Just because a player is tall doesn't make him a target man.
Pigott is a great finisher - the only game he's started was against mill wall and we were collectively shit.
he also came on as a sub against Watford, Forest, Ipswich & Blackpool - can't remember that he really covered himself in glory in those games either. I'm not trying to knock him, but I just feel he is out of his depth in this league. night , for example, I heard that Southampton gave one of their youngsters (18 yr old striker) his debut at home v Arsenal & I believe he scored, or if he didn't he could have had a couple - whereas I don't believe I've seen Piggott get anywhere near the goal.
Just because a player is tall doesn't make him a target man.
Pigott is a great finisher - the only game he's started was against mill wall and we were collectively shit.
he also came on as a sub against Watford, Forest, Ipswich & Blackpool - can't remember that he really covered himself in glory in those games either. I'm not trying to knock him, but I just feel he is out of his depth in this league. night , for example, I heard that Southampton gave one of their youngsters (18 yr old striker) his debut at home v Arsenal & I believe he scored, or if he didn't he could have had a couple - whereas I don't believe I've seen Piggott get anywhere near the goal.
Our problem is not just scoring. We are not creative. Pigott gets 10-15 mins to score a goal when we pump it on the air up to him.
If you give him chances he will score. Same with Smith.
We could have Darren Bent up front and he wouldn't score as he's be feeding off scraps at best
Just because a player is tall doesn't make him a target man.
Pigott is a great finisher - the only game he's started was against mill wall and we were collectively shit.
he also came on as a sub against Watford, Forest, Ipswich & Blackpool - can't remember that he really covered himself in glory in those games either. I'm not trying to knock him, but I just feel he is out of his depth in this league. night , for example, I heard that Southampton gave one of their youngsters (18 yr old striker) his debut at home v Arsenal & I believe he scored, or if he didn't he could have had a couple - whereas I don't believe I've seen Piggott get anywhere near the goal.
Our problem is not just scoring. We are not creative. Pigott gets 10-15 mins to score a goal when we pump it on the air up to him.
If you give him chances he will score. Same with Smith.
We could have Darren Bent up front and he wouldn't score as he's be feeding off scraps at best
I don't disagree - but sometimes when you are a striker you have to make chances yourself. Yann is the most guilty of this. He can score from a free kick 25 yards out but he hardly ever takes a shot from open play from this distance & will always lay it off.
Ok so smith is not scoring for fun in the championship like some would have you believe, Good luck to smith I hope he does well and gets a great career but who knows who is coming in, someone must be and Piggott will go out on loan that's a certainty , but to think smith is the messiah it all smacks of Dickson all over again
League one - so would do a job for us next season at this rate. Dickson at least was tried in the team tbf I think that is most peoples issue. I didn't follow Dickson but did he score goals in league two and league one?
Of course. I still think there's light at the end of tunnel. Throughout recent weeks I have slated pessimistic views on here as they don't help anyone.
I will start to get worried IF (big if) we don't bring in a striker before Friday.
RD has been here about a month. He's not God (even though some expect him to be) and he won't be able to turn our form around in this much of a short time.
it's criminal that he wasn't given a chance. Why we allowed him to be cup tied I'll never know. Two games against Oxford and a game against Hudds might have given us a better indication before selling
it's criminal that he wasn't given a chance. Why we allowed him to be cup tied I'll never know. Two games against Oxford and a game against Hudds might have given us a better indication before selling
I agree but I think the bigger issue was around this rule that only allows you to play for 2 clubs in a season,because he never played for us this season, Swindon could play him without worrying about 93 day loans .
I suspect they paid us a bit more in his transfer fee to ensure this as others have said I will wait until midnight Friday before getting concerned.
Why is it criminal, or shocking management? Powell clearly doesn't see him as making it - with us - in the Championship. He's had two games with Swindon, he's scored 10 goals in League 2 and 2 in League 1. How that makes him the answer to our problems God only knows.
Why is it criminal, or shocking management? Powell clearly doesn't see him as making it - with us - in the Championship. He's had two games with Swindon, he's scored 10 goals in League 2 and 2 in League 1. How that makes him the answer to our problems God only knows.
He could not have done any worse than the dross we have, and have had impersonating as strikers over the last few seasons. It would probably have back fired but the lad knows where the net is and for that reason I would have given him a run out.
it's criminal that he wasn't given a chance. Why we allowed him to be cup tied I'll never know. Two games against Oxford and a game against Hudds might have given us a better indication before selling
I think the issue was that if he played for us, he couldn't play for another side this season apart from AFCW who didn't have the funds for a decent offer. Given that he didn't raise a huge amount of money you'd wonder why we didn't take that chance?
a) RD is going to do some serious investment in the 2 days before window shuts b) RD has not increased our budget & his legion of foreigners are on minimum wage
Why is it criminal, or shocking management? Powell clearly doesn't see him as making it - with us - in the Championship. He's had two games with Swindon, he's scored 10 goals in League 2 and 2 3 in League 1. How that makes him the answer to our problems God only knows.
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perhaps we could ask Swindon if we could have him on loan
Pigott is a great finisher - the only game he's started was against mill wall and we were collectively shit.
Piggott is clearly not good enough for championship football but we have no resources.
Pigott gets 10-15 mins to score a goal when we pump it on the air up to him.
If you give him chances he will score. Same with Smith.
We could have Darren Bent up front and he wouldn't score as he's be feeding off scraps at best
Just because I'm scoring with my missus doesn't immediately mean I should be scoring with Scarlett Johansson.
And his manager at Swindon was his old manager at Darlington.
No doubt that was part of the attraction too.
If you had the choice for example to sign a player with the scoring record of gooch against signing smith would you do it
If smith had never signed for us in the first place
I will start to get worried IF (big if) we don't bring in a striker before Friday.
RD has been here about a month. He's not God (even though some expect him to be) and he won't be able to turn our form around in this much of a short time.
Next year we will be in the same division as Swindon, and folk on here will be saying what a mistake it was to let him go.
Not forgetting the "undisclosed fee" we got for him - which we all know, was probably ziltch!
I agree but I think the bigger issue was around this rule that only allows you to play for 2 clubs in a season,because he never played for us this season, Swindon could play him without worrying about 93 day loans .
I suspect they paid us a bit more in his transfer fee to ensure this as others have said I will wait until midnight Friday before getting concerned.
a) RD is going to do some serious investment in the 2 days before window shuts
b) RD has not increased our budget & his legion of foreigners are on minimum wage