Best striker at the valley this season, showed us yet again why Pearce needs to go and genuinely reckon whoever gets him will go up next season providing they have quality elsewhere.
He reminds me of Lyle Taylor, had a bit of a shite career, moved around Scotland and lower leagues etc, promoted from league 2 via Wembley and now looking like the best striker in the league for one of the worst sides, who of course beat us..
I’d let Washington walk and offer him whatever Washington was on with more and goal bonuses/promotion clauses etc.
Lyle Taylor was exactly the comparison I was thinking of, as his movement is good enough to cause L1 defences all sorts of problems. He's far more than just a goal poacher
Geography sadly counts against us in this case, whereas it benefited us with getting Taylor.
It was like watching Lyle all over again when he played against us imo. Held it up well, showed some intelligent runs, linked play, bullied Jason Pearce just as Lyle did and then had some of our fans on strings, one in particular in the front row of the north lower haha
absolutely not a target man and we should be matching any realistic offer we can to attain him, already can see him in a Sheffield Wednesday or Rotherham kit though
Best striker at the valley this season, showed us yet again why Pearce needs to go and genuinely reckon whoever gets him will go up next season providing they have quality elsewhere.
He reminds me of Lyle Taylor, had a bit of a shite career, moved around Scotland and lower leagues etc, promoted from league 2 via Wembley and now looking like the best striker in the league for one of the worst sides, who of course beat us..
I’d let Washington walk and offer him whatever Washington was on with more and goal bonuses/promotion clauses etc.
Lyle Taylor was exactly the comparison I was thinking of, as his movement is good enough to cause L1 defences all sorts of problems. He's far more than just a goal poacher
Geography sadly counts against us in this case, whereas it benefited us with getting Taylor.
It was like watching Lyle all over again when he played against us imo. Held it up well, showed some intelligent runs, linked play, bullied Jason Pearce just as Lyle did and then had some of our fans on strings, one in particular in the front row of the north lower haha
absolutely not a target man and we should be matching any realistic offer we can to attain him, already can see him in a Sheffield Wednesday or Rotherham kit though
With the battle for promotion being so competitive, there will be plenty of big northern teams in the shout next season, Sunderland could be another one
Stockton was excellent first half, looked real quality and scored with a fantastic finish. To be fair to Pearce I thought he battled back in the second and in my opinion won quite a few duels against him
Thought for a period in the first half he looked quick, powerful, dynamic, and kept getting into decent positions, which made himself a couple of chances and eventually a well taken goal.
2nd half I thought he looked awful, and didn’t really contribute anything.
It works for him when he's supported, otherwise he's an isolated Striker with nothing he can do on his own
Well indeed. Though he couldn’t even hold the ball up, as he kept either getting out muscled by Pearce (literally when he got the customary rugby tackle), or out-moved to it by Clare.
At the end of the day all I saw was a player who had a few chances, took one, and was anonymous for much of it (sounds familiar). Nothing, as Sage alluded to recently, to make me think we should be spunking our budget on him.
He was isolated in the 2nd half as Morecambe defended deeper & deeper & towards the end relied on just clearing the ball upfield. Even then Stockton got on the end of a few clearances & Pearce won one ball at the end just by being so slow that he got the rebound as the ball deflected off Stockton.
No idea if Stockton is the answer but I can bet you a pound to a penny if we had swapped the Stockers this season we would now be sitting a lot higher than 15th !
Stockley has not played well the last few games but still scores even so - Wimbledon and yesterday He is a very good player at this level in both boxes The people who criticise him are mirroring those who used to say the same about Leaburn He needs a natural goal scorer alongside him and although Washington is a decent player he’s not a good finisher
One of the relegated Championship teams or more affluent league one sides that have failed this season is where he’s heading. I would say we’ve a very slim chance. Very slim.
Unless we go out with a real statement of intent getting players in early as soon as the window opens like we did under Powell's title winning season the chances of the league's best players choosing us over bigger clubs and other rivals in this league is non existent.
Our 'marquee' signings in recent years have been more wendy house.
Unless we see real intent and activity early doors it'll more than likely be more of the same as the past few seasons ie too little too late and a whole lot of hope.
Well, we can try. If we do get a windfall then maybe a cheeky bid could land him. Sadly, it may be more difficult if Morecambe stay up, and we have helped them do that, as if they got relegated I think they would definitely have to let him go.
He does share some qualities with Stockley but there is a lot of his game we are missing and need. I worked that out a few months back and I hope Jacko has. He said some nice things about him before the game.
Not having the Stockley bashing on here. He's one of our better players and even when he doesn't play well (like yesterday) he still scores and is vital at the back. I was impressed with Stocton yesterday. Served us a few warnings, with different types of half chances, before scoring with a clinical finish. Sadly I feel he'll have better options than moving to The Valley this summer. But this is 100% the calibre of player we should look at. Forget waiting for teams higher up the food chain to finalise their sqauds and work out who they're going to loan out, something that's churned out every bloody year. We should go after the best players from leagues 1, 2 and the national league.
Well, we can try. If we do get a windfall then maybe a cheeky bid could land him. Sadly, it may be more difficult if Morecambe stay up, and we have helped them do that, as if they got relegated I think they would definitely have to let him go.
He does share some qualities with Stockley but there is a lot of his game we are missing and need. I worked that out a few months back and I hope Jacko has. He said some nice things about him before the game.
It won't make any difference whether they stay up or not, he'll be off, and for a good fee too. With the best wishes of the fans and club you'd expect.
Indeed I imagine the Morecambe fans are just happy he stayed to end of the season, rather than going in January
What I liked the most about Stockton was his movement in the box. He knew when to get across his defender, when to peel off the man, all the right moves to make sure he had as much space as possible to get a shot off.
Knowing our luck we'd get the version of him that scored 10 in 80 games at League 2 & Conference level, rather than the one scoring 1 in 2 in our league.
Stockley is fine for us, he's scoring a goal every 190 minutes which is better than Smith at Rotherham by 2 mins per goal. We need someone else who can match that really like Rotherham have in Ladapo along with far more contribution from the rest of their team.
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absolutely not a target man and we should be matching any realistic offer we can to attain him, already can see him in a Sheffield Wednesday or Rotherham kit though
No idea if Stockton is the answer but I can bet you a pound to a penny if we had swapped the Stockers this season we would now be sitting a lot higher than 15th !
Even when yesterday wasn’t his greatest game, he still put the ball in the net.
He is a very good player at this level in both boxes
The people who criticise him are mirroring those who used to say the same about Leaburn
He needs a natural goal scorer alongside him and although Washington is a decent player he’s not a good finisher
Our 'marquee' signings in recent years have been more wendy house.
Unless we see real intent and activity early doors it'll more than likely be more of the same as the past few seasons ie too little too late and a whole lot of hope.
We'll see in the next few weeks
He does share some qualities with Stockley but there is a lot of his game we are missing and need. I worked that out a few months back and I hope Jacko has. He said some nice things about him before the game.
Indeed I imagine the Morecambe fans are just happy he stayed to end of the season, rather than going in January
Cole Stockton and Matt Tees would have been a fine partnership.