Biggest problem in this squad is how awful the midfield is (and that is saying something given how poorly we defend). How many midfielders and midfield formations have we tried since the first part of the 2019/20 season? It exposes our central defenders and makes our centre forwards need to plough their own furrow. Aneke and Stockley have the physicality to overcome this insipidness and create their own chances and have an aerial presence. If you aren't a target man forward good luck with that lot behind you.
Pratley - Watson - JFC - Shinnie - Gilbey - Morgan - Williams - Maddison - Oztumer - Lapslie, etc. Either over the hill, never been up it or hopelessly chopped and changed into mediocrity.
You can’t judge him as he hasn’t been supplied with chances to be judged on. If we didn’t attack at snails pace, giving the oppo defenders time to set up properly then Ronnie might have a chance of showing us his talent
People saying that we’re not playing to his strengths, but do any teams in any leagues, let alone one struggling in League One, have a player than can just finish and has nothing else to their game? I can’t think of many.
I hope I’m wrong but I can’t see how he is going to succeed at Charlton and, even if he did nick the odd goal here and there, I’d much rather have a Chuks or a Stockley or even Washington who have other qualities.
Bradley Wright-Phillips in our record breaking season
There is absolutely no point in having a player who has built a reasonably successful career as a penalty box finisher if we spend so little time showing impetus to get the ball into positions to create decent chances. I don't think we really know anything about Schwartz. He wants to get on the end of things that just aren't there. If we aren't going to attack teams like Burton properly and create chances, or bother to show any guile then question why we are recruiting players like Schwartz. Might as well go and get another huff and puff forward to run the channels for no reason.
Agreed. Stockley and Aneke are dream partners for Ronnie’s style of play. Is there anyone on here that can’t see that? No? Just Bowyer then.
For me, that’s an unforgivable management flaw and oversight.
There is absolutely no point in having a player who has built a reasonably successful career as a penalty box finisher if we spend so little time showing impetus to get the ball into positions to create decent chances. I don't think we really know anything about Schwartz. He wants to get on the end of things that just aren't there. If we aren't going to attack teams like Burton properly and create chances, or bother to show any guile then question why we are recruiting players like Schwartz. Might as well go and get another huff and puff forward to run the channels for no reason.
Agreed. Stockley and Aneke are dream partners for Ronnie’s style of play. Is there anyone on here that can’t see that? No? Just Bowyer then.
For me, that’s an unforgivable management flaw and oversight.
2 players who wont be here next season. Better start looking at other options because, as I see it, next seasons front 2 will be Washington & Schwartz
It's odd. We created a fair few chances for Bogle and he fluffed his lines far too many times. We now have an apparent natural finisher and we don't create any chances.
So did Bogle play a big part in helping to create the chances he had?
Funny how everyone feels so sorry for poor Ronnie yet were all happy to slag Bogle off.
Despite almost all the excuses being true for him as well.
Bogle got a run of starts and although limited offered something outside the box. Rarely got in to good positions in it. Used as a target man, something he’s not really suited to.
BWP and Benson wouldn’t offer much in this team but Schwartz looks even more invisible than either of those two ever did. He hasn’t had a run of starts but has offered nothing outside the box which makes it hard to justify giving him that run given how much we're struggling.
It's odd. We created a fair few chances for Bogle and he fluffed his lines far too many times. We now have an apparent natural finisher and we don't create any chances.
So did Bogle play a big part in helping to create the chances he had?
Were Maddison and Williams factors in creating chances?
Schwartz is in a bad place confidence-wise. When he first came in, even though he wasn't fully fit you could see that there was a classy player there. He had a great weight of pass and he tried some decent balls that offered more attacking quality than we'd seen in our other strikers. He's was clearly going to offer more than just poaching. Oddly though, as he's become fitter he's become a more peripheral figure. It can't be easy going to live abroad into a lockdown, struggling to get to fitness in a team that's in a downward spiral and is struggling to create patterns of play. His head seems to have dropped and he's looking for the ball to put put through to him on a plate rather than looking to be involved in buildup, which is indicative of a loss of confidence. I don't think he's a write-off, I think he just needs something to go for him to get his head back right, and I'm sure he'll start next season far better as well
There really is some wasted scouting talent on this forum, to to be able to conclude schwartz is a dud based on what we have seen is truly top notch and should be calling the club for a job straight away. We have not for 5 mins in a game played to this fellas strengths, we are a rudderless ship in terrible form. And yet he is being judged with all these factors in mind. He may well turn out to be pony, but surely he deserves to be given a chance by way of being set up to score for a start, I genuinely don’t recall a game where we have got the ball into him inside the box where he’s able to shoot. I have regularly seen him in the box waiting to be set up waisting his time.
It's odd. We created a fair few chances for Bogle and he fluffed his lines far too many times. We now have an apparent natural finisher and we don't create any chances.
So did Bogle play a big part in helping to create the chances he had?
He actually did. He worked hard and was often why he was late onto the end of created chances. Okay if you're a composed finisher, which he was not.
All started to go wrong for him when he did that comedy fall over in front of an open goal at Bristol Rovers. He then followed it up with a similar episode a game or two later.
Thinking of clear cut chances Schwartz has had since he's joined, and I make it:
1 scored 1 hit the post 1 completely fluffed
1in 3 conversion rate isn't bad at this level, and would no doubt improve with some game time. But I genuinely can't think of any other times we've created something for him. That being said, he is a passenger with our current style of play, and that's not really a luxury we can afford to have atm.
Thinking of clear cut chances Schwartz has had since he's joined, and I make it:
1 scored 1 hit the post 1 completely fluffed
1in 3 conversion rate isn't bad at this level, and would no doubt improve with some game time. But I genuinely can't think of any other times we've created something for him. That being said, he is a passenger with our current style of play, and that's not really a luxury we can afford to have atm.
Tbf didn't he have a goal disallowed which he was on-side for?
Thinking of clear cut chances Schwartz has had since he's joined, and I make it:
1 scored 1 hit the post 1 completely fluffed
1in 3 conversion rate isn't bad at this level, and would no doubt improve with some game time. But I genuinely can't think of any other times we've created something for him. That being said, he is a passenger with our current style of play, and that's not really a luxury we can afford to have atm.
He also scored one that was incorrectly ruled offside.
Thinking of clear cut chances Schwartz has had since he's joined, and I make it:
1 scored 1 hit the post 1 completely fluffed
1in 3 conversion rate isn't bad at this level, and would no doubt improve with some game time. But I genuinely can't think of any other times we've created something for him. That being said, he is a passenger with our current style of play, and that's not really a luxury we can afford to have atm.
I don't think we can blame Schwartz for this though, he comes on makes the right moves but is almost never picked out. You can see his frustration grow as games go on. It is the managers decision to bring him on and therefore he must believe that his side are going to change their style to accommodate for the striker change... They don't. Which is either a tactical error to not get them to do so or an issue multiple individuals make.
Questions on whether he’s up to it or not will need more time to determine, but whoever drove this deal, it was very much the wrong time to do it.
Relocation is difficult at the best of times particularly to a new country and new style of play, but during a pandemic amid lockdown restrictions and with no established support network to hand was frought with too many unknown risks.
Might still turn out a good move but for a January transfer it was a poor one considering what we needed
Questions on whether he’s up to it or not will need more time to determine, but whoever drove this deal, it was very much the wrong time to do it.
Relocation is difficult at the best of times particularly to a new country and new style of play, but during a pandemic amid lockdown restrictions and with no established support network to hand was frought with too many unknown risks.
Might still turn out a good move but for a January transfer it was a poor one considering what we needed
Questions on whether he’s up to it or not will need more time to determine, but whoever drove this deal, it was very much the wrong time to do it.
Relocation is difficult at the best of times particularly to a new country and new style of play, but during a pandemic amid lockdown restrictions and with no established support network to hand was frought with too many unknown risks.
Might still turn out a good move but for a January transfer it was a poor one considering what we needed
Having conceded 22 goals in 8 home games or whatever the stat is you've got to wonder if it's really the case that the £300k at that point in time wasn't better spent on a central defender. I refuse to believe there wasn't someone available.
He might well be the right player but it wasn't the right time or the right fit.
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Pratley - Watson - JFC - Shinnie - Gilbey - Morgan - Williams - Maddison - Oztumer - Lapslie, etc. Either over the hill, never been up it or hopelessly chopped and changed into mediocrity.
I don't buy the 'finisher' excuse. Even if he's not scoring, he should be having some impact on the game, but he adds nothing
We now have an apparent natural finisher and we don't create any chances.
So did Bogle play a big part in helping to create the chances he had?
BWP and Benson wouldn’t offer much in this team but Schwartz looks even more invisible than either of those two ever did. He hasn’t had a run of starts but has offered nothing outside the box which makes it hard to justify giving him that run given how much we're struggling.
1 scored
1 hit the post
1 completely fluffed
1in 3 conversion rate isn't bad at this level, and would no doubt improve with some game time. But I genuinely can't think of any other times we've created something for him. That being said, he is a passenger with our current style of play, and that's not really a luxury we can afford to have atm.
And if what we are seeing now doesnt drastically improve.
How does he compare with the RD influenced signings we got previously?
Does he rank with the PPs and Reza's of this world? That we all universally panned the ownership and club structure at the time on.
And worrying - he is a million miles behind the likes of Buyens, Bulot, Teixeira etc.
But all of those started slowly? Bulot arguably the slowest to settle (until AFCON was over) being the easiest example to remember.
IF, bowyer has lost it and something is not right within then we should judge our new signings when we’ve a happy dressing room.
Understood Stockley has come in and done the job but it’s different comparing a EFL journeyman to someone who’s just arrived in England.
He might well be the right player but it wasn't the right time or the right fit.