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our club has become…Leon Clarke hits his 9th for Bury .Delort scores only goal for Caen to move them up to 3rd in French Prem,Waghorn having a field day in Scotland( Rangers would still dick us ) but granted that league is poor.Will we ever have a 20+ goal forward again or were Elington /Roberts the last ?Is it also partly because of the style of play we have adopted ,or just crap judgement ???
I think you’ll find quite a few on here have the view that they were crap and are still crap. I think it’s more a case, like the club, that they don’t want to admit they were wrong about the players, the selection and the tactics used in our demise. It all played a part in where we are now.
Don’t argue with the coach/manager, they know far more than us.
You mentioned Ellington and Roberts. Maybe that’s a clue. Two of them with attacking midfielder to back them up. Far more positive with strikers playing in midfield than vice versa. Ellington Roberts McCulloch. Haworth Barlow and Liddle for eg.Are you trying to say that going off what we saw last season you would have signed Clarke if you was manager?
Don’t argue with the coach/manager, they know far more than us.Yes they do. What part of that reasoning are you have difficulty with?
I must admit, I wouldn’t have paid Clarke in washers.
Confidence in a striker can’t be under estimated.
our club has become…Leon Clarke hits his 9th for Bury .Delort scores only goal for Caen to move them up to 3rd in French Prem,Waghorn having a field day in Scotland( Rangers would still dick us ) but granted that league is poor.Will we ever have a 20+ goal forward again or were Elington /Roberts the last ?Is it also partly because of the style of play we have adopted ,or just crap judgement ???Did you not see Clarke play last season? He looked less potent than Fortune – and that really is an achievement.
When Caldwell took over he sent him back to Wolves because he was a trouble maker, and I’d suggest that 19 clubs in 11 years speaks volumes, plus his scoring record for most clubs has been woeful.
Delort, I didn’t rate as looked full of tricks and flicks but far too lightweight for the English game. His penchant for tweeting shirtless selfies and, by all accounts, his out-of-kilter ability to ego balance didn’t go down well at the club.
Waghorn was a decent player, but we couldn’t afford to keep him. He’s doing so well in Scotland because Rangers average 40,000 for home games and sign players from Wigan Athletic whilst other clubs average 2,000 and sign players from Barrow, Hayes & Yeading and Edinburgh University.
To put a bit of perspective on it: Rangers have scored 31 league goals this season – nearly 3 times more than any other team, and Waghorn has got 11 of those goals so far, but 7 of them have been penalties.
So basically, he’s got 4 from open play for one of Britain’s biggest clubs against non-league standard players.
Although I’d expect Rangers to beat us if they played us, I reckon it’d be a lot closer that you’re giving them credit for because other than the top 6 in the SPL, the standard in Scotland is pretty poor.
I must admit, I wouldn’t have paid Clarke in washers.Confidence in a striker can’t be under estimated.
That’s it in a nutshell for me.
Our struggle to score goals never does any of our strikers any good. Some of that will be down to our formation/tactics and some of it will be down to us not supporting said strikers and leaving them exposed.
our club has become…Leon Clarke hits his 9th for Bury .Delort scores only goal for Caen to move them up to 3rd in French Prem,Waghorn having a field day in Scotland( Rangers would still dick us ) but granted that league is poor.Will we ever have a 20+ goal forward again or were Elington /Roberts the last ?Is it also partly because of the style of play we have adopted ,or just crap judgement ???
Did you not see Clarke play last season? He looked less potent than Fortune – and that really is an achievement.
When Caldwell took over he sent him back to Wolves because he was a trouble maker, and I’d suggest that 19 clubs in 11 years speaks volumes, plus his scoring record for most clubs has been woeful.
Delort, I didn’t rate as looked full of tricks and flicks but far too lightweight for the English game. His penchant for tweeting shirtless selfies and, by all accounts, his out-of-kilter ability to ego balance didn’t go down well at the club.
Waghorn was a decent player, but we couldn’t afford to keep him. He’s doing so well in Scotland because Rangers average 40,000 for home games and sign players from Wigan Athletic whilst other clubs average 2,000 and sign players from Barrow, Hayes & Yeading and Edinburgh University.
To put a bit of perspective on it: Rangers have scored 31 league goals this season – nearly 3 times more than any other team, and Waghorn has got 11 of those goals so far, but 7 of them have been penalties.
So basically, he’s got 4 from open play for one of Britain’s biggest clubs against non-league standard players.
Although I’d expect Rangers to beat us if they played us, I reckon it’d be a lot closer that you’re giving them credit for because other than the top 6 in the SPL, the standard in Scotland is pretty poor.[/quote]
What he said
I admit Clarke didn’t pull up any trees but still more likely to net than someone permanently on the treatment table…..and why did MK Dons not bust a gut to sign Grigg after last season’s heroics for them ? As for Delort how can opinions be made on a player who unlike the blank man Fortune never got a fair run out.
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