Damned if we do, damned if we don't. Had Bristol Rovers or Sunderland signed Stockley and scored a few or against us and we knew we missed out we would moan for a lack of signing him.
It's not like bad centrebacks cost us the 3 points at Peterborough, ok Pearce made a mistake and the other goal was due to a slip but had we had more bite up top or had more up top the game could have been out of sight. Needlessly buying a centre back who we aren't sure of when we have two competent ones and 2 to come back would be a panic buy, getting a player in who our manager rates, is not. He will make us better not worse.
Twitter is a swamp atm, people being super negative as per
It’s not just Twitter.
Until the mistake we looked to have more bite than Posh. It was a difficult pitch to build attacks on. I would say that apart from the mistake for the goal, there were two other situations where Pearce dragged a player down because he knew he couldn't defend against them. He got away with those, but after studying their first, yes Deji lost the header but Pearce should have stayed with the scorer. He went for the header IMO because he knew he couldn't. It is too much of a weakness atm. Maybe Pearce needs a bit more work to get half a yard back as the alarm bells are ringing when he plays.
Anyone remember which pair of hapless centre back Stockley schooled at the Valley last season? I remember him looking good but this seems a key piece of info when making an assessment as to how relevant his performance vs us was.
None the less, he’s fitter than Aneke (for now) and better than Bogle so from that perspective at least it’s seems a good signing.
Hopefully an faster version of Darren Pratley and a centre back to come.
Amusing that the BBC match report uses the exact work "grapples" concerning the penalty Pearce gave away...
It took a disputed penalty to earn the three points when home defender Jason Pearce's grapples with Jayden Stockley proved sufficient to make the North End striker stumble to the floor.
Anyone remember which pair of hapless centre back Stockley schooled at the Valley last season? I remember him looking good but this seems a key piece of info when making an assessment as to how relevant his performance vs us was.
None the less, he’s fitter than Aneke (for now) and better than Bogle so from that perspective at least it’s seems a good signing.
Hopefully an faster version of Darren Pratley and a centre back to come.
Must admit it did get me wondering how many players we have bought over the years off the back of a sensational game against our hapless defence, who then seemed to turn to dogshit when they played for us
Stockley, Aneke, Schwartz and Washington competing for two spots would be superb. Can’t see how we can afford him unless we are able to move Bogle on though.
It wouldn't be ‘superb’ but any striker force where bogle isn’t playing is a huge uplift.
I think it would be. Schwartz early days but he’s a finisher. Stockley is a great target man at this level. Aneke been fantastic and Washington chips in. How many teams have 4 strikers as good as those?
Stockley - 9 goals in 60 odd games Shwartz - Unknown at this level Aneke - Great player, can't do 90 mins. Let alone two/three games in a week Washington - Is ok
It isn't 'Superb'. Taylor and Grant in League One is Superb.
But they only played half a season together. Grant was only a 1st team player for us for 5 months. It's not like we were running away with the league when Grant left.
Its like "5 games Innis", it's like Hunt and Mendonca, these mythical partnerships that only exist in people's fantasies.
People will be banging on about Di Canio and Bent soon.
My fantasy is still with Matt Tees and Ray Treacy
The best ever............Leary/Firmani.....or either of them plus Summers.
Anyone remember which pair of hapless centre back Stockley schooled at the Valley last season? I remember him looking good but this seems a key piece of info when making an assessment as to how relevant his performance vs us was.
None the less, he’s fitter than Aneke (for now) and better than Bogle so from that perspective at least it’s seems a good signing.
Hopefully an faster version of Darren Pratley and a centre back to come.
Must admit it did get me wondering how many players we have bought over the years off the back of a sensational game against our hapless defence, who then seemed to turn to dogshit when they played for us
Several of Chris Powell's title winning team were signed off the back of impressive performances against us.
I'm going to take the guess that Stockley was training with the first team this morning, that needs to finish, and then photos, interviews etc and announce later. Paperwork is probably already in
Yeah I reckon there will be a 5pm or so announcement
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Then got injured in training - so we've sent him back.
Luckily we forgot to do the paperwork in time.
PS: I damned well hope not!
Most of them played very well for Charlton.
Where's that bleddy "It's happening" gif?
It can't be true.