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« Reply #105 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 09:34:32 » |
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Not enough down the wings. Not enough low hard crosses across the box. Not enough creativity.
We are lacking 1/2 wide strikers with some pace. Been an issue all season amd will continue to be a problem, though I dont advocate ever re signing him but McKirdy would have been the "type" of striker we should have looked at in the window, unpredictable but pacey and a creator of havoc around the box. Also just one person who can deliver good quality crosses for Smith consistantly. |
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« Reply #106 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:08:18 » |
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I understand the point you are making about us potentially being one very good player away…
…but Doyle would be pants in this side. Not enough down the wings. Not enough low hard crosses across the box. Not enough creativity.
I was just thinking of the stat line of 25 goals in 29 games rather than the specific player. That's even going to turn Morecambe into promotion contenders... |
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« Reply #107 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:12:04 » |
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I was just thinking of the stat line of 25 goals in 29 games rather than the specific player. That's even going to turn Morecambe into promotion contenders...
As I stated many times previously (and sometimes shouted down for it by some) if you have a 25 goal striker in your team then you will be challenging for the play offs no matter what, if you get lucky and can find a 15/20 goal striker to play alongside of him then thats champion level almost guaranteed. Yes not every team in the top 3 has a 25 goal striker but almost every 25 goal striker in the division will be in a top 7 team. |
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« Reply #108 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:16:26 » |
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As I stated many times previously (and sometimes shouted down for it by some) if you have a 25 goal striker in your team then you will be challenging for the play offs no matter what, if you get lucky and can find a 15/20 goal striker to play alongside of him then thats champion level almost guaranteed.
Yes not every team in the top 3 has a 25 goal striker but almost every 25 goal striker in the division will be in a top 7 team.
We managed to be 16th last season come January 1st with Kemp and Young both flying along at 30 goal pace... but we are Swindon Town. 47 goals in 26 games - just a shame we'd conceded 50  |
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« Reply #109 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:39:30 » |
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I am confident even with the leaky defence if Kemp and Young had stayed we would have crept up to the play offs if they actually kept on scoring at the rate they started off at. In the end both got to mid teens and left and so did our season.
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« Reply #110 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:44:24 » |
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We are lacking 1/2 wide strikers with some pace. Been an issue all season amd will continue to be a problem, though I dont advocate ever re signing him but McKirdy would have been the "type" of striker we should have looked at in the window, unpredictable but pacey and a creator of havoc around the box. Also just one person who can deliver good quality crosses for Smith consistantly.
Said the same thing before 21/22 McKirdy is exactly what this side needs. I don’t know exactly where we find a 21/22 McKirdy but I do know where we won’t find 21/22 McKirdy & that’s 2025 McKirdy. |
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« Reply #111 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 10:47:57 » |
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Said the same thing before
21/22 McKirdy is exactly what this side needs. I don’t know exactly where we find a 21/22 McKirdy but I do know where we won’t find 21/22 McKirdy & that’s 2025 McKirdy.
Very much this, great at the time, but his time with us has long passed. |
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« Reply #112 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 12:36:18 » |
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I am confident even with the leaky defence if Kemp and Young had stayed we would have crept up to the play offs if they actually kept on scoring at the rate they started off at. In the end both got to mid teens and left and so did our season.
With Gunning as manager? Really?! |
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« Reply #113 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 14:45:52 » |
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As I stated many times previously (and sometimes shouted down for it by some) if you have a 25 goal striker in your team then you will be challenging for the play offs no matter what, if you get lucky and can find a 15/20 goal striker to play alongside of him then thats champion level almost guaranteed.
Yes not every team in the top 3 has a 25 goal striker but almost every 25 goal striker in the division will be in a top 7 team.
Didn't we have a season where Simon Cox scored a boat load but we were total shite? |
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« Reply #114 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 17:48:36 » |
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Didn't we have a season where Simon Cox scored a boat load but we were total shite?
2008-09 when he got 32 goals. Although we got better after Danny Wilson took over from Maurice Malpas. |
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« Reply #115 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 17:55:08 » |
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Didn't we have a season where Simon Cox scored a boat load but we were total shite?
2008-09 when he got 32 goals. Although we got better after Danny Wilson took over from Maurice Malpas.
He got three hat tricks but we only won one of those games (4-3 win at Northampton). |
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« Reply #116 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 18:11:10 » |
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I was at Posh away when he got a brace, that Craig McKail Smith got one of there's. Good player for them.
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« Reply #117 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 18:19:37 » |
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He got three hat tricks but we only won one of those games (4-3 win at Northampton).
Yeah that's the one. Reckon there was a 3-3 as well at some point |
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« Reply #118 on: Wednesday, March 26, 2025, 18:33:32 » |
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Yeah that's the one. Reckon there was a 3-3 as well at some point
I think both of the other two were 3-3 draws, away at Scunthorpe & Hartlepool I think |
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« Reply #119 on: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 09:59:37 » |
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Classic Swindon to get a 30 goal striker and be shite
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