Chris Wood (now playing for Nottingham Forest)

[duo]

1 hour ago, The Prophet said:

He's helped us stay in the league,  mission accomplished. He'll barely feature next season.

We defo need to buy another striker as we can't rely on Wilson's fitness.

[Guest]

Pretty sure we could get £10-12m from someone like Norwich, WBA, Watford in the summer. Thank him for his efforts and move on.

[HaydnNUFC]

We bought Wood because we desperately needed a body in for what was a crucial match against Watford on the 15th January, and could get a fit and ready body with a record of goalscoring in the PL. He was never going to be the long term answer that we would have up front. He's been very poor, probably past his mediocre best but has scored an equaliser in a game that we went on to win and a winner in a 1-0 win. 6 points that he's contributed to directly. Take 6 points off us and we're 3 from 18th. Worth it given the future. He'll hopefully barely feature next season, if he does then something will have gone catastrophically wrong in the summer.

 

 

Edited May 8, 2022 by HaydnNUFC

[Bompeter]

4 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

6 points that he's contributed to directly. Take 6 points off us and we're 3 from 18th.

Yeah that’s not how the space-time continuum works buddy.

[et tu brute]

4 minutes ago, HaydnNUFC said:

We bought Wood because we desperately needed a body in for what was a crucial match against Watford on the 15th January, and could get a fit and ready body with a record of goalscoring in the PL. He was never going to be the long term answer that we would have up front. He's been very poor, probably past his mediocre best but has scored an equaliser in a game that we went on to win and a winner in a 1-0 win. 6 points that he's contributed to directly. Take 6 points off us and we're 3 from 18th. Worth it given the future. He'll hopefully barely feature next season, if he does then something will have gone catastrophically wrong in the summer.

 

 

 

I would argue though that Gayle would have scored at least as many and not cost a penny. I'm certainly no fan of Gayle in any way either, I just think Wood is a total plank and said this before he even signed. I've not been proven wrong either.

[HaydnNUFC]

Either way we're safe and he should barely feature next season, so who gives a flying fuck

[TheBrownBottle]

I think Wood has served his purpose well enough - he added a bit of experience and strength up top.  He’s far from a great finisher, but I think he is a better CF than Gayle, and his contribution in keeping us up shouldn’t be over- nor underplayed.  £25m was a lot of money for him, but he’s helped keep us up.  If we can get close to half back in the summer then it was a decent deal for me. 

[Nine]

The key with Wood is we needed a striker in quickly at the time to provide the team with structure, Gayle wouldn’t have provided that like Wood has. He’s been poor in front of goal, the bloke looks like he hasn’t got a shred of confidence about him whenever the balls dropped to him and he’s had a chance.. there’s been a few headers that he should have 100% buried. Besides his lack of goals (and assists) the most important thing is he gave us that structure and presence we needed up top, at the very least hes been committed and worked hard from the front. I know it was £25m and yes we could have got a different player for the same outcome for half of that but at the time we had no idea he wouldn’t be scoring, he’d been poor for Burnley since the summer but his overall prem record is good.. tbh I don’t think he’s had great service or is even very suited to our side but he has blown the chances he has got. I guess what I’m saying is that he’s been very effective in his overall role but just hasn’t got the 4/5 goals you might have expected he would.. I’d keep him around as a 3rd choice for a season or 2 but nothing more.

 

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by Nine

[nufcjb]

Heard from a friend that Sky showed a stat pre-match about Wood and he was 1st in the PL in three areas. What was that about? Didn't catch it.

[Stottie]

He's looking increasingly like a write-off, not good enough to be kept even as third choice.

 

He was signed under extreme circumstances, so there is no need to lament it. Blame Ashley for us going into the season with Wilson (good but injury prone under Bruce), Joelinton (a non-prolific second striker who looked lost at CF), and Gayle (so out of favour he never played). That's why we needed to hit the panic button in January. 

[GideonShandy]

1 hour ago, nufcjb said:

Heard from a friend that Sky showed a stat pre-match about Wood and he was 1st in the PL in three areas. What was that about? Didn't catch it.

Most goals by a New Zealander.

[Pilko]

3 hours ago, nufcjb said:

Heard from a friend that Sky showed a stat pre-match about Wood and he was 1st in the PL in three areas. What was that about? Didn't catch it.

 

Chances missed, heavy touches and number of times caught drifting offside like a Sunday morning player.

 

 

Edited May 9, 2022 by Pilko

[Ben]

Shots directly at the goalkeeper ? 

[Holmesy]

Play him at CB - his ability to cushion headers into the keeper's arms is second to none

[Raconteur]

6 hours ago, nufcjb said:

Heard from a friend that Sky showed a stat pre-match about Wood and he was 1st in the PL in three areas. What was that about? Didn't catch it.

Id put a fair amount of money on it being something like presses or some related metric. I’ve watched analysis vids that show he leads our press - effectively directing (defensively poor) attacking colleagues into cutting off passing lanes and so on.

 

And pressing effectively is what has changed our play more than any other metric (given Joelinton’s elevation to goathood cannot be measured). So while he is indeed a pretty fucking awful goal scorer these days, he is a big part of our upturn in results.

[Guest]

6 hours ago, nufcjb said:

Heard from a friend that Sky showed a stat pre-match about Wood and he was 1st in the PL in three areas. What was that about? Didn't catch it.

 

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(I think)

[jackyboy]

His contribution has helped us avoid relegation so worth the 25mill. We spent 96 mill in total and those players have been instrumental in keeping us up. Bruno is probably worth 50% more now than what we paid, Taggart is a steal.

Good business all round and a start to the rebuild which will probably take 5 years

[Fantail Breeze]

15 minutes ago, OCK said:

 

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(I think)

 

Shame it didn’t follow up with the % of those won which actually reach a team mate and are therefore of any use - probably something like 5.8%.

[HawK]

2 minutes ago, Fantail Breeze said:

 

Shame it didn’t follow up with the % of those won which actually reach a team mate and are therefore of any use - probably something like 5.8%.

 

Yup, have said as much previously in this thread. He doesn't seem to comprehend that defenders will be giving him a nudge in his back for every contested ball. They don't care if he wins the header, because it'll just be a flick on to the other team's centre backs.

[Menace]

9 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

Pretty sure we could get £10-12m from someone like Norwich, WBA, Watford in the summer. Thank him for his efforts and move on.

 

Why would he leave?

[Guest]

4 minutes ago, Menace said:

 

Why would he leave?

To play football? 

[NE27]

We talk about being ruthless with players who have been here a bit too long.

 

Same mentality unfortunately needs to be adhered to here. Thanks for the effort but you're not going to get the game time going forward.

[The Prophet]

It depends how many forwards we intend to sign. If we bring two in, we can look to get rid and recoup some of cash we paid for him.

[NE27]

Just now, The Prophet said:

It depends how many forwards we intend to sign. If we bring two in, we can look to get rid and recoup some of cash we paid for him.

 

We 100% should be looking at bolstering that position with a couple additions as Wilson although class, is not to be relied on for a full season.

 

And if we need to start falling back on wood then 

[The College Dropout]

He's been worse in front of goal than expected. And I wasn't expecting much.