Perhaps if we provided him with more than one chance every three games he would be happier?
I know this will probably not go down very well, but does anyone else on here thing that a large part of his scoring drought is DOWN TO THE PLAYER HIMSELF?
Now I love the guy, and I love his hard work, and I totally understand what has happened to his game, as it happens to all strikers when the goals dry up, but the truth is he IS making the mistakes that you see in a striker lacking goals. That is basically that he is doing even more work away from the goal mouth than he would normally do. Dropping deep, going wide, and he is effective doing both, BUT that doesn't help him get into the right position when a chance would have come his way.
There were 2 glaring moments vs Saints for me when he simply wasn't where he should have been. As great as it was to see JFC score that goal, it was a rebound off the keeper who couldn't hold a KLL shot ..... but isn't that exactly the sort of chance you expect your lone striker to be all over. Then we had the most beautiful ball smacked across the 6 yard box from KLL and no-one was on the end of it. Again, THAT is exactly teh sort of chance you would expect him to be there to finish.
The other problem is when a chance does come his way, he's snatching at it, meaning he is converting fewer than I would have hoped. That double chance at the end of the Burnley game. Either chances would have been casually and confidently stroked home if he was in the middle of a decent goal scoring run.
Yes, of course, there have been times this season where the supply to him has been woeful, but I think he is an honest and level-headed enough player to know that he must also take a fair chunk of the responsibility for his lack of goals.
I know await flaming for daring to criticise our record signing.
and when he was scoring goals for fun at Peterbrough they weren't playing him as a lone striker.
thisWhat's with this, ' Message sent on my WiFi dildo business? Do we really need to know that you have these devices? or is it madatory for these things to tell us constantly; find it nauseating myself and who really gives a f**k.
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[MENTION=13484]CGull[/MENTION]man @soccer_sauce absolute nonsense!
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On 20k a week (with all bounuses, source was a certain Mr Murray but that may have been a guess from him), Playing everyweek at a club with ambition, that can still very much make the play offs, Lots of injuries to key players which are now coming back, and if he'd put some of his clear cut chances away he'd have about 10-12 goals by now and on course for 20. So I don't think he wants away, he just wants to score!
Whilst your point is valid, he's not on even half that.
14k seems a bit steep?Murray reckons CMS is on more than him and he's on 14k at Palace.
14k seems a bit steep?
but peterborough were creating about 87 chances per game - i would suggest his scoring ratio at Peterborough is about the same as at Brighton which is rubbish!!
Soooooo, it's not so much the service as the accuracy of CMSThis season for brighton 44 shots, (21 on goal) for 7 goals. 6.26 shots per goal (3 shots on target per goal)
Last season for peterborough 99 shots (52 on target) for 35 goals. 2.83 shots per goal (1.49 shots on target per goal)
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Soooooo, it's not so much the service as the accuracy of CMS
Bit of both mate i'd say.
What a load of old shite,the man loves it here and after the saints game done the usual solo walk applauding the fans.
Some rumours really are shocking
On 20k a week (with all bounuses, source was a certain Mr Murray but that may have been a guess from him), Playing everyweek at a club with ambition, that can still very much make the play offs, Lots of injuries to key players which are now coming back, and if he'd put some of his clear cut chances away he'd have about 10-12 goals by now and on course for 20. So I don't think he wants away, he just wants to score!