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One of the touches he had yesterday went about fifteen yards away and looped over two players heads :lol: 

 

I think it's significant that now we're safe Howe isn't starting him, he's so bloody limited. I know he was offside but I'd have had ten grand on him not scoring when he broke through yesterday in the second half.

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Might have something to do with him being a good enough goal scorer to have scored 1 in every 3 Premier League games like. :lol: At least until he came here anyway. There have been tons of players over the years who've made up for their weaknesses with other strengths like, I dunno why a special case is made out of Chris Wood tbh. 

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Don't think he's remotely the answer moving forward but would like to see him with a full pre-season and whatever it takes to sort his confidence out.

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As I've said previously, he is nowhere near PL standard and shouldn't be anywhere near the pitch next season, but we have no other alternative at 9, so we have to use him.

 

ASM and Joelinton can't play 9, but they can and should play elsewhere, so Wood gets the start for me.

 

Great lad, terrible footballer and a necessarily evil until we get a decent 9.

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We def need an upgrade but it’s not his fault we bought him or paid £25m for him.

 

It’s also not the clubs fault for buying him. We needed someone/ pretty much anyone who was the right character and could play in Eddie’s system. He was pretty much it with the time we had in January after being knocked back for Lingard and Ekitike. 
 

It was needs must all round and if (when) we stay up then it’ll have been worth it. 

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He has played his part in our recent return of points, no doubt about it - so if he helps us stay up, it really was needs must.

 

However, that is about as far as it goes.  Nothing against him as a person, but he is not what we need moving forwards, or into next season even off the bench IMO.  Although I suspect as he has 2 years left on his contract, he might well end up being 3rd / 4th choice which we cannot really do anything about.  No one will pay close to half what we paid, so we would make a loss on him as a player but gain big by staying up.  Overall it might prove to have been a much needed signing...

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On 03/05/2022 at 13:02, Dan Gleebals said:

He has played his part in our recent return of points, no doubt about it - so if he helps us stay up, it really was needs must.

 

However, that is about as far as it goes.  Nothing against him as a person, but he is not what we need moving forwards, or into next season even off the bench IMO.  Although I suspect as he has 2 years left on his contract, he might well end up being 3rd / 4th choice which we cannot really do anything about.  No one will pay close to half what we paid, so we would make a loss on him as a player but gain big by staying up.  Overall it might prove to have been a much needed signing...

I don't give a fuck what he cost, survival is priceless and we probably wouldn't have done so without him.

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I don't dislike Wood and value his contribution this season but I do wonder how he was ever a 1 in 3 striker, and I do wonder what role he could possibly have on the pitch in future seasons, assuming we invest a lot in attacking areas. Had he just burned out by the start of this season, or something, or is it essential he plays with a target man in order to have any threat whatsoever?

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Just now, Shearergol said:

No, single handedly keeping us up, without doing a single positive thing, is his strength. NO told us.

Literally no one has said he single handedly kept us up

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1 minute ago, joeyt said:

Literally no one has said he single handedly kept us up

It’s claimed he’s played a huge part, yet nobody embellishes to say how, other than being a “focal point”. He can’t pass, tackle, cross, shoot, head… what can he do?

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Just now, Shearergol said:

It’s claimed he’s played a huge part, yet nobody embellishes to say how, other than being a “focal point”. He can’t pass, tackle, cross, shoot, head… what can he do?

 

Ah so not single handedly kept us up

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