Carroll is still f***ing s***, it's only statistics that with all the headers he f***s up one or two will sometimes be good.
That's 5 goals in 6.
So? If our target man was any decent it'd be more than that with our long ball tactics tbh.
If your being serious that is even funnier!
Of course I'm serious, anyone not wearing "He's a local lad, he's teh best since Shearahhhh lolz!!!11!1one!!1" glasses sees that.
Our target man should be getting a goal every game Your funny.
Where was Carroll prior to his scoring run? If we had a target man that could actually steer his headers towards other players, and use his feet as well, we'd easily be a much better side. I'm not saying a target man needs to score, but Carroll offers nothing besides being lucky a few times in recent games. Ranger for instance, whilst still being very raw, shows sign of being a decent target man in that he can hold up the ball and actually aim headers. It's a shame he can't put them away. Carroll is just a young Tore Andre Flo tbh.
You should look at how many assists Carroll has, it might just surprise you.
I don't need to look, as I'm well aware. He's still not good enough to be first choice striker for us, I'd be concerned if he was our 4th choice striker, even. He'll never make it at the top level, and while he'll be good enough until we (hopefully) get promoted, we need rid of him in the summer and bring in someone that's actually a footballer.
Well it's not 'offering nothing' than is it, when he is scoring and assisting. How about you put some logic into your next argument.
Andy Carroll has 7 in 24 apps and 5 assists. We have 48 goals, which means he's been involved in 12 of them, which in itself doesn't sound bad. Though, when you look at all the chances he's had to set people up and to put more away, it starts to get more shocking. You can't waste that many chances, if we'd not have Nolan around fluking one in here and there earlier in the season, those errors would be much more apparent and could single-handedly be a reason for us being around mid-table rather than at the top of the table. He has 65 shots (headers included), whearas 20 have been on goal. We're s*** at getting the balls to him though, but you'd imagine a player like the one you're describing would be able to produce more than statistically 2.7 shots a match, wouldn't you? I mean, after all, he has "5 in 6". But wait, 5 in 6? What happened before those 6? Oh, yeah, he did almost nothing. I can't find his completed pass percentage, but I'm fairly certain that when and if I do find it, it will be less than 30%. He's not a good striker, we're not a good team. It's not a good match when we need ability up front to make up for the shitness of the rest of the team, especially in midfield. If he can only get 56 shots fired in the Championship, what would he do in the Premiership?
He's not good, the numbers speak for themselves. What he does on the pitch speaks for itself. I'm not blinded by one lucky scoring run. Basically, he offers us pretty much nothing. I'm fairly certain even Ameobi would be banging some of the headers Carroll has missed straight in.
Unbelieveable.
What? The actual statistics of Andy Carroll this season? I know.
That's funny, your funny.
You're.
If you don't want to have an actual debate about something to defend your opinion, I'll resort to childlike petty replies as well.
Actually, i dissected your massive post - just up above. Where you contradicted yourself more than once
It's also been pointed out that other strikers offer goals too, except a lot of the others offer more than that. Shola, Lovenkrands, even Ranger offer more than just goals. And before you say 'just goals!?' think about Nolan.
Shola doesn't offer anything except goals, in fact Carroll offers more than him, Ameobi is a better goalscorer - that i would agree on.
So then surely your point is moot if you're basing your argument to have Carroll in the team is based around goals? Carroll is easily the most one dimensional striker we have.
Not at all, Shola is the most one dimensional striker we have. Carroll actually lays on goals for his team-mates.
Carrolls link up play was on display for everyone to see today after all. How wonderfully he dove-tailed with Lovenkrands to lead the Swansea defenders a merry dance.
I've seen little of Best but so far he look slike the best at holding the ball up and linking play amongst all our strikers.
Caroll falls over too much and gets involved in silly scraps, Shola is always fouling defenders, Loven looks to get in behind and doesn't drop deep. Ranger is the other who holds up play and links well, but he is seemingly being brought along slowly.
