New Striker

[WalkelyFan]

I am getting a bit fed up with this "we need a pacy striker who'll get 20 goals per season" comments. Actually apart from one or two clubs - virtually every fan of every club says exactly the same.

If such a player existed then they would be worth far more than we could ever pay.

We need to take a chance on a striker - or two and see how they got on in our system with our players alongside them.

 

[Prestonblade5]

We have three strikers all 30+ and non of them are exactly fast. It’s not much to ask for abit of pace up there so we can try get in behind teams.

 

[brownie4583]

We have let 3 strikers go out and signed 1 on a free transfer.
We should have spent £5 million on a quality striker and signed another on loan of equal quality to improve the team using the Brooks money.
McGoldrick looks a decent player but is not going to score 20+ league goals.
Bizarrely we have our best goal scorer sat on the bench as well!

 

[SwissBlade]

We have let 3 strikers go out and signed 1 on a free transfer.
We should have spent £5 million on a quality striker and signed another on loan of equal quality to improve the team using the Brooks money.
McGoldrick looks a decent player but is not going to score 20+ league goals.
Bizarrely we have our best goal scorer sat on the bench as well!

Ok so the replacement of Brooks has happened, for this season at least with Woodburn. Young, attacking midfielder that looks an exciting prospect, hopefully he’ll give us something along the lines of what brooks did. If he scores 4-5 goals and plays well in 5-6 games he’ll have surpassed brooks last season. Although admittedly it’s more than likely that Brooks the messiah would’ve played and scored more last season had he not got ill.

What we should’ve done, what we tried to do and what we were unable to do was buy a striker for £5 million... the downside of this was that striker went to another club for more money. We were in the market for one but we lost out.

It sounds like we did attempt to make use of the money we have. Yet a number of factors have got in the way.

Plan A hasn’t worked and we’re already punching above our weight if you look who else was in for Woodburn and Waghorn, financially we’re trying to compete with sides with more clout. Does that mean that we give up? No, we need a plan B. This is where McGoldrick comes in

None of this is ideal, however we’ve got the budget still and a portion of the Brooks money will hopefully be available IF we can find the right players

We’re not fucked though, we have, as you say several strikers, midfielders and each position is now pretty much doubled up. The problem as you alluded to was that we’ve not found the best combination, so far, which keeps us competitive against the better sides in the division.

The worry I have is not so much that we didn’t bring players in, but that were not getting the best out of the players we currently have

 

[SwissBlade]

We have three strikers all 30+ and non of them are exactly fast. It’s not much to ask for abit of pace up there so we can try get in behind teams.

Freeman/ Baldock do this, so does Duffy, I’m guessing Woodburn will too, we need Stevens to do it more/ better. JOC and Bash also get beyond defenders.

Part of the way we used to play was with billy and Leon creating the space for those players to run into. Looking at the game against Swansea the Leon and McG were both high up the field and we didn’t get the space to run in behind.

Someone suggested playing one striker and I think this might work better.

 

[CopenhagenBlade]

I wouldn’t have a problem seeing Duffy, McG and Woodburn as a front 3 on Saturday.
You don’t have to lhave ightening pace with 3 technically good players who are moving and passing the ball quickly, with wingbacks making the runs, stretching their defence and giving us width.
It won’t happen but I’d like to see it

 

[Cerberus Blade]

We have three strikers all 30+ and non of them are exactly fast. It’s not much to ask for abit of pace up there so we can try get in behind teams.

I’ve been thinking about this a lot and I’m coming to the conclusion that pace is not considered important by Wilder. We had pace in Brooks but he didn’t start him very often. We had pace in that winger we bought from Hartlepool, (so rarely seen I’ve forgotten his name now), but he’s never made it in the team either.

If your tactics are to play a slow possession game, gradually building up an attack like the death of 1000 passes, why would you want some little eager beaver with pace to suddenly burst forward and catch the opposition out? The rest of the lads wouldn’t be ready for it would they?

I think pace is seen as unnecessary because it will ruin the slow patient build up, (which is like watching a glacier melt at times). It’s a pity because I think pace brings excitement and goals, but our management seem to prefer our football to be less spontaneous and more planned to precision.

Which is also great, when it works.

 

[Cerberus Blade]

dunno what happened there!

 

[Kozzy_is_my_Dad]

Nmecha at City was a real gem.

 

[super_pig]

Ok so the replacement of Brooks has happened, for this season at least with Woodburn. Young, attacking midfielder that looks an exciting prospect, hopefully he’ll give us something along the lines of what brooks did. If he scores 4-5 goals and plays well in 5-6 games he’ll have surpassed brooks last season. Although admittedly it’s more than likely that Brooks the messiah would’ve played and scored more last season had he not got ill.

What we should’ve done, what we tried to do and what we were unable to do was buy a striker for £5 million... the downside of this was that striker went to another club for more money. We were in the market for one but we lost out.

It sounds like we did attempt to make use of the money we have. Yet a number of factors have got in the way.

Plan A hasn’t worked and we’re already punching above our weight if you look who else was in for Woodburn and Waghorn, financially we’re trying to compete with sides with more clout. Does that mean that we give up? No, we need a plan B. This is where McGoldrick comes in

None of this is ideal, however we’ve got the budget still and a portion of the Brooks money will hopefully be available IF we can find the right players

We’re not fucked though, we have, as you say several strikers, midfielders and each position is now pretty much doubled up. The problem as you alluded to was that we’ve not found the best combination, so far, which keeps us competitive against the better sides in the division.

The worry I have is not so much that we didn’t bring players in, but that were not getting the best out of the players we currently have

but we 'could' have bought a bloody striker Swiss. but we spent the money on a fucking centre back that we don't need?? wtf?

 

[grafikhaus]

What we should’ve done, what we tried to do and what we were unable to do was buy a striker for £5 million... the downside of this was that striker went to another club for more money. We were in the market for one but we lost out.

Plus the small fact that Derby sold the leading goalscorer in the division (Vydra) to fund the Waghorn transfer.

 

[SwissBlade]

but we 'could' have bought a bloody striker Swiss. but we spent the money on a fucking centre back that we don't need?? wtf?

Whether we needed a defender is another subject entirely, however the reality is that we could’ve spent 8 on Waghorn and not bought Egan, yes. Whether we could afford his wages and whether we’d even want to spend that on him is also another point... but yes,
We could’ve blown the whole budget and the brooks money on one player

 

[BushBlade]

but we 'could' have bought a bloody striker Swiss. but we spent the money on a fucking centre back that we don't need?? wtf?

After his first two games last season it was ‘Stearman is shit, Wright’s better, why did we sign him’. After Egan’s first two games it’s ‘Egan is shit, Stearman’s better, why did we sign him’. After a close season of ‘we need to strengthen the defence’.

 

[super_pig]

After his first two games last season it was ‘Stearman is shit, Wright’s better, why did we sign him’. After Egan’s first two games it’s ‘Egan is shit, Stearman’s better, why did we sign him’. After a close season of ‘we need to strengthen the defence’.

so now we have ‘three’ decent centre backs for the same position?

 

[super_pig]

Whether we needed a defender is another subject entirely, however the reality is that we could’ve spent 8 on Waghorn and not bought Egan, yes. Whether we could afford his wages and whether we’d even want to spend that on him is also another point... but yes,
We could’ve blown the whole budget and the brooks money on one player

priorities priorities

 

[BushBlade]

so now we have ‘three’ decent centre backs for the same position?

I think Wright’s so old he can only play thirty minutes, then he needs a piss.

I’d rather have three centre halves competing for one place than what we had under Clough.

 

[super_pig]

I think Wright’s so old he can only play thirty minutes, then he needs a piss.

I’d rather have three centre halves competing for one place than what we had under Clough.

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