Another vital miss by Varney tonight, how many times has that happened this season?
If we don't find a goal scorer quickly we're down. Goals breed confidence and win games.
Can we afford a top goal scorer? no. So we have to unearth one from within the club.
How are we ever going to do that if blokes like Dickson aren't even getting a run out as a sub.
There's a very good chance that Dickson would have buried that chance tonight had he come on instead of Varney.
I just don't understand why both Pardew and now Parky are being so stubborn on this issue. It doesn't mater if he's not ready yet, it just takes one shot to score a goal and that's what we need right now.
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Without being given a chance we'll never know for sure.
Could it be the service that is a problem ,or we dont play to our strikers strengths
The problem lies with the fact we've conceded 15 in those five games. The defence is all over the shot and QPR's goals tonight highlighted that. We're letting in so many from set pieces and crosses its getting ridiculous. Hudson is a shadow of the player from the start of the season, and Primus looks like a player who's spent a long time out injured. Also, Youga and Cranie just can't get close enough to their man to stop the crosses coming in.
We might not be the most prolific scoring team, but we are scoring goals. The back four problem needs to be addressed soon, because even if we had a 20+ goal a season striker we'd still go down. Time to say thanks but no thanks to Cranie & Primus and see who else is available in January.
Dexter Blackstock didn't get very many quality balls in to him tonight, either, but he managed to sculpt two goals out of the scraps he did get...
Why this is I don't know. As WhenIWas points out, most of our strikers have done it at other clubs. Apart from Waghorn... god, the more I think about that signing, the odder and more desperate it seems.
Absolutely no excuse now not to give Dicko a run. Maybe even Fleetwood,too.
Maybe he would have put it away but would the chance have arisen in the first place?
The radio commentary suggested to me that most of our chances came when Varney was out there.
I wasn't there so can't say for sure.
I think waghorn could well be good one day, his pass that led to Boazza's goal was brilliant, but as you all have said, he is yet another player that does not look likely to score. He needs time to bed into the side, time we simply don't have, already we are three points away from 21st place plus we have an awful goal difference.
I personnaly rate varney as a good winger, not as a striker. Why we wasted one of our loans for the season for Waghorn is beyond me...
Because Pards was clueless. Why was Semedo left out for so long. Why didn't Racon get a game last season when he is clearly a very good player. I wouldn't trust his judgment on any player because he made so many dreadful errors in both buying players and letting the wrong ones go.
So to get us out of the mire up front we have:
Main 2 strikers who won't get 10 goals in a season, yet Pardew paid nearly £4milion quid for.
2 Non League players
2 injury prone players
1 18 year old
Give you a clue. . . . .
Well, I was there & I thought Waggy was pretty ineffective & poor. He didn't have the strength to hold off the QPR defenders & never once anticipated the flick ons from Gray or the passes from midfield. To me he looked like a young kid playing against a bunch of grown men. I think the radio commentator got it spot on.[/quote]
Pete the commentator also said that Andy Gray didnt win a flick or header until 45 mins in the first half and the only time he mentioned his name in the 2nd was for a foul on the half way line
Waghorn made good runs into the channels and harried and hurried the defenders but did get eased off the ball easily
Gray was non existant to the point where it took him 45 mins to win a header against his centre half and that he fouled someone on the half way line and that was his sole contribution
Varney looked lively (as he does) but couldnt hit a barn door and should not have missed the opportunity with 20 mins to go
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i would drop him all the way down the list send him to brighton and bring fleetwood back
That may well be the case. Killer was also a "crap" footballer but knew where the goal was. Varney is a decent footballer but doesn't. Which of the two qualities Salad wins games?
Dickson's goalscoring record wherever he's played suggests he MIGHT make the difference but, now that we have a lonie that we are "pot committed" to playing, we're unlikely to find out in the forseeable future.