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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1095 on: July 17, 2020, 10:48:19 PM »
I would genuinely have Louie Barry or another young striker on the bench for Tuesday, and throw them on last 10 if we need something. The reason I say this is because I honestly think they couldn’t do any worse than our current goal-shy options.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1096 on: July 17, 2020, 10:48:54 PM »
Agreed.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1097 on: July 17, 2020, 10:49:23 PM »
We could, but Smith won't. He has morphed into Eric Black.

Alas we all know very well that he will play one or both of them next week.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1098 on: July 17, 2020, 10:52:17 PM »
I would genuinely have Louie Barry or another young striker on the bench for Tuesday, and throw them on last 10 if we need something. The reason I say this is because I honestly think they couldn’t do any worse than our current goal-shy options.

So would I but he would and can not. The vast majority of the U23s have been sat at home for months. Only a few have been selected to train with the so-called first team.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1099 on: July 17, 2020, 10:55:20 PM »
Great so we are stuck with our two false number nines then. As Tony Butler used to say, it’s time to get your prayer mats out...

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1100 on: July 17, 2020, 10:57:13 PM »
I would genuinely have Louie Barry or another young striker on the bench for Tuesday, and throw them on last 10 if we need something. The reason I say this is because I honestly think they couldn’t do any worse than our current goal-shy options.

start them. what's the worse that can happen? They're shit up front like Samatta and Davis? What have we lost? We've carried the strikers since we've come back.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1101 on: July 17, 2020, 11:10:32 PM »
Our current two first-choice strikers are amongst the worst I think I have ever seen. Davis is destined never to score and Samatta is a shadow of his pre-lockdown self.

I'm pretty confident that for as long as I live I'll never see an Aston Villa striker worse than Jordan Bowery...

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1102 on: July 17, 2020, 11:12:28 PM »
I would genuinely have Louie Barry or another young striker on the bench for Tuesday, and throw them on last 10 if we need something. The reason I say this is because I honestly think they couldn’t do any worse than our current goal-shy options.

100% agree

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1103 on: July 17, 2020, 11:12:35 PM »
He and Marlon F Harewood look like Shearer and Lineker in comparison with S&D.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1104 on: July 17, 2020, 11:42:39 PM »
Our current two first-choice strikers are amongst the worst I think I have ever seen. Davis is destined never to score and Samatta is a shadow of his pre-lockdown self.

I'm pretty confident that for as long as I live I'll never see an Aston Villa striker worse than Jordan Bowery...

He cost peanuts from the lower divisions though.  Samatta is nearly as bad and was supposed to be our January salvation.  He's been pitiful.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1105 on: July 17, 2020, 11:47:16 PM »
Our current two first-choice strikers are amongst the worst I think I have ever seen. Davis is destined never to score and Samatta is a shadow of his pre-lockdown self.

I'm pretty confident that for as long as I live I'll never see an Aston Villa striker worse than Jordan Bowery...

He cost peanuts from the lower divisions though.  Samatta is nearly as bad and was supposed to be our January salvation.  He's been pitiful.

Samatta has been banging them in in the Belgian top flight for the past four seasons so there's obviously a player there.

Jordan Bowery spent the same time flitting between Leyton Orient, Crewe Alex and MK Don's...

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1106 on: July 17, 2020, 11:51:35 PM »
I would genuinely have Louie Barry or another young striker on the bench for Tuesday, and throw them on last 10 if we need something. The reason I say this is because I honestly think they couldn’t do any worse than our current goal-shy options.

Well that’s kind of it. How much worse can he possibly be?!

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1107 on: July 17, 2020, 11:54:35 PM »
Don't really mind signing players like Bowery, tbh. They probably won't come off, but if they do, the profit margin is huge and if they don't, you've not really lost much.

If you can get one Platt or Yorke type peanuts signing to come good every few years then you've done well. The odd Teale or Delaney will do, come to think of it.

The problem with Bowery is that we were so lacking other options he kept getting in the team, or at least on the bench, when he should have been nowhere near. That's just symptomatic of our general malaise since 2010, not his fault.
« Last Edit: July 17, 2020, 11:59:46 PM by cdbullyweefan »

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1108 on: July 17, 2020, 11:57:05 PM »
Borja Baston.

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Re: Relegation Watch
« Reply #1109 on: July 17, 2020, 11:59:26 PM »
I genuinely can't remember him touching the ball.

 


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