I miss that season. And 2015/16boatshed bill wrote:
I'm sure we put Danny Ings in a few times!
And 2008/09.
I miss that season. And 2015/16boatshed bill wrote:
I'm sure we put Danny Ings in a few times!
Yesterdayboatshed bill wrote:All our stats ignore the quality of chances we create.
When did we last create a one on one; strikers vs keeper?
I must have missed that!TVC15 wrote:Yesterday
You know what I mean, though. Our strikers don't get set up very well. Vokes has missed a few headers, but on the whole we don't break defences down.TVC15 wrote:Barnes created for Westwood - I know he’s not a striker !
Wood if he would not have had an awful touch would have been through....just like he was against Liverpool but thought he would turn back and try and beat one of the best defenders in the world with his exquisite skill and pace !
Our strikers would have to be in two places at one time (and there's often only one of them anyhow), to win the high ball, knock it down and get a return pass to slip him in! That player would cost our entire budgetTVC15 wrote:We don’t have natural strikers who have that movement which gets them into the right places. We have had them recently in Austin and Ings but not now. Vydra probably most natural striker but he has never done it in this league and there are many a prolific championship striker who can’t hack it in the Premier League against much faster, cleverer defenders.
But yes I agree you also need midfielders to deliver the right passes.
I don't see why not. He's had more than Wells did overall and plenty on here were glad to see the back of himwilks_bfc wrote:How anybody can say Vydra isn’t good enough based on the number of minutes he’s actually played is a mystery.
If he’d been given the same amount of time Wood has had then fair enough but to base it on the 5/10mins he gets at the end of a game that’s already lost is ridiculous
Why does it cause a problem? One of them can be sold. Few people thought it be right to do so though. So it was right to award them new contracts.jrgbfc wrote:That's the problem with blindly giving the likes of Barnes and Vokes contact extensions. We've left ourselves very little room for manoeuvre now. For me we should have chosen one of them to keep and let the other run his contact down.
Don't think there'll be a host of clubs beating our door down for either of them to be honest.taio wrote:Why does it cause a problem? One of them can be sold. Few people thought it be right to do so though. So it was right to award them new contracts.
Disagree. There would be interest I'm sure. Neither of us know.jrgbfc wrote:Don't think there'll be a host of clubs beating our door down for either of them to be honest.
Vydra offered a couple of nifty moves during his late cameo appearance again Arsenal. We need to see more of him and linking up with a new signing that can boss and bully in midfieldewanrob wrote:Yes Vydra, far to lighweight and doesnt move the ball quick enough. Would love him to be a hit, and i really hope im wrong. But he is a million miles from what we need, as i say..far to much sentiment involved. We are a business, we need to stay in this league.
Pretty accurate summing up,last season Wood would have buried that chance,and it's not the only time he's fluffed his lines recently,the Newcastle 6-pointer he had 3 decent chances and only hit the target with the first,we can't afford luxury players in a relegation fight,and at the moment Wood is a luxury.boyyanno wrote:Barnes is easily the best striker we have at the club for how we play. He brings the ball down and provides a platform for attack. Vokes is the next best because he wins headers and is good as an aerial threat.
Wood might be a decent finisher but his all round game is poor and when he's not scoring he isn't contributing. All of our players must contribute for us to be successful.
Vydra is an unknown quantity yet, but he reminds me of Hennings and I'm not sure that's a good thing.
I also don't buy the "we never create chances" stuff. We create far fewer chances than most sides but we do still get golden opportunities in games, Westwoods one on one and the chance Wood had yesterday are examples of that.
I'd move any of the current forwards out apart from Barnes if it meant we could re-invest. I was against re-signing Jay at the beginning of this season but I'd swap him in a heartbeat for Wood. Not only can he score but he can actually link play. We need to sign some forward players who have more than one string to their bow.
I think that's harsh, I am a big critic of Wood and also Hendrick but I'm not sure it's "passion" that they lack. In a way it's quality but in a way it's also because neither are particularly suited to how we play. Hendrick is neither the creative AMC or the ball winning midfielder we need. He covers a lot of ground and is capable of a neat touch but he tends to have zero impact in the games he plays. Only two games can I re-call him being effective and they we're Liverpool and Watford the other year. He's not a bad player, but he's not particularly good at anything or different enough to what we have. Wood is the same, his all-around game leaves a lot to be desired, hes incapable of beating a man, seemingly week for a big man, and technically not great. For his goals I would rather have Barnes who does contribute goals (slightly less) but also offers the team something. I was also a critic of Gray but at least he had pace and strength which offered us a different dynamic.ontario claret wrote:Both Wood and Hendrick lack passion. For a club that survives in the top flight solely on passion, this is not a good thing. They both lack a second gear,and the ability to get stuck in. I'm convinced that Hendrick was signed to an extension just so that he can be transferred in the upcoming window.
Is running onto the pitch classed as a nifty move because he did f all else other than show a lack of pace and ball control and showed exactly why he hasn’t been getting a startBillyblah wrote:Vydra offered a couple of nifty moves during his late cameo appearance again Arsenal. We need to see more of him and linking up with a new signing that can boss and bully in midfield
Long Time Lurker wrote: If we can increase the service to our lads up front we will have enough quality to get the job done. Making a change to midfield could easily result in more chances (which could lead to more goals) or even goals from midfield.