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Unbelievable statement, considering the striker you champion Drogba scored 7 goals in 47 games in his early career yet you say he is the best striker in the world. I didn't see Drogba play before his days at Marseilles so I can't comment. I have seen Carroll for the last year though, and he looks to be a pretty fucking rubbish football who occassionally uses his size to very good effect.

he needs a better first touch, better heading ability, better awareness of the game, better/some shooting ability and to improve his balance somehow. Not going to happen tbh, as said above, he'll probably end up your typical championship target man. He can cause problems but he isn't the future of the club sadly.

I agree it has had some contribution this season but i was thinking more along the lines of whether it was a significant contribution, and i think he offers less than Loven, Harewood and Ranger. Imo Carroll offers a very limited package and he has a negative effect on our general attacking play, and he's generally not performing as a striker should. I also agree that he is a lot more energetic and hard-working than Harewood, but that's not what we need right now, we need goals and Harewood looks like he's going to score a lot more than Andy. As for his heading, predictably i'm going to disagree because i really think his ability in the air is not that good as with all of his strike partners this season, his flick-ons never seem to connect very much, is that an endictment on them or him, who knows but i wouldn't like to play with him because i would have no idea where his headers would end up. excellent post

Drogba is better than them both tbh, easily a more complete player

it isn't even 4 games, it's 2 games and 2 cameo appearances

You just despise Harewood, it's embarrassing. Clearly the most likely of all our strikers to score.

Why on earth did I type Guthrie? Harewood is a proven goal scorer who will get us more goals than Carroll and Ranger combined, he has to start

Ah you're right. Let's play Lovenkrands and Harewood instead. the point is, Carroll and Ranger cannot play together

Not Carroll and Ranger again man, we need goals

It's becoming more and more obvious to me that while Carroll could and probably will be a very useful player for us, he'll never be a premiership striker. If there's nothing significant to seperate Carroll and Ranger's contribution right now, i'd be tempted to stick Ranger in, given that he has the most potential by far.

read it however you want. What worries me about Carroll is that he seldom looks like he's going to score.

1 in 4? Come on Come on what? What happens if Harewood does get to ten games and has only scored 2 or 3? I'm surprised Carroll doesn't get the Oba Martins 'coming back from an injury' excuse afforded to him as well. Harewood played less than half and hour against Ipswich and QPR. He's the only proven goal scorer we have fit and has to persevered with.

you wanted Lovenkrands on the left, so yeah, wouldn't put it past you

1 in 4? Come on

That's ridiculous, even by your standards. The problems that I predicted would happen in each game f***ing happened. Not trying to blow my own trumpet, just point out that Hughton got it wrong when many of us not being paid X amount seeemingly got it right. Lovenkrands on the LW basically reduces you to ten men, it's blatant. Harewood is not a battering ram type striker and never will be. Today he was used as such and Lovenkrands was played on the LW and we predicably offered nowt going forward. If you think formation was the main problem yesterday then you're as slow off the mark as Hughton, tbh. Did I say or even imply that? I was talking team selection and tactics.

Why not taylor rm and Simpson rb. Taylor looked decent going forward today and Simpson is better defensively than he is. Ryan Taylor and Geremi could collectively amount to some sort of "attacking threat" on the right

is your mind changed yet?

How about open his mouth when his defence and midfield 4 stand off the oppostion whenever they cross the halfway line. There was one point where we had four players in the box like statues while the Forest plaer tee'd himself up for a shot. Given was a soft s**** when it came to bollocking the defence, Harper is a poor mans soft s****. The only redeeming thing is that he is in a bunch of players who have no voice between them. the defence wasn't really the problem today. Coloccini and Taylor are our best defenders and we missed them. That said, when we played the ball along the floor and got forward gradually, they no longer looked a threat. The lesson to be learnt, defend from the front. Camping in our own half and trying to play long ball nonsense very nearly cost us against Sheff Wed in August, yet we've done it several times since, unbelievable.

That's ridiculous, even by your standards. The problems that I predicted would happen in each game fucking happened. Not trying to blow my own trumpet, just point out that Hughton got it wrong when many of us not being paid X amount seeemingly got it right. Lovenkrands on the LW basically reduces you to ten men, it's blatant. Harewood is not a battering ram type striker and never will be. Today he was used as such and Lovenkrands was played on the LW and we predicably offered nowt going forward.

Harper R Taylor Khiz Coloccini Enrique Geremi Smith Nolan Jonas Harewood Ranger will beat them, but not a chance in hell of seeing it

Who would you bring in that has / will have a better ratio? EDIT: You've answered that above. Seen nothing from Ranger to suggest he's any more of a goalscorer. neither have I. But then again i'd only ever play Carroll if we were employing the long ball system which has failed us badly in the last 3 games.

Who would you bring in that has / will have a better ratio? Shola, eventually. Until then i'd like to see us experiment for a couple of games with Ranger, who looks as likely as Carroll to score (ie not really) and is the better prospect in the long term.

Catch 22 with Nolan, an utterly useless football who always looks like scoring in a team that collectively doesn't. Has to play sadly.

starting I meant

Crespo is one of the best headers of the ball i've ever seen, why on earth isn't he playing?