Saw some feedback on a fan site "he's our worst signing in years"
Epic call off a few minutes.
Imagine what those fans would have been making of our game against Aussie. In some ways we’re lucky cos the pressure would really be on the boys if the focus and pride of the whole nation was on them.
To date this season he's had 274 mins with Port Vale spread over League One and the League Cup. Plus a full game against Leeds U21 (EFL Trophy). It's a reasonable sample size.
https://us.soccerway.com/players/ben-waine/518316/
We need to take the Nix blinkers off, and be honest about it, Waineo has done SFA since he arrived at Plymouth 2.5 seasons ago.
As someone else penned the real disappointment is it seems his game hasn't really progressed at all. He's still the same sort of player (callow youth?) as when he left the Nix. Struggles to have much involvement, or many touches on attack. Just a high defensive workrate, pressing and chasing hard.
Should he drop down to L2 or even National League? A return to the Nix? I have no real idea what the best solution is.
Remember it's not like he ever had a highly productive breakout 10+ goal A League season, like others who have gone overseas have had.
Last season for example Archie Goodwin (13), Adrian Segecic (13), Noah Botic (12) or Nicolas Milanovic (12) all well over that 10 goal mark.
Waineo best was 7 goals in 2020/21 & then 6 goals in 2021/22.