Conor Washington Vs Martyn Waghorn

[Houston_Blade]

I seem to remember a lot of people wanting us to sign Washington from Peterborough at the time he went to QPR. Patience has been the key here as we’ve ended up getting him for free.

 

[Rodley]

The lad has been playing under Holloway and McClaren. He’s now playing under Wilder and Knill.

He’s got the raw materials.

UTB

 

[mattbianco1]

Is there a stat for goals per minutes played MB?.. I would think Washington has had far less minutes on the pitch...often coming off the bench late on or subbed off.. I bet he hardly played a full 90 under Holloway.

I wouldn't know where to find that mate

 

[1066blade]

Thought i’d have a look at their records (albeit from Wikipedia as I’m no Blades Analytics on twitter).

Interesting as I make Washington has 99 professional league goals and Waghorn 76 if I read it correctly.

Waghorn is also 2 years older. Okay around half of Conor’s goals came in his early years at St Ive’s but still not bad.

I feel this could be another Wilder masterstroke as a lot of us (myself included) were keen for us to spend a good fee and get Waghorn in probably to show we had a bit of cash and intent if nothing else.

Pros:
Free
Sound like similar type of players in getting around the pitch and pressing which should suit our system well if not necessarily ‘goalscorers’.
Bit more pace
1 year deal if it doesn’t work out.

Cons
...

Good work again Sir Chris!

Surely no point in quoting goals scored without supporting it with games played.?

 

[Ricky]

Having Sharp and Clarke to learn from could be massive for Washington because they're both experienced players who have the key striker's attributes that he lacks.

 

[super_pig]

Washington
45 League goals, 5 of which came for Newport in the Conference (is that professional?) He has a ratio of 0.21 goals per game and has played 213 games with 70 of those being off the bench.

He has scored 15 Championship goals in 92 apps (58 starts).

Waghorn
Slightly better goals ration of 0.27 per game. He has 76 league goals from 276 games (179 starts).

He has never played below Chamionship level. Unless you consider the SPL to be just that.

Waghorn is by far a much better striker.

But - Wilder has proved that he can make run of the mill players into great ones.

Rangers lads reckoned Waghorn was ok but not 5 million ok.. reckon we dodged a bullet .. same with Hogan
is a lot of this marquee signing bollocks so that people can go down the pub and say to the local pig ‘we spent x’?? ie bragging rights?

 

[Topplayersleave]

Signing squad players as usual, rather than improvements.
It'll catch us out again one day

 

[Fanny magnet]

Signing squad players as usual, rather than improvements.
It'll catch us out again one day

Oliver Norwood

 

[Topplayersleave]

Oliver Norwood

Yes, that's one,
But he isn't as good as Brooks

Maybe we should sell Fleck, and then we can improve by signing somebody better than Lundstram

 

[Fanny magnet]

Yes, that's one,
But he isn't as good as Brooks

Maybe we should sell Fleck, and then we can improve by signing somebody better than Lundstram

That's not what you said though is it ?
You said we only sign squad players

 

[Pollingtonblade]

That's not what you said though is it ?
You said we only sign squad players

To be fair they are squad players, in our squad

 

[Eric Cartman]

Watched Washington for N Ireland vs Norway in euroqualifier 2016, scored and looked more than decent, my thoughts at the time, why don't we get players like him. He's actually very pacey and makes clever runs, strong and not without technical ability.He's played LW/RW aswell as central striker at QPR. So he's a versatile due to his strong runs. Waghorn is a static CF and hardly contributes to the overall play as Washington does.

I take your points on board - but Waghorn isn’t a static CF at all. He’s played LW often in his career

 

[HeCanDoMagic]

People who keep talking about his ‘Peterborough form’ realise that was in League One - right?

Likewise those that talk about his QPR form fail to acknowledge that many of his appearances were spent out of position on the left wing.