Best we can hope for in Swords world is a couple of own goals and then I am betting we will have to read why haven't we got any strikers. If we keep Adel he will score and make a lot of goals. Of course he has to grow up... we all have to in the end. We are very lucky to have him by fate or what not we have him and he has the potential to do very well. In terms of skill and ability there aren't many better ... The boy can play, he has a wonderful football brain ... against any level.
Or there's the faintest possibility that I am? Look back to last season. The number of times we were yelling and wringing our hands over gilt-edged chances created that Helgs, Hulse, etc failed to put away. Had we someone like DJ or Bothroyd then, we'd probably have won the league by April 1. I know it'll be tougher in the Premiership, but our creative players are still there, and we have a strike force with the experience and ability to convert a far higher percentage than we managed last season. Unlike Swords, (who probably thinks that the orst thing happening on London streets at the moment is that Pizza Hut are no longer doing a 2-for-1 offer), I am looking forward to the season. Swords mate, you need to cheer up a bit. You're mistaking blind pessimism for reality.
That's actually a very good point. If Bothroyd or Campbell have the predator instinct that we've desperately been missing in W12 for years now, we have a chance. But its all If's at the moment and it needn't be. (And I AM worried about the Pizza Hut deal. If Kenny hears about it he might put in a transfer request! )
Big one and Little one combinations rarely fail to deliver goals. It's one of football's fundamental truths.
Well Willy, a quick tot on your scorers there and I make it 62 not including what Taarabt and other unnamed players might produce. Only 3 teams managed more than that last season - Man City in 3rd only got 60. I am quite confident that we will survive next season but for us to score more than 62 in the premiership is a fairly tall order and hence my questioning your sincerity. But hey, I'll take it!
I wouldn't expect Campbell to store as much this season compared to last season at all. Blackpool were attack attack attack last season, and Campbell had the advantage of this as the squad kept pressuring and pushing through defences. If he was capable of anything more, he would NOT have went for a paltry £1.2million
Campbell's release clause is 1.2mill.Other than Adam, Blackpool didn't really have enough quality to provide him with the chances. Whereas we have Taarabt, Bothroyd, Smith, Faurlin, Derry, Dyer and Agyemang().
He went for a 'paltry £1.2million' because his contract had that in as an escape clause - so nobody was ever going to offer more than that. Last season's form was never gonna change that. He could have scored a hundred goals and his sale price would have been exactly the same. Blackpool were attack minded last season for sure, but not that many chances fell to him - they generally included high balls into the box or long-range efforts from Charlie Adam. From our suppliers, he'll get better service.
I started going to LR in 1971. I am struggling to name Rangers strikers who have scored 20 goals in a season in the First/Premier since then (and remember there were more teams in the olden days), and am too lazy to look it up. Givens? Allen? Bannister? Sir Les?..point is it is very few players score this many in the Prem and I will be astounded if any of ours do. But the target should be 50 goals as a team, which will mean a few will have to weigh in with 10(and if we concede more lets perversely hope its because of a couple of wallopings rather than lots of by the odd goal losses)...Historians, enlighten me
We've not had a 20+ striker since Sir Les. But that's just because the quality of strikers we've had has generally been ****e. We've never even signed someone who has scored that many in a season. Decent, sharp strikers, with good service and plenty of changes to break and shoot, will score at any level, whoever thay are playing against. And in Bothroyd and DJ, we have two very decent, very sharp strikers.
Do you think Boothroyd and Dj will be able to break into the first team? After all that would mean not playing Dave and Hulse every week. Surprised nobody picked Sh...tu to bang in a few too.
Just seen my name taken in vain doesn't really please me that my main man Jamie Mackie is not taken seriously and I stand by my words that he will come off the bench, fill in when needed, play 2nd fiddle and still get 15 goals this season!!! By the way reserve matches count.
Our first season in Europe( 1976/7), your namesake scored, I think, 10 in European matches alone. There must be a good chance he hit 20 that season. Sir Les certainly did. 1992/3 and 1994/5
What about big Dan ****tu he'll get 5 or 6 DJ about 13 Bothyrood about 13 and Neil will get a few too, coming off the bench down the blind side, sidefoot into the net....
