Is Tom Cannon the most useless striker we've ever had?

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reedy63 said:
How dare they give the number seven shirt to Cannon, and before him, Brewster? What does the legendary Tony Currie think.I would imagine not fit to tie bootlaces, summat like that, I bet.
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Teks lesser mortals than TC, to see, he,! he! he! see wot I done there, to see he's wank, yes WANK.
 

reedy63 said:
How dare they give the number seven shirt to Cannon, and before him, Brewster? What does the legendary Tony Currie think.I would imagine not fit to tie bootlaces, summat like that, I bet.
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Since squad numbers came, It's not a great list...

Tom Cannon (25/26 - ...)
Rhian Brewster (21/22 - 24/25),
John Lundstram (17/18 - 20/21),
Marc McNulty (16/17),
Ryan Flynn (12/13 - 15/16),
Will Hoskins (11/12),
Nathaniel Méndez-Laing (11/12),
Darius Henderson (08/09 - 10/11),
Luton Shelton (06/07 - 07/08),
Paul Ifill (05/06),
Andy Liddell (04/05),
Paul Shaw (03/04),
Michael Brown (00/01 - 03/04),
Franz Carr (93/94).
 
Cam someone answer this question why was he scoring goals at Stoke and not here. Is it to do with style of play they used or what. Only because if you buy a player you should know their strengths and what type of support he was given to enable him to score.
Don’t think he is crap, just don’t think we are playing to his strengths. So begs the question why buy him if we ain’t going to play to his strengths. Or play him at all. As others have said, why have players who moved on when often called crap and are doing well.
The challenge for Wilder is to make a decision on what style of play he wants and then make sure he has the players to do it. If not able to do then he needs to look at strengths and weaknesses of his team and adapt the style of play to try and produce a successful team.
Has someone else said, January could be interesting.
 
prescotblade said:
Cam someone answer this question why was he scoring goals at Stoke and not here. Is it to do with style of play they used or what. Only because if you buy a player you should know their strengths and what type of support he was given to enable him to score.
Don’t think he is crap, just don’t think we are playing to his strengths. So begs the question why buy him if we ain’t going to play to his strengths. Or play him at all. As others have said, why have players who moved on when often called crap and are doing well.
The challenge for Wilder is to make a decision on what style of play he wants and then make sure he has the players to do it. If not able to do then he needs to look at strengths and weaknesses of his team and adapt the style of play to try and produce a successful team.
Has someone else said, January could be interesting.
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Agree 100%. There is obviously a player in there, but will we or can we play to his strengths? He needs a partner to feed off and he's not getting that here.

Having said that, I would play One instead of Cannon.
 
Not every player is suited to a lone striker role and it takes certain attributes to play it, hes clearly out of his depth & uncomfortable playing it, he also doesn't have the attributes to either.

In saying that, that doesnt excuse his abysmal effort. If you cant play the postion/system, then the very least you do is put yourself about, close defenders, run around, get stuck into defenders.

I have noticed hes made some runs peeling of the defender also some moving across 1 and in behind the other & asking for the ball through, but the players behind him either dont see it, won't see it or been told to play it short to side to eventually get it out wide.

He's been piss poor of an excuse of a player thus far but, I wouldnt want to completely write him off until ive seen him have a run of games in a 2. I think we might have seen a differen Tom Cannon in the 1st wilder stint formstion & game play with Duffy role behind him paired in a 2 with didsy coming deep to create space behind or a big man to feed off.

As others have said, we need to either cur losses move on or formation thats going to suit him, with the current state of play and rest of our squad then this may align by fate.
 
GymClassHero said:
Just can't fathom why he was signed instead of Japhet. We sign Japhet, we go up. We could've used, as you say, Oné instead and spent the fee on Tanganga.
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Yeah totally agreed and when we did bring in Holding he was barely played. I would have rather paid £20million on Tanganga and gone up than £10million on Cannon still tied into a lengthy deal, unless he starts doing anything soon he will be difficult to offload and will become a less productive Brewster, annoyingly fit but useless. Least with Brewster part of the problem was lengthy injuries which were unlucky timing
 
He should be moved on asap.

Criminal that we spent upto £10 million on him.

Things just are not going to work for him here.

Ship him out and get someone else in.
 
Lord Eddard Muir said:
Burke would at least get on the ball and run up the pitch with it, even if he did fuck all with it once he got there.

Higdon at least managed to score on his debut.

Sammon at least got into the kinds of positions from which he could miss sitters.

Horsfield at least contributed about as much as Cannon has in his Blades career but in far, far fewer games.

Craig Beattie... no, who am I kidding, he was absolute garbage.

But I can't think of anyone actually worse than Cannon, no.
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Craig Beattie's best contribution to the Blades could yet prove to be Jevan
 
Kev Gee said:
He should be moved on asap.

Criminal that we spent upto £10 million on him.

Things just are not going to work for him here.

Ship him out and get someone else in.
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Be interested who would be interested in him if he was offered out in January, definitely would be at a loss but it’s how much we can get back to try and bring someone else in.
 
prescotblade said:
Cam someone answer this question why was he scoring goals at Stoke and not here. Is it to do with style of play they used or what. Only because if you buy a player you should know their strengths and what type of support he was given to enable him to score.
Don’t think he is crap, just don’t think we are playing to his strengths. So begs the question why buy him if we ain’t going to play to his strengths. Or play him at all. As others have said, why have players who moved on when often called crap and are doing well.
The challenge for Wilder is to make a decision on what style of play he wants and then make sure he has the players to do it. If not able to do then he needs to look at strengths and weaknesses of his team and adapt the style of play to try and produce a successful team.
Has someone else said, January could be interesting.
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His goals for Stoke included a free-kick and three penalties.
And 4 of the 11 he got for them were in one game against a Portsmouth side that had clearly written the night off as a bad job.

So, outside of that he scored 4 open play goals against teams that gave a toss last season - one of them a genuinely good strike for us against Burnley.

But overall I think you'd have to try fairly hard to find a striker that could command such a (relatively) hefty fee whilst offering so woefully little for the way we play.
 
He will be the second coming of ched next season in division 3 - probably his level
 

The Fox said:
Yes he's been poor .

However over the last 12 months or so playing up front for us as been as futile as getting a job at the Rotherham Tourist Board .
We create very few opportunities , we dont dominate games or play the ball to forwards fast enough ,chances are few and far between

As said , he's not done great but cant help thinking its a symptom of how we play aswell.
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We do play a lot of direct back to front hoof to no one mixed in tho
 
Maidenhead said:
I know that Cannon's off to a poor start but it won't take much improvement to fire him ahead of Steve Finnieston, Alan Young, and Micky Guy.

When he gets there he'll have Chris Guthrie clearly in his sights.
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Micky Guy - thanks for that I had managed to erase him from my memory.

Young was ok just always injured.
 
The only time he should be on the pitch is down the middle as part of a front 2. Even then I am doubtful he will contribute anything. He has no attributes that he can play any other formation / position. You might as well just have 10 men on the pitch as at least he won't get in the way.
 
LBA_Blade said:
Yeah totally agreed and when we did bring in Holding he was barely played. I would have rather paid £20million on Tanganga and gone up than £10million on Cannon still tied into a lengthy deal, unless he starts doing anything soon he will be difficult to offload and will become a less productive Brewster, annoyingly fit but useless. Least with Brewster part of the problem was lengthy injuries which were unlucky timing
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Tom Cannon will end up being released on a free at the end of a poor spell with us. Can't see anyone buying him now. You wouldn't buy a car if it couldn't get above 50 and had no heating, one seat and half a windscreen 😂
 
coaxingstar71 said:
Bit of a digression here, but who has worn the No.7 shirt for us?
Apart from the legend that was Woody, and the aforementioned Brewster and Cannon, I can think of :

Colin Morris
Andy Gray?
Alan Roberts
Ian Bryson
Carl Bradshaw
Gary Hamson?
Steve Neville
Len De Goey
Ryan Flynn (if he would be better than Cannon)

Trying to think who had the shirt in the first Wilder spell from 2016 and can only think of possibly Samir Carruthers?
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I think Dean Saunders wore 7 for us most of the time he was here.
 
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He almost scored for us. Again another quickly dispatched by Warnock once he realised what he had (or didn't have!).
 
The amount of money and time I’ve spent watching apparent dog shite over 60 years would have paid for a shuttle bus to Mars and back
 
VictoryBlade said:
The irony is that when Vanistelrooy was manager at Leicester, he was happy for him to be loaned to Stoke, then sold him to us knowing that Leicester would be in the Championship this season and had he been any good would have stuck with him for the season ahead. Van was no mug in terms of identifying a good striker so why oh why did we sign this fool? After all Van played for Man U in their Prime?
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And Leicester needed money.......
 
VictoryBlade said:
The irony is that when Vanistelrooy was manager at Leicester, he was happy for him to be loaned to Stoke, then sold him to us knowing that Leicester would be in the Championship this season and had he been any good would have stuck with him for the season ahead. Van was no mug in terms of identifying a good striker so why oh why did we sign this fool? After all Van played for Man U in their Prime?
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Wilder wanted him before he went to Stoke and is like a dog with a bone once he gets a favourite player stuck in his head.
 

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