I think you're obsessing over historic goal records at the expense of the here and now. Pedro this season for us has shown that he's a decent poacher and good at attacking crosses. He missed a couple yesterday but they weren't as bad as is being made out. On the other side of the equation, Bedia has a decent record but looks crap for us, and Jarvis has a decent goal record in Ireland but he isn't good enough to get on our bench. What all of this shows, to me, is that goal records aren't the be all and end all.
Thanks for the response at least.
I don't agree though.
I'm not obsessing over anything, I'm looking at facts, hard data. And last season + this is not historic.
Goal records aren't the be all and end all, especially in cases like a special developing talent like say Delap. But they can give insight and often provide very big clues - that is exactly the case in our current situation - we are absolutely seeing in practice what the goal records of our squad shows - plenty of possession but failure to score anywhere near enough (even more so when Walterball <ha ha> depends on it).
We just aren't scoring enough .... and that is exactly what the hard data says will likely happen. We simply don't have goals in our make up, right across the squad, which is utterly ridiculous given the number of incomings & outgoings.
Pedro has come up with a couple of nice finishes tbf. He's also missed a lot, including what we'd class as sitters, and he's failed to get on the end of a fair few decent crosses and / or not got into the right place to finish from promises attacks. That's is exactly what we should logically expect, it's what his record over the past 3 years says he will do - fail to score all but a small handful a season.
To expect to see anything else from this squad, other than the occasional exception to the norm game, is delusional (for us as fans, for Walter, for Acun & his brain team). Now the veil is lifted (i.e. realising we now have starting 11's likely to manage around 30 a season, with no special emerging talents like a Delap), I simply can't understand how this has been allowed to happen.