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Jayson

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  1. Do you think its likely we'd have scored two with Carroll off and Ranger on? I dont
  2. Why is anyone comparing stats earlier in the season. Recent form > form earlier in the season always.
  3. Dont understand the arguments against Carroll. He's scoring goals. He is proving himself to be an effective striker recently. If he isnt doing well with us playing long ball to him all game, the solution is to not play long ball to him all game. You dont drop your most in form striker because you want him to create everything at the same time and he isnt doing it satisfactorily
  4. 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. Couldn't have said it better. But we cant think about Nolan anymore when saying just goals. If he was still scoring now, hed be getting less criticism.
  5. The second they scored we went on top, so its understandable that he didnt make many changes. Also many would have brought off Carroll for Ranger, which again on reflection probably wouldnt have been the best idea would it. Long story short, we played negative football like garbage as usual and came away with a point. Exactly what everyone was saying theyd have been happy with last week after we got drubbed by Derby playing decent football.
  6. Well best got the assist, so cant argue with that. His motivational skills you could have a go at yeah, ive no idea what happens with the team talks. Its definately a mentality our players have that messes us up though, far to often now we've stepped up a gear when going behind. Same happened at west brom and derby only to be done by pens. Its always identical.
  7. Routledge looked class to me. Our only player next to Jonas whos dangerous on the ball, except he might actually be able to shoot also.
  8. You shouldnt expect Carroll to single handedly make up for our poor style of football. No matter how much is directed at him. If anything it puts more pressure on him to create something from nothing, with little support from others as has been said. He's scoring goals recently and showing that he'll deliver if given decent crosses. The one thing id have a go at him for is that he's pretty lazy off the ball.
  9. I blame the players moreso than him at this point. There was no change in tactics after they scored, but we completely changed. Its down to how much the players try. They simply try harder when we're losing, because they have to. When its 0-0 they dont want to run around putting pressure on the likes of Swansea, they think theyre above it.
  10. Carroll is proving that its our style of play and not him that is the issue. If we deliver from the wing he'll score as he has been. Long ball to his chest obviously isnt getting us far, that doesnt mean hes garbage.
  11. Routledge needs to just run at the area with the ball every single time. Even if he gets tackled 8 times out of 10
  12. He just described us as effective and efficient, on the basis of this game
  13. Guthrie tries to do to much for us, has no options infront of him. Should also be more aware of his surroundings at same time.
  14. The single thing making a difference right now is we're actually pressurizing their players and theyre losing the ball because of it
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