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Sterling Archer said:
Well, good ones move. Your Harry Kanes, your Crouches, they can do it. The ones we seem to have had in the past don't do that. And we aren't going to pay the money to get a good one. I'd rather we had a clinical striker in that role and more creative wingers that don't need bringing into play via a target man. Under Bruce we had an almost over reliance on crossing, even when it wasn't working it seemed like our only option. The Plan B was to chuck more players forward and continue crossing. Sunderland at home was a prime example, even when they had nine men we continued with crosses when it blatantly wasn't effective.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at having a target man in the squad, but having him on his own up front I don't think would be a good idea. Our midfielders aren't well known for haring into the box either, so assuming he does run once he has passed it off, you're asking a lot of the winger to pick out a lone striker among a few Championship defenders.
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Like winger Bowen that was one of our top scorers last season?

You don’t seem to understand the formation Adkins wants to play.
 
GLP said:
Like winger Bowen that was one of our top scorers last season?

You don’t seem to understand the formation Adkins wants to play.
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It's not hard to understand it, nearly every team in the world uses it at some point. Most of the teams that deploy it have clinical strikers at the top, not target men. Adkins said he wanted a big striker to come in, that doesn't mean he wants him to come in and play up front by himself.
 
Sterling Archer said:
It's not hard to understand it, nearly every team in the world uses it at some point. Most of the teams that deploy it have clinical strikers at the top, not target men. Adkins said he wanted a big striker to come in, that doesn't mean he wants him to come in and play up front by himself.
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Well when you only have one striking position in the formation he wants to play it does.
 
yeh seen
looks like he will fit the current template of a young hungry player
Also its another CB
 
GLP said:
Well when you only have one striking position in the formation he wants to play it does.
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So that's it, we're just going to play one formation, regardless of how we get on? You don't think it's possible that the signings made could be across two or maybe even three tactics?
 
Sterling Archer said:
So that's it, we're just going to play one formation, regardless of how we get on? You don't think it's possible that the signings made could be across two or maybe even three tactics?
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It will be his primary formation. So don’t you think we’re best off having a striker capable of playing in the formation he favours? We have Campbell and Dicko for any alternative options. We don’t have any physicality to play in that position for the formation he favours. God this is like pulling teeth.
 
GLP said:
It will be his primary formation. So don’t you think we’re best off having a striker capable of playing in the formation he favours? We have Campbell and Dicko for any alternative options. We don’t have any physicality to play in that position for the formation he favours. God this is like pulling teeth.
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It's only like pulling teeth because you're being so argumentative. Do the words "agree to disagree" mean anything to you? Because if you're waiting for me to turn around and say "you're right", you're going to be bitterly disappointed.

The crux of this disagreement is that you think a target man would be better in this formation, even though most of the footballing world play with a clinical striker up front who isn't necessarily ten feet tall. And I disagree. I think we're better served with a striker who can do it all, rather than one who is in the team because of how tall they are.
 
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Sterling Archer said:
It's only like pulling teeth because you're being so argumentative. Do the words "agree to disagree" mean anything to you. Because if you're waiting for me to turn around and say "you're right", you're going to be bitterly disappointed.

The crux of this disagreement is that you think a target man would be better in this formation, even though most of the footballing world play with a clinical striker up front who isn't necessarily ten feet tall. And I disagree. I think we're better served with a striker who can do it all, rather than one who is in the team because of how tall they are.
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Sterling Archer said:
Well, good ones move. Your Harry Kanes, your Crouches, they can do it. The ones we seem to have had in the past don't do that. And we aren't going to pay the money to get a good one. I'd rather we had a clinical striker in that role and more creative wingers that don't need bringing into play via a target man. Under Bruce we had an almost over reliance on crossing, even when it wasn't working it seemed like our only option. The Plan B was to chuck more players forward and continue crossing. Sunderland at home was a prime example, even when they had nine men we continued with crosses when it blatantly wasn't effective.

I wouldn't turn my nose up at having a target man in the squad, but having him on his own up front I don't think would be a good idea. Our midfielders aren't well known for haring into the box either, so assuming he does run once he has passed it off, you're asking a lot of the winger to pick out a lone striker among a few Championship defenders.
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So you wouldn't turn your nose up, you'd just rather have a non target man play a target mans role.
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