The #LUFC Breakfast Debate (Monday 24th February)

Nah, mate, you didn't. You're imagining it. I won the quadruple with Leeds that year!

 

You must be a glass half empty person, I think he got us 6 goals and 4 points, which if we averaged that a season we would be champions, and from 2 very difficult away games.

 

Nope. You know there's no more positive on here than me.

1 goal in 4 starts.

3 in 17 sub appearances.

Hardly earth-shattering move on to starts, is it?

Very reminiscent of the struggle Jack Clarke had. Big step up, especially with Bielsaball.

 

2 goals in 4 starts,3 goals in 15 sub appearances and then goals per minute played, are both excellent, Bamfords scored in 1 match in 11 games, that makes him a good goalkeeper, but a **** striker, brought nothing at all to the team against Reading.
If you say Eddie played 30 mins per sub appearance, that works out at 5 full games, 3 goals in 5 full games is brilliant as is 2 goals in 4 games started.

 

He didn't, so stop pockling figures. Like i've said often, it's one thing impressing as a sub, another starting. The additional start you awarded him was in the cup against Salford. Hardly impressive. Most of his other goals were against poor teams.

Will be an excellent player sometime, but it was never going to happen in such a short time with Bielsaball. I fear Big Kev might be in the same boat.

 

You were the one who stated the four games, you counted all the starts, but not all the goals, only scored against poor teams ? Brentford and Preston are both top six, hardly poor teams. He's now playing at a higher standard, against better teams, and is still scoring.

 

Luton 1 up against Brentford
West Brom 1 up against Preston

 

Hands up re. the stats. Don't know where I got them from, tbh.

Looked it up again, and didn't get the summary I got the last time, but this ... https://1xbet.whoscored.com/Players/345845/MatchStatistics/Eddie-Nketiah

He scored nowt in his 2 Championship starts, & 3 in his 15 sub appearances. Against Brentford, start of season - when they got 4 points from the first 15. Against Barnsley, also at the start, when they got 5 out of 1the first 15, and finally, against Preston. 3 in 500 minutes, most of it in easier sub time. Not great.

Like I said, easier to come on & score when the opposition are tired, a la Jack Clarke. One of Eddie's starts was against Birmingham. He got hooked. We scored 5 goals & he never got an assist in all that opportunity & action, far less score. He couldn't hack Bielsaball. End of. We'll never know if he could have. I blamed his disruption of our defence at the time for us conceding 4 goals. He contributed precisely zilch in defence mode, & very little in terms of hold up play. TBF, we were carrying Hilda too in the defensive respect.

 

I can just imagine your excitement Jock when or if Bammy scores again. Strings of I told you so's followed by a visit round to Olofs for his sock wardrobe

 

LOL. Nope, tbh, I'm not particularly happy with Bamford myself, but see myself as more of a realist. He cost £7m. You get what you pay for (unless you get really lucky). The thing is, people expect him to be a PL-quality, £100m striker who misses nothing. He's clearly not, but he is what he is, & good for the team.Very good. PL might be a different matter.

Btw, knowing OLOF, him being a tight basturd Yorkie, he'll only have the one sock, from when he was 10yo. No need to get anything bigger!

 

I don’t want him to be pl league quality but Scottish division 3 standard would do

 

Not sure I agree, it's easier to score near the end of games, especially when you only come on for last 10-15 minutes or so, not enough time to get into the game.
We for example haven't scored a single goal in the last 15 minutes since Birmingham in December.

 

Not going to reply, 'cos might speak out of turn.

Just arrived in Santiago after 32 hours travel, including sitting on a runway for 2 hours. Mrs WJ now sleeping, but yours truly went out on a mission to find beer & wifi (forgot to ask for apartments password). Managed to get only last 10 mins of game. Delighted with result. Unfortunately, got the taste for local beer & painkiller combination has really fcuked me up. Must remember to return to apartment soon to take Mrs WJ out for some grub.

Honestly, see trying to find a pub with wifi here - it's like hens teeth. Walked for miles & could only find this fancy, old fashioned cafe. Found 2 titty bars close by, but footie came first. Must confess to popping my head through the curtains to see what was going on, but footie came first. I think i might be getting old.

 

It’s a tough life WJ but someone has to do it

 

No footie tomorrow WJ, maybe you can explore some more!

 

That's what I was thinking. Just need to find a Chemist's that'll give me sleeping tablets to slip into Mrs WJ's coffee.

 

Good plan, just ask for pastillas para dormir.
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