we should isolate a particular signing, a positive move would be a young LB kicking his heels at a premier league club. we could go Dutch on the salary with said club
The problem with 433s and 4231s is that unless you have goals from central midfield, you can end up heavily reliant on the number 9 to score your goals unless the wingers are goal scorers as well (the Raheem Sterling types as opposed to the hug the touchline types)
Looking at Posh last season, Clarke-Harris got 33, but they also had scoring midfielder and wingers too - Szmodics with 15, Dembele with 13
For Hull, Wilks got 22, Magennis 19, Lewis-Potter 15
At the moment, we seem short of goals up top, especially with the enigma of Ronnie who seems best suited to a 442 anyway
I make you right... what we are missing is our Wilks or Szmodics. At the moment I only see Jayden scoring, maybe DJ. We need more goals!
This.
Your last 4 words had been my mantra for years. Look at every season we got promoted, especially automatically. We had a 20+ goal machine (Mendonce, Hunt, BWP and at a push Taylor). Stockley is good with his head but I doubt whether he will score many 1 on 1's or run off the last defender. We need a proper striker.....a finisher. Whether that is Mullins, Jephcott or 1 of a dozen strikers that must be doing the rounds out there. Without one of those then it will be play offs at best.
And before anyone asks, I'm not a scout so I dont have a scooby who is around & available. That is SG's job.
The problem with 433s and 4231s is that unless you have goals from central midfield, you can end up heavily reliant on the number 9 to score your goals unless the wingers are goal scorers as well (the Raheem Sterling types as opposed to the hug the touchline types)
Looking at Posh last season, Clarke-Harris got 33, but they also had scoring midfielder and wingers too - Szmodics with 15, Dembele with 13
For Hull, Wilks got 22, Magennis 19, Lewis-Potter 15
At the moment, we seem short of goals up top, especially with the enigma of Ronnie who seems best suited to a 442 anyway
I make you right... what we are missing is our Wilks or Szmodics. At the moment I only see Jayden scoring, maybe DJ. We need more goals!
This.
Your last 4 words had been my mantra for years. Look at every season we got promoted, especially automatically. We had a 20+ goal machine (Mendonce, Hunt, BWP and at a push Taylor). Stockley is good with his head but I doubt whether he will score many 1 on 1's or run off the last defender. We need a proper striker.....a finisher. Whether that is Mullins, Jephcott or 1 of a dozen strikers that must be doing the rounds out there. Without one of those then it will be play offs at best.
And before anyone asks, I'm not a scout so I dont have a scooby who is around & available. That is SG's job.
Agree we need more goals in the team though it doesn’t have to come from another striker. Magennis got close to 20 last season, no reason why Stockley can’t do the same.
In Adkins system it’ll be the wingers who go through one on one, much like Sterling and another in England’s setup rather than Kane.
I'd be seriously surprised if NA doesn't bring in another quality CB. He has said many times, goals win games, defense wins championships. We lose Innis for a stretch and we do not have enough cover to maintain a promotion push.
Maybe the idea is to get as close to 30 games out of Inniss as possible & split the remaining games between Gunter and Elerewe.
Barker could fill in right back duties alongside Gunter-Famewo if Inniss & Matthews were out at the same time.
Barker doesn’t seem to have progressed like we thought he would, and Gunter is ok only as a last resort. Elerewe might do the job based on what we’ve seen in friendlies, but he’s unproven in L1. What would happen if he had a shaky first couple of games? I think we have to assume that Inniss may be missing for long periods.
Why isn’t barker progressing? Bowyer was forced to play him as a 17 year old ahead of older u-23 players for non footballing reasons. He then went back to the u-18’s and worked his way up to play for the u-23’s. He has been around the first team squad again this pre season. I would say that he is progressing nicely.
the problem is that because he played aged 17, people expect him to be Gomez or konsa. He is 18!!!! Another year of academy football, then 12 months of being with the squad, then regular game time aged 20.
In the 2 friendlies I’ve been to he has been running round like a headless chicken. Going in for stupid tackles and trying to take players out. The exception was tackling and blocks in the penalty area where his timing was good.
The problem with 433s and 4231s is that unless you have goals from central midfield, you can end up heavily reliant on the number 9 to score your goals unless the wingers are goal scorers as well (the Raheem Sterling types as opposed to the hug the touchline types)
Looking at Posh last season, Clarke-Harris got 33, but they also had scoring midfielder and wingers too - Szmodics with 15, Dembele with 13
For Hull, Wilks got 22, Magennis 19, Lewis-Potter 15
At the moment, we seem short of goals up top, especially with the enigma of Ronnie who seems best suited to a 442 anyway
DJ will get double figures this season as will Stockley and Washington
40 goals from those 3 should be the conservative target.
40 goals between the 3 won't be enough
The Posh 3 got 61 between them, the Hull 3, 56
The number of goals scored doesn’t matter as long as it’s one more than the opposing team. Clean sheets are what is needed.
The problem with 433s and 4231s is that unless you have goals from central midfield, you can end up heavily reliant on the number 9 to score your goals unless the wingers are goal scorers as well (the Raheem Sterling types as opposed to the hug the touchline types)
Looking at Posh last season, Clarke-Harris got 33, but they also had scoring midfielder and wingers too - Szmodics with 15, Dembele with 13
For Hull, Wilks got 22, Magennis 19, Lewis-Potter 15
At the moment, we seem short of goals up top, especially with the enigma of Ronnie who seems best suited to a 442 anyway
DJ will get double figures this season as will Stockley and Washington
40 goals from those 3 should be the conservative target.
40 goals between the 3 won't be enough
The Posh 3 got 61 between them, the Hull 3, 56
The number of goals scored doesn’t matter as long as it’s one more than the opposing team. Clean sheets are what is needed.
Clean sheets don't matter as long as we score one more than the opposing team. Goals are what is needed.
P.S. My source suggests Ian Maatsen is self-isolating.
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we could go Dutch on the salary with said club
Your last 4 words had been my mantra for years. Look at every season we got promoted, especially automatically. We had a 20+ goal machine (Mendonce, Hunt, BWP and at a push Taylor). Stockley is good with his head but I doubt whether he will score many 1 on 1's or run off the last defender. We need a proper striker.....a finisher. Whether that is Mullins, Jephcott or 1 of a dozen strikers that must be doing the rounds out there. Without one of those then it will be play offs at best.
And before anyone asks, I'm not a scout so I dont have a scooby who is around & available. That is SG's job.
In Adkins system it’ll be the wingers who go through one on one, much like Sterling and another in England’s setup rather than Kane.
P.S. My source suggests Ian Maatsen is self-isolating.