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Sandgaard, sign a striker.
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Washington scored against a Reading team, who really should be in League 1, let’s see how he goes against Burnley and Watford
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Washington wouldn’t fit this style that well. He is best in a direct team playing with a front 2 which is why he’s perfect for Rotherham.I can’t see TS getting the chequebook out but if he does it’s going to be for a younger player not someone like Stockton. Tyrece Simpson has been mentioned a lot and would be a brilliant signing, looking around the EFL Brandon Thomas-Asante (Salford), Sam Nombe (Exeter), Sam Smith (Cambridge) are all the age we try and go for. Asante and Smith can play out wide as well so could also play in the team with Stockley0
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Get the feeling we’ll have to wait til the end of the window when we’ll get a Prem loanee. Whether he works out will be in the lap of the gods.But if TS is liking our start to the season he might be tempted to push out the boat a bit financially, to get us over the line. Who knows.4
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I think he’s working on a sequel to Addicks to Victory……Addicks to mid-table lower league mediocrity…just as catchy but with slightly quieter chanting …….carly burn said:I should think signing a striker is about 11th on Sandgaards to do list.Definitely need a striker, oh and affordable tickets4 -
Haha amazing how Washington leaves and now people think he would of been the answer. He’s barely bang average. We 100% need another option up front, but Conor Washington isn’t and never was the answer.19
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I still think he means well howeverIAgree said:
I think he’s working on a sequel to Addicks to Victory……Addicks to mid-table lower league mediocrity…just as catchy but with slightly quieter chanting …….carly burn said:I should think signing a striker is about 11th on Sandgaards to do list.Definitely need a striker, oh and affordable tickets0 -
That is the hope. Fraser was brought in the final of day of the window. Here’s hoping our number 1 option becomes available on final day and we are in a position to sign them.JamesSeed said:Get the feeling we’ll have to wait til the end of the window when we’ll get a Prem loanee. Whether he works out will be in the lap of the gods.But if TS is liking our start to the season he might be tempted to push out the boat a bit financially, to get us over the line. Who knows.
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Just watching the ITV highlights and Washington also missed an absolute sitter2
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His dad was playing at a higher level. Miles looks to me like he will develop quickly but this season should be about that, not over relying on him. That just isn't fair on the lad.Hal1x said:Carl Leaburn used to get serious stick over his lack of goals and aggression, primarily I think because we were having to rely on a talented lad having to compete against hairy arsed men. Because we were so reliant, his learning path was a bit unnatural. I hope this doesn't happen to Miles, and that we get someone in to protect his development for the future.5 -
Aribo scored for Southampton 😢0
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Funny, when I said the exact same thing on the match thread yesterday I got pelters & abused.killerandflash said:Looking around the division, I see Marquis scored the winner for Brizzle Rovers, Bishop scored 2 for Pompey (1 from the spot) and Conor Wickham scored for FGR...
We've had 3 months to sign a striker & now you want it done in 2 weeks.
Ain't happening folks. We signed JRS & he will be used as one of the wide strikers in a front 3. If we do happen to being in a "striker" it will be another unproven loanee. We wont be paying money for a 25 year old with a goal scoring record in the EFL.3 -
Washington probably wouldn't have been the answer yesterday (and probably would have replaced Kirk, rather than Stockley), but principally, he was the kind of player that we don't have. CBT has enough gas to do 60-70mins of the way he plays, but I feel in Garner's system, you need more running into space and stretching defences with pace. Washington was a fairly wasteful finisher and wanted balls over the top (rather than held up), but he made runs that made space for others and gave defenders something else to think about.
I've been banging on about Stockton for ages. I think his hold up play is better than Stockley, he makes cleverer movement and he is a better finisher. However, for money and probably-doesn't-want-to-play-down-south reasons, I don't think we'll be signing him. He almost certainly wouldn't get as many as last year, but if I were a betting man, I think I'd wager him getting more goals than Stockley if he was our main striker.
Stockley is a good player for this league. I like how he carries himself for the club and his desire in games. He holds the ball up well and can also help defensively. I just don't think he carries enough threat against the large amount of wily teams with big CBs that have no stress playing against him. Aneke can't be relied on as a plan B reliably, so yes, absolutely another striker is needed.
I'm hopeful that Rak-Sakyi might be able to chip in with a few, but I just think we need another hold up striker who can score and give another option to Stockley.2 -
Just seen the highlights on the rolling reels thread.
The miss by CBT in the first half epitimises what I've been saying for months. It's ok having wingers/attacking midfielders as part of your front 3 but only if they are natural finishers/goalscorers. A proper striker would have buried that chance. More composure & clinical finishing is needed. Sadly none of ours have that (baring maybe Payne) and that's why we wont finish in the top 6. We will create chances but they wont be scored because the strikers/wingers/midfielders are not goalscorers.6 -
Washington’s runs onto a ball played over the top into space could have given us the plan B we are clearly lacking.5
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To late now to get in one or better two proven league one or even league 2 strikers. Sandagaard cocked up by not shelling out early in the transfer window for strikers. if he did so now he will just be paying for other clubs useless cast offs. So now he has to hope some 18 year old from an premiership academy is the new Wayne Roony. Next to no chance.2
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They don’t all need to be natural finishers though. Your point is valid about CBT but it wouldn’t matter so much if you had two players in the front 3 who weren’t as good as him but scored more goals. You need to find the balance. Players with pace, who can beat a man, create chances and score goals, is unlikely to be playing League 1. We do need another attacking player though, and we’re also reliant on Rak-Sakyi being able to transfer goalscoring form from youth football to League 1.golfaddick said:Just seen the highlights on the rolling reels thread.
The miss by CBT in the first half epitimises what I've been saying for months. It's ok having wingers/attacking midfielders as part of your front 3 but only if they are natural finishers/goalscorers. A proper striker would have buried that chance. More composure & clinical finishing is needed. Sadly none of ours have that (baring maybe Payne) and that's why we wont finish in the top 6. We will create chances but they wont be scored because the strikers/wingers/midfielders are not goalscorers.
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In the formation we play, it’s always going to be a wide player getting to that chance, not the main striker. The two wide players need to be better finishers, hence JRS being signed0
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This, this and this again. What amazes me is that football people at the club don't seem to get it. Jacko addressed it by playing two up front, until he ran out of fit strikers and amazingly we lost every week without any competent ones. Not his fault and we are even thinner now for when it becomes clear we haven't got enough goals in the side.golfaddick said:Just seen the highlights on the rolling reels thread.
The miss by CBT in the first half epitimises what I've been saying for months. It's ok having wingers/attacking midfielders as part of your front 3 but only if they are natural finishers/goalscorers. A proper striker would have buried that chance. More composure & clinical finishing is needed. Sadly none of ours have that (baring maybe Payne) and that's why we wont finish in the top 6. We will create chances but they wont be scored because the strikers/wingers/midfielders are not goalscorers.
What is extra frustrating is we seem to be there or there abouts everywhere else so if we could bring in some goals we could have a go at it.7 -
Payne and the Palace kid will improve things IMO, but we need another striker.golfaddick said:Just seen the highlights on the rolling reels thread.
The miss by CBT in the first half epitimises what I've been saying for months. It's ok having wingers/attacking midfielders as part of your front 3 but only if they are natural finishers/goalscorers. A proper striker would have buried that chance. More composure & clinical finishing is needed. Sadly none of ours have that (baring maybe Payne) and that's why we wont finish in the top 6. We will create chances but they wont be scored because the strikers/wingers/midfielders are not goalscorers.
Really hoping it is Simpson.5 -
Get Igor back.4
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Can I ask which strikers have gone where who you would like to have seen come to us, those that cost the buying Club's a transfer fee that is.msomerton said:To late now to get in one or better two proven league one or even league 2 strikers. Sandagaard cocked up by not shelling out early in the transfer window for strikers. if he did so now he will just be paying for other clubs useless cast offs. So now he has to hope some 18 year old from an premiership academy is the new Wayne Roony. Next to no chance.
It may be my imagination, but I've not seen much activity of that sort elsewhere in L1. Happy to be proved wrong of course.
I know we need someone urgently, but I've no idea what's realistic.1 -
We’re supposed to have bids in on a couple of players, and none of us know if one is a striker or not.golfaddick said:
Funny, when I said the exact same thing on the match thread yesterday I got pelters & abused.killerandflash said:Looking around the division, I see Marquis scored the winner for Brizzle Rovers, Bishop scored 2 for Pompey (1 from the spot) and Conor Wickham scored for FGR...
We've had 3 months to sign a striker & now you want it done in 2 weeks.
Ain't happening folks. We signed JRS & he will be used as one of the wide strikers in a front 3. If we do happen to being in a "striker" it will be another unproven loanee. We wont be paying money for a 25 year old with a goal scoring record in the EFL.1 -
Might sound like clutching at straws, but they have said that they’ve had bids in for a couple of players ‘for some time’, and it’s now a matter of waiting.msomerton said:To late now to get in one or better two proven league one or even league 2 strikers. Sandagaard cocked up by not shelling out early in the transfer window for strikers. if he did so now he will just be paying for other clubs useless cast offs. So now he has to hope some 18 year old from an premiership academy is the new Wayne Roony. Next to no chance.1 -
To the tune of "Panic":soapy_jones said:FFS stop giving him ideas for new songs!!!
"Panic on the streets of Charlton,
Thomas Sandgaard sign a striker,
Sign a striker sign a striker sign a striker.
Thomas Sandgaard
Sign a striker
Thomas Sandgaard
Sign a striker" etc?3 -
A reading team playing junior hoilett in defenceRothko said:Washington scored against a Reading team, who really should be in League 1, let’s see how he goes against Burnley and Watford0 -
GET A STRIKER
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Mainly because those aren't really a thing that happens any more. As soon as any bright young striker hits 15-20 or more two seasons in a row (or even sometimes just the once) they are headed to the Championship.golfaddick said:
Funny, when I said the exact same thing on the match thread yesterday I got pelters & abused.killerandflash said:Looking around the division, I see Marquis scored the winner for Brizzle Rovers, Bishop scored 2 for Pompey (1 from the spot) and Conor Wickham scored for FGR...
We've had 3 months to sign a striker & now you want it done in 2 weeks.
Ain't happening folks. We signed JRS & he will be used as one of the wide strikers in a front 3. If we do happen to being in a "striker" it will be another unproven loanee. We wont be paying money for a 25 year old with a goal scoring record in the EFL.
In League One it's always a gamble. Either a kid who might never hit those heights again or an older player having an Indian summer and a season they never showed before or since. Proven, established League One strikers legitimately don't get much better than Stockley (in the right system for him, which ours is not). That's not necessarily a high bar but it's the reality of this level.3 -
Everyone keeps saying that Stockley doesn't suit our system. He doesn't suit any system because he isn't very good. He seems to be missing chances more than ever. Must have spent too much time watching Washington in front of goal.3
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Now now. I think Stockley's significant hip injury may have something to do with his form since returning from it.superclive98 said:Everyone keeps saying that Stockley doesn't suit our system. He doesn't suit any system because he isn't very good. He seems to be missing chances more than ever. Must have spent too much time watching Washington in front of goal.0
