So we need an 8 goal a season striker and some others who can bang a few in............we can do that...surely
I think the fact that Bruce stuck Fryatt straight in the team, despite him quite obviously not being match fit, tells you everything you need to know about his opinion of Simpson(that and the fact that he just released him).
It was mainly a joke, but come to.think of it he's scored over 100 prem goals. Can't have been that bad in the championship
I counted 6 strikers in that list who scored more than 3 Holt Walters Crouch Cisse Fletcher Sessegnon You may not count sessegnon as a striker but he plays at the front often enough I'm sure he got more than 3 of those playing there. Without looking, what do villa/saints/west ham/fulhams scoring charts look like?
All 4 had at least one player who scored into double figures - 3 of them had one of the top 10 scorers in the league. Villa - Benteke (19), Agbonlahor (9), Weimann (7) Southampton - Lambert (15), Rodriguez (6), Puncheon (6) West Ham - Nolan (10), Carroll (7), Noble (4) Fulham - Berbatov (15), Petric (5), Ruiz (5)
I suspected there was a reason he hand picked those 4 teams, surprised he included Sunderland actually.
At the end of January, they were six points and four places above the relegation zone, having won only two of their previous fifteen games.
They're slow starters, the point is they won't really be involved in a relegation scrap comr the end of the season, their team is too good. Arsenale started off poorly and they ended up 4th and Everton traditionally start slow almost every season and they're a top 7 team
I hand picked the ****test teams that stayed up. That's all we need to be aiming for. There's no way, after seeing all those facts I posted, you could argue that a high-scoring striker is vital to prem survival.
