DESPERATE FOR A STRIKER THAT CAN SCORE.

Madine glatzel bogle even ward not doing the business in front of goal, the service is'nt brilliant but we looked dreaful today we are desperate for a chopra in front of goal, lets hope this is addressed in january
even patterson has done nothing this season so far, our top scorer 2 seasons ago,
and murphy needs to be shown the door, Preston where a poor team today but unfortunately we looked a lot worse tomlin's one shot on goal.

None of our strikers had any chances to score. We need new wingers and two creative midfielders with Pack holding. Can have Ronaldo up front but don't get him the ball it's pointless

BAMBA CREW

I disagree glatzel madine and ward had the ball at there feet plenty but did f.ck all with it granted murphy was sh.te and nml non existent but good strikers create there own space and chances.

BAMBA CREW

I disagree glatzel madine and ward had the ball at there feet plenty but did f.ck all with it granted murphy was sh.te and nml non existent but good strikers create there own space and chances.

I thought NML was ok today.

I Think Madine Has Had His Chance More Times Than Any Other Player, If He Was Good He Would At Least Score A Few Times Throughout His Time Here. I Prefer Paterson Because He Gets Stuck Into Tackles And Actually Runs And Tries To Score.

Why the fcuk are we launching the ball time and time again to a player who is not a target man !!!!!!

How many games do we have to witness this. Glatzel is not Steve Morrison, why fcuking persist ?????

In open play he looks like he knows what he is doing, but todays only tactic was a keeper who has piss poor accuracy hit a ball to a player with two centre half who took the piss all afternoon until Madine came on, you know the player who hasn't scored for two years.

Btec Warnock with little upside.

Why the fcuk are we launching the ball time and time again to a player who is not a target man !!!!!!

How many games do we have to witness this. Glatzel is not Steve Morrison, why fcuking persist ?????

In open play he looks like he knows what he is doing, but todays only tactic was a keeper who has piss poor accuracy hit a ball to a player with two centre half who took the piss all afternoon until Madine came on, you know the player who hasn't scored for two years.

Btec Warnock with little upside.

Spot on.

BAMBA CREW

I disagree glatzel madine and ward had the ball at there feet plenty but did f.ck all with it granted murphy was sh.te and nml non existent but good strikers create there own space and chances.

there were no clear chances ...

BAMBA CREW

I disagree glatzel madine and ward had the ball at there feet plenty but did f.ck all with it granted murphy was sh.te and nml non existent but good strikers create there own space and chances.

there were no clear chances ...

And they cost 20m+ like mitrovic! Who scores vast majority of goals (17) 6yrds out or less that's what 20m gets you... but even having him Fulham have scored just 2or 3 more goals than us! No what we need is a consistent scorer and we be near top by now... yes I know stats font tell the whole story but we are around 6th best scorers in league take mitrovic out Fulham and they've scored 17 goals what's out top scorer 4 goals? Its the performances that are the problem not shots goals ect

The problem is the other end and not keeping clean sheets.

Its reality that sides go up all the time without a 20 goal striker.
Paterson, Zahore, Holilet and even Morrison were our goals in promotion season all chipping in 8,9,10.

If we are going to get into those play off places, we need to defend better. Our defence needs better protection and our defenders collectively need improving. Ive just said it on another thread but promotion season by now we'd had 11 clean sheets compared to six this season. Though three of those have come since Harris arrived.

The problem is the other end and not keeping clean sheets.

Its reality that sides go up all the time without a 20 goal striker.
Paterson, Zahore, Holilet and even Morrison were our goals in promotion season all chipping in 8,9,10.

If we are going to get into those play off places, we need to defend better. Our defence needs better protection and our defenders collectively need improving. Ive just said it on another thread but promotion season by now we'd had 11 clean sheets compared to six this season. Though three of those have come since Harris arrived.

its a bit of both ..getting the balance right...Jermaine Defoes 15 goals for Sunderland counted for sweet FA the year they went down and neither did having more clean sheets than teams like Arsenal and Man Utd count for much with ourselves last season..

Get rid of 2 and get 1 .

The problem is the other end and not keeping clean sheets.

Its reality that sides go up all the time without a 20 goal striker.
Paterson, Zahore, Holilet and even Morrison were our goals in promotion season all chipping in 8,9,10.

If we are going to get into those play off places, we need to defend better. Our defence needs better protection and our defenders collectively need improving. Ive just said it on another thread but promotion season by now we'd had 11 clean sheets compared to six this season. Though three of those have come since Harris arrived.

its a bit of both ..getting the balance right...Jermaine Defoes 15 goals for Sunderland counted for sweet FA the year they went down and neither did having more clean sheets than teams like Arsenal and Man Utd count for much with ourselves last season..

Agreed. Its finding ways to score more than the opposition youre faced with. In the first 17 games of this season we had three clean sheets and that's not good enough for any side hoping to be in playoffs. Last promotion season we had eleven clean sheets before Christmas.

How many other teams in the championship would play as there main striker a guy who has not scored in 3 seasons.

How many other teams in the championship would play as there main striker a guy who has not scored in 3 seasons.

Not attempting to defend Madine but he did score three for Sheffield Wednesday after we loaned him January last season and he presumably scored for Bolton in first half of 17/18. It is us he's not scored for. You make a valid point. Add Glatzels start for us and it's not a confident strike force for £10 million that's for sure. Throw in Vassell and Bogle neither of who have done anything to do with putting the ball in the net at this level and it's pitiful.

And a far cry from the Icelandic front man whose name I can't recall who led our line in Malkays promotion season after also being promoted with Reading and QPR and then a January signing of Frazier Campbell who had played for England and we bear no relation to what we have had in the past.

BAMBA CREW

I disagree glatzel madine and ward had the ball at there feet plenty but did f.ck all with it granted murphy was sh.te and nml non existent but good strikers create there own space and chances.

there were no clear chances ...

That's the point. Name a single time Glatzel got the ball to feet in or even around the box ? He didn't.

Give him the chances and he will score but we have to find a way of playing other than Etheridge aimlessly punting the ball up in the air in his general direction.

If Glatzel wasn't getting on the end of dangerous crosses/through balls the criticism would be fair enough but not creating chances is down to the wingers and full backs and I'm struggling to think of a decent cross that came in all game other than dead balls.

Glatzel did have the ball at his feet he could try running into the box with it like i said good strikers make room for themselves it does' nt have to be put on a plate in the 6 yd box, we can make excuses all day long, he and others had service from midfield tomlin and pack played through balls but glatzel and madine instead of making something themselves chose to pass which was cut out time and time again because Preston where quicker to every ball.

BAMBA CREW

I disagree glatzel madine and ward had the ball at there feet plenty but did f.ck all with it granted murphy was sh.te and nml non existent but good strikers create there own space and chances.

Creating space is only effective,if you have somebody with vision to spot it until tomlin has been given a run,nobody had enough vision to spot any runs. so the strikers looked poor,having the ball lumped up to Glatzel certainly doesn't work,its not the German way

Tomlin really is our only creator and service from wide areas is poor.

That said when our strikers do get balls to feet they do very little. Ward apart, when did we see any of our strikers actually running at opposition defenders? Neither Madine or Glatzel ever do. The default is a lay off backwards or sideways and we don't have the quality to put three or four offensive passes together to beat opposition defences.