bristol rovers are apparently sniffing around ruth rendell.he aint going no where and we are in a higher division than them so its a no brainer
To be honest, he cost quite a lot in this age of free transfers. If they were prepared to pay around the same figure, I wouldn't lose too much sleep over it. As long a Waddock could use that money to re-invest in the squad
I haven't been won over by rendell. His 1st touch is never that good and most goals are from penalty . Would this free up some wage bill for Donaldson or le fondre ?
Bizza you don't half talk some ****e my friend. Rendell is going to get better and better, I reckon he'll play even better than he did last season against teams that want to play football. And as I said earlier, we'd need to free up a bit more than that to tempt the likes of those players who will probably command around 500k to buy and double our highest paid player. It ain't gonna happen and Rendell is the man for our attack in League 1.
Chairboyjock, I agree. My post from yesterday for some reason isn't appearing! The guy got almost 20 goals last season, a season which started with his other half having a complicated pregnancy, which no doubt affected Scott. The baby was then born and low and behold Scott's form picked up late November/early December. Then the sad news of the baby's death and no wonder Scott was away for a while and then maybe a bit off the pace when he came back. But look at his form towards the end of the season once his life got back to some normality. We should be supporting the guy, been through all sorts of hell this year but still has 19 goals to show for it!
I want him to prove me wrong a don't get me wrong. 19 goals in a season .... 9 of which were penalties so only ten from open play? I don't think that's sounds so great. Yeah Donaldson and le fondre a probably out of range but maybe a return of Tyson or Easter on a free would improve the team. Does no one else agree that sometimes rendells 1st touch can be very poor?
if waddock has money you can do a lot worse than matty harrold, brilliant midfielder, takes the attack to the opposition. on his day a legend in his lunchtime, a snip at 350k
I reckon when Rendell is on form, his first touch isn't a big issue even if you do think it's poor. I also don't care where his goals come from, bottom line was he averaged around 1 in 2 last season WITH all of the off field tragedies and set backs. And he likes to play football on the ground, fast and flowing. It's what Waddock's all about and it's what this team he is building is all about. I don't think Easter would fit in as he thinks too much of himself and Waddock doesn't like that (neither do I!). Jury's out on Tyson for me, no doubt he's a great striker at League 1 level I reckon, but I also had some inkling he'd upset a few people at various points too. Seems to me Waddock doesn't like to risk upsetting the team spirit by signing potential prima donnas. We'll have to see who comes in, I do think we need another striker, but I also think Rendell should no way be knocked at all, he's quality.
I'm not trying to knock him but just not sure how well he will do in league 1. Totally agree he had a shocking year with his personal life and might be more focused next season without the off field problems. Bring back an on form Sean Devine !
Bizza - are you serious??!!! Some people are never satisfied! Even if Rendell's 1st touch is dodgy (I completely dont agree btw) why on earth are we picking up the weaknesses in our top striker?? The lad scored consistently in LG2 last season despite off field tragedies and I personally think that Rendell will be even better in LG1 where he'll come up against more teams that want to play football rather than kick him. To suggest it would make any sense to cash in on him is at best proposterous. To be talking about a problem with his 1st touch is mad. Next you'll be telling us that Nikki Bull could be sold because his overhead kicks arent good enough.
Beavon has one of the best first touches i've ever seen- he can't score goals though. At this level a striker can't have everything, if he did he would be playing in a higher league, so be grateful that Rendell can finish well and stop winging about his first touch.
I must watch a different rendell to everyone else then as I see balls bounce away from him quite a few times?
Someone will soon be telling us that Barcelona should sell Messi because he doesn't score enough headers!!
I like Rendell, but i'm still not 100% convinced he is the real deal. This may be a really horrible thing to say, but I think he may well have got an even harder time from the fans if it wasn't for his terrible personal tradgedy. There were quite a lot of grumblings in the Valley about him. I do think that his performances towards the end of the season improved dramatically. Same could be said for Benny Strevens, who looked pretty awful for the majority of the season and then was the saviour in the last handful of games. Question is, is anyone totally convinced by the "bit" season heroics or do we take the season as a whole and then make judgement? I just think we haven't found that prolific striker that we got so used to a few seasons back and considering we all think Waddock plays attacking football, our goal return was very poor even by League 2 standards. We had the same problem in League 1 last time around and I can't see things improving vastly (on the forward front). What are your thoughts?
My thoughts are that we still need another out and out striker. Can't fault the effort that Beavon puts in but he doesn't score enough goals and neither does Strevs. Can't see Ainsworth hitting double figures next season either so we will need more goals from elsewhere.
