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Post by cvillestokie on Nov 25, 2023 20:18:00 GMT
How many years have we been down in this league now?
These three still stand out as the best attacking trio we’ve had (by far). It’s a sad indictment of where we are.
How hard is football? Get a semi mobile target man, an attacking midfield who links up play and someone else who wants to run at defences.
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Post by TinkerT on Nov 25, 2023 20:27:26 GMT
Weve had some shit in our time but claiming Powell is the "best" we've had since relegation is laughable. He was exactly the onset of this absolute shite mentality, rock up, walk around the pitch, play when you want or if you can be arsed.
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Post by cvillestokie on Nov 25, 2023 20:40:02 GMT
Weve had some shit in our time but claiming Powell is the "best" we've had since relegation is laughable. He was exactly the onset of this absolute shite mentality, rock up, walk around the pitch, play when you want or if you can be arsed. We’ve not been more attacking than the lead up to Campbell’s first injury. It lasted all of about 10 games. Our longest spell of looking decent. |
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Post by telfordstokie on Nov 25, 2023 21:06:26 GMT
Weve had some shit in our time but claiming Powell is the "best" we've had since relegation is laughable. He was exactly the onset of this absolute shite mentality, rock up, walk around the pitch, play when you want or if you can be arsed. Ok… but who’s been better!? I couldn’t name anyone. |
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Post by mickstupp on Nov 25, 2023 21:15:36 GMT
Having those three in tandem was probably the only time we’ve looked remotely like finishing top six in this rancid league since we were relegated.
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Post by theonlooker on Nov 25, 2023 21:18:28 GMT
At our best we were a very good side under MON. Light years away from most if not all we've seen under AN.
Our midfield under him was no less robust than it is now and he refused to entertain a genuine DM.
At it's worst, we were no worse than what we've witnessed over the last 12 months or so.
We've genuinely gone backwards at an alarming rate.
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Post by dirtygary69 on Nov 25, 2023 21:46:15 GMT
At our best we were a very good side under MON. Light years away from most if not all we've seen under AN. Our midfield under him was no less robust than it is now and he refused to entertain a genuine DM. At it's worst, we were no worse than what we've witnessed over the last 12 months or so. We've genuinely gone backwards at an alarming rate. The thing with both MON and Neil, is that when it looks like they’ve found a way to play and turned a corner, they retreat and go backwards alarmingly. The 3-5-2 under MON has the best since relegation, but then he shat himself. Same with Neil during the March run last season, found something then lost it. I don’t know if they both got lucky and just happened upon something that worked for a while or what, but it’s fucking annoying. |
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Post by Gods on Nov 25, 2023 22:03:48 GMT
We have had Crouch and Bojan play for us in this league under Gazza Rowett albeit both were basically finished by then.
It looks increasingly like our summer recruitment of attacking players has been a complete wash out.
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Post by cvillestokie on Nov 26, 2023 12:56:53 GMT
We have had Crouch and Bojan play for us in this league under Gazza Rowett albeit both were basically finished by then. It looks increasingly like our summer recruitment of attacking players has been a complete wash out. In around 20 games a piece, they each scored 1 goal. They were about as effective in front of goal as Gayle was last season. |
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Post by peterthornesboots on Nov 26, 2023 13:42:14 GMT
Weve had some shit in our time but claiming Powell is the "best" we've had since relegation is laughable. He was exactly the onset of this absolute shite mentality, rock up, walk around the pitch, play when you want or if you can be arsed. Powell is perhaps the only player since relegation who I enjoyed watching. His first couple of seasons he racked up 25 goals or assists in the league. No one else has got anywhere near to that level for us since. His second two seasons were wrecked by injury and AN's weird obsession with trying to use him as a target man to impact the game off the bench. Do not get me wrong, he was not the Messiah. However, he was really good for his first couple of years. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 26, 2023 13:54:12 GMT
I think we have tried to over complicate up front ,we are not playing in the Prem or la Liga .
We don't necessarily need someone with the technical ability of Bojan or joselu in the championship.
There is plenty of evidence someone big fast and strong, who can play a bit , such as an akinbyi , Cameron Jerome or Brandon Thomas assante , can do a job for you, in the championship.
Nothing against jojic at all but in our position, can't up the BTA bid by a million quid but can spare a million on a youth team player ,not good enough to play for Serbia u21 , is bollox .
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 27, 2023 18:31:53 GMT
3 absolute crocks if I’m not mistaken
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Post by jay1610 on Nov 27, 2023 18:49:00 GMT
Weve had some shit in our time but claiming Powell is the "best" we've had since relegation is laughable. He was exactly the onset of this absolute shite mentality, rock up, walk around the pitch, play when you want or if you can be arsed. But…he is? The only time we’ve looked like threatening at the top end of the league since we came down was with him playing well. |
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Post by jokker on Nov 27, 2023 19:49:38 GMT
We have had Crouch and Bojan play for us in this league under Gazza Rowett albeit both were basically finished by then. It looks increasingly like our summer recruitment of attacking players has been a complete wash out. In around 20 games a piece, they each scored 1 goal. They were about as effective in front of goal as Gayle was last season. Both were used as impact subs, not as first choice strikers. So those 20 games weren't 1800 minutes which you'd require to go on a goalscoring spree. Unless you're Haaland, but even he didn't score at first until Citeh players worked out how to play him. |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 27, 2023 19:54:22 GMT
In around 20 games a piece, they each scored 1 goal. They were about as effective in front of goal as Gayle was last season. Both were used as impact subs, not as first choice strikers. So those 20 games weren't 1800 minutes which you'd require to go on a goalscoring spree. Unless you're Haaland, but even he didn't score at first until Citeh players worked out how to play him. He scored two on his debut and two hatricks around 3 weeks later |
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Post by jokker on Nov 27, 2023 19:55:10 GMT
How many years have we been down in this league now? These three still stand out as the best attacking trio we’ve had (by far). It’s a sad indictment of where we are. How hard is football? Get a semi mobile target man, an attacking midfield who links up play and someone else who wants to run at defences. I agree they were the best in the last five years, but...they all suffered badly with injuries, so the time they shone was too short, and we didnt have and weren't and still aren't able to find proper replacementa. And even when we have talented forwards on our books, the managers go out of their way not to play them. |
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Post by jokker on Nov 27, 2023 19:57:15 GMT
Both were used as impact subs, not as first choice strikers. So those 20 games weren't 1800 minutes which you'd require to go on a goalscoring spree. Unless you're Haaland, but even he didn't score at first until Citeh players worked out how to play him. He scored two on his debut and two hatricks around 3 weeks later Why didn't we sign him  |
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 27, 2023 19:59:19 GMT
He scored two on his debut and two hatricks around 3 weeks later Why didn't we sign him Only watched him 23 times unfortunately |
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Post by SamB_SCFC on Nov 27, 2023 20:02:46 GMT
Agree that they were the best front 3 we've had since relegation. But that says far more about how awful our attacking options have consistently been since relegation rather than how good they actually were. Campbell looked genuinely good for a couple of months then got a bad injury and has never got close to that form since. Powell was good in spells but always got injured whenever he started to hit his stride. And Fletcher has been the only player capable of properly leading the line that we've had in those years. But again he was aging and not as good as he used to be and then gradually got more and more injury prone with him returning from injury gradually less and less effective each time.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 27, 2023 20:19:20 GMT
Be interesting to see how Ross Stewart gets on now he’s finding fitness. He’s the type of striker we should have signed, had his injury been less significant I’m convinced we’d have signed him and probably skipped a couple of the fillers we signed
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Post by estrangedsonoffaye on Nov 27, 2023 20:42:59 GMT
Memories of Powell are dictated by his incredibly injury struck and disrupted second half of his time here. Much like MON’s tenure in fact.
It’s absolutely indisputable that he was one of our key players in the 12 months where only Liverpool, Brentford and Leeds secured more points than us. His gradual loss of playing time to injury, attitude lapses and general inconsistency was a factor in MON’s football quality falling off a cliff too.
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Post by thehartshillbadger on Nov 27, 2023 20:46:12 GMT
The best solicitors money can buy. They’re really good honest……..
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