Striker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[fine-n-dandy]

Clearly a hot topic at moment.

 

When are we going to finally find one we can really be proud of?

Rooney was great as far as most of us were concerned. Even when off form (or not playing the silky stuff we would love to see from a striker) he still popped up with the goals & was our first 20+ goals striker a season for decades. His last season was pretty poor by his standard but even with limited game time he still banged in a good few.

Big loss & not been replaced clearly.

 

McInnes moved on Vernon (& others) for either going backwards, or just never being good enough.

 

He persisted with Maynard (too long) to try & 'stubbornly' prove he was a bad signing. He seems to be doing similar with May, Cosgrove & arguably Wilson also but he is maybe being forced to play Wilson for most part. Guess we'll never know the deal there.

 

I still hope May will come good, or even average but he's taking forever & is being given every opportunity, as was Cosgrove & it often seems they have been given a fairer crack of the whip than Young Anderson has.

 

I really do not trust McInnes's judgement in terms of strikers. He was on a safe bet with a 100% proven (in this league) Rooney but credit to the fkr for getting him all the same.

 

Say what you like about Shankland but there has to be a question on whether he was given enough of a chance for us when so many other have been give so much more game time.

Not saying Shankland hasn't 'found his level' & McInnes wasn't indeed correct to let him go but will be interesting to see who he gets on after his next move, which is clearly going to happen soon, whilst his stock is high.

 

End of the day. McInnes needs to get his next striker right because we need a decent one again to give us as many as Rooney did (for the most part) which was 1 goal to every 2 games average up until his final season but most of his final season.

 

[dj_bollocks]

I was and still am one of Shankland's biggest supporters and I agree that he was probably right to be binned. I guess the question for me is more can DMc manage strikers. I've always believed a decent striker will tell you where and how he wants the ball and that's for the midfield to deliver. Everyone knew that Rooney wanted the crosses into the 18 yard box and that's how he was most effective. Do our strikers effectively communicate what they want ? Does DMc know what he wants from a striker and does he have the team and tactics right to be able to provide delivery to said strikers. There's and argument to be said that even with Aguero we'd struggle to score because we couldn't deliver the supply for him to convert...

[fine-n-dandy]

Just trying to keep the 'pish up front' topic to one place to save all threads being flooded with it

 

Who will be the next signing to earn the title of STRIKER that Rooney left ?

[fine-n-dandy]

I was and still am one of Shankland's biggest supporters and I agree that he was probably right to be binned. I guess the question for me is more can DMc manage strikers. I've always believed a decent striker will tell you where and how he wants the ball and that's for the midfield to deliver. Everyone knew that Rooney wanted the crosses into the 18 yard box and that's how he was most effective. Do our strikers effectively communicate what they want ? Does DMc know what he wants from a striker and does he have the team and tactics right to be able to provide delivery to said strikers. There's and argument to be said that even with Aguero we'd struggle to score because we couldn't deliver the supply for him to convert...

Rooney just has the gift of almost always being in the right place at right time. A real penalty box striker & he was fantastic at chasing down every shot at goal & banging in the rebounds.

No great skills but he got us what we needed.

[fine-n-dandy]

LOL slate it all you want but this is a subject that will & is going to be ongoing until we FINALLY replace Rooneys goals

 

P.s  I heard you cock is tiny. Micro penis levels of tiny

[Arabian Knight]

wits this aboot ye fonin up yer ma tae gae oot fir a pint it lauders

[Chewie37]

A whole lot of fucking cans ^

And pills

[Reed or deed]

Stopped reading after the first sentence.

[cruzcampo3]

James Norwood at tranmere rovers top scorer out of all the English leagues.

 

Need to strike early as I’m sure championship teams will come sniffing soon

[fine-n-dandy]

James Norwood at tranmere rovers top scorer out of all the English leagues.

Need to strike early as I’m sure championship teams will come sniffing soon

Nah. They're all busy looking at Shank the tank apparently

[Mouse]

Vernon was great for us in poorer times until the GWT stuck him in midfield. A club like ours should have at least 1 20+ goals a year striker

[fine-n-dandy]

Out of interest. How are all the strikers (canny mind their names) we were 'rumoured' to be linked with in summer getting on this season? Was there not one we actually put a bid in for as well.

 

Were they missed chances or lucky escapes? Genuinely haven't checked but keen to know if any cunt has kept an eye out.

[Proud Dandy]

Letting a proven goal scorer go in Rooney was baffling given he was under contract and didn’t seem like one who would have thrown a tantrum if we had blocked his move. He would still easily be our top scorer this season, with the defence we’ve got now having a poacher in the squad would have made a big difference.

[fine-n-dandy]

Letting a proven goal scorer go in Rooney was baffling given he was under contract and didn’t seem like one who would have thrown a tantrum if we had blocked his move. He would still easily be our top scorer this season, with the defence we’ve got now having a poacher in the squad would have made a big difference.

McInnes needed his wages for one of his new midfield duds imo

[slippers]

Out of interest. How are all the strikers (canny mind their names) we were 'rumoured' to be linked with in summer getting on this season? Was there not one we actually put a bid in for as well.

 

Were they missed chances or lucky escapes? Genuinely haven't checked but keen to know if any cunt has kept an eye out.

Doidge has left forest green for Bolton on loan and will join on full time terms in January for a seven figure sum. That was the lad that we apparently bid 300k for!

[fine-n-dandy]

Doidge has left forest green for Bolton on loan and will join on full time terms in January for a seven figure sum. That was the lad that we apparently bid 300k for!

He been scoring a lot?

[mcdougall(4)]

When you see who started the thread and then this

 

 

You know it's a shitshow

[maryhilldon]

Vernon was great for us in poorer times until the GWT stuck him in midfield. A club like ours should have at least 1 20+ goals a year striker

A 120+ goals a year striker would be fantastic. Probably out of our price range though.

[fine-n-dandy]

When you see who started the thread and then this

You know it's a shitshow

&/or you are a dick tied to bollocks, sorry I mean addicted to blocking

 

I mean. Who in their right mind would block wee willy time? He's like auld faither time but longer in terms of boredom

[fine-n-dandy]

100% guaranteed you 'view post anyway' on a few of them too lol.

 

Fanny

[The Cockney Don]

[Yorston Vasey]

James Norwood at tranmere rovers top scorer out of all the English leagues.

 

Need to strike early as I’m sure championship teams will come sniffing soon

When McInnes inevitably gets poached by a big English Premiership club after winning his second League Cup, I'm championing a Micky Mellon/James Norwood double swoop on Tranmere. It's written in the stars.

[Yorston Vasey]

Or Bad Mobby's suggestion of Jon Stark, he'd do as well.

[RAZOR]

When McInnes inevitably gets poached by a big English Premiership club after winning his second League Cup, I'm championing a Micky Mellon/James Norwood double swoop on Tranmere. It's written in the stars.

Is that after the Pat Nevin era?

[Fridge]

Already foresee the future when we have to endure some complete and utter horseshit up front and we have to tell the younger generations about Nicholas Maynard.

 

It’s fortunate that the internet exists as evidence.

 

Still can’t convince myself whether the lack of goals has taken 10’years off my life or was comedy gold.