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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2020 20:32:02 GMT
Marco Gabbiadini, Paul Stewart and Gary Bannister.
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Post by spitthedog on Oct 28, 2020 20:34:49 GMT
How many of these worst strikers cost £9m?
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Post by spitthedog on Oct 28, 2020 20:37:26 GMT
If we are looking for scapegoats for last night look no further than Mikel, Tymon, and Oakley Booth. They were masquerading as midfielders I believe. Absolutely dog shit, all three of them. Vokes is dire and he always has been, but there’s starving kids in Kenya who’ve been fed more than Sammy Plank was last night. The midfield were bypassed for most of the game which was our only game plan. Those midfielders must have had neck ache during the 2nd half. Lumping long high balls from the back to Vokes who didn't win 1 ball all night.
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Post by kustokie on Oct 28, 2020 20:48:32 GMT
Nah. He wasn’t that bad. I saw him score a brilliant header from the front of the old Boothen End. That alone was better than anything Vokes has done.
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Post by smallthorner on Oct 28, 2020 20:49:30 GMT
If we are looking for scapegoats for last night look no further than Mikel, Tymon, and Oakley Booth. They were masquerading as midfielders I believe. Absolutely dog shit, all three of them. Vokes is dire and he always has been, but there’s starving kids in Kenya who’ve been fed more than Sammy Plank was last night. I left my heart in Sam Plank's disco.
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Post by kustokie on Oct 28, 2020 20:50:53 GMT
If we are looking for scapegoats for last night look no further than Mikel, Tymon, and Oakley Booth. They were masquerading as midfielders I believe. Absolutely dog shit, all three of them. Vokes is dire and he always has been, but there’s starving kids in Kenya who’ve been fed more than Sammy Plank was last night. The midfield were bypassed for most of the game which was our only game plan. Those midfielders must have had neck ache during the 2nd half. Lumping long high balls from the back to Vokes who didn't win 1 ball all night. That’s not totally true. He won quite a few headers from balls lumped up to him. The only problem was, they all went either out for a throw or straight to Swansea player.
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Post by hackworth on Oct 28, 2020 21:09:41 GMT
David Herd perhaps
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Post by upthefud on Oct 28, 2020 21:13:57 GMT
Think your memory is possibly playing tricks on you 5 goals 5 assists in our relegation season not always up front is decent enough, I think you're being a bit harsh on him tbh. The thread by nature is a bit harsh to Vokes. We’ve had many worse strikers than him. Also we aren’t getting Instagram updates of him fancying about after a defeat
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Post by thisisouryear on Oct 28, 2020 21:22:47 GMT
I always remember Iwelumo being shit, for some reason I seem to have memories of the ball going across the box on a number of occasions and him constantly sliding in missing the tap in by about a foot every time. I can literally picture it now and have done for years and still I don't know how he didn't score.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Oct 28, 2020 21:24:38 GMT
5 goals 5 assists in our relegation season not always up front is decent enough, I think you're being a bit harsh on him tbh. The thread by nature is a bit harsh to Vokes. We’ve had many worse strikers than him. Also we aren’t getting Instagram updates of him fancying about after a defeat Yeh you're right, the title should probably be is he the worst suited striker we've ever had.
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Post by lommack on Oct 28, 2020 21:27:36 GMT
Keith Scott?
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Post by march4 on Oct 28, 2020 21:29:29 GMT
I can’t remember a less effective front two than those two last night.
We complain about Gregory but how he didn’t start last nights game I will never know.
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Post by boskampsflaps on Oct 28, 2020 21:32:15 GMT
I can’t remember a less effective front two than those two last night. We complain about Gregory but how he didn’t start last nights game I will never know. I'm not convinced they were played as a front two tbh, they were way too far apart and Brown was dropping back a lot deeper than you'd expect to see.
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Post by spitthedog on Oct 28, 2020 21:48:37 GMT
David Herd was poor, but he was basically past it at 34, had not fully recovered from a broken leg when he came to Stoke and was a free transfer so he has 3 excuses that Vokes hasn't got already. Despite that he still managed 9 goals in a season in the top flight. Would we get 9 goals out of Vokes?
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Post by greystokie on Oct 28, 2020 23:17:04 GMT
Nah. He wasn’t that bad. I saw him score a brilliant header from the front of the old Boothen End. That alone was better than anything Vokes has done. I saw that too and thought he was the Messiah but he just turned out to be a very naughty boy. In other words, fucking useless!
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 28, 2020 23:19:52 GMT
Sometimes I feel sorry for Sam Vokes for the shit he gets on here. But then I think there he is earning 20k a week or whatever it is jogging around a football pitch for an hour or so then going back to his multi million pound complex with his model wife and not a care in the world whilst most of the country is either fearing for their livelihood or worse. Depressing isn’t it
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Post by Deleted on Oct 28, 2020 23:44:45 GMT
I always remember Iwelumo being shit, for some reason I seem to have memories of the ball going across the box on a number of occasions and him constantly sliding in missing the tap in by about a foot every time. I can literally picture it now and have done for years and still I don't know how he didn't score. He missed a sitter for Scotland as well, a real sitter. He used to be a friend of my Dad’s, I had one of his match day shirts, which I wore with real pride until I outgrew it.
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Post by robstokie on Oct 28, 2020 23:47:04 GMT
He's not quite the worst - the bar is pretty high for that but 1 - he offers nothing in this system, 2 - he's one of the worst finishers I've seen (how many headers does he miss) and 3 - he contributes nothing away from an aerial presence when playing with wingers or from set pieces.
The scary thing is we've had worse - Lightbourne, Pericard, Greenacre, Bruce Dyer, Gudjohnsen, Michael Owen, Kitson and Berahino come to mind from my time - it will take something special to usurp some of these!
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Oct 28, 2020 23:51:43 GMT
I always remember Iwelumo being shit, for some reason I seem to have memories of the ball going across the box on a number of occasions and him constantly sliding in missing the tap in by about a foot every time. I can literally picture it now and have done for years and still I don't know how he didn't score. He missed a sitter for Scotland as well, a real sitter. He used to be a friend of my Dad’s, I had one of his match day shirts, which I wore with real pride until I outgrew it. He’s asked me to decorate his flat in Newcastle a few weeks ago, must be renting it out. Maybe he lives in it. Couldn’t do it anyway. The End👀
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Post by sensiblestokie on Oct 29, 2020 0:32:54 GMT
Sam Vokes is truly a terrible striker. Not many things come close to the disappointment when I see the team sheet and he is up top.
He can’t run, can’t pass, I wouldn’t back him with a one on one. He can semi header a ball which has to be on a plate for him.
Truly awful that he was 9m.
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Post by Gary Hackett on Oct 29, 2020 0:37:04 GMT
For what he cost he's not far behind Imbula, Wimmer, Berahino etc for bad value for money.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2020 7:17:23 GMT
I always remember seeing Vokes on MOTD or Goals on Sunday quite a few years ago when he was playing for Wolves and thinking what an absolutely awful player he was - couldn't run, couldn't win headers, couldn't hold the ball up, couldn't bring other players into the game, and to top it off he missed two absolute sitters. I also saw a couple of his "performances" when he played for Burnley and it was pretty much the same woeful stuff. I wondered how someone so apparently utterly unsuited to being a professional footballer had managed to become a professional footballer and was really pleased that he wasn't a Stoke player. Imagine my delight when several years later he signed for Stoke.
I see Kyle Lightbourne has been mentioned, what about Martin Carruthers - he was pretty woeful wasn't he ? As for John Tudor, I saw him score two goals early in his debut for us and thought we'd signed a goal machine, and then he did absolutely nothing the rest of the time he was with us.
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Post by elystokie on Oct 29, 2020 7:47:49 GMT
I always remember seeing Vokes on MOTD or Goals on Sunday quite a few years ago when he was playing for Wolves and thinking what an absolutely awful player he was - couldn't run, couldn't win headers, couldn't hold the ball up, couldn't bring other players into the game, and to top it off he missed two absolute sitters. I also saw a couple of his "performances" when he played for Burnley and it was pretty much the same woeful stuff. I wondered how someone so apparently utterly unsuited to being a professional footballer had managed to become a professional footballer and was really pleased that he wasn't a Stoke player. Imagine my delight when several years later he signed for Stoke. I see Kyle Lightbourne has been mentioned, what about Martin Carruthers - he was pretty woeful wasn't he ? As for John Tudor, I saw him score two goals early in his debut for us and thought we'd signed a goal machine, and then he did absolutely nothing the rest of the time he was with us. It was a while before I realised Carruthers name was Martin, I could've sworn it was ferfuxache prior to that. He must hold the record for missing the most one on one's for us, to be fair at least he had the pace to put himself in those positions I suppose.
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Oct 29, 2020 7:59:13 GMT
Michael Ricketts Eider Gudjonson
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Post by redstriper on Oct 29, 2020 8:37:59 GMT
its about context. Michael Owen could be regarded as our "worst" recent striker if you use selected criteria. Vokes isn't half as bad a people on here are saying, its borne of frustration when he is the centre focus of a poor team performance. He has already scored some vital goals for us and to pretend he is as bad a Pericard for example, is just ridiculous.
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Post by Northy on Oct 29, 2020 9:01:41 GMT
O'Neil Donaldson probably the worst I've seen I think, but he wasn't here long, Simon Stainrod came when he had gained a few pounds and was past his best. John Tudor, 2 great goals on his debut then not a lot, but was he only here for a month ? It has to be keith Scott for the amount of time he was here, thankfully just the 1 season.
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Post by stokecitystar2011 on Oct 29, 2020 9:03:13 GMT
Terrible terrible striker But have we had worse? Kyle Lightborne!
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Post by spud on Oct 29, 2020 9:44:24 GMT
I don't like this public slagging off of our players, but because I'm bored - Jese? Guidetti? Owen? Also most of our players that aren't strikers are probably worse strikers than vokes too
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Post by spiderpuss on Oct 29, 2020 10:31:02 GMT
Let's face it, when he's played there, Ryan Shawcross is a better striker than Vokes.
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Post by J-Roar on Oct 29, 2020 10:37:39 GMT
Neville Chamberlain always looked like a competition winner whenever he played.
Hard to dislike though.
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