Harry Souttar

[coolhandfox]

Another player who gets better when his not playing.

 

[Paninistickers]

13 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Another player who gets better when his not playing.

 

Another player (in an ever increasing line) woefully mishandled by the club. 

 

Play the right set up - low block, encourage long balls in - and he's excellent. Brentford away and Newcastle away good examples of what he can do when played correctly. 

 

But nope, we employ managers who don't wanna play like that. 

 

 

[coolhandfox]

2 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Another player (in an ever increasing line) woefully mishandled by the club. 

 

Play the right set up - low block, encourage long balls in - and he's excellent. Brentford away and Newcastle away good examples of what he can do when played correctly. 

 

But nope, we employ managers who don't wanna play like that. 

 

 

BIL is a Stoke fan, he's view is we over paid and he's never been any good in anything other then a 3 CB setup.

[honeybradger]

10 hours ago, iancognito said:

Imagine being a genuine threat full stop. 

Daka and Carranza on the teamsheet threatens to make me do something else with my day.

[Paninistickers]

8 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

BIL is a Stoke fan, he's view is we over paid and he's never been any good in anything other then a 3 CB setup.

Fair. In that Newcastle away game I think we played a back 9! 

[coolhandfox]

3 minutes ago, Paninistickers said:

Fair. In that Newcastle away game I think we played a back 9! 

True!

 

Should have won it at the end with Timmy, would have kept us up.

[Otis]

Play him as a striker. 

[South Shire Fox]

39 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

Another player who gets better when his not playing.

 

Sheffield United fans raved about him last year. They were dominating the league until he got injured. Hes a very good player at this level regardless of whether hes Prem quality

[Paninistickers]

17 minutes ago, coolhandfox said:

True!

 

Should have won it at the end with Timmy, would have kept us up.

I don't think that moment is talked about enough. It was close to being an extraordinary moment in our history. Being totally mullered for 80 mins after tactically leaving our best players out in Barnes and Madders in order to go at it in the last 10. And it almost worked. Sliding doors moment. 

[Clever Fox]

44 minutes ago, Otis said:

Play him as a striker. 

Play anyone as a striker than the Clowns we keep playing up tp. At least he's win a lot of Balls in the air.

[ACF]

Lot of you talking absolute waffle, he’s perfectly good in a back 4 for the Socceroos.

 

He’s absolutely a better defender than Faes and Jannik.

 

 

[Jazzy_Jeff]

He should start with Nelson when he’s fit.

 

I think our defensive issues are at fullback not centre back. 

[TheStig]

8 hours ago, Chelmofox said:

Put money on him never playing again at all. Always looked like he's been on the piss the night before to me.

Very likely - he is an Aussie

[dannythefox]

59 minutes ago, South Shire Fox said:

Sheffield United fans raved about him last year. They were dominating the league until he got injured. Hes a very good player at this level regardless of whether hes Prem quality

100% my mates are all Utd fans. Couldn’t believe we loaned him, proper old school CB always 7/10 every week. Get him fit and play him, get vesty out the club. 

Edited 6 November 2025 by dannythefox

[South Shire Fox]

11 minutes ago, TheStig said:

Very likely - he is an Aussie

Even worse, hes Scottish

[Guest worth_the_wait]

13 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

I don't think that moment is talked about enough. It was close to being an extraordinary moment in our history. Being totally mullered for 80 mins after tactically leaving our best players out in Barnes and Madders in order to go at it in the last 10. And it almost worked. Sliding doors moment. 

That was one of those strange moments, when you suffer for effectively doing the right thing.

 

Castagne hit that volley in effect with a perfect connection .. bearing in mind you need to keep your eyes on the ball every inch of the way.

 

Unfortunately it went straight down the goalkeeper's throat, and he was able to make a reaction save.

 

If Castagne had just miss-hit it slightly, it would've flown into the net, for an absolute screamer ... and it would've gone down in City folklore like Claridge 1996.

[filbertway]

13 hours ago, ACF said:

Lot of you talking absolute waffle, he’s perfectly good in a back 4 for the Socceroos.

 

He’s absolutely a better defender than Faes and Jannik.

 

 

Youd hope he looks decent against the likes of Bahrain and Indonesia to be fair

 

[CosbehFox]

13 hours ago, Paninistickers said:

I don't think that moment is talked about enough. It was close to being an extraordinary moment in our history. Being totally mullered for 80 mins after tactically leaving our best players out in Barnes and Madders in order to go at it in the last 10. And it almost worked. Sliding doors moment. 

Dean Smith given a lot of stick here. That Fulham performance was horrific but outside of that, he did a decent job really. 

[LVFox]

I could get behind an Okoli-Souttar-Nelson back 3

[AKCJ]

14 hours ago, South Shire Fox said:

Sheffield United fans raved about him last year. They were dominating the league until he got injured. Hes a very good player at this level regardless of whether hes Prem quality

He's got a touch of the Vestergaards about him where his laughable lack of pace gets caught out in the Premier League but he's a good enough defender and also good enough on the ball to not look horrendous in this league.

 

Very interested to see what his pace is like now though. He was slow enough before but after snapping his achilles, he's surely even slower now.

[VLC86]

12 minutes ago, LVFox said:

I could get behind an Okoli-Souttar-Nelson back 3

Most could I recon.

[Finnegan]

14 hours ago, coolhandfox said:

Another player who gets better when his not playing.

 

 

By the time he ever plays for us again, he'll be the Australian Van Dijk. 

 

It's going to kill people to discover he's worse than Faes and Okoli. 

 

[Stadt]

Crucially, he seems like a strong character and he's not been tarred by being an absolute shit willy puller in successive failure squads.

 

Nelson and Souttar in a slightly deeper line would be formidable, if we can't create much in open play we absolutely must be a better SP team and these two are massive.

Edited 7 November 2025 by Stadt

[Paninistickers]

56 minutes ago, worth_the_wait said:

That was one of those strange moments, when you suffer for effectively doing the right thing.

 

Castagne hit that volley in effect with a perfect connection .. bearing in mind you need to keep your eyes on the ball every inch of the way.

 

Unfortunately it went straight down the goalkeeper's throat, and he was able to make a reaction save.

 

If Castagne had just miss-hit it slightly, it would've flown into the net, for an absolute screamer ... and it would've gone down in City folklore like Claridge 1996.

As you say, he did everything right. 

 

Life went into slow motion. As a viewer you could see the move building, the cross l, Castange's position and then as life seemed to stop, willing him to do exactly what he did - hit the sweet spot. Soon as it left his foot, I thought 'that fcker's in' ......

 

....sighs

[ACF]

15 hours ago, filbertway said:

Youd hope he looks decent against the likes of Bahrain and Indonesia to be fair

 

Yeah of course, but that’s a pretty lazy way to look at Asian football.
 

He had very, very good performances in the World Cup, for a team that very much pushed Argentina in the Round of 16. 
 

There are now 18 Aussies in the Championship, about 8 of them should be in Word Cup contention. Souttar, if he gets fit and minutes, is in the squad no question. Australia’s issue is top tier talent at the moment, real world beaters just aren’t there. But it’s a very well rounded squad, with a lot of players who are finally coming through the A-League and moving when they’re ready.

 

Australia ranked 25 in the world by the way, ahead of Turkey, Wales, Scotland, Serbia, Sweden, Norway, Nigeria. Don’t think there’s much of a conversation about someone of Souttar’s abilities if he was the starting CB for anyone of those nations, but because it’s the Socceroos playing Bahrain (ranked 90), it’s looked very differently to Turkey playing Bulgaria (91).