Strikers

[Ringwood]

So we have Cullen, Vip and Bianchini..

Is this trio good enough for this level?

 

[NEATH JACK 8]

Not as a striker, undecided due to service, fuck no

 

[cmajack]

So we have Cullen, Vip and Bianchini..

Is this trio good enough for this level?

No, none of these would have got near the starting line up when Piroe and Obafemi were here . As others have said, we sold all our better players and replaced them with crap.

 

[Pentyrchjack]

Cullen isour top scorer and we play him as a false 10 not as a striker. The lad looks lost in that position.

 

[Deleted member 1454]

It's the worst pool of "strikers" in the division, that's what it is. Last time we had a pool of forwards as bad as this, Nick Cusack was in charge.

 

[WentToSchoolWith]

I still like Vipotnik, but he's a finisher with limited all-round product who gets absolutely no chances. People can moan about his quality, but Llorente would score the same number of goals in this team

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

Cullen is good for around 10 goals a season, which is decent given he’s usually in and out of the side.

Bianchini isn’t even a striker.

Vipotnik was supposed to be the main man this season, but looks like he might be the latest striking bust. Saying that, we’ve probably sent about 6 crosses his way in 6 months, so he could be Alan Shearer and we wouldn’t know.

 

[Smurph]

I still like Vipotnik, but he's a finisher with limited all-round product who gets absolutely no chances. People can moan about his quality, but Llorente would score the same number of goals in this team

When he's not on the pitch we bang balls in to the box, when's he on the pitch we don't.

It's bizarre.

 

[Malaga]

We don't really know if Vip could be a rola cola mitrovic as he has had virtually zero service since he arrived. He's probably on anti depressants, I know I wish I was yesterday afternoon

 

[ThurrockJack]

Talk of getting a new striker before we correct the issues with creating chances is rank stupidity.

 

[Deleted member 1454]

You can make a case for Vipotnik to an extent but when you compare him to Piroe, who made a lot of his goals for himself, you realise how awful he is. Top strikers should be able to find a way to impact games in some capacity, even if the rest of the side isn't quite set up as they might like. It's excuse making to talk about the lack of delivery. He's like a statue mun.

Ffs move around more, run a bit, try and work the channels, drop deep to try and link play, try some different stuff. Look at yourself first, ask what more you could be doing. It's not too much to ask.

 

[eteb]

Williams often saying he's unreal in training and will come good once he adjusts, but plays him for 20 mins here and there

Then when he does come on we stop crossing balls into the box which is his strrengh

It's all a bit barmy

 

[monmouth]

Williams often saying he's unreal in training and will come good once he adjusts, but plays him for 20 mins here and there

Then when he does come on we stop crossing balls into the box which is his strrengh

It's all a bit barmy

'Unreal' could mean anything, even before you factor in the fact that Williams is an absolute quilt.

 

[monmouth]

You can make a case for Vipotnik to an extent but when you compare him to Piroe, who made a lot of his goals for himself, you realise how awful he is. Top strikers should be able to find a way to impact games in some capacity, even if the rest of the side isn't quite set up as they might like. It's excuse making to talk about the lack of delivery. He's like a statue mun.

Ffs move around more, run a bit, try and work the channels, drop deep to try and link play, try some different stuff. Look at yourself first, ask what more you could be doing. It's not too much to ask.

We could also try playing to his strengths. At university I was so gash at general play that I was told in no uncertain terms that my job was just to stick the ball in the net whenever it came anywhere near me. It actually worked pretty well for everyone. If the ball had never come near me I might as well have been in the pub.

 

[FearOfAJackPlanet]

You can make a case for Vipotnik to an extent but when you compare him to Piroe, who made a lot of his goals for himself, you realise how awful he is. Top strikers should be able to find a way to impact games in some capacity, even if the rest of the side isn't quite set up as they might like. It's excuse making to talk about the lack of delivery. He's like a statue mun.

Ffs move around more, run a bit, try and work the channels, drop deep to try and link play, try some different stuff. Look at yourself first, ask what more you could be doing. It's not too much to ask.

Fair points, and if you had to put your money on whether he's actually really good but we haven't seen it yet, or he's just not very good, the latter is probably your safest option at this stage.

That being said, I think it still remains the case that we don't even try to play to the limited strengths he has. He's supposed to be here to be the goalscorer; scoring goals is kinda the point of football, so maybe we should work on some 'box entries' that suit the guy there to score the goals.