Started all the games though, and Rotherham are amazingly unbeaten in 5th (Paul Warne must have learnt how to cope in the Championship at long last, he's had enough attempts), so must be doing something right to be picked each week.
I think he's better suited to being a striker in a team battling and not expected to win than he is to a team expected to dominate. He's good for a hard-working defensive striker who'll run all game, stop opposition defences from being able to push up totally and give full backs a difficult time when they receive the ball. There's less pressure on him to score and more for him to be part of a whole team effort pressing and harrying. For us he'd need to be better on the ball and better at finishing. Different styles suit different players and I think he starts quite happily for Rotherham but not for us
Totally agree.
What we need though is a list of all the forwards we have had in the last 15 years and to see if Connor finishes in the top half
Naming an obscure Charlton striker would be a very good question on "Pointless". Though "Goalless" might be a better name...
I know we're missing Connor but he's not in the NI Nations League squad, to 'manage his body' and is having regular injections for ongoing issues. Perhaps the club we're aware of all this when not offering a new contract?
I know we're missing Connor but he's not in the NI Nations League squad, to 'manage his body' and is having regular injections for ongoing issues. Perhaps the club we're aware of all this when not offering a new contract?
I know we're missing Connor but he's not in the NI Nations League squad, to 'manage his body' and is having regular injections for ongoing issues. Perhaps the club we're aware of all this when not offering a new contract?
I think you’ll find they were unaware otherwise they’d have signed him!!!!!
Is that genuinely Garner's response or a sarcastic wind up outlining exactly what a key starter in a team one point of the championship playoffs does week in week out?
I'm guessing they never did make that list of 20 strikers because we got to deadline day and only had Macauley Bonne
Washington and/or Bonne would improve this squad of players. People turning their noses up at Bonne on deadline day was a very strange reaction given what we had.
I'm guessing they never did make that list of 20 strikers because we got to deadline day and only had Macauley Bonne
Washington and/or Bonne would improve this squad of players. People turning their noses up at Bonne on deadline day was a very strange reaction given what we had.
Bonne is rubbish. But yes, he still would've been better than nothing, which is what we ended up with.
I'm guessing they never did make that list of 20 strikers because we got to deadline day and only had Macauley Bonne
Washington and/or Bonne would improve this squad of players. People turning their noses up at Bonne on deadline day was a very strange reaction given what we had.
Bonne is rubbish. But yes, he still would've been better than nothing, which is what we ended up with.
oh absolutely, I’m not saying he’s amazing and he certainly wouldn’t have been anywhere near the top of my list. But I was astonished at how negative the reaction was given how poor we are in that department.
I think the reality of the situation was that as Sandgaard had identified Washington's agent as the snitch (telling players Jacko was getting the sack), you and I would be on a list of 1000s before he went for Washington.
I think the reality of the situation was that as Sandgaard had identified Washington's agent as the snitch (telling players Jacko was getting the sack), you and I would be on a list of 1000s before he went for Washington.
How many of those thousands did we actually try to sign though? The rumour mill regarding strikers seemed very quiet over the summer. As an outsider looking in it seems to me we weren’t really interested in signing another out and out striker. Garner only needs one for his preferred (only?) system and we already had Stockley, Aneke and Leaburn on the books. Then, after the season had started, there was a mild panic once it became clear that a big miscalculation had been made - especially as Aneke is never really going to play a meaningful role it seems. That’s when we resorted to a desperate attempt to get a mediocre striker in on loan (Bonne) and weren’t even successful in that attempt.
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Hopefully the latter surely.
I've still not got much of an issue in letting Washington go, not getting someone better in instead was the gigantic mistake.
Haaland, Kane, Mbappe, Lewandowski, Jesus, Ben Yedder, Nunez, João Felix, Martinez, Lukaku, Benzema, Immobile, Haller, Correa, Vlahovic, Aspas, Silva, Depay, Bonne
I think we need to look at going back to 4-4-2 or 3-5-2
If that had been at Fratton Park, he'd have backheeled it into the goal