Cannon better than Brewster

[AWetFlannel]

Easily pleased some of you - all opinions valid but come on money paid against what he is is awful - wouldn’t get in any of our promotion teams in our history - just bang average

Money paid is irrelevant now, it's past tense.

For me, he is clearly playing better than Campbell and Ings on recent form, putting a shift in and making plenty of runs. He's never going to be great at holding the ball up, running the channels and dropping deep to join in the play. He's a goalscorer, and what we can hope to see if he continues to improve is sniffing out plenty of chances and clinical finishing.

 

[wadblade]

Are any of them as good as Didzy
can we have him back please

 

[Iffy Onuora's Shiny Head]

I think his first 9 months would be classified as a 2/10 signing, and the past 4 months as a 6/10

I include 'value for money' in that rating as well. If we had picked him up for 1/2m then I would rate him higher.

He is certainly showing a lot more hunger and willigness in his all round play. I don't think playing as a lone striker suits him at all however, and looks much better next to Bamford. He did well to get the assist yesterday.

 

[blader]

Money paid is irrelevant now, it's past tense.

For me, he is clearly playing better than Campbell and Ings on recent form, putting a shift in and making plenty of runs. He's never going to be great at holding the ball up, running the channels and dropping deep to join in the play. He's a goalscorer, and what we can hope to see if he continues to improve is sniffing out plenty of chances and clinical finishing.

‘He’s a goal scorer’ whilst averaging 1 in 8 for us is a stretch

 

[Racing Blade]

There's a decent argument that, if he works as hard as he did for 90 minutes last night, pressing and chasing lost causes, Cannon will continue to create space for our flair players to exploit. Even more so, when paired with Bamford.

A well earned assist for his efforts.

 

[AWetFlannel]

‘He’s a goal scorer’ whilst averaging 1 in 8 for us is a stretch

It's the type of player he is, I'm not saying he's done it well for us. Sharp got 1 in 5 for Reading and 0 in 13 for Hull, he's still a penalty box poacher.

 

[Badger Blade]

Cannon at least has the ability to run though his output is little better than players like Conor Washington or Scott Hogan in reality, essentially a serviceable, "can do a job" striker floating around the EFL.

He seems to be putting a bit more effort in and looks less out of place than before but realistically, if we went up, he wouldn't hit a barn door in the Premier League - he can barely hit one at this level.

 

[HVR]

I think his first 9 months would be classified as a 2/10 signing, and the past 4 months as a 6/10

I include 'value for money' in that rating as well. If we had picked him up for 1/2m then I would rate him higher.

He is certainly showing a lot more hunger and willigness in his all round play. I don't think playing as a lone striker suits him at all however, and looks much better next to Bamford. He did well to get the assist yesterday.

And that value for money is also relevant to our budget as you rightly say. If we were a club that spends £50-£80m on players, at £10m he would be a bargain. But, and I'm not having a go at other fans (definitely not you, as you've posted a thoughtful comment), but our historical signings over the past 30 years have usually been bargain basement, plucked gems and older players looking for a refresh. A £10m signing for us, as we worry about the budget we have, should be a world beater, a 20 goal a season player, so we judge him, not on price, but on what we assume the percentage of his fee used up our budget. I think that is very important in our thinking - did we blow all our budget on him as a gamble? If we did, he wasn't worth it, if the club knew all about him and thought he would improve and get better and become an asset, then he was.

If your friends go out every night and spend £100 each on steak dinners, but you usually go to the local curry house, and you were invited out, saved up a few quid and spent £50 on a steak, you would expect it to be the best steak you've ever tasted, and you'd be very disappointed, if the portions were small. Whereas your friends would think of it as a reasonable meal for what it cost.

For what it's worth, I think he's a decent enough signing, not a world beater, maybe not Premier League, but he does a very good job for us, and I'm sure he will get better, he already looks less keen and more confident.

 

[Blade In Flame]

Brewster is twice the player Cannon is, unfortunately. Better positioning, better finishing, just a better all round player. And it almost makes me weep to see McBurnie scoring goals for fun at Hull, while we're left with old wet gunpowder boots.

 

[Working Class Hero]

Rhian Brewster was a laughable waste of money that will haunt us for years, but I don't think you'd find many supporters denying he had more to his game than Cannon. Cannon is always available though, which is a lot more than can be said for Brewster.

He'd be fine as a back up striker when you need someone to come on and work hard to defend a lead, or to contribute to the press against teams who can be exploited that way, while others do the actual work on the ball and provide a goal threat.

It's a big problem for us that Campbell and Ings have been so poor, because whatever the lineup is, we have to play a striker that doesn't really contribute alongside Bamford. At the moment that's rightfully Cannon, because he does at least provide that running. If we want to have any chance of the play offs though, we need to continue this automatic promotion form, and one contributing striker is simply not enough. I was always puzzled why we were never linked with another striker in January, and now that Bamford is injured (which was always going to happen at some point) we could regret the decision not to sign anyone.

Hopefully Campbell and Ings can step up now. I think Ings is probably past it now, but it would be a massive boost if they could hit anything like their previous form. And if they did, Cannon would be fourth choice again.

 

[3Cheers4Ramirez]

Rhian Brewster was a laughable waste of money that will haunt us for years, but I don't think you'd find many supporters denying he had more to his game than Cannon. Cannon is always available though, which is a lot more than can be said for Brewster.

He'd be fine as a back up striker when you need someone to come on and work hard to defend a lead, or to contribute to the press against teams who can be exploited that way, while others do the actual work on the ball and provide a goal threat.

It's a big problem for us that Campbell and Ings have been so poor, because whatever the lineup is, we have to play a striker that doesn't really contribute alongside Bamford. At the moment that's rightfully Cannon, because he does at least provide that running. If we want to have any chance of the play offs though, we need to continue this automatic promotion form, and one contributing striker is simply not enough. I was always puzzled why we were never linked with another striker in January, and now that Bamford is injured (which was always going to happen at some point) we could regret the decision not to sign anyone.

Hopefully Campbell and Ings can step up now. I think Ings is probably past it now, but it would be a massive boost if they could hit anything like their previous form. And if they did, Cannon would be fourth choice again.

Our only hope for a second serious contributor up front is Campbell waking up

If he does it could be decisive