Is our transfer inactivity beginning to worry anyone?

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Well in answer to the OP - yes a bit.

The issue for me is like of effective strikers. With one of the lowest scoring ratios last season hoping to repeat our 'success' this season on the same basis is folly.
CWAK I am sure know this, but it must be frustrating for them as it is concerning me that we are still way too light.

Burke by accounts from my Scottish acquantancies isn't a lot better than McBurnie. More powerful but not a great goalscorer so I wouldn't put too much faith in him.
Just hope the Brewster thing happens, otherwise I fear a bit of a struggle/non descript season and at the end of which dont be surprised if a few key members go.
 
BladeFisher said:
Just hope the Brewster thing happens, otherwise I fear a bit of a struggle/non descript season and at the end of which dont be surprised if a few key members go.
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Brewster's goal scoring record at Swansea was no better than McBurnie's. Our issue last season was in low chance creation, not in those chances being taken.
 
BladeFisher said:
Well in answer to the OP - yes a bit.

The issue for me is like of effective strikers. With one of the lowest scoring ratios last season hoping to repeat our 'success' this season on the same basis is folly.
CWAK I am sure know this, but it must be frustrating for them as it is concerning me that we are still way too light.

Burke by accounts from my Scottish acquantancies isn't a lot better than McBurnie. More powerful but not a great goalscorer so I wouldn't put too much faith in him.
Just hope the Brewster thing happens, otherwise I fear a bit of a struggle/non descript season and at the end of which dont be surprised if a few key members go.
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McBurnie was our top goal scorer last season Fisher, he did well for a first season in the PL. If Burke's better than McBurnie than that'll do me for sure, because I think McBurnie's going to be a real threat this season.
 
pommpey said:
Well, I've heard we've agreed in principle for Wilder's long term target Barry Oddnob. Apparently according to my mate Mick the Dick who works on Brammel Layne his ex-father in law works in the Copthorne and he's heard from one of the bar staff who knows someone in the club whose telt him that Oddnob and his agent Kenny Spangles can't get HRH and Wilder to agree on what motor he gets from TC Harrisons - he wants a Capri 2.0 GLX and TCH don't have one. THAT is what Wilder is going on about when he says he gets frustrated and who can blame him. Apparently Oddnob also wants one with one of them multi tuned horns an' all and all the Ghia interior, including a fucking eight track. Cheeky cunt. Who does he think he's signing for? Man U?

Can also play in Bash's position if cornered and apparently is a fucking ace back up keeper. AND he's only 35.

Sign him Wilder!

pommpey
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Sergio Testacles ? Good ball player but that's about it. Stop talking bollocks pommpey ;)


I'll get mi coat.
 
Flatulent_Bob said:
Brewster's goal scoring record at Swansea was no better than McBurnie's. Our issue last season was in low chance creation, not in those chances being taken.
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Sometimes i just want a 'proper' whipped in cross onto McBurnie's head (like the Chelsea goal). Most of the time we try low cut backs that get intercepted a lot more in the PL than they ever did in L1 or CH
 
I'd be a touch worried were I George Baldock. I love the bloke, but his crossing is... well... average at best.

Bogle is a different beast. We know Ollie McB has a great header on him, and if he doesn't get enough deliveries, it may be George who suffers and is dropped.
 
mattbianco1 said:
Sometimes i just want a 'proper' whipped in cross onto McBurnie's head (like the Chelsea goal). Most of the time we try low cut backs that get intercepted a lot more in the PL than they ever did in L1 or CH
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I totally understand, but we don't play the percentages and put it in the box, instead we continue to work the ball until we create a high quality chance.
It's just what we do. However the logic, based on the stats would seem to suggest that if we can create more high quality chances our existing forwards will get more goals.
Of course if better forwards exist out there, then the likelihood of more goals would follow.
 
Booker4 said:
McBurnie was our top goal scorer last season Fisher, he did well for a first season in the PL. If Burke's better than McBurnie than that'll do me for sure, because I think McBurnie's going to be a real threat this season.
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I hope so too. I'd rather have lower expectations and be pleasantly surprised, than the converse though!
 

Flatulent_Bob said:
I'm sure the stats I saw suggested that chance conversion (outside of Dids) was well within what you should expect.
Beans Did I get this from you?
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Not sure but it pretty much was. On xG, McBurnie slightly underperformance (xG 7.6, scored 6), Mousset slight overperformance (xG 4.9, scored 6), Sharp right in line (xG 2.8, scored 3), Robinson slight underperformance (xG 2.1, scored 1). McGoldrick massive underperformance (xG 7.1, scored 2).

Taken as a whole the strikers had 24.5 xG of chances and scored 18 goals - the vast majority of which was McGoldrick's misses.
 
Overall the team xG was 41.5 and we scored 39, as you say both could do with being higher.
 
Beans said:
Not sure but it pretty much was. On xG, McBurnie slightly underperformance (xG 7.6, scored 6), Mousset slight overperformance (xG 4.9, scored 6), Sharp right in line (xG 2.8, scored 3), Robinson slight underperformance (xG 2.1, scored 1). McGoldrick massive underperformance (xG 7.1, scored 2).

Taken as a whole the strikers had 24.5 xG of chances and scored 18 goals - the vast majority of which was McGoldrick's misses.
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Thanks, if the current career or podcast thing doesn't work out, I think I can find you work as an excellent PA.
 
Beans said:
Not sure but it pretty much was. On xG, McBurnie slightly underperformance (xG 7.6, scored 6), Mousset slight overperformance (xG 4.9, scored 6), Sharp right in line (xG 2.8, scored 3), Robinson slight underperformance (xG 2.1, scored 1). McGoldrick massive underperformance (xG 7.1, scored 2).

Taken as a whole the strikers had 24.5 xG of chances and scored 18 goals - the vast majority of which was McGoldrick's misses.
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Given that McGoldrick got second most minutes of any forward last season, I don't think his misses can simply be waved away.

I've also seen other Xg numbers which paint a starker picture than that as I posted on one of your podcast threads. Who knows which is more reliable.
 
Revolution said:
Given that McGoldrick got second most minutes of any forward last season, I don't think his misses can simply be waved away.

I've also seen other Xg numbers which paint a starker picture than that as I posted on one of your podcast threads. Who knows which is more reliable.
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I'm not waving them away but McGoldrick was responsible for 78% of that underperformance I've listed there. If he'd had anything like average finishing ability (or average luck in front of goal) last season we wouldn't be having this conversation.
 
Really glad we seem to have added some extra creativity at the WB position, in this system that's where much of our chance creation comes from and we saw when Enda dropped off, so does our output and purpose as a team. Would have liked to get another creative body in midfield, somebody who would drive at the opposition, we do lack that kind of intent at times, and it would open the space up for the rest of the team IMO. Way more interested in that rather than chucking another striker in there and hoping he magics his own chances up.

Clearly we got scuppered on a few earlier in the window, but the club has bounced back well IMO. Never doubted it.
 
Beans said:
I'm not waving them away but McGoldrick was responsible for 78% of that underperformance I've listed there. If he'd had anything like average finishing ability (or average luck in front of goal) last season we wouldn't be having this conversation.
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No, we are dealing with what actually happened, which was he had a very poor season in front of goal, which supports the point that chance creation was only part of the problem.
 
Revolution said:
No, we are dealing with what actually happened, which was he had a very poor season in front of goal, which supports the point that chance creation was only part of the problem.
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The biggest part of the problem, imo
 
mcbladeface said:
Personally think the Leeds deal is lunacy if the details are true. 100k a week for 4 years on top of the 26-7 million theyve paid in transfer fees takes it over 40 million total outlay before you get to the addons.

He scored 4 goals last season in 27 matches. Down from 8 the season before with rumours he's getting injury prone and has dodgy knees.
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That's similar to mcgoldrick who some on here love to hate
 
What the stats don't really tell us is how much of a contribution McGoldrick made in other areas of the pitch. He spent large parts of the game in the 'linking' position and still managed to get into the goal scoring positions that he did too! As has been said before, if he could consistently play the linking role and convert the majority of his chances in front of goal he would never have got to play for the Blades. He would have spent his whole career at a top 6 club.
 

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