Writing McBurnie off after starting in 5 games

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Only dem Blades fans eh.

How about we play him alongside his most suited strike partner in Mousset, instead of Robinson, who is clearly a winger and not a striker.

I really do not know how Mousset is not starting games by now, it's getting silly.

Give him a run of consistent starts alongside McBurnie, I'm confident that's the best option.

What's not the best option is to panic and go back to Sharp and McGoldrick. Though they did very well in the Championship, play Championship strikers and that's where we'll end up. 90% of this forum, if asked before the season, would not have been happy with the prospect of keeping the same forwards. People wanted new strikers, Wilder got them.

One hasn't been given a run of starts despite showing that he is every bit deserving of it.

The other, McBurnie, has seemingly been written off by many after 8 games, 3 of which he didn't even start in.

We got these strikers for a reason. First we must actually play them (consistently), then give them a chance
 



No one's writing him off, literally every Blade is hoping that he'll come good.

All anyone is saying is that he's not shown much and hasn't looked the part so far, which he hasn't, same for Robinson.

Just facts really.
 
SteveBlade said:
No one's writing him off, literally every Blade is hoping that he'll come good.

All anyone is saying is that he's not shown much and hasn't looked the part so far, which he hasn't, same for Robinson.

Just facts really.
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Hardly surprising when we give him zero service and play him alongside a guy out of position.
 
I completely reject he has shown nothing. At the start he looked the best, although I understood Wilders approach of bringing him in slowly as he arrived late. He took his goal well and would have had another if Egan wasn’t there. He didn’t look good yesterday but as the OP said I largely put that down to playing alongside Robinson and the direct balls. He has looked best playing alongside a proper striker. Even better with freeman.
 
Barney said:
How about we play him alongside his most suited strike partner in Mousset, instead of Robinson, who is clearly a winger and not a striker.
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Would a change in strike partner improve his personal first touch. Macburnie issue is his strength, decision making and technical ability. None of them have anything to do with who he plays up front with.

I want it to work out but sadly I think we have wasted our money. He is too untidy to succeed at this level.
 
Funny isn't it, that I watched the whole game in HD quality, with multi camera angles, on a 55" screen TV and generally thought we were terrible and that McBurnie looks like a £20m flop and Robinson looks lost, yet people who were actually at the game thought we played well in a 0-0 draw with club who are currently bottom of the PL! 🤔

That said, the scores McBurnie was getting on the player ratings suggest I'm not the only one to think that!
 
He's doing his own bit and writing himself off, been poor so far and if you think he was bad yesterday then you should have seen him against Blackburn reserves.
Championship strikers, where do you think Swansea and Preston play.
 
If you're not involved in chances, contribute in other ways. Close down, hold the ball up, win aerial challenges.

Unfortunately he didnt do any of that.

Robinson just looks like hes won a competition to start. Weird as he was one player I wanted us to buy.
 
Bladesthorpe said:
He's doing his own bit and writing himself off, been poor so far and if you think he was bad yesterday then you should have seen him against Blackburn reserves.
Championship strikers, where do you think Swansea and Preston play.
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I can only think that, for the Blackburn match, he'd been told to go out and get some minutes because he was starting on Saturday. He was outclassed from start to finish by Rovers' Centre Halves, but he was by no means alone in under-performing in that one.
 
Most teams we come up against have forwards who can run at a defence with the ball. That’s something we can’t do. Our attacks have to build further back with the forwards hoping to get on the end of something. That’s why we struggled yesterday, we just couldn’t get beyond midfield.
 
Bladesthorpe said:
He's doing his own bit and writing himself off, been poor so far and if you think he was bad yesterday then you should have seen him against Blackburn reserves.
Championship strikers, where do you think Swansea and Preston play.
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In the same division that Sharp and McGoldrick played for us last season?
 



I think it isn't the strikers. Put the right ball into the box - Chelsea, Leicester, Everton - and it's in the back of the net.

I think our problem is unlocking defences to send in that killer pass or cross. Football is tactical, but is also a game of percentages. Get the ball into the scoring areas. If one route doesn't work, switch to plan b and then plan c. And above all else, yesterday we skated on thin ice, relying on our agile goalkeeper and some frankly shit finishing to keep a clean sheet. We seem uncoordinated at the back in phases of the match and susceptible to one minute being solid, next minute looking round at each other with a 'who had him?' demeanour. For us to get better, I'd suggest we need to sharpen that up. We seem to have (largely) stopped giving telegraphed balls away in midfield - if we can concentrate on that delivery and prevention bit we may be better set for survival.

pommpey
 
Bladesthorpe said:
He's doing his own bit and writing himself off, been poor so far and if you think he was bad yesterday then you should have seen him against Blackburn reserves.
Championship strikers, where do you think Swansea and Preston play.
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The same league as QPR and there are so many on here thinking Luke Freeman is the answer.
 
SteveBlade said:
No one's writing him off, literally every Blade is hoping that he'll come good.

All anyone is saying is that he's not shown much and hasn't looked the part so far, which he hasn't, same for Robinson.

Just facts really.
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He was fucking awesome against Liverpool but it just wasn’t as a forward. His running, heading and defending were exceptional.
 
I was delighted with him signing and wanted him over Maupay.

He impressed me when I saw him play at Barnsley and Swansea, and is young enough to improve.

It's also not his fault that he carries the 20 million price tag.

However he's currently not shining in this system and looks much more lightweight than he did in the Championship.

At least he puts himself about a bit unlike Robinson whom I'm quickly falling out with. The last two games he has barely contributed, looked disinterested, slow, on his heels, and this pace he supposed has....I'm not sure where he's hiding it.

We're not creating but even so, the strikers have to make a nuisance of themselves. At least when Sharp and Mousset came there was a bit more threat and purpose.
 
Edinblade said:
Most teams we come up against have forwards who can run at a defence with the ball. That’s something we can’t do. Our attacks have to build further back with the forwards hoping to get on the end of something. That’s why we struggled yesterday, we just couldn’t get beyond midfield.
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Moose can run at a defence , after riding 3 tackles .... But he doesn't make the team !
 
Barney said:
Only dem Blades fans eh.

How about we play him alongside his most suited strike partner in Mousset, instead of Robinson, who is clearly a winger and not a striker.

I really do not know how Mousset is not starting games by now, it's getting silly.

Give him a run of consistent starts alongside McBurnie, I'm confident that's the best option.

What's not the best option is to panic and go back to Sharp and McGoldrick. Though they did very well in the Championship, play Championship strikers and that's where we'll end up. 90% of this forum, if asked before the season, would not have been happy with the prospect of keeping the same forwards. People wanted new strikers, Wilder got them.

One hasn't been given a run of starts despite showing that he is every bit deserving of it.

The other, McBurnie, has seemingly been written off by many after 8 games, 3 of which he didn't even start in.

We got these strikers for a reason. First we must actually play them (consistently), then give them a chance
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we always write off new players.. like i posted in the off season..
wilder gets new player x
x is crap
x is improving
x is brilliant
wilder is a genius

we’ve done it with
joc
stevens
egan
didsy
lunny

i’ve been guilty of it too (stevens)
they’ll come good.. we have an unusual system and it takes a bit of time for new players to bed in
i don’t think robbo is 100% in preseason he was rapid and that is nothing to do with the opposition
 
When the balls played in he does not win many of the headers. When the balls played to his feet he often loses it and gets frustrated in trying to get it back and this had led to bookings . It’s early days but I do feel that he is not going to do much with the ball at all when he gets it.
If this was the championship he would be given more time but would not be surprised if he finds himself on the bench pretty soon.

Personally I would like to see Sharp and Mousset up front together they would cause the problems that is needed to unsettle premier league defences
 
We’re not playing to his strengths at all. The ball keeps getting pumped up to him and we’re expecting him to win every header.

If you look at the majority of his goals for Swansea they were from crosses into the 6 yard box. Playing with a flat 3 in midfield we’re missing the link between midfield and attack. The strikers are completely isolated and he’s becoming frustrated.

Freeman or Mcgoldrick should be starting in the no. 10 position and we’ll create a lot more chances.
 
Don’t think he’s been written off (by any sane poster), most are just pointing out that he’s not been very effective thus far.

Chopping and changing might not be the way to remedy it but we need to get a forward line that will score goals, at the moment they aren’t.

Trying different combinations isn’t that bad an idea if the current pair are drawing blanks.

I hope McBurnie improves and the service to him improves but at the moment he isn’t doing anything that suggests he’s the main striker.
 
Barney said:
How about we play him alongside his most suited strike partner in Mousset, instead of Robinson, who is clearly a winger and not a striker.

I really do not know how Mousset is not starting games by now, it's getting silly.

Give him a run of consistent starts alongside McBurnie, I'm confident that's the best option.
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I'd agree and would add that McGoldrick is not an out-and-out striker. We were spoilt last season, but McG offers far more than being stuck 'up top'. Against Southampton, his bad miss turned some people against him but - that miss apart - he was pretty much MotM.
 
If McBurnie and Robinson were in our team from last season we wouldn’t even be having this conversation.

The reason they look so ineffective is because we aren’t playing to any of our strikers strengths. We haven’t got anyone to link the midfield to the attack and it makes us completely toothless up front. The two like for like subs yesterday absolutely proved this. They were the most ineffective substitutions Wilder could have made.

Subs are supposed to change games and there was an opportunity to bring a more attack minded player on in midfield to swing it in our favour. Instead we continued to hook balls down the line to strikers even smaller than those that were replaced and they were left feeding off scraps yet again.

Yesterday was easily our worst performance of the season, we looked boring, toothless and ineffective. A stark reminder of how Warnock used to set up away from home in the Prem
 



Don't really like McBurnie as a player. Mousset needs to start ahead of him. Mousset looks like the 20 million pound player out of the two of them. He's skilful, dangerously pacy and can get onto a cross - McBurnie seems to limit our attacking threat as he's so one dimensional. I really hope we get to see a full 90 minute display from Mousset against Arsenal. Drop Robinson and McBurnie now and start with Sharp and Lys. Just a thought.
 
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