Consulting the dressing-room

[Revolution]

Since august isn't really a stat though is it? You count the whole season or nothing at all. The season doesn't break down into seperate months.

Fine. 5 goals in 20 games it is then.

Waste of good money for a club with our striking resources to sign someone with that record.

 

[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Meanwhile, back in the dressing-room... Thanks for interesting comments, and examples of similar approaches by other managers. I guess it partly reflects Wilder's personality (takes responsibility, demands the same of others, listens to the views of others), and what he has learned from previous jobs (team spirit vital, include everybody, take advice wherever it is available). His approach lends itself to the small, tight-knit squad, and is working well so far. He would need to adapt (and no doubt would)if he worked at a higher level, either here or elsewhere, where squads are bigger, coaching staff more numerous, etc. If Clough had wanted to consult the players in his final season, he would have had to hire the City Hall!

 

[PeteBlade]

He set one up and would have had one himself but for a great save from Moore then a stroke of luck.
Name me 3 better strikers than Ched in league one who we could get for under 500k?

Matty Taylor, Lee Gregory, Zach Clough, Kevin Van Veen would all cost upwards of 7 figures.

He might have only scored 6 for them but that's still 4 more than any striker of ours bar Billy...

As others have said, he had a decent enough game, he certainly didn't "tear us a new one for 60 minutes".

There numerous other strikers better than him that would do a better job this season, I'm not going to name 'those we could get for 500k' as A: We've no idea what Ched would cost, and that figure is plucked out of the air' and B: I don't know what our budget is.

The Ched obsession is forcing you (for reasons Only you know) to embellish the game he had against us and talk up a bang average scoring record for someone who is apparently "the best striker in the league".

 

[Slim Man]

As others have said, he had a decent enough game, he certainly didn't "tear us a new one for 60 minutes".

There numerous other strikers better than him that would do a better job this season, I'm not going to name 'those we could get for 500k' as A: We've no idea what Ched would cost, and that figure is plucked out of the air' and B: I don't know what our budget is.

The Ched obsession is forcing you (for reasons Only you know) to embellish the game he had against us and talk up a bang average scoring record for someone who is apparently "the best striker in the league".

Danny Wilson's words the other week not mine...
Omar Bogle, John Akinde are two other good options but price wise you'd be talking a million for what are league 2 players.

Ched just makes sense. It's as simple as that. And his performance was the best from a centre forward against us this season for me, there's been a few half decent ones but not many got the better of our solid defence like he did consistently.

 

[PeteBlade]

Danny Wilson's words the other week not mine...
Omar Bogle, John Akinde are two other good options but price wise you'd be talking a million for what are league 2 players.

Ched just makes sense. It's as simple as that. And his performance was the best from a centre forward against us this season for me, there's been a few half decent ones but not many got the better of our solid defence like he did consistently.

His current manager and guy doing his best to relegate Chesterfield.

If I was picking the best centre forward to play against us this season, id at least pick someone who scored.

For me, rightly or wrongly you don't just sign Ched you sign the Ched baggage that comes with him, so it needs to be thoroughly worth it.

On his form this season I don't think it is, and if it were any other player with his record, most certainly wouldn't be interested.

 

[Slim Man]

His current manager and guy doing his best to relegate Chesterfield.

If I was picking the best centre forward to play against us this season, id at least pick someone who scored.

For me, rightly or wrongly you don't just sign Ched you sign the Ched baggage that comes with him, so it needs to be thoroughly worth it.

On his form this season I don't think it is, and if it were any other player with his record, most certainly wouldn't be interested.

There aren't many who have scored against us, that's the thing... As an all round performance his really was up there.
If Jordan Rhodes has a quiet couple of years in the championship and rarely plays I doubt we'd turn that down. This is similar really - you know what they can do when they get going. It's a small risk and a big reward.

Each to their own though, I'm bored of this now. I just don't think we'll find any better for what i think will be a small price in relative terms.

 

[Ricky]

His all round performance against us was possibly the best centre forward performance against us this season, and he pretty much had to do it on his own in that Chesterfield team. It suggested to me that if he was in a good team like ours the goals would flow for him. If Wilder was so quick to declare an interest in Carruthers after the MK Dons game, I'd imagine he might have done similar after that game at Chesterfield.

He's made a good return to football in every department considering he was away for 4 years, and he should only get better from now on. I think it's highly likely he'd represent excellent value if we signed him, better than any other obvious target. It's unclear what he'd cost but longer term, fitness permitting I think he'll be worth at least what we paid for him in the first place.