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Yann Kermorgant or Jordan Rhodes?

Callumcafc
Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
edited September 2022 in Other Football and Sports
Stirring quite a debate on Twitter.

Five sets of fans all saying it’s a silly question. Charlton, Reading and Bournemouth fans all say Yann. Huddersfield and Blackburn fans say Rhodes.



To be honest, the debate just leaves me depressed that we only got two and a half seasons from one of my favourite ever players when he spent eight seasons total in England.
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  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    I don't recall Jordan Rhodes ever refusing to play for Charlton.
  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,222
    What a stupid question... Yann and it is not even remotely close
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,757
    edited September 2022
    CAFCsayer said:
    What a stupid question... Yann and it is not even remotely close
    My sentiments entirely but I suppose fans of a player that scored 160 goals in 309 games for Blackburn and Huddersfield is rather going to say the opposite. It's probably the modern day equivalent of comparing a Frank Worthington to Killer. How many of us would vote for Worthington?
  • SantaClaus
    SantaClaus Posts: 7,651
    They're very different strikers who would have been absolutely lethal if they'd ever been paired together.
  • se9addick
    se9addick Posts: 32,030
    Rhodes was a goalscorer and not much else, and as a goalscorer he was only prolific for three or four seasons in his career. Yann wasn’t really about scoring goals, he contributed in other ways. He chipped in with goals and I think he had one very decent season in that respect with us, but really Yann offered more than just finishing chances.

    At his peak Rhodes played for Scotland and never did much (the team was awful at that time to be fair). As a Scotland fan I would have preferred Yann, so maybe that tells you what you need to know. 
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,443
    Rhodes as a striker is better. 

    Yann is a great talisman however and depending on the team would suit them more. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    A difficult question, as they're different types of player.

    Rhodes at his peak was a lethal Championship goalscorer, the slight surprise is how poor he's been since 2016, as he's still only 32.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,691
    Tbf @se9addick you probably could of played for Scotland at that time, or even now actually. 

    I'm surprised the selectors haven't asked me and I'm not even Scottish.
  • cafcfan1990
    cafcfan1990 Posts: 12,811
    edited September 2022
    Yanns the better footballer, Rhodes the better goalscorer. If you needed a partner for Heskey, you’d choose Rhodes. If you had Owen, you’d choose Yann. 
  • killerandflash
    killerandflash Posts: 69,839
    Addick Addict said:
    CAFCsayer said:
    What a stupid question... Yann and it is not even remotely close
    My sentiments entirely but I suppose fans of a player that scored 160 goals in 309 games for Blackburn and Huddersfield is rather going to say the opposite. It's probably the modern day equivalent of comparing a Frank Worthington to Killer. How many of us would vote for Worthington?
    Hales vs Flanagan is another interesting  comparison too. 
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  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,364
    Yann Kermorgant is the best player I’ve seen in a Charlton shirt in 15 years. 

    I struggle to get my head around how any player could be better than him in the air, because he literally won everything. 

    Depends what your barometer is for the comparison to Rhodes, but they’re entirely different players IMO.

    To be honest, how many aerial demons like Yann also had the ability to take the most exquisite free kicks?

    A truly special player 
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,691
    Hopefully if sandgarrd doesn't sell him we can have a discussion of who's better Leaburn or Leaburn. 
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 22,943
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Hopefully if sandgarrd doesn't sell him we can have a discussion of who's better Leaburn or Leaburn. 
    Leaburn.
  • kentaddick
    kentaddick Posts: 18,729
    rhodes was a poacher. Yann could play just about any role in the front line. They are not the same. But as has been said - would've been a deadly pairing.
  • Karim_myBagheri
    Karim_myBagheri Posts: 12,691
    North Lower Neil said:
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Hopefully if sandgarrd doesn't sell him we can have a discussion of who's better Leaburn or Leaburn. 
    Leaburn.
     think your being a bit rash. It's obviously Leaburn.
  • Carter
    Carter Posts: 14,240
    Yann Kermorgant could have played centre midfield, sweeper, centre half if he got bored as a brilliant centre forward. He was a finisher, he could score a goal out of nothing and his free kicks were like getting a penalty. 

    Jordan Rhodes is a finisher no doubt about it, he could find space in a packed penalty area and get on the end of stuff for fun. He also benefitted in that Huddersfield side of having players like Pilkington giving him service. He wouldn't outscore Yann in most charlton sides over the last 15 seasons 
  • Addick Addict
    Addick Addict Posts: 39,757
    killerandflash said:
    Addick Addict said:
    CAFCsayer said:
    What a stupid question... Yann and it is not even remotely close
    My sentiments entirely but I suppose fans of a player that scored 160 goals in 309 games for Blackburn and Huddersfield is rather going to say the opposite. It's probably the modern day equivalent of comparing a Frank Worthington to Killer. How many of us would vote for Worthington?
    Hales vs Flanagan is another interesting  comparison too. 
    In Flash's early days and when he played as a left winger, I used to have big arguments with my Dad. He was brought up on playing football in Hungary at the time of Puskas and could see that Flash had a great touch and vision. All I could see was the number of times he lost the ball. When he moved through the middle I began to recognise what he was on about!
  • cafcdave123
    cafcdave123 Posts: 11,491
    edited September 2022
    Karim_myBagheri said:
    Tbf @se9addick you probably could of played for Scotland at that time, or even now actually. 

    I'm surprised the selectors haven't asked me and I'm not even Scottish.
    neither is Jordan Rhodes 
  • mid_life_crisis
    mid_life_crisis Posts: 3,263
    Yann was a absolute quality.
    Not suggesting Rhodes is anything less than a very good goalscorer, but Yann was dynamite.
  • lolwray
    lolwray Posts: 4,899
    Yann every time 
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  • CAFCsayer
    CAFCsayer Posts: 10,222
    SantaClaus said:
    They're very different strikers who would have been absolutely lethal if they'd ever been paired together.

    That would have been an absolute beast of a pairing
  • soapboxsam
    soapboxsam Posts: 23,229
    edited September 2022
    This would have been a fantastic partnership in the Championship:

    You would have to turn the clock back 9 years when both men were at their Peak.

    *Yann Kermorgant would be 31 and in his best positions as a number ten where he would score his 1 goal in 3 and link up with the 23 year old Jordan Rhodes who was a goal poacher of the highest quality and with Yann along him his record of a goal every two games would be even better and would've turned him into the top striker in the championship.

    Yann played this position for Bournemouth and unlike at Cafc they played it too his feet more and Wilson was the main striker who benefitted.
  • Todds_right_hook
    Todds_right_hook Posts: 10,877
    Callumcafc said:
    Stirring quite a debate on Twitter.

    Five sets of fans all saying it’s a silly question. Charlton, Reading and Bournemouth fans all say Yann. Huddersfield and Blackburn fans say Rhodes.



    To be honest, the debate just leaves me depressed that we only got two and a half seasons from one of my favourite ever players when he spent eight seasons total in England.
    The player that got a winners medal must be held in higher esteem than a player that lost in the play offs.
  • Lincsaddick
    Lincsaddick Posts: 32,345
    bit of an apple/oranges question .. Rhodes was/is a goal hanging consistent scorer, Kermorgant the far better all round footballer and team contributor
  • Callumcafc
    Callumcafc Posts: 63,755
    How could anyone choose Jordan Rhodes?


  • kimbo
    kimbo Posts: 2,995
    Easy -YANN  <3
  • ME14addick
    ME14addick Posts: 9,761
    Definitely Yann, my favourite player ever. 

    I'll never forgive Katrien for selling him.
  • BR7_addick
    BR7_addick Posts: 10,210
    Heads says ones a good goalscorer who doesn’t really contribute much else (not particularly a bad thing), the others a cultured intelligent player who can create as well as nick goals.  Two different players, depends what you need.  
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,615
    killerandflash said:
    Addick Addict said:
    CAFCsayer said:
    What a stupid question... Yann and it is not even remotely close
    My sentiments entirely but I suppose fans of a player that scored 160 goals in 309 games for Blackburn and Huddersfield is rather going to say the opposite. It's probably the modern day equivalent of comparing a Frank Worthington to Killer. How many of us would vote for Worthington?
    Hales vs Flanagan is another interesting  comparison too. 
    In the ring I'd give it 3 rounds. 
  • lordromford
    lordromford Posts: 7,767
    Callumcafc said:
    Stirring quite a debate on Twitter.

    Five sets of fans all saying it’s a silly question. Charlton, Reading and Bournemouth fans all say Yann. Huddersfield and Blackburn fans say Rhodes.



    To be honest, the debate just leaves me depressed that we only got two and a half seasons from one of my favourite ever players when he spent eight seasons total in England.
    What do Leicester fans think? 😉

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