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Miles Storey.

Watched him v Villa,and his little cameo before injury at Tranmere was as good as twenty mins i have seen from any of our forwards in the last year or so,he ripped there defence to shreds.
I have a feeling that if he can come through the season unscathed he could notch plenty.
At present it looks like he could be a likely starter?

Look forward to seeing if the early promise bears fruit.

"At present it looks like he could be a likely starter?"

In my unqualified opinion he has a lot of promise but isn't ready to start just yet.

Williams.

Think if he got a run of games he'd score a lot of goals, always seems dangerous when I've watched him.

And Pritchard?

I thought Pritchard was a winger.

That's the thing Leefer, I don't think we have anyone that can play the loan striker role . Both Storey and Williams need help up top to enable them to run from deep.

In my opinion, obviously.

If we are going 1 up, then Williams is the experienced man and I'd start with him.


Pritchard IS a winger and about 5ft 2 :) (oh, OK, 5.7 1/2, that's an inch and a half taller than McNamee).

Attacking midfielder is Pritchard but i am guessing we will only start with one up front at Posh.

Good points Batch,maybe Storey will get the nod v Torquay.

He is.

I like Storey. Right attitude, quick enough to frighten defenders and a player who is only gonna get better the more he plays. I don't think we should rely on him but I'd be disappointed if he wasnt actively involved. Could be a big year for him.

Shit at penalties.

Ouch, bit of a harsh dig

He was superb at Stevenage away last year, just before the Villa match

I've really liked what I've seen of Miles so far. The boy will do well given the chance I reckon.

Should have got a chance earlier last season I think. The A. Rooney signing wasn't necessary IMO.

We had 2 players who could play the lone front man role - Collins has gone and Benson is obviously as welcome as a dose. Williams does not have the bottle to play there and Story is a novice. I's go with Storey but we really should be looking to buy someone.
 

Couldnt agree more...and Williams is def not the answer if we are playing one up top.
He is useless at holding the ball up and wins very few possession headers considering his height.

I'd be inclined to give Miles a go early on if only as a 60 min sub to see if he can stamp his mark.  Jury is out on new signings, but think we def need a No.1 striker if Miles isn't first choice as Williams just hasn't cut it and he's had long enough to come good.

Hello all by the way...newbie poster! 😰

not exactly sure that miles is the one up top striker your suggesting...

i think he is just like williams, likes to sit on the last defender and run onto the ball. williams criticism is getting a bit unfair, he hard some really good moments last season when high on confidence. the fans havent helped him at all and when we switched to 4-5-1 his game suffered big time. get him up top along side another striker and he will be back goalscoring. i can see williams/storey fighting it out for one place but we need another or a benson.

Way too harsh on Williams

May be Mr Rose Tinted here, but I think he will do well this season.

He's defo a confidence player, though

Is he, would have taken a lot of bottle to take that penalty in the play off's, does suggest he is a shrinking violet.

Williams I meant

Oh yeah he is definitely a confidence player.

However (and I suspect that this may be the only time he is compared to Michael Owen) he seems to have lost a lot since he was injured and, like Owen, seems to be afraid of puitting his foot in for fear of getting injured. He seemed to often pull out of challenges and if he was one on one with a keeper if the keeper charged out he would just leave it.

I believe he meant Williams not Storey.

Williams in the second half of last year after the Christmas/January period did, as horlock said, get a bit more cautious- less likely to chase stuff down or tackle- whether through fear of injury, or lack of confidence I don't know.

He also picked up this annoying habit of seeing a pass coming, looking away, then turning off his marker and running to get on the end of it instead of fighting with the defender for it, or watching where it was actually going. I don't know whether that was Paolo-initiated or he decided to do it himself. I'm all for losing your marker when a ball is expertly threaded over his head or out of his reach, but Williams would just go for it no matter what the ball was like, and 90% of the time the gurt beast of a L1 centreback would just biff it away and Williams would slouch broodingly back onside. You could almost see him going "Well, fucked that one up didn't I?" to himself.

He is a great player, he really is, despite what a lot of people say (and are likely to again...). Some of his touches are sublime, he's got great awareness, he's a hard worker with fantastic pace that really throws off some of the lumbering L1 centrebacks, and at some point (I'm not saying this season, I'm not even saying the next, but at some point) that is all going to click and he is going to score 20/25/30 in a season. It just hasn't happened yet, mostly because his finishing is a tad wayward. If he gets even 10% more clinical, then he's going to be a 20 goal a season striker. It's interesting to note he's already got a better goals/games ratio than he did when he was at Yeovil, and I have a feeling that might get even better this season. He's not deserving of some of the 'Uhhh Andy Williams is shit' idiocy that I've heard.

Storey I've only seen glimpses of- Villa obviously, and the Play-off semi against Brentford, but it's a bit unfair to judge him on either of those games. I do think he should be looking at bullying his way into the team on a regular basis, as with a bit of a dearth of strikers he's got a big chance to do it, but he's not a starter yet. Bring him off the bench in the last 20/30 minutes of games and see if he can't repeat his heroics against Villa.

Williams has got it all there to be a good Championship striker apart from mental toughness. Thats why he's plied hias trade with Yeovil and us. He is one of the most frustrating players we've had in a while. If he gets hos head sorted, he'a hell of an asset. If he carries on like he finished last season, I'd be shot of him.

He's capable of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myJgs7CqWN4

But comes up with this MUCH more often:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBnQQv0jY3Q

I think a new striker is on the top of whoever brings our players in's wish list.

Liked Storey from the early youth team games and hoped he would progress. Was a bit worried regarding the hamstring problems as he relies on having a lot of pace for a biggish guy and that could be an ongoing difficulty. Not sure if PDC really rated him but now under "new" management I would think that he is going to be a regular on the bench and this should be his defining season.

Looks a limited player to me, poor first touch and all round game and not much aside from pace. Don't think he has the attributes to be a lone striker, not saying that Williams has either but he is certainly the better option for that role assuming we go with the 4-2-3-1.

Hopefully I will be proven wrong this season and I am sure he will get the chance but I hope the lad is not built up too much off the back of 5 minutes against Villa.

Not forgetting the England cap of course....believe me Mr Chang when i say if he stays fit and plays he will bag loads.

I hope so Leefer, and will happily hold my hands up if he does so.

This season will make or break Storey. Due to the current club circumstances I fear the latter.

 :blowkiss: :blowkiss:

Is it like in Die Hard 2 where the Grant lead "hit squad" are in the van to take out the terrorists, only they are in on it all except Telford. Then Telford says he wished he had been in Grenada with Grant's unit, and Grant says "so do I, then I wouldn't have to do this", and shoots him.

Is it like that with Storey and not having played for Spurs. Is it?

Very good. Who's John McLain?

Doesn't he slash his throat, not shoot him?
Not that I am being picky or anything ;)

We are all John McClane

"Oh man, I can't fucking believe this. Another basement, another elevator. How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice? set of fans multiple times"

He does. Sorry for my sloppyness.

Other than that, perfect comparison.

wasted on me as I ain't seen it.

It would be great to have a striker come through our system and score goals.  Who was the last one to do this?

Clearly, someone will now tell me that Storey didn't come through our system at all, and we;ve had plenty of home grown goalscorers in the last few years that I have forgotten.

Oooh - I can answer my own question - sort of.  Jutkiewicz got a few.

Billy bodin- still a bit disappointed he left bit he hasn't lit up Torquay too much. Any other manager other di catnio and I reckon he would have played more and stayed. Scored some cracking goals

Alan Young.

FUCK OFF!!!!

Paul Rideout was the last home grown player to score any decent amount of goals for us.  This may come back to haunt me, but I don't reckon Bodin will ever play above League One, maybe even struggle to hold down a career.

Do you own a vest?  :sherlock:

Too bad arriba, I kinda liked you.


Ok, just a few words. Fuck off


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After tonights little cameo...i reckon he will play a big part this season,looks the finished article to me.

Injuries aside of course.

His pace was awesome and he has beefed up a lot.

His crossing was shocking though  ;D

Long way to go untill he is even near the finished article as with all our young players but he was very impressive tonight - great pace for the goal.

More of the same for the rest of the season hopefully.

Should of buried the rebound!

Looking at the highlights just how far was he into the penalty area when Pritchard took the spot kick.

Where are the highlights?

They are on STFC Player

Damn. 'My' login isn't working....

Hi Julie ;)

Ah someone must have logged out, I just got in. No sound though! Can't believe anyone pays for such a shit service.

Yeah I noticed earlier there was no sound, poor poor service.

I found that it seems to open with the sound set to mute ... when it opens! Just needed to turn the sound on/up.

Nope, no sound at all on the Torquay highlights for me.

Nor me and my sound is turned to max on the PC and on the STFC Player.

Do you have sound on the Posh highlights?

Yep.

Works fine for me

Wierd, its the only one that doesnt work for me.

Sound works fine for me Julie.

I'm using that account too, Sam.

Have you tried it recently? Maybe they've just recently fixed it!

Could try logging out and logging in again. That has fixed glitches in the past for me.

Not working for me on either my work PC or my home PC. Bloody Julie.

Today I have sound on it.

Still none for me, just tried it.

Highlights are on Sky Sports website now, for anyone bored of getting player to work.

I did a ccleaner run and downloaded a new java update and that seemed to work for me, but it is so fickle, yesterday no sound at all yet today its fine on the same PC.