If we buy a top striker

[Falconhoof]

Sorry, I disagree, we just didn't create that many chances for a striker today, our goals were efforts from distance. there were a couple of balls into the box that a striker MIGHT have got onto but not loads and loads, it was never going to define the outcome.

 

Pleased with the performance but everyone is on the giddy juice and i'm going to leave the forum for people to go overboard.

[Guest Scot]

  Cardinal Fang said:

Sorry, I disagree, we just didn't create that many chances for a striker today, our goals were efforts from distance. there were a couple of balls into the box that a striker MIGHT have got onto but not loads and loads, it was never going to define the outcome.

 

Pleased with the performance but everyone is on the giddy juice and i'm going to leave the forum for people to go overboard.

 

Luis could have had a hat-trick

[Bailo]

  Cardinal Fang said:

Sorry, I disagree, we just didn't create that many chances for a striker today, our goals were efforts from distance. there were a couple of balls into the box that a striker MIGHT have got onto but not loads and loads, it was never going to define the outcome.

 

Pleased with the performance but everyone is on the giddy juice and i'm going to leave the forum for people to go overboard.

Giddy juice?!

 

We're in the final, how can you not be pleased?! We played 60% to Chelsea's 40%, I'll take that for this season.

[Ombudsam]

  Cardinal Fang said:

No striker would have done better today. we didn't create that many chances.

 

So? That doesn't contradict the original post

[Big G Superhero]

  Cardinal Fang said:

No striker would have done better today. we didn't create that many chances.

 

A fast predator (and Robbie Fowler) would have got on the end of at least one of the two great fizzed in low crosses by Kewell

[Swipe]

  Big G Superhero said:

A fast predator (and Robbie Fowler) would have got on the end of at least one of the two great fizzed in low crosses by Kewell

 

A truly top striker will get tons of goals if Harry keeps playing like that and putting in such cracking crosses. As someone in the thread has already said - a forward with a proper instinct would have been there to convert them.

[McBain]

If we buy two top strikers we can win everything we enter

 

If we play cheap and try to get by with just decent players we'll miss a glorious chance

[Saintslfc13]

I agree with most in that a faster, poacher type striker a la Owen would have been on the end of one of Kewells low crosses, personally if he wasn't cup tied im sure Fowler would have started, and he would have put one of those away. Cisse also would of gotten to one of them, personally I just don't rate Crouch, we need a big, strong, fast, athletic target man like Adriano from Inter, however I don't think we afford him, and besides Real want him now anyway and we definitely can't win a bidding war with them, at least I wouldn't think we could.

[Andythered]

  jimmylibel said:

Disagree - someone like Michael Owen would have cleaned up today given the balls that Kewell and others were putting into the box... Crouchy, for all his effort, just doesn't have that striker's instinct. A more natural predator would have gotten to one or two of those balls.

 

 

Michael Owen would not have cleaned up. The rip-off contract running downer is still injured. Not much feckin use even to the bar-codes.

[Guest Jack Bauer]

There was a chance which Cudicini didn't catch, a preadtor like Owen would have got on the end of that and reacted faster than Crouchy who just isn't a goal scorer.

[RafaShanks]

  Cardinal Fang said:

No striker would have done better today. we didn't create that many chances.

 

It was a game for the midfield. Wingers on either side will win the league for us next season by helping to win the games we draw now.

 

Quality strikers can create chances on their own/other team members

[jimmylibel]

  Cardinal Fang said:

Sorry, I disagree, we just didn't create that many chances for a striker today, our goals were efforts from distance. there were a couple of balls into the box that a striker MIGHT have got onto but not loads and loads, it was never going to define the outcome.

 

Pleased with the performance but everyone is on the giddy juice and i'm going to leave the forum for people to go overboard.

 

Who said there were loads and loads? There were some excellent crosses in and I think a more natural predator would have got to one or two of them.

 

How you're reading the giddy juice into that I don't know.

[Stevie H]

top strikers create chances for themselves and others just by the quality of their movement and the intelligence of the runs they make. it's not about how many chances we currently make, but how many chances a top class striker would allow us to make.

[Mike]

  Cardinal Fang said:

No striker would have done better today. we didn't create that many chances.

 

It was a game for the midfield. Wingers on either side will win the league for us next season by helping to win the games we draw now.

 

i read this post from you and notice your other posts about kewell yesterday.

you were either smacked off your t*** yesterday, watching a different game or a manc has got your log in details.

either way, you are just plain wrong.

[Falconhoof]

  Mike said:

i read this post from you and notice your other posts about kewell yesterday.

you were either smacked off your t*** yesterday, watching a different game or a manc has got your log in details.

either way, you are just plain wrong.

 

 

 

I was pissed and went into one.

Looking forward to watching the game sober.

[Magic8Ball]

  Stevie H said:

top strikers create chances for themselves and others just by the quality of their movement and the intelligence of the runs they make. it's not about how many chances we currently make, but how many chances a top class striker would allow us to make.

whoa , that was uncannily deep and accurate, what have you been drinking ?

[fyds]

  Scot said:

Luis could have had a hat-trick

Is right - though the one Cudicini saved required a bit of a stretch for anyone to get it on target, Corouch should have had one from a header, Harry could have had one after his dribble inside and a real nippy poacher could have (maybe) had one from the cross/shot Cudicini spilled from Alonso.

 

On the opposite side, apart from their fluke (yes Jose - 'fluke') goal and some woeful finishing - Reina disn't have a real save to make...just a few punched clearances, some easy smothers and a couple of catches.

[psl]

Gonzales scored again last night.

[McBain]

He needs to keep a few in reserve

[Guest Assassin]

  jimmylibel said:

Disagree - someone like Michael Owen would have cleaned up today given the balls that Kewell and others were putting into the box... Crouchy, for all his effort, just doesn't have that striker's instinct. A more natural predator would have gotten to one or two of those balls.

 

LOL......Owen is not a natural preditor, Fowler yes, Owen not in his lifetime.

 

I agree with the original post about a top class striker, I would like to think it will in addition to Fowler staying, as he has lost none of his game craft.

[Tones]

  Stevie H said:

top strikers create chances for themselves and others just by the quality of their movement and the intelligence of the runs they make. it's not about how many chances we currently make, but how many chances a top class striker would allow us to make.

 

Good point.

[jimmylibel]

  Assassin said:

LOL......Owen is not a natural preditor, Fowler yes, Owen not in his lifetime.

 

I agree with the original post about a top class striker, I would like to think it will in addition to Fowler staying, as he has lost none of his game craft.

 

Disagree. Most of Owen's goals come from either making the right run at the right time or being in the right place at the right time. Isn't that what a 'natural predator' does? Owen has the goalscorer's instinct of knowing where the ball will break to. Fowler also has it.

[DonRafa]

  Assassin said:

LOL......Owen is not a natural preditor, Fowler yes, Owen not in his lifetime.

 

I agree with the original post about a top class striker, I would like to think it will in addition to Fowler staying, as he has lost none of his game craft.

 

 

Thats so wrong its laughable

[Guest Assassin]

  jimmylibel said:

Disagree. Most of Owen's goals come from either making the right run at the right time or being in the right place at the right time. Isn't that what a 'natural predator' does? Owen has the goalscorer's instinct of knowing where the ball will break to. Fowler also has it.

 

Not wanting to hijack the thread. However,...........

 

When it comes to "Preditor Instinct" Fowler was quite rightly named God, Owen is merely wannabee

[Stevie H]

  Assassin said:

Not wanting to hijack the thread. However,...........

 

When it comes to "Preditor Instinct" Fowler was quite rightly named God, Owen is merely wannabee

 

cobblers.