Attack - Why Worry?

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PaulG said:
Despite our "poor" strikeforce, last year we were 13th in GF in the PL with 41 goals. Those came from 13 different players.

We've lost five players who scored 17 of those goals (Borini, Bardsley, Ki, Colback and Gardner).

We've brought in four players who scored 18 league goals last season (PVA, Alvarez, Gomez and Buckley).

Larsson and Cattermole have already equalled last seasons goal output and we've picked up one from Rodwell. Wickham will continue to improve, a healthy Fletcher should score more than three this season and anything from Altidore is a bonus.

We'll be fine.
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Mag bastard taking the mick
 


ontap said:
Glaring omitted the most important fact.
None of the four players who have come in , scored their goals in the PL. In fact all were in vastly inferior leagues.
Basically makes your post irrelevent.
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Capitalise VASTLY next time and also spell irrelevant correctly and you will avoid the grammar police and please the knockers!!

I agree with the OP mind!

iansun said:
No but defences are better in the prem
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Bruce Jnr and Paul McShane, well naturally I'm delighted.
 
Nasum said:
Mag bastard taking the mick
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Hehehe - that's funny. So here's a question for you. Last year we scored 41 PL goals and the Mags scored 43. Fourteen of their goals came from Remy who has now gone. Goufran and Cisse combined for eight. None of their new strikers (Riviere, Perez, Ferreyra) got many goals last season in inferior leagues. Yet it is us who are in "deep, deep trouble" and will have difficulty scoring. Why is that?? :)
 
Cockney Mackem said:
Hopefully he was using Wickham on the left because of the lack of options there, and Alvarez solves that. Even though we've been told behind the striker is his best position
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Lets hope his fitness is a bit better than Rodwell's, or Scocco's. It's more like a convalescent home than a football club, then again, I think they'll come a bit cheaper.
 
I struggle to see any of our players getting into double figures tbh, but I still fancy us to easily score more than last season, more players with more potential to score more goals, i'm chilled ....
 
PaulG said:
In 2012-2013, the five players who chipped in 17 goals for us last season scored a grand total of eight in the PL with six of those coming from Gardner (none for Ki or Colback and one each for Bardsley and Borini).

Try to have a little bit of faith and optimism.
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So, is your point that the number of goals scored in one season does bear relevance to the likelihood of a similar return the following season, or that it doesn't?
 
Kevin Arnott's right boot said:
So, is your point that the number of goals scored in one season does bear relevance to the likelihood of a similar return the following season, or that it doesn't?
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It was in response to the poster who commented that our four new signings all scored at a lower level but hadn't scored in the Premiership (implying that they probably wouldn't). I simply pointed out that four of the five that got 17 for us last season only scored two the season before. There's simply no reason to believe that PVA, Alvarez, Rodwell, Gomez and Buckley aren't going to chip in their share of goals this season unless you are a complete and utter pessimist and have no faith in our management.

We may not have a double digit scorer this season (I hope we do) but there's a lot more goals in this squad than a lot of people think.
 
PaulG said:
Despite our "poor" strikeforce, last year we were 13th in GF in the PL with 41 goals. Those came from 13 different players.

We've lost five players who scored 17 of those goals (Borini, Bardsley, Ki, Colback and Gardner).

We've brought in four players who scored 18 league goals last season (PVA, Alvarez, Gomez and Buckley).

Larsson and Cattermole have already equalled last seasons goal output and we've picked up one from Rodwell. Wickham will continue to improve, a healthy Fletcher should score more than three this season and anything from Altidore is a bonus.

We'll be fine.
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No flaws in this argument
 
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