Chris Wood Would Have Kept Us Up.

[KRBFC]

I explained in my earlier post. I was interested to see how much better/worse we were after Wood left so searched for the league table for match week 21, which is when he left. But the table displayed was engineered to show the league table after every team had played exactly 21 games - whereas we had only played 17 games at that stage of the season. So it wasn’t a true reflection of how the league table looked after the Leeds game.

We were 18th when he left, and we were 18th at the end of the season, although clearly our points per game increased quite significantly after he left. How much of that was down to Wood leaving we’ll never know.

A simple ''sorry you were right all along master KRBFC, that's why you're the expert'' would suffice

[Bosscat]

A simple ''sorry you were right all along master KRBFC, that's why you're the expert'' would suffice

Like it

[California Colner]

Stop living in the past
Coulder, woulder, shouder ain’t going help

[bfcjg]

There would have been completely different passages of play so itnis impossible to compare.

[COBBLE]

Chris Wood admitted he was not motivated wearing a Claret shirt. No other conclusion than that £25,000,000 Was a great outcome. That his replacenent was no better is another issue. I can only reflect to that embarrassing shameful performance at Norwich. We were hitting balls in the direction of WW which were a foot over his head when he jumped. What about passing to his feets? But he is 6 feet plus! When we got close enough to put a ball into the area it was to 2 immobile centre backs with their only strength to stand put. What were Dyche and Woan and Stone doing the week in preparation. Not for the first time it was inexcusable.

[LoveCurryPies]

Very doubtful.

[cbx750]

Stop living in the past
Coulder, woulder, shouder ain’t going help

Shouldn't that be shoulder?

[ElectroClaret]

Utterly pointless thread.

Ya got that right.

[bumba]

"of" ??

Find a hobby

[Woodleyclaret]

If Dwight McNeil, Connor Roberts, Wout and Josh Brownhill had all turned up for our must win game v Newcastle we would still be playing Premier league games next season.

[CrosspoolClarets]

There are so many pointless “sliding doors” elements that could have seen us stay up, that is always the case when a goal or two in the last few minutes of a season swings it.

My personal favourites are:

The choice to start 5-3-2 against Newcastle with that weird shifting up of the right back when we get the ball, 4-4-2 we win.
The choice by Mee to rule himself out leaving Collins to make that crucial error.
The choice to sign Weghorst over Origi who would have got 10 goals.

They weren’t choices at all of course, they were to a degree forced, Tarky wasn’t fully fit so protected in a three, neither was Mee, Origi or Liverpool said no. But its nice to pretend things could have been different.

[Swizzlestick]

If Dwight McNeil, Connor Roberts, Wout and Josh Brownhill had all turned up for our must win game v Newcastle we would still be playing Premier league games next season.

WW didn’t even start against Newcastle (a major error imo but what’s done is done).

[Jamesy]

It must be relatively quiet on this board at present for a ridiculous thread like this to reach a second page.

[tiger76]

It must be relatively quiet on this board at present for a ridiculous thread like this to reach a second page.

Close season and not much transfer activity to discuss.

[dougcollins]

Pretty straightforward really. 'Chris Wood Would Have Kept Us Up'.

No He Wouldn't.

[TomMcGibbon]

Controversial one - Andy Carroll would have kept us up in my opinion

[Swizzlestick]

Controversial one - Andy Carroll would have kept us up in my opinion

The big man looked washed out at West Brom.

[Damo]

I don't think Newcastle fans have warmed to him if twitter is anything to go by

[tiger76]

Chris Wood has contributed 2 goals, 1 a penalty, and 0 assists in 17 games since joining Newcastle, but he'd have kept us up, aye right course he would.

No wonder they're chasing Timo Werner, and if they do snap the German up this will likely mean Wood being dropped to the subs bench, as TBF many did predict on this forum back in January.

Selling Wood wasn't the problem, it was the donkey we replaced him with that really killed our survival hopes.

[Lancasterclaret]

Newcastle were desperate for a proven premier league striker while Wilson was injured

They offered us a ridiculous sum for a 30 year old and we rightly took it

Newcastle managed to stay up because they managed to sign a ridiculously good centre midfielder and Wilson stayed fit

We got relegated because we failed to win enough games before Christmas from winning positions

[GodIsADeeJay81]

I don't think Newcastle fans have warmed to him if twitter is anything to go by

That's putting it mildly from what I've seen.

[claretonthecoast1882]

I don't think Newcastle fans have warmed to him if twitter is anything to go by

That is good for Chris.

Not picked selected and the fans not liking him will hopefully help him stay clear of his comfort zone

[Steve1956]

Newcastle were desperate for a proven premier league striker while Wilson was injured

They offered us a ridiculous sum for a 30 year old and we rightly took it

Newcastle managed to stay up because they managed to sign a ridiculously good centre midfielder and Wilson stayed fit

We got relegated because we failed to win enough games before Christmas from winning positions

Logged in to like this post..simple & to the point and describes perfectly the reason we are no longer in the Premier league.

[Jakubclaret]

Doesn’t matter the release clause happened there & then & was unavoidable