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If he has netted 4 times in 16 games then pro rata Riera’s goal tally would have been 11 goals with a game to play, I reckon that could have made all the difference! He wouldn’t have faced defences like Barcelona, Real Madrid et al either so his ratio could have been higher! Complete major fuck-up from top to bottom at the club if you ask me !
His ratio here is 1 in 13. That means he would have scored 3, maybe 4. Probably wouldn’t have made the blindest bit of difference nor would Delorts stunning 0 in 11.[/quote]
It’s all down to how you use him. For Deportiva he plays in a 4-4-2 formation whilst while he was here he was predominantly used as a lone striker! It’s all about tweaking and fine tuning with players and formations and in my opinion Riera wasn’t given the right conditions to bring out the best in him! I still find it quite strange how some fans call players who were not given enough time to prove themselves yet support players who have had more than enough chances yet have proved to be completely ineffective when it comes to scoring goals![/quote]
Agreed.
This saga of “We can stay up” is like having a tooth pulled with grease on the pliers….. face it, were down and if anyone wants to put a few bob on us staying save yourself a trip to the bookies and just throw it down the nearest grid20/1 to stay up
Quite right Egg, all those managers who chose Fortune alone, Fortune & Clarke or nobody but possibly McClean were right all along.We didn’t need lads who could possibly score us goals, we needed lads who definitely wouldn’t get us any.
Never has a club prepared for a relegation a full half season before it finished, like we have.
The stats show though that they aren’t/weren’t the answer. Quite what the answer is we will never know because we’ve had a goal scoring problem for about 9 years. Being a club of our size is probably the answer. We have to sign players who may or may not settle in and if they do they’re off as quick as they came in.
I’d have liked to have seen them played together or one of them alongside Fortune, but I’d also liked us to have signed Patrick Bamford or Britt Assombalonga.
Wanted them to go up from the early part of the season when things had settled down. Hope they stay there too. The more smaller clubs pissing off the big boys the better for me.
If he has netted 4 times in 16 games then pro rata Riera’s goal tally would have been 11 goals with a game to play, I reckon that could have made all the difference! He wouldn’t have faced defences like Barcelona, Real Madrid et al either so his ratio could have been higher! Complete major fuck-up from top to bottom at the club if you ask me !His ratio here is 1 in 13. That means he would have scored 3, maybe 4. Probably wouldn’t have made the blindest bit of difference nor would Delorts stunning 0 in 11.
Lee McCulloch was a striker who we moved to the left. James McClean is a left winger who we moved upfront.
Had the McClean move given us goals as the McCulloch one did then nobody would be posting week in week out about how maybe the opposition will play with no strikers.
McClean isn’t a winger imo as he has no end product or skill for that matter. He is a lump as you say though and runs all day so I guess defenders hate him, so putting him upfront isn’t so bad. The mistake we’ve made (again imo) is playing him on his own (and Fortune on his) instead of alongside a poacher to feed on the scraps. I will agree with the 442 brigade there.
I do like the 451/433 but you need your middle man to stay in the middle and be able to score. We’ve never had that which is why we struggle with it.
They’ll decide whether to appeal after their next two games, by which case they will probably be back on 44 points by 10pm on Tuesday after they turn over a Reading side who have nothing to play for.
Chances of Wigan or Millwall being on 41 points by then….slim considering their next opponents.
Ah, but what will the crowd be[/quote]
One more than if they’d been playing at the same time as your beloved Warriors.
and…
Plenty more than there’ll be next season when all those ST holders dont renew.
:whistle:[/quote]What was the rugby score?
They’ll decide whether to appeal after their next two games, by which case they will probably be back on 44 points by 10pm on Tuesday after they turn over a Reading side who have nothing to play for.Chances of Wigan or Millwall being on 41 points by then….slim considering their next opponents.
Ah, but what will the crowd be
They’ll probably turn them over knowing our luck lol.
Wigan bt Wolves
Norwich bt Rotherham
Derby bt MilwallReading draw with Rotherham
Leeds bt Rotherham
Wolves bt Millwall
Brentford draw with WiganThey will no doubt appeal, but this is a MASSIVE weekend.
We win and the others lose and Rotherham are under big pressure to win at Reading.
I seem to have The Great Escape theme stuck in my head all of a sudden :)
What has us in this position is a culmination of people spitting their dummies early season and us playing players up front who can’t score goals. We all know that without you pointing it out every week.
If that left sided midfielder had scored goals then it would have been hailed a piece of genius like the McCulloch move to the wing by Jewell.
