracy.

Smithy was good, but he could have gone either way, just like Thomson, fortunately, he made the most of his time here and what not and now is reaping the rewards.

Matt.

[Gulliball]

Adam Smith was superb here, and only 18 at the time, it was obvious he was going to play at a much higher level. He's proven himself at Bournemouth and now MK Dons in League One, and is still not old enough to drive a minibus. He'll surely be a Championship regular in the next 12 months if he's let out on loan again.

[stevegull]

I think i was lucky in that i only saw Thomson play one game, and that was his 'stormer' against Cheltenham. So from then, i assumed he played every game with that kind of flair, drive and passion. However, it appears this is not the case... :/

[royalgull]

I was extremely annoyed at the time as Adam Smith was used predominantly as a left back when Bucks had deemed Nicho wasn't good enough, whilst Robbo played right back *shudders*. Then when Nicho was rightfully resotred instead of moving the excellent Smith to right back he never played. Absolutely no surprise to see this lad involved with England u21 duty and playing for sides going well in divisions above.

As much as I defend a lot of what Bucks did here and could find reasoning with nearly all of his peculiar decisions (even if i didn't agree with some of them), that is one I will never fathom.

As for Thomson never thought he was particularly good, quick yes but loads of attitude and ultimately if you have no end product at all you will get found out.

[Father Jack]

I was extremely annoyed at the time as Adam Smith was used predominantly as a left back when Bucks had deemed Nicho wasn't good enough, whilst Robbo played right back *shudders*. Then when Nicho was rightfully resotred instead of moving the excellent Smith to right back he never played. Absolutely no surprise to see this lad involved with England u21 duty and playing for sides going well in divisions above.

As much as I defend a lot of what Bucks did here and could find reasoning with nearly all of his peculiar decisions (even if i didn't agree with some of them), that is one I will never fathom.

As for Thomson never thought he was particularly good, quick yes but loads of attitude and ultimately if you have no end product at all you will get found out.

Royal, if you had watched Nico getting the run around in pretty much every game right from the start of the 1st season back in the league (word obviously got round that all you needed was some pace on the right wing to create chances), you wouldnt be suprised at him being left out.
All credit to him on spending a lot of time on his fitness and coming back all the stronger for it.
The rightback area was strong enough to cope (quality, pacy left wingers are not exactly common in L2) with Robbo (followed by Manse), it was the left side we were getting ripped a new one pretty much every game.
The need for a quicker left back was obvious hence Smithy, Mo (quicker? Thats a laugh!) and LRT being tried in sucession.
The results when Smithy was playing dont actually make that good reading to be honest. GB and ME were playing pretty much from end January in the middle but we were still losing though, LRT then had his initial spell which made the defence look a lot more solid but missing the delivery forward, Nico was back in for the run in (looking leaner and meaner) where we were unbeaten

As for Jake T, its probably not that suprising he's at somewhere like FGR. Couple of Greeks I know were saying he was hopeless as a professional with them. Same as when here, nice little run, loses possession, didnt bother trying to help defence out, sulks.