Genuine question this. If you have a striker who has half a dozen decent chances and mises five of them but puts away the one that was arguably the hardest , how do you go about marking him?
I gave BWP 6. AFKA gave him 6.5. But I'd guess the average mark from everyone else is around 8.
I love the guy. I've defended him throughout the drought against all the doubters on CL.
But I just felt yesterday that you cannot give any striker who misses so many chances the kind of high average rating BWP has received.
The ''players marks'' thread is a place for just that - marks, not for debate. Which is why I've started this seperate thread. Given that he missed at least five gilt-edged chances, can those who gave him 8 or 8.5 explain why I was so out of line (and I clearly was) in giving him 6 ?
Obviously I think I was right. But I am very keen to hear reasoned arguments which explain why I was wrong, and perfectly open to being convinced by them...
(As an aside, having watched the prem highlights from yesterday, I have to say his brother missed an even easier chance for QPR!)
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Even the first half looped volley missed by only a few inches, and the fella put a real shift in.
I think he'll go on ang get another bucketful of goals from here on.
I would give him a 7.5 for yesterday's performance
His general play was very good, but his finishing was woeful.
However, we all know he's a better finisher than that showing and, more importantly, so does he.
He forced their keeper to pull off 4 very good saves and on another day he would have got his first hat-trick for us.
The rest he did nothing wrong. He scared the life out of Stevenage and was easily a 7/10.
Don't insult him by trying to pretend that was a good display of finishing.
I scored him pretty high, as his performance was a very good L1 striker's performance. Good movement, strong on the ball, got a goal. I was very happy with him
Mark him how you see it, but I thought many strikers at the highest level would have hidden rather than keep putting the effort and energy in that he did.
It's obvious the whole drought thing had been playing heavily on his mind. Yet I reckon despite finally breaking the duck, he came off just as Peed off as he has done in every other game.
Saying he did what he had to do, and he hit the target etc is doing an unecessary softening. We don't need coaxing and convincing, we know he has strong striking ability. Which is exactly why we, his team mates, his manager and himself would expect him to better with the other four clear chances he had.
Had Hamer have pulled off one top class save, yet dropped two regulation crosses, three one straight to their striker and let one through his hands, I know how he would.be judged.
Whilst on the subject, the Covered End were absolutely immense yesterday in their backing of Bradley. Real, proper support, which you could see he appreciated.
That said, he kept going and did not hide, and ultimately at least he was in those positions to get the chances which is why I gave him the score I did.
Interestingly I took 2 chaps with me who are not fans and they both came out saying how well we played and how enjoyable the game was but how bad BWP was so there is an independent view!
BWP caused that back four more problems than I suspect they have had all season.
Some people have a downer on him even before he starts but as you can see from the majority of votes , he a had one of his best games yesterday .
Thing is bwp needs to start finding the net again because his own reaction yesterday was one of a hurting footballer
It was great to hear and see the support he got but you do wonder how long that support will remain
Varney used to put in a shift but that only got him so much slack
Is it just me or has he been getting more support during his barren spell than when he was banging them in for fun? Earlier in the season there seemed to be a few dissenters calling him lazy and disinterested in spite of his prolific form, but recently the support for him has been great, especially after the header he missed in the first half. For the record I still think he's a quality lg1 forward who'd more than do a job with the right service at Championship level.