tbaba1234:


All these reports from Allnigeriansports should be taken with a grain of salt. The one about him not knowing Osede is not true.

tbaba1234:


All these reports from Allnigeriansports should be taken with a grain of salt. The one about him not knowing Osede is not true.

tbaba1234:


All these reports from Allnigeriansports should be taken with a grain of salt. The one about him not knowing Osede is not true.

TheGoodJoe:


Yet, Derik pledged his future to Nigeria since last year. Coach Siasia should have invited the young man for one of the games.

Even when he released his Super Eagles list and put some of his Olympic boys. By now Coach Siasia should have had a better understanding of the lad.

I hope he knows the guy. If Coach Siasia does not know him then our screening was not thorough.

tbaba1234:


Pledging your future to Nigeria does not guarantee invitation. Ask Otigba.

Even players like Iheanacho, Ndidi and Success have not featured for under 23. Let's hope they are in the plans.

One of the guys that scouts for Nigeria visited Osede just days before Siasia added Osede to the list. He might not know him personally but there has been contact with Nigeria. Siasia is aware of him.

TheGoodJoe:


Still, Coach Siasia has little time before the tournament. I wonder when he will try Derik. I am talking in respect of Derik's technical background.

He is someone Coach Siasia should have known by now.

tbaba1234:


The Brazil friendly was the chance to start bringing in players like Ndidi and Success. Especially as they were not included in the super eagles team.

terzurum5:
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Could this be a good reason not to replace an injured palyer?
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Doesn't this offer you an opportunity to call up another replacement to enable you try other options?

TheGoodJoe:


I feel the screening is not thorough. The journalist talking to Coach Siasia should enquire if this list for the Suwon tourney contains most of his final Olympics team players.

I do not see why Iheanacho should be playing friendly games when we are preparing for the Olympics. This is a misplaced priority.

The Super Eagles has no major tournament coming up and the Olympics is a big deal. This tournament list should contain most of the final players for the Olympics. It seems we are still miles from being ready.

tbaba1234:


Ekpolo played against Brazil.

TheSuperNerd:

With two final training camps still to come up in Manchester, England and in Atlanta, USA (by which time his final list will be kinda known.... when in USA).... then we definitely are still miles away from being ready....

terzurum5:
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U-23 Eagles’ Oduduwa Injured, Out Of Suwon Tourney
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Reacting to the news, head coach of the team, Samson Siasia said he wouldn’t be replacing the injured Oduduwa ahead of their trip to South Korea.


“I hope the doctors work round the clock to remedy this unfortunate incident so that Oduduwa can return to training on time and be fit for the Rio Olympics, as he has been an integral part of this team from the beginning,” Siasia stated.

TheSuperNerd:

With two final training camps still to come up in Manchester, England and in Atlanta, USA (by which time his final list will be kinda known.... when in USA).... then we definitely are still miles away from being ready....

terzurum5:


Segun Oduduwa Sir.

TheGoodJoe:


Doctor in the house.

Please tell me this breakthrough research you have devised to get a player ruled out for a tournament fit by working round the clock.

TheGoodJoe:


Why is Coach Siasia still working with those he has already worked with, if he plans to use the other camping outings to screen others.

I expect him to have camped his 60 man list by now and screen out his expected team. From there he blends them by training and playing games together.

Coach Siasia should camp them together and screen the best. I expected this tournament to be made of mostly those that would play the Olympics.

Even his overage picks should have been in this team. This looks like a wasted opportunity.

TheGoodJoe:


Like WTF. You have a lot of players like Nwakali, Ndidi, Otigba, Derik waiting to get their chances and Coach Siasia wants the doctors to work round the clock to bring back a player ruled out of the tournament.

<<<Banging my head on the table repeatedly>>>

With all due respect to Coach Siasia, this is madness.

TheGoodJoe:
<<<Tears Shirt and runs out of thread angry>>>

TheSuperNerd:
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha......... Relax Sir GoodJoe.

Lol..... actually such hi-tech medical techniques exist.


Too bad it isn't in Nigeria...



But thing is.... I wonder why Siasia is sweating over Oduduwa's injury. He is certainly not our best U-23 defender.

Anyway, I read Siasia is eying getting him fit for the last stages of camping ahead of Rio. It seems in Oduduwa, we may have found Siasia's first name on the list for our defence in Rio. Who knows?

tbaba1234:


Ekpolo came on as a sub....

TheSuperNerd:


Certainly looks like a wasted opportunity as regards other players he would have called up by now.

Like Sir Icons said, I hope Siasia isn't avoiding inviting some names so as to create spots for his "boys"..... **I can't believe I just thought this way..... I just hope Siasia proves many wrong by picking a team that makes "Super sense" in the end.**

Anyway, the only thing I can look forward to in Suwon is to see the best few that are worthy of invitation to the training camps in Manchester before the final camping exercise in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A.

terzurum5:



Segun Oduduwa is out injured. So why can't we invite another promising defender for the Suwon tournament.


Why is Siasia insisting on going with just one option. What if he does not recover on time?


We need to test as many options as possible to be prepared.
Besides, this is one department Coach Samson Siasia is not too good in.


Siasia has to be proactive rather than reactive. If you recall, during out two leg AFCON qualifiers against Egypt. He regreteg not goin with some home based strikers. Reason being that, he had assummed Aaron Samuel and Fanen Adi were goin to be inform for the match.

I don't know if we are on the same page Sir?

Badosqi:
Our Rio team will contain most of these guys going for the Suwon tournament. This tournament should have been the perfect opportunity to invite some other talents, monitor them closely and pick the perfect ones among them.


The Rio Olympics is less than 90 days away about 2 months from now(today is May 30, MAY don finish now). And you don't expect Siasia to disband this squad he has been working with most since last year, some since the beginning of this year now...




I hope I am wrong and I hope he picks our best legs for Rio.

confun:
THEGOODJOE DON VEX OOOOO...... I DEY LAFF

TheGoodJoe:


Definitely, Oduduwa looks a Banker for Rio Olympics. Injury or no injury. Instead Coach Siasia will play an unfit defender.

Maybe that is why they must reach Manchester. In the Etihad Campus of the Cityzens, there is an underwater thread mill we use to heal injured players and bring them back to the team faster than expected.

Maybe Oduduwa will jog on this thread mill round the clock.

Badosqi:
Our Rio team will contain most of these guys going for the Suwon tournament. This tournament should have been the perfect opportunity to invite some other talents, monitor them closely and pick the perfect ones among them.


The Rio Olympics is less than 90 days away about 2 months from now(today is May 30, MAY don finish now). And you don't expect Siasia to disband this squad he has been working with most since last year, some since the beginning of this year now...




I hope I am wrong and I hope he picks our best legs for Rio.

If that is the case then he should not invite Kelechi Iheanacho and all other top talents he has not worked with. He should just stick all those he used to prosecute the Olympics qualifiers. Even if any of them gets injured, he should instruct his Doctors to employ magic so they can heal.

It seems some of you are supporting Coach Samson Siasia blindly. I just hope your eyes get opened very soon to realities on ground that some of our views here might be vindicated.

No insult intended bro.

If you still doubt me, ask TheGoodJoe

**Smiles**