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Post by chad on Jan 20, 2023 19:25:06 GMT
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Post by CBUFAWKIPWH on Jan 20, 2023 19:25:12 GMT
Personally I think it’s brilliant what the manager is doing in terms of letting people move on. He doesn’t think they are good enough or has to make room due to money and if it’s broke you have to make changes otherwise it will continue and no one’s happy. Is it him or the clubs not wanting their players being ruined in a shit team/plan? None of them have improved here! Isn't it more likely the players have told their club they don't want to stay at a club in deep shit and their clubs have agreed to put them somewhere better for their career development? If that's what happened (and it makes sense to me) Neil's got no choice but to let them go - what's the point of having players who don't want to be there stinking up the training ground? The idea we are in any way in control of the situation looks like nonsense. There is no masterplan - players are leaving of their own accord and we are going to have to make do with what we can get.
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Post by Veritas on Jan 20, 2023 19:27:45 GMT
Is it him or the clubs not wanting their players being ruined in a shit team/plan? None of them have improved here! Isn't it more likely the players have told their club they don't want to stay at a club in deep shit and their clubs have agreed to put them somewhere better for their career development? If that's what happened (and it makes sense to me) Neil's got no choice but to let them go - what's the point of having players who don't want to be there stinking up the training ground? The idea we are in any way in control of the situation looks like nonsense. There is no masterplan - players are leaving of their own accord and we are going to have to make do with what we can get. I think it is more that Neil has made it clear he doesn't see them getting regular game time.
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 20, 2023 19:28:20 GMT
theathletic.com/4067352/2023/01/09/west-brom-karlan-grant-starting/For a side that had not conceded a goal from open play in nine matches, conceding three goals inside the first half exposed the head coach’s message for what it was: an opportunity for players on the fringe to impress and potentially force their way into the starting line-up.
One of these players is Karlan Grant, Albion’s £15million ($18.1m) man who, before the match, had not scored a goal since August. When he raced through behind the Chesterfield defence in the first half and slid a shot past the goalkeeper and into the net, it had already put a cap on a sparkling opening first quarter.
Inside the opening 90 seconds, Grant had played facilitator to Brandon Thomas-Asante, delivering a pinpoint cross from the left that the striker controlled excellently on the half-volley beyond Ross Fitzsimons. Within 20 minutes of his second start under Corberan, Grant created a golden opportunity for his strike partner, converted a big chance and looked a constant threat in transition, stretching the Chesterfield defence by running in behind. Until then, it was a near-perfect individual display.
While the statistics indicate he was one of Albion’s standout performers, completing 26 passes (84 per cent success rate), creating a big chance, winning three out of five ground duels and making five ball recoveries to support a goal and an assist in a 3-3 draw, supporters left the stadium underwhelmed by the forward for whom so much is expected.
Ultimately, Grant won’t be judged by the fans, positively or negatively, on his goals against National League opposition. He is a player who was signed to score goals in the Premier League, having scored 19 the season before for a struggling second-tier Huddersfield Town side and was Albion’s top goalscorer last season. Grant has proven across three Championship seasons that he will score goals if played in his best position. Unfortunately for him, that position does not fit with his current boss’ plans.
In his most prolific Championship campaigns, Grant scored 11 of his 19 goals as a left-sided forward in a front three and scored 10 of his 18 last campaign in the same position. While he also has a good goalscoring record as a central striker, Corberan has publicly said that he views him as a left-sided option, with Daryl Dike and Thomas-Asante preferred down the middle, leaving Grant to compete with Matt Phillips and Grady Diangana for the left-wing berth. However, with its added defensive, creative and build-up responsibilities, Grant is not an ideal fit as the left-sided attacker in a 4-2-3-1 formation.
“Grant hasn’t played wide left for a long time. I don’t think he’s a one-v-one winger, but at the same time, he did that for the first goal and made an assist on a cross with his left foot,” Corberan said in his post-match interview. “He’s a player who can adapt to the needs of the team, the needs of the game, or the needs of the structure or positional advantage you want to create. We know he’s a player who can score goals around the box — he’s a specialist. It is positive that he has 90 minutes in his legs and will be more ready to compete in the next one.”
It’s true: Grant is a specialist. While ‘Bomber’ Brown and the great Albion teams of the 1960s and 70s were packed with players capable of playing several positions, Grant is not a left winger nor a centre-forward — he is a wide striker with a proven knack for scoring goals in and around the penalty box. But he was partly at fault for at least one of the goals conceded after giving the ball away cheaply. He is also a player, while not a deadly finisher, with the quality to be a difference-maker in the Championship.
Did he do enough for Corberan to consider tinkering with a formula that has brought eight wins from nine league matches? Probably not. Still, he is a goalscorer, and goalscorers at any level are like gold dust. Between now and the end of the season, there will be a situation where Albion are searching for a winner and Corberan will look to his bench. That is when Grant, who is far from an ideal fit in this team, has the proven goalscoring record to demonstrate his worth.
While some criticisms are justified and his game has plenty of rough edges, goals paper over cracks. And his nickname isn’t Karlan ‘Goals’ Grant for no reason.theathletic.com/3328572/2022/05/24/karlan-grant-west-brom-player-of-the-season/The sound you might hear in a couple of paragraphs is the one of reverse gears crunching into action.
In a season review published less than a fortnight ago, The Athletic suggested that Matt Clarke was West Bromwich Albion’s player of the season.
On further reflection, he wasn’t.
Clarke had a very solid season on loan from Brighton and in doing so, earned the supporters’ vote as West Brom’s outstanding performer.
The players, however, chose another team-mate for their award and, while fans and at least one slow-off-the-mark journalist might not like to admit it, they got it right.
Karlan Grant was Albion’s most important player this season and we just need to live with it.
Grant was his team’s leading scorer with 18 Championship goals and had his penalty-conversion rate been better — he scored just four from seven attempts — he would have broken through the 20-goal barrier.
His six assists left him second only to Callum Robinson in the 2021-22 season’s standings while he managed more shots (77) and more shots on target (45) than any other player. His shooting accuracy of 58.4 per cent was the best of any West Brom player who had more than one shot during the season.
In a season of slim pickings — Albion’s overall shooting accuracy of 40.6 per cent was the lowest in the division — Grant’s figures stack up in relative terms.
There are many reasons why Grant is few West Brom fans’ favourite player.
His £18 million transfer fee, spread over six annual instalments, is a millstone around both his and the club’s neck, and the direct debit to Huddersfield will be boosting the play-off finalists’ transfer kitty for four more years yet.
Meanwhile, Grant’s body language and facial expressions do not endear him to supporters. Whether or not they give an accurate impression, the forward often appears a little bit stroppy, and his all-round game has plenty of rough edges.
Grant scored 18 goals for West Brom this season – all in the Championship
In short, Grant is not a nice player to watch and when he is not scoring goals, his contribution is limited. Yet “when he is not scoring goals” is a key part of the equation because last season, Grant scored a goal every 189 minutes in the league — a ratio streets ahead of his nearest rival at The Hawthorns (Robinson at 341 minutes per goal).
And anyone still unconvinced that Grant was the best of an underwhelming West Brom bunch this season should take a closer look at when he scored his goals and what they meant.
Grant’s first goal of the season put his side 3-0 up at home to Luton in the first home game at The Hawthorns. It seemed at the time like it would mean little but when the visitors fought back to 3-2, it left Grant as the effective match-winner.
His two late goals in the home game against Queens Park Rangers in September turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win, and secured three points from a poor West Brom display.
His fifth-minute opener at Cardiff four days later set the tone in a 4-0 victory while he went on to score the only goal in a 1-0 win against Birmingham.
Again, he was the only scorer in an unconvincing 1-0 victory over Hull in November before opening the scoring in a 2-1 win at Coventry the following month, which potentially saved Valerien Ismael from an even earlier sacking.
He scored both goals in a 2-0 win at Hull in March to give Bruce his first victory and then netted a penalty six days later to trigger a comeback from 2-0 down as West Brom claimed a point from a 2-2 draw.
Another penalty contributed to a 2-2 draw at Bristol City in March before he scored the winner in a 2-1 victory over Blackpool at The Hawthorns in April.
His goal at Reading secured a 1-0 win at Reading in the season’s penultimate game and then he scored twice, including opening the scoring from the spot, in a 4-0 win against Barnsley on the season’s final day.
In short, only a handful of his goals turned out not to be pivotal in positive results.
They included two in October — Albion’s only goal in a 2-1 defeat at Swansea and the third goal in a 3-0 win at Bristol City.
He scored West Brom’s second goal in a 3-0 January win at home to Peterborough but his side were so dominant on the day, it already seemed highly unlikely that the visitors would fight back, so let’s consider that strike, perhaps harshly, as non-crucial.
That still means that Grant’s goals contributed directly to 32 of Albion’s 67 points.
Take those points away and the 35 points that remain would leave the club in the Championship’s bottom three.
It is, of course, a hugely unscientific way to measure Grant’s contribution and it would be a massive statement to claim that the club would have been relegated without the goals from their leading scorer.
But it is undeniable that without Grant’s knack of scoring big goals at big moments, even during generally underwhelming performances, a season that was already a very tough watch might have taken on an altogether more serious element of danger.
Grant’s goals undoubtedly prevented an already horrible campaign from becoming truly embarrassing.
And for that, despite all of the legitimate reservations about what he doesn’t offer, Grant deserves to be recognised as Albion’s standout performer this season for the thing he does — goals that change games.
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Post by Bojan Mackey on Jan 20, 2023 19:30:30 GMT
Karlan Grant?
We’ll turn him into Lee Grant.
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Post by st3mark on Jan 20, 2023 19:33:34 GMT
Karlan Grant? We’ll turn him into Lee Grant. Hugh Grant more like
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2023 19:34:18 GMT
Karlan Grant? We’ll turn him into Lee Grant. 😂😂
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Post by jm on Jan 20, 2023 19:34:39 GMT
It’s not toxic though. Which is a shame because it might wake some people up. It's not very nice is it though. Exactly and why 'fans' think they have a mandate to spout shit all match is beyond me. 100% support from me tomorrow
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Post by northernstokie on Jan 20, 2023 19:34:59 GMT
Grant is on the subs bench tonight.
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 20, 2023 19:35:38 GMT
Russell Grant?
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Post by Laughing Gravy on Jan 20, 2023 19:36:25 GMT
Is it him or the clubs not wanting their players being ruined in a shit team/plan? None of them have improved here! Isn't it more likely the players have told their club they don't want to stay at a club in deep shit and their clubs have agreed to put them somewhere better for their career development? If that's what happened (and it makes sense to me) Neil's got no choice but to let them go - what's the point of having players who don't want to be there stinking up the training ground? The idea we are in any way in control of the situation looks like nonsense. There is no masterplan - players are leaving of their own accord and we are going to have to make do with what we can get. Of course it's completely impossible to even countenance that we might have made it known to the player and or his club that they were surplus to requirements and wouldn't be getting any game time and so they've taken the decision to recall them to re-home them for more game time. No it must be other clubs stiffing us because we're shit. The fact that it frees us up to make 3 or 4 loan signings who may actually get a game is just coincidence isn't it? How many of the ones who've gone were getting games? None bar Clarke who was playing because we'd got no other fit right back. Do you really think the parent clubs give a toss where we are in the league as long as their players are getting game time and experience.
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Post by Jimm on Jan 20, 2023 19:36:41 GMT
Grant is absolute shite. Suppose he'll fit in with the rest of the squad
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Post by hardcastle on Jan 20, 2023 19:39:12 GMT
Has anyone got a reliable list if the players who have left this window (mainly loanees l'm guessing unless anyone has been sold for a fee?)
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Post by FullerMagic on Jan 20, 2023 19:40:07 GMT
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Post by scfcno1fan on Jan 20, 2023 19:42:18 GMT
Seen him play twice this season and he missed bucket loads of chances.
Will fit right in.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2023 19:46:34 GMT
I'm always nervous about players that move for big money then not long after their form completely drops out of their arse.
His form is really patchy but surely to god we're due some bloody luck with a forward?
What is it now, over 20 years since we had one hit 20 in a season? Ridiculous.
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Post by nonameface on Jan 20, 2023 19:47:26 GMT
He's a decent player but not well liked at West Brom.
One of my baggy mates suggests he's a bit too greedy on the ball and takes too many shots when he could pass to someone else in a better position.
Allegedly better suited to teams who play high line press or counter attacking football though which is how it looks AN would like us to play.
He looks like the perfect wide forward in a front 3, but I thought AN wanted wingers and not wide fowards?
Could be a loan with a view to a transfer at some point which is more what AN wants from a loan too
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Post by s7oke on Jan 20, 2023 19:48:44 GMT
Karlan Grant? We’ll turn him into Lee Grant. We will need a grant to sign him
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Post by s7oke on Jan 20, 2023 19:52:25 GMT
He's a decent player but not well liked at West Brom. One of my baggy mates suggests he's a bit too greedy on the ball and takes too many shots when he could pass to someone else in a better position. Allegedly better suited to teams who play high line press or counter attacking football though which is how it looks AN would like us to play. He looks like the perfect wide forward in a front 3, but I thought AN wanted wingers and not wide fowards? Could be a loan with a view to a transfer at some point which is more what AN wants from a loan too No problem with him being greedy and taking shots it’s gotta be an improvement on not shooting As long as he doesn’t want as many touches as our lot
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Post by boskampsflaps on Jan 20, 2023 19:53:39 GMT
Is it him or the clubs not wanting their players being ruined in a shit team/plan? None of them have improved here! Isn't it more likely the players have told their club they don't want to stay at a club in deep shit and their clubs have agreed to put them somewhere better for their career development? If that's what happened (and it makes sense to me) Neil's got no choice but to let them go - what's the point of having players who don't want to be there stinking up the training ground? The idea we are in any way in control of the situation looks like nonsense. There is no masterplan - players are leaving of their own accord and we are going to have to make do with what we can get. It makes more sense that we need space in the squad and wages to get players in the manager wants, or do you think all the loans got together and said fuck this we're out of here, you're desperate for it be something stoke have done wrong rather than an on going plan by the manager.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2023 19:55:21 GMT
He's a decent player but not well liked at West Brom. One of my baggy mates suggests he's a bit too greedy on the ball and takes too many shots when he could pass to someone else in a better position. Allegedly better suited to teams who play high line press or counter attacking football though which is how it looks AN would like us to play. He looks like the perfect wide forward in a front 3, but I thought AN wanted wingers and not wide fowards? Could be a loan with a view to a transfer at some point which is more what AN wants from a loan too Maybe he's realised we are more suited to a 433 or 4231 and it means less personnel changes to get it to work. Would explain the exits of Clarke and Fosu to some extent as neither fit a 433
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 20, 2023 19:56:58 GMT
Sorry I haven't got a clue who he is. I've had a little look into it, he's a fucking wide forward. You people are insane. centre forward mate. He was very good at Huddersfield Article I read said he was most effective as a wide forward at Huddersfield. We could put him in a box with the outhers and AN could have a lucky dip
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Post by boskampsflaps on Jan 20, 2023 19:57:55 GMT
centre forward mate. He was very good at Huddersfield Article I read said he was most effective as a wide forward at Huddersfield. We could put him in a box with the outhers and AN could have a lucky dip So would fit a 4-3-3
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 20, 2023 20:00:11 GMT
theathletic.com/4067352/2023/01/09/west-brom-karlan-grant-starting/For a side that had not conceded a goal from open play in nine matches, conceding three goals inside the first half exposed the head coach’s message for what it was: an opportunity for players on the fringe to impress and potentially force their way into the starting line-up.
One of these players is Karlan Grant, Albion’s £15million ($18.1m) man who, before the match, had not scored a goal since August. When he raced through behind the Chesterfield defence in the first half and slid a shot past the goalkeeper and into the net, it had already put a cap on a sparkling opening first quarter.
Inside the opening 90 seconds, Grant had played facilitator to Brandon Thomas-Asante, delivering a pinpoint cross from the left that the striker controlled excellently on the half-volley beyond Ross Fitzsimons. Within 20 minutes of his second start under Corberan, Grant created a golden opportunity for his strike partner, converted a big chance and looked a constant threat in transition, stretching the Chesterfield defence by running in behind. Until then, it was a near-perfect individual display.
While the statistics indicate he was one of Albion’s standout performers, completing 26 passes (84 per cent success rate), creating a big chance, winning three out of five ground duels and making five ball recoveries to support a goal and an assist in a 3-3 draw, supporters left the stadium underwhelmed by the forward for whom so much is expected.
Ultimately, Grant won’t be judged by the fans, positively or negatively, on his goals against National League opposition. He is a player who was signed to score goals in the Premier League, having scored 19 the season before for a struggling second-tier Huddersfield Town side and was Albion’s top goalscorer last season. Grant has proven across three Championship seasons that he will score goals if played in his best position. Unfortunately for him, that position does not fit with his current boss’ plans.
In his most prolific Championship campaigns, Grant scored 11 of his 19 goals as a left-sided forward in a front three and scored 10 of his 18 last campaign in the same position. While he also has a good goalscoring record as a central striker, Corberan has publicly said that he views him as a left-sided option, with Daryl Dike and Thomas-Asante preferred down the middle, leaving Grant to compete with Matt Phillips and Grady Diangana for the left-wing berth. However, with its added defensive, creative and build-up responsibilities, Grant is not an ideal fit as the left-sided attacker in a 4-2-3-1 formation.
“Grant hasn’t played wide left for a long time. I don’t think he’s a one-v-one winger, but at the same time, he did that for the first goal and made an assist on a cross with his left foot,” Corberan said in his post-match interview. “He’s a player who can adapt to the needs of the team, the needs of the game, or the needs of the structure or positional advantage you want to create. We know he’s a player who can score goals around the box — he’s a specialist. It is positive that he has 90 minutes in his legs and will be more ready to compete in the next one.”
It’s true: Grant is a specialist. While ‘Bomber’ Brown and the great Albion teams of the 1960s and 70s were packed with players capable of playing several positions, Grant is not a left winger nor a centre-forward — he is a wide striker with a proven knack for scoring goals in and around the penalty box. But he was partly at fault for at least one of the goals conceded after giving the ball away cheaply. He is also a player, while not a deadly finisher, with the quality to be a difference-maker in the Championship.
Did he do enough for Corberan to consider tinkering with a formula that has brought eight wins from nine league matches? Probably not. Still, he is a goalscorer, and goalscorers at any level are like gold dust. Between now and the end of the season, there will be a situation where Albion are searching for a winner and Corberan will look to his bench. That is when Grant, who is far from an ideal fit in this team, has the proven goalscoring record to demonstrate his worth.
While some criticisms are justified and his game has plenty of rough edges, goals paper over cracks. And his nickname isn’t Karlan ‘Goals’ Grant for no reason.theathletic.com/3328572/2022/05/24/karlan-grant-west-brom-player-of-the-season/The sound you might hear in a couple of paragraphs is the one of reverse gears crunching into action.
In a season review published less than a fortnight ago, The Athletic suggested that Matt Clarke was West Bromwich Albion’s player of the season.
On further reflection, he wasn’t.
Clarke had a very solid season on loan from Brighton and in doing so, earned the supporters’ vote as West Brom’s outstanding performer.
The players, however, chose another team-mate for their award and, while fans and at least one slow-off-the-mark journalist might not like to admit it, they got it right.
Karlan Grant was Albion’s most important player this season and we just need to live with it.
Grant was his team’s leading scorer with 18 Championship goals and had his penalty-conversion rate been better — he scored just four from seven attempts — he would have broken through the 20-goal barrier.
His six assists left him second only to Callum Robinson in the 2021-22 season’s standings while he managed more shots (77) and more shots on target (45) than any other player. His shooting accuracy of 58.4 per cent was the best of any West Brom player who had more than one shot during the season.
In a season of slim pickings — Albion’s overall shooting accuracy of 40.6 per cent was the lowest in the division — Grant’s figures stack up in relative terms.
There are many reasons why Grant is few West Brom fans’ favourite player.
His £18 million transfer fee, spread over six annual instalments, is a millstone around both his and the club’s neck, and the direct debit to Huddersfield will be boosting the play-off finalists’ transfer kitty for four more years yet.
Meanwhile, Grant’s body language and facial expressions do not endear him to supporters. Whether or not they give an accurate impression, the forward often appears a little bit stroppy, and his all-round game has plenty of rough edges.
Grant scored 18 goals for West Brom this season – all in the Championship
In short, Grant is not a nice player to watch and when he is not scoring goals, his contribution is limited. Yet “when he is not scoring goals” is a key part of the equation because last season, Grant scored a goal every 189 minutes in the league — a ratio streets ahead of his nearest rival at The Hawthorns (Robinson at 341 minutes per goal).
And anyone still unconvinced that Grant was the best of an underwhelming West Brom bunch this season should take a closer look at when he scored his goals and what they meant.
Grant’s first goal of the season put his side 3-0 up at home to Luton in the first home game at The Hawthorns. It seemed at the time like it would mean little but when the visitors fought back to 3-2, it left Grant as the effective match-winner.
His two late goals in the home game against Queens Park Rangers in September turned a 1-0 deficit into a 2-1 win, and secured three points from a poor West Brom display.
His fifth-minute opener at Cardiff four days later set the tone in a 4-0 victory while he went on to score the only goal in a 1-0 win against Birmingham.
Again, he was the only scorer in an unconvincing 1-0 victory over Hull in November before opening the scoring in a 2-1 win at Coventry the following month, which potentially saved Valerien Ismael from an even earlier sacking.
He scored both goals in a 2-0 win at Hull in March to give Bruce his first victory and then netted a penalty six days later to trigger a comeback from 2-0 down as West Brom claimed a point from a 2-2 draw.
Another penalty contributed to a 2-2 draw at Bristol City in March before he scored the winner in a 2-1 victory over Blackpool at The Hawthorns in April.
His goal at Reading secured a 1-0 win at Reading in the season’s penultimate game and then he scored twice, including opening the scoring from the spot, in a 4-0 win against Barnsley on the season’s final day.
In short, only a handful of his goals turned out not to be pivotal in positive results.
They included two in October — Albion’s only goal in a 2-1 defeat at Swansea and the third goal in a 3-0 win at Bristol City.
He scored West Brom’s second goal in a 3-0 January win at home to Peterborough but his side were so dominant on the day, it already seemed highly unlikely that the visitors would fight back, so let’s consider that strike, perhaps harshly, as non-crucial.
That still means that Grant’s goals contributed directly to 32 of Albion’s 67 points.
Take those points away and the 35 points that remain would leave the club in the Championship’s bottom three.
It is, of course, a hugely unscientific way to measure Grant’s contribution and it would be a massive statement to claim that the club would have been relegated without the goals from their leading scorer.
But it is undeniable that without Grant’s knack of scoring big goals at big moments, even during generally underwhelming performances, a season that was already a very tough watch might have taken on an altogether more serious element of danger.
Grant’s goals undoubtedly prevented an already horrible campaign from becoming truly embarrassing.
And for that, despite all of the legitimate reservations about what he doesn’t offer, Grant deserves to be recognised as Albion’s standout performer this season for the thing he does — goals that change games.
Thanks. Another wide forward FFS.
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Post by leesandfordstoupe on Jan 20, 2023 20:01:33 GMT
Article I read said he was most effective as a wide forward at Huddersfield. We could put him in a box with the outhers and AN could have a lucky dip So would fit a 4-3-3 We don't need another wide forward, we need someone to lead the line.
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Post by Biblical on Jan 20, 2023 20:03:18 GMT
He's a decent player but not well liked at West Brom. One of my baggy mates suggests he's a bit too greedy on the ball and takes too many shots when he could pass to someone else in a better position. Allegedly better suited to teams who play high line press or counter attacking football though which is how it looks AN would like us to play. He looks like the perfect wide forward in a front 3, but I thought AN wanted wingers and not wide fowards? Could be a loan with a view to a transfer at some point which is more what AN wants from a loan too Considering he thinks we haven’t got any wingers then he must see some of our forwards as inside forwards so it wouldn’t surprise me that he’s trying to sign another inside forward after Fosu’s exit. 4321 with Campbell and Grant as inside forwards maybe? Would still feel we’d be missing a focal point without signing another striker though because Gayle and Brown aren’t lead the line type strikers.
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Post by LGH87 on Jan 20, 2023 20:03:39 GMT
If West Brom are willing to let him go to get Undav. I’d rather we got undav instead haha
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Post by hoppo96 on Jan 20, 2023 20:15:22 GMT
we're gonna have a big squad problem unless we get at least 3 in (Keeper a must) the next eleven days.
Powell injured, Sterling has fitness doubts, I don't see Taylor/DWP playing a big part, Jagielka is 40,
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Post by Deleted on Jan 20, 2023 20:17:22 GMT
He's a decent player but not well liked at West Brom. One of my baggy mates suggests he's a bit too greedy on the ball and takes too many shots when he could pass to someone else in a better position. Allegedly better suited to teams who play high line press or counter attacking football though which is how it looks AN would like us to play. He looks like the perfect wide forward in a front 3, but I thought AN wanted wingers and not wide fowards? Could be a loan with a view to a transfer at some point which is more what AN wants from a loan too Considering he thinks we haven’t got any wingers then he must see some of our forwards as inside forwards so it wouldn’t surprise me that he’s trying to sign another inside forward after Fosu’s exit. 4321 with Campbell and Grant as inside forwards maybe? Would still feel we’d be missing a focal point without signing another striker though because Gayle and Brown aren’t lead the line type strikers. I think we probably want a target man to replace Delap (who obviously wasn't one) and a left side forward to replace Fosu who was more of a conventional winger.
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Post by Jimm on Jan 20, 2023 20:24:36 GMT
Take away his penalty's and he only got one more than our own Jacob Brown, last season. Like posted above, every time I'v seen him, he misses so many chances and why would they be willing to let him go if he's so important to the team
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