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Can we convert any of our non-strikers to strikers?

Leuth
Leuth Posts: 23,497
edited July 2013 in General Charlton
No disrespect intended to Pigott and Smith, but we're fairly well-stocked with good, intelligent footballers around the pitch and I was wondering if there's a case for playing someone unusual up front.

Hollands? Evina? Wilson? Pritch? Name other potentials...
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  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    Hamer
  • Leuth
    Leuth Posts: 23,497
    I call this the Danny Butterfield Precedent, although it's obviously been going on long before he was around
  • Redrobo
    Redrobo Posts: 11,340
    Where is Waggy when we need him!
  • WSS
    WSS Posts: 25,117
    Phil Chappel
  • Simonsen
    Simonsen Posts: 5,556
    Don't think there's really a credible candidate.

    We'll sign someone.....probably on loan.
  • Pritch up front xD as much as i love the bloke, please no .. : P
  • Viewfinder
    Viewfinder Posts: 4,923
    Bradley Pritchard is only 5-ft 7-ins. Have you forgotten the crucial Charlton height test?
  • Madz
    Madz Posts: 1,004
    I'd give Jackson more of a forward free role in front of the Midfield. As a top scorer we could do worse. Then have a midfield of :-
    Green, Pritchard, Gower, Harriot
    or
    Pritchard, Stephens/Hollands, Gower, Harriot.
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,420
    Ronnie Moore, Arthur Horsfield.
  • Callum Harriot or JJ playing off a striker?

    But seriously this would have to absolutely be the last option.

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  • Bangkokaddick
    Bangkokaddick Posts: 4,323
    We could always play Jason Euell instead
  • waggy....oh wait
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,493
    Harriott, that is if he's not classified as a striker already .. he's nippy, confident, has scored a few .. he could be the new De Foe, though 1/2 an inch shorter !! ... need a lump up front ? .. Dervite although he is too valuable at the back
  • Callum Harriot or JJ playing off a striker?

    But seriously this would have to absolutely be the last option.

    Unless it works! Jackson maybe not, but Harriott might be a fantastic striker and we just don't know it, yet!
  • chazza
    chazza Posts: 243
    Andy Hughes
  • ShootersHillGuru
    ShootersHillGuru Posts: 50,676
    The answer is simply no.
  • Callum Harriot or JJ playing off a striker?

    But seriously this would have to absolutely be the last option.

    Unless it works! Jackson maybe not, but Harriott might be a fantastic striker and we just don't know it, yet!
    Didn't Harriott play off the striker for the U21's?
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,057

    Callum Harriot or JJ playing off a striker?

    But seriously this would have to absolutely be the last option.

    Unless it works! Jackson maybe not, but Harriott might be a fantastic striker and we just don't know it, yet!
    Didn't Harriott play off the striker for the U21's?
    As skilled as he is,for me he's still a little bit too light and flimsy to be trying that at a senior level just yet. He'd need to be able to hold the ball up if the immediate pass is not on, and I am not convinced tricks alone are the answer. A few years down the line with experience and a bit of muscle and I think he could do very well in that position - whether it will be as an Addick remains to be seen...
  • Mikey-cafc
    Mikey-cafc Posts: 242
    why not Harriot? T.Henry was Left Mid and then changed to a striker
  • thenewbie
    thenewbie Posts: 11,057

    why not Harriot? T.Henry was Left Mid and then changed to a striker

    Yes, but he was Thierry Henry. One of the most gifted players of an entire generation. Walcott has undergone the same conversion, to distinctly less success.


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  • Granpa
    Granpa Posts: 2,995
    Joe Pigott comes on, scores a hat trick in the first half, after 30 plus goals last year, and forgive me we ask a bloody silly question like this. I know the apology was offered to him and Smithy, I guess we are struggling to find anything to talk about. In fact we sold LLera who actually might have fitted the bill. Hot today isn't it ?
  • Worst comes to worst, we start the season with Kerm, Pigott, Azeez, Smith and Cook. I know there is a serious lack of experience but I think its better than playing someone completely out of position!
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,091
    Chris Sutton or Paul Warhurst.
    Steve Staunton once scored a hat trick for Liverpool playing up front in a league cup game I think.

    None of those are available though.
  • andynelson
    andynelson Posts: 1,951
    Harriott. He had a pretty free role with the U-21's, and was more effective than when played as a touchline-hugging winger. Plus the fact that he has found Championship defenders give him problems when he plays as a pure winger, and he has had to be subbed a few times. That and his defensive limitations make me think he'd be better as a striker, and I hope he gets the chance.
  • grumpyaddick
    grumpyaddick Posts: 6,600
    shirty5 said:

    Ronnie Moore, Arthur Horsfield.

    Can I just say Authur Horsfield isn't mentioned enough on this site.

    He could still do a job for us. Would even make Yann look like a French powder puff,

    Thanks for the memory of a proper footballer.
  • Vincenzo
    Vincenzo Posts: 2,911
    edited July 2013
    Gary Doherty!

    And quite right, Grumpy, we need more Arthur H on here.
  • MrOneLung said:

    Chris Sutton or Paul Warhurst.
    Steve Staunton once scored a hat trick for Liverpool playing up front in a league cup game I think.

    None of those are available though.

    On the contrary, I'm fairly certain that all of those players are out of contract this summer and I'd bet that at least one of them would be prepared to sign for us if we guaranteed them games! ;-)
  • seth plum
    seth plum Posts: 53,448
    Morrison took his goal at Brizzle with aplomb last season.
  • Wheresmeticket
    Wheresmeticket Posts: 17,304
    Homebase do a striker conversion kit, but the knobs break off after about 6 months. I think Haynes was made from a couple of old wingers with one.
  • ColinTat
    ColinTat Posts: 2,794
    Walcott and Henry were both strikers converted to wingers in the first team, as their shooting was wayward and their pace was deathly to fbs.