Adam Reach has still got it

1 hour ago, torryowl said:

Not sure if same game but seen one Ipswich game where we broke from our area and reach ran the full length of the pitch whipped in a first time cross for the big lad to head home in injury time at Ipswich to get us a draw .

Might be that one - I think he crossed it to (the legend that is) Nuhiu who headed in. 

11 hours ago, zorbatheowl said:

Always had the talent it was his commitment that let him down

Hold the front page! Football fan in interpreting lack of ability to tackle as lack of commitment shocker. 

9 hours ago, NYCOWL said:

Unpopular opinions incoming:

 

Showed more courage than the entirety of the squad and carried us during the Jos era. Especially after Bannans injury.

 

 

He certainly did.

A talented winger who could run all day and had a devastating shot on him.

In his early days he was a good player for us, who got pelters from the usual suspects, who like to pull a player down.

Towards the end he had lost it, he was jaded, disillusioned and sick of the club. It showed.

Never one who liked a tackle but it's not unusual in wingers.

He's  not really pulled up trees since he left, as far as I can see, but I haven't  followed his career closely.

Very able player. I think he properly neshed a tackle in a game where we were doing really badly and that was it, he was labelled by some fans as lacking commitment. Scored some mega goals did the lad.

2 minutes ago, Gazzaowl1069 said:

Very able player. I think he properly neshed a tackle in a game where we were doing really badly and that was it, he was labelled by some fans as lacking commitment. Scored some mega goals did the lad.

To be fair, Palmer does similar most matches … did it again yesterday 

55 minutes ago, Shezza said:

Hold the front page! Football fan in interpreting lack of ability to tackle as lack of commitment shocker. 

Ability had nothing to do with shirking a tackle

13 hours ago, Owls2k said:

Always delivered quality into the box when played on the left wing.

The best left winger we've had for some years. Some foolishly tried to compare him to Sam Hutchinson, which I always thought was a bit strange. If we wanted a hot headed rough tackling often injured defender, then Adam Reach was not your man. If you wanted a left winger who could pick out a player making a run into the box, score a few goals, take free kicks and also do a decent job in several other positions on the pitch, then Reach was definitely your man. Its such a shame that our bad owner had spent all our money when Reach was here. If the rest of the team had been anything like as good as Reach, we would have breezed promotion instead of struggling to survive.

9 minutes ago, McRightSide said:

To be fair, Palmer does similar most matches … did it again yesterday 

Flair players seem to get the most stick though. Like they’re heroes one minute and then the opposite the next.

When we're in league one next season and getting stuffed by the likes of Burton Albion and Port Vale, we'll all be reminiscing about how great the likes of Adam Reach and Beswetherick were.  And as for Windass being only half as good as he thinks he is....

Ahhhh Those were the days. 

In his lay season which some people slate him for he still scored something like 5’goals with several assists.

https://www.weareimps.com/news/reach-pleased-rewrite-history-peterborough-win

He's described by Lincoln as a defender...

How times have changed.

Reach was better going forward than defending at Wednesday, unfortunately in a team under Jos ans Monk which did very little going forward. 

Things didn't work out as they should have for Reach at Wednesday,  just like things didn't work out as they should for many others associated with Wednesday over the past 10 years.

Never got the hate on Adam Reach, was a quality addition, was worth the transfer fee in goals and assists, great engine aswell.

One of the better players I’ve seen turn out for Wednesday in recent years.  Maybe that’s not saying much, but I liked him.  Never agreed with the stick he got, in much the same way as I never believed Hutchinson was quite as good as some liked to claim.  Both decent players for us in different ways.

Absolutely utter gash, a total coward who scored a few worldies so everyone thinks is OK. He played well for us for about 6 weeks when we were in the mire, other than that he was a joke.  Classic chansiri signing. 

On 27/09/2025 at 23:15, zorbatheowl said:

Always had the talent it was his commitment that let him down

strongly disagree!! There was a period under Jos were he single handily carried us. 
 

Adam Reach was never a crunching LWB that some thought he was or was expected to be. Very unfair for people to think that’s what he was, technically he was a very good player.