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3 minutes ago, Tisd09 said:

From my point of view we would have been relegated if we had not signed him, of course the argument is we could have purchased someone else. Do I think we could have made a move for a better striker? Yes I do, but obviously Eddie thought he was the best option available at the time. He played a part in keeping us up. I would not shed a tear however if he was sold this month.

 

 

:thup: 

 

What's done is done now. We all agree he has no future here, I think that's fair to say.

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4 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

I really think that it wouldn't have made much different if we'd just played Gayle, but I don't have the tactical or stats knowledge to prove it.

The fact Gayle has been struggling to get a regular game for a team 20th in the Championship this season would probably suggest otherwise.

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23 minutes ago, SteV said:

Absolute garbage.

 

He was overpriced, of course, but we knew and accepted that.

 

He was brought in to achieve a specific objective (helping us stay in the league), which he achieved with flying colours.

 

Anything useful he does subsequently, like scoring the winner in a League Cup match (that’s then seen us make the semi final), or scoring at Southampton and Leicester, is simply a bonus, aside from the less obvious stuff around his tactical performance.

 

He’s not good enough for where we want to get to, and he’ll be phased out soon enough, but he’s done his job to enable us to get there. Money well spent.

If we had paid 10m for Wood we would have overpaid, the fact we paid 25m was ridiculous and has set a nasty precedent for the club.

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3 minutes ago, AyeDubbleYoo said:

 

I'm not sure Wood would walk the championship TBH :lol:

 

I get the point though. 

I reckon he’d get 10-15 no bother.

 

But without wanting to disrespect Gayle too much as was generally a really good contributor over his time here, his last contract renewal was one of the laziest acts of the whole Ashley era.

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2 minutes ago, Away Toon said:

If we had paid 10m for Wood we would have overpaid, the fact we paid 25m was ridiculous and has set a nasty precedent for the club.

Getting relegated would probably have been a worse precedent.

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28 minutes ago, Skeletor said:

Don't know why people have such an issue admitting Wood was a bad signing. His stats speak for themselves. It's possible to think Howe is doing God's work, whilst admitting he made one stinker of a signing. All good managers have their flops.

 

 

 

A signing that didn’t work out long term yes, but he did the job he was brought in to do for that run to the end of the season. There isn’t just two ends to the scale here, to some it seems like there’s only two extremes - either a shit signing or a great one. Wood falls into the middle somewhere, did what we needed but could we have got more for that money? Probably but the key with Wood is we went for him because he had a clause that we caught knowledge of, clubs would have tried ripping us off otherwise due to the situation we were in.
 

We went for a PL proven available striker at short notice and it paid off.. the player just hasn’t scored as many as people would have liked and obviously could have done better. I wouldn’t like to guess what might have happened had we not signed him.

 

Has nothing to do with being emotionally clouded by Howe, its looking at a signing for what it is. 

 

 

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Not Wood's biggest fan but he was a 1 in 3 striker in the Prem, from a team battling relegation. No way they would've let him go for £10M. I was browsing the Burnley forums when we bid for him and the general gist was he was worth around £15m-£18M which sounds about plausible. His numbers were very similar to Wilson's before he came here (not stating he's as good as Wilson btw just goals scored). We overpaid for him for sure but you could understand the logic behind the signing.

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4 minutes ago, Away Toon said:

If we had paid 10m for Wood we would have overpaid, the fact we paid 25m was ridiculous and has set a nasty precedent for the club.

 

I really don't think it has made any difference in regards to the future.

 

We would always be quoted crazy prices because of the Saudis, all it showed that we could act quickly and decisively when we really felt it was necessary. We only paid 25m because we had to activate the clause so they couldn't say no. It wasn't negotiation. 

 

Bad player but understandable signing and correct decision at the time. IMO.

 

 

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3 minutes ago, Away Toon said:

If we had paid 10m for Wood we would have overpaid, the fact we paid 25m was ridiculous and has set a nasty precedent for the club.

 

ana the horror of him helping us stay up and being part of the team sitting in 3rd

 

WHYYYY CHRIS WOOD WHYYYYYYYYYYY

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I don't remember Chris Wood helping us stay up, it's a myth someone came up with to paper over how shite he is.

 

There was 10 other players and a class manager doing most of it, he was just another number, bang average and over priced.

 

 

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1 minute ago, mighty__mag said:

I don't remember Chris Wood helping us stay up, it's a myth someone came up with to paper over how shite he is.

 

There was 10 other players and a class manager doing most of it, he was just another number, bang average and over priced.

 

 

 

This is such a mental stance to take. He obviously contributed. Considerably.

 

 

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He didn't score as much as he should, but (with Wilson gone till we were already safe) Wood allowed us to implement an effective style of play that ultimately helped us stay up. Now if you want to talk about why we used Wood for this and now Weighorst, who it turns out was available for half the price, that's a conversation to be had. 

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37 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Heart skipped a beat reading the Wood crack, frantically scrolled back, assuming he's linked with a move out.

 

He isn't being sold, then.  Bah.

 

Forest were being linked with him yesterday. 

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2 minutes ago, SteV said:

This is such a mental stance to take. He obviously contributed. Considerably.

 

 

 

Did he bollocks, I couldn't wait for Wilson to get fit, Wood was stale.

 

It's another opinion, that differs to others, 

 

I knew we'd be back here with this chat, everyone was done with Wood after his howler against Sheffield. 

 

Now its the classic, he kept us up, give over.

 

 

 

 

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32 minutes ago, Away Toon said:

If we had paid 10m for Wood we would have overpaid, the fact we paid 25m was ridiculous and has set a nasty precedent for the club.

 

Have we overpaid for anyone since? 

 

Isak perhaps, but he could well go on to be top class.

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2 minutes ago, mighty__mag said:

 

Did he bollocks, I couldn't wait for Wilson to get fit, Wood was stale.

 

It's another opinion, that differs to others, 

 

I knew we'd be back here with this chat, everyone was done with Wood after his howler against Sheffield. 

 

Now its the classic, he kept us up, give over.

 

We were terrible, he signed, we almost immediately became good. He played almost every game.

 

It's obviously a lot more complex than that, but to suggest we stayed up in spite of him is a pretty wild take.

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