CKR....A complete wate of money

[colinpants]

Any news why El Turi wasn't in the squad ?

 

[Yorkie]

He was injured playing for the reserves on Wed night.

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

He was injured playing for the reserves on Wed night.

Morning Yorks your up early considering you had a long day

 

[Yorkie]

Morning Yorks your up early considering you had a long day

Morning.
I had 7 hours sleep which is two more than I normally need

 

[Beach Hut]

How can you judge a player so soon ?

 

[Gully]

He is only 18 for goodness sake, he won't turn into the saviour of the Albion overnight, in fact your comments describe at least half of the performances I have seen from Leon, I don't hear many people slagging him off.

 

[Yorkie]

Someone posted that it took BZ a few games to get going when we first got him.
Can't remember who it was and how many games but it took a little while.

 

[southstandandy]

If MM can find a decent striker before the transfer window closes, maybe we should consider loaning CKR out to a lower division team to build up his experience and hopefully scoring a few goals. I think we are expecting far too much of him personally - it will be at least next season before we can really expect him to be doing the business.

Get an experienced player in on loan - we must be able to afford someone, surely.

 

[Gully]

I think we would be better off bolstering the midfield and finding someone who can challenge Chippy and Charlie for a place in the team, I think we already have players who can provide the finish if the service improves. In Jake and Leon we have two players who can create havoc moving in from the wings, what we need is a bit more creativity in the centre.

 

[Loft23]

I'm not criticising MM or CKR but we really could have done with an experienced striker thats going to score goals for us now. CKR needs a season of regular first team football before he'll start scoring goals regularly.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

I think he has a little too much pressure on him and perhaps it wouldnt hurt using him from the bench a bit until he settles but he has looked useful.

The worry I have is that he looks a bit stroppy when things are not going the right way and you only have to look at how people slate Leon Knight to see how well this tends to go down with Brighton fans.

Lets hope people can lay off his back and that McGhee can try and channel that frustration into his football because he should be good.

I think its too early to tell whether he will be good or not though to be honest.

 

[rool]

Someone posted that it took BZ a few games to get going when we first got him.
Can't remember who it was and how many games but it took a little while.

I don't know where they got that impression, he scored 6 in six games when on loan and scored 2 against Rochdale in his second game after signing permanently. This was in a team that lost four of the first five games and was booed off against Kidderminster and the rest was history

Not too worried too much as it has been said a few times that he is not an out and out striker and hopefully we will find a position that suits him but after our lack of scoring last season we really did need to spend some of the money on a more tried and tested player rather than taking six figure gambles on two players with money we cannot really afford.

 

[Caveman]

It dont matter who we had up front, even Shearer. Without support no forward will shrug off three or four defenders week in week out and score hat fulls. I think its down to formation.

Stick three up front.

 

[London Irish]

Not too worried too much as it has been said a few times that he is not an out and out striker and hopefully we will find a position that suits him but after our lack of scoring last season we really did need to spend some of the money on a more tried and tested player rather than taking six figure gambles on two players with money we cannot really afford.

A player like that would cost us near a million rather than the £100k for CKR.

It's a shame people are overreacting to this one bad defeat yesterday when CKR has looked the business in our good performances against Derby and Crewe, and he was even among our better players against Reading, creating our best chance in that game.

 

[Sammy the seagull]

Looked a big pile of piss today.

Lazy,petulant,couldnt be bothered kind of attitude today.


Is he going to turn out to be the biggest wate of money ever?

What so you can rate a player after 4 games?

 

[Scotty Mac]

Someone posted that it took BZ a few games to get going when we first got him.
Can't remember who it was and how many games but it took a little while.

2 goals on his home debut once we'd signed him, then didn't he get 3 a couple of weeks later?

i thought kazim-richards was awful yesterday, he just seemed more interested in moaning about decisions going against him. he does need time, but hinshlewood tried to give the youngsters time and look what happened to him. i think he would be better coming off the bench in a similar way to jake and changing games, rather than being ineffective from the start. that way he will get the experience, and maybe do something

 

[Silent Bob]

Someone posted that it took BZ a few games to get going when we first got him.
Can't remember who it was and how many games but it took a little while.

Bobby scored on his debut.

 

[Yorkie]

Bobby scored on his debut.

which just goes to show that people shouldn't read what is posted on Nsc as fact

Fact

 

[rool]

A player like that would cost us near a million rather than the £100k for CKR.

It's a shame people are overreacting to this one bad defeat yesterday when CKR has looked the business in our good performances against Derby and Crewe, and he was even among our better players against Reading, creating our best chance in that game.

Not over reacting and not pointing the finger at CKR or anyone as I opened my post saying I am not too worried. I also cannot say too much as I have nothing to form my opinions on other than the radio commentary and here.

What I was making a slight concerned point about was that we have appeared to have made two gambles on players at fees which are very expensive by our humble standards. But like you say, tried and tested comes at a much higher price so what else are we to do?

 

[Albion Rob]

I don't know where they got that impression, he scored 6 in six games when on loan and scored 2 against Rochdale in his second game after signing permanently. This was in a team that lost four of the first five games and was booed off against Kidderminster and the rest was history

Not too worried too much as it has been said a few times that he is not an out and out striker and hopefully we will find a position that suits him but after our lack of scoring last season we really did need to spend some of the money on a more tried and tested player rather than taking six figure gambles on two players with money we cannot really afford.

Not that you're doing it MM but direct comparisons between BZ and CKR are very unfair on our late4st potential goal machine.

BZ came in to a very good Brighton side on loan (one that didn't lose for the last 14 games or something, in fact he played brilliantly in the last defeat against Northampton) and an even better one the next season. One that won DIVISON THREE by a mile and one that even I could have notched 10 goals in. We were one of the big fish with (comparitively) big crowds and money to overhaul our squad from the previous season.

CKR has come in to the side at a difficult time. We're having to sell our best players. The old goard is, well, old. We have an almost totally new defence and our top scorer from last season has departed. Also, we play in the CHAMPIONSHIP against very good defenders. I also believe this is the strongest the league has been, certainly a lot stronger than out previous two seasons.

If CKR keeps believing in himself and learns what he needs to off McGhee then I think he'll be as big a hero as Zamora.

Fingers crossed.