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According to whatever site i've just looked at, Willock has 2 goals and 2 assists this season, in a team challenging for Champions League places. Gordon has 3 goals and 0 assists in a team rooted to the bottom of the table. It's hardly chasm between them. All of Willock's stats are skewed by that one purple patch he had when he first joined the club. And if you take it purely on stats, you ignore all of the things he didn't do when he should've, like score two goals last night and bag an assist as well (the things you see with your eyes). Stats only explain part of the picture. If Willock added end product to his game, he'd finish every season with goals and stats in double figures. There's a reason he doesn't. I should add that I don't dislike Willock by the way, we just need better. We also have a guy sat on the bench who terrifies defenders and will get double figures if he's ever allowed to start.

The same can be said for Adama Traore in every game he's ever played

Gordon scores and creates goals. That's my whole point. Willock does the hard work and then more often than not, fails to finish it off with something meaningful.

Willock with clinical end product is a £60m + player. Willock at the moment is probably worth exactly what we paid for him. Personally, I think he’s too old to develop much more beyond where he is now but I’d love to be proven wrong. He’s a great squad member and does a lot of hard work but we need better if we’re aiming for the top honours.

Maxi and Isak have to start games. We’re so much better with them in the team.

Fuck this! Useless cunts!

Fucking rinse and repeat!

It’s not easy to fit Anthony Gordon and melted welly into a song lads. We’ve got our work cut out here

What the fuck is going on here?! Nerves? Willock needs subbing at half time.

I’ve never seen such a massive team offer so little threat in the air. We might as well not put the ball in the box and find something else to do instead. It’s my only major complaint with us as a team at the moment.

TAKE A FUCKING TOUCH!!!!!

I still did until you posted that.

Gordon was a £50m target for Chelsea last season and given our scouting prowess to-date, there must be more to the lad than we've seen. Our exec team are too pragmatic to spunk £40m on a risky signing. He is a minger, there's no doubt about that, and he wears some God awful clobber but Eddie has more than enough credit in the bank for me to question his judgement.

By purple patch I mean he’s gone from scoring worldies every game to not scoring. He’s getting closed down a lot quicker, which should leave space elsewhere but I just don’t think we’ve got the guile and creativity to exploit it at the moment. Our inability to score from corners despite towering over most teams leaves us pretty short of ideas at the moment

With no ASM in the starting lineup and Miggy’s purple patch coming to an end we just look a bit toothless around the box. Time to make some changes and some signings, Eddie

They've been talking about uploading juvenile social media content since the Roman times? Clever bastards!

Juvenile behaviour is the accepted social norm these days, as long as you capture it on your mobile phone and upload it for the world to see. He's a symptom, not the cause. It is fucking embarrassing though

With his stellar record of winning headers, he'll be a huge hit.

Jesus Christ, you're exhausting. You see the bit in my last post where i said i was wrong? Maybe focus on that bit you enormous bellend!

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What are you not understanding about this?! It’s really not hard. I admit I was wrong about Chris Wood not winning headers, 100%. Gold star for you. But those headers he wins don’t do anything, so it’s a shit statistic! If you want to crack open a beer because Chris Wood wins loads of headers that do nothing useful, knock yourself out pal. I’ll go back and amend my point from Chris Wood doesn’t win any headers, to Chris Wood wins all of the headers but the net result is still the same as if he didn’t. ??

Utter bollocks! It’s nothing like saying Haaland doesn’t score goals at all. Goals is the ultimate measurement of an attacking player. He either does or doesn’t. Winning headers is only relevant if those headers actually do anything. Chris Wood could statistically be (and probably is) the best striker in the league for heading the ball out of play. He’s still won headers, but ultimately achieved fuck all. It’s not even close to being the same thing. ? Look up the statistic for how many of Chris Wood’s headers have actually led to anything positive and let’s discuss that stat. I imagine we might be hearing tumbleweeds

Ok, I stand corrected on that one point. And the rest of them? How many of those aerial duels won actually led to anything constructive? It’s a genuine question. Statistically if he outjumps the defender and flicks the ball on to no one or even heads it out of play, it’s an aerial duel won, right?

So am I, in theory. I get the ‘Eddie trusts him bit.’ Same with Rafa - whoever he picked I was comfortable with. But I also have eyes and I’m pretty sure what Eddie isn’t saying to Chris Wood is ‘don’t hold the ball up, don’t win any headers, when you do, cushion it back to the opposition keeper, don’t use your physical strength to dominate defenders etc. We are winning despite Chris Wood, not because of his contribution to the team. It’s fantastic that we can carry him, but just like Sheffield Wednesday, it will come back to bite us at crucial moments.