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Tommy Conway - Mutants

Couldn't be further from the truth, he's a finisher but lacks much pace/power. Without trying to sound like the bitter ex, out of our three academy prospects sold in recent years (Alex Scott, Antoine Semenyo, Tommy Conway) he is the one of the three that I don't think will ever go above Championship level.
A lot of Bristol City fans on X seem to be angry about this, which I find encouraging to be honest. Surely most would be apathetic about him leaving if he was no good, especially when you consider you're getting a decent fee for him.
 

Another kid. Not what we needed anyway
Time will tell. He's got a bit of experience at our level but penalties apart his goal record is very average.
A lot of Bristol City fans on X seem to be angry about this, which I find encouraging to be honest. Surely most would be apathetic about him leaving if he was no good, especially when you consider you're getting a decent fee for him.
Nobody likes a promising local lad moving on. That's all he is though. He's clearly not the finished article, even at Championship level.
 
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Just because we haven't secured a striker doesn't mean every striker anybody else buys us some sort of world beater.

If our scouts are worth there salt I hope they would have looked at this kid, saw the stats (not including penalties) and thought he isn't worth what Bristol are after as he clearly isn't!

That's not to say he couldn't hit the ground running and prove a success. That's life.

Sunderland were after David Connelly and ended up with a 2nd choice in Kevin Phillips. The rest is history...
time will tell, but throwing pennies at the likes of hemir and mayenda isn't working. this lad costs the same as hjelde and rusyn and i'm fairly sure he'll be more useful. we only signed hjelde because seelt and triantis weren't any use - and these are the scouts you hope are worth their salt?
 
Time will tell. He's got a bit of experience at our level but penalties apart his goal record is very average.

Nobody likes a promising local lad moving on. That's all he is though. He's clearly not the finished article, even at Championship level.
True but hopefully he can grow and develop into a top class striker here. Our recent record of developing young players is good. Morgan Rogers is just one example.
 
time will tell, but throwing pennies at the likes of hemir and mayenda isn't working. this lad costs the same as hjelde and rusyn and i'm fairly sure he'll be more useful. we only signed hjelde because seelt and triantis weren't any use - and these are the scouts you hope are worth their salt?
Recruitment isn't easy, at all.

We actually signed Hjelde because Alese, Cirkin and Huggins were all injured.

I knew nothing about Hjedle or Rusyn prior to signing them out of the blue.

However, a bit digging about this kid and he scored 12 goals last season. 2 cup goals. 10 league goals, 5 from open play, 5 penalties, 1 assist from 39 games.

Sorry but I wouldn't be cracking the champagne open if I was a Boro fan based on those stats. They are at best very ordinary.
 
See above.
I'm not advocating him like as some signing of the season contender come may like the mutants on this thread, but when people say there aren't any singings out there, like we have heard the last 3 windows, that's simply not the case. Got others pi$$ing their frillies at taking an unfit LND back, ridiculous.
 
I'm not advocating him like as some signing of the season contender come may like the mutants on this thread, but when people say there aren't any singings out there, like we have heard the last 3 windows, that's simply not the case. Got others pi$$ing their frillies at taking an unfit LND back, ridiculous.
His stats when actually desected are shit quite frankly.

We are absolutely desperate for a striker no doubt. And of course there are strikers about. I said the other day that even if we couldn't get one of our targets we should have at least secured somebody, a kid on loan (not Burstow mark 2) or a free transfer just to shut people up and take a bit pressure off.

But waffling about a 5 goal a season man like he's the new Jamie Vardy is f***ing ridiculous.
 
Delighted we don't follow the Boro 'model'.

They have spent 1 season in the Premier League in the last 15 years. Aspirational stuff.
But this hasn't been the "model" for 15 years, has it? Prior to Carrick, our model involved giving Garry Monk £50 million to piss up the wall on legends like Britt Assombalonga and Ashley Fletcher, or letting Pulis spaff an alleged 12 million quid plus on George Saville and Aden Flint. This new way of doing things is 2 or 3 seasons old - not 15.
 
But waffling about a 5 goal a season man like he's the new Jamie Vardy is f***ing ridiculous.
nobody is calling him the next jamie vardy, but he's scored 24 goals for bristol city in the last 2 seasons which is more than all of our strikers put together. for the whopping sum of 4.5m which is around what we paid for hemir, rusyn and mayenda.
 
I don't quite understand the over emphasis on his goal ratio at 22 years old.

It is highly unlikely he will be the next Jamie Vardy, but Vardy was playing in southern area division 1 at 22. Wasn't Harry Kane doing nothing at Leyton Orient, Norwich and Leicester at a similar age?

Point is, Boro along with with the other clubs who wanted him Rangers, Celtic, Hull, Leeds, Sheff Utd clearly believe he has potential.

If he was 22 years old and scoring 25 goals a season in the championship he is worth £15m and signing for someone like Everton.
 
Well it's certainly not your stadium, academy, history, fanbase
16th best supported club in the history of English football, yeah no Man U or dare i say it your good selves, but in the grand scheme of English football not to shabby. a few clubs
that you lot would lord as having good fan bases are behind us. Stadium not bad, sort of ok size, academy we used to have a good one I have no idea what its like today, hardly a measure
of how great a club is. history a lack of trophies for sure given that our entire league time has revolved around 1st or 2nd flight football bar 2 seasons, the higher number being top flight seasons.
 
nobody is calling him the next jamie vardy, but he's scored 24 goals for bristol city in the last 2 seasons which is more than all of our strikers put together. for the whopping sum of 4.5m which is around what we paid for hemir, rusyn and mayenda.
He's scored 19 league goals in 2 seasons.

He actually did better in 22/23. 9 league goals from open play and 3 assists from about 35 games.

5 from open play in 23/24, 1 assist.

Both very average in truth but YES better than we have BUT not really good enough!
 
I don't quite understand the over emphasis on his goal ratio at 22 years old.

It is highly unlikely he will be the next Jamie Vardy, but Vardy was playing in southern area division 1 at 22. Wasn't Harry Kane doing nothing at Leyton Orient, Norwich and Leicester at a similar age?

Point is, Boro along with with the other clubs who wanted him Rangers, Celtic, Hull, Leeds, Sheff Utd clearly believe he has potential.

If he was 22 years old and scoring 25 goals a season in the championship he is worth £15m and signing for someone like Everton.

i think it's frustration about our own complete lack of ambition. he might flop but i think there's every chance he'll be a good signing for you and exactly the sort of player we should be looking at. sell ross stewart for 10m, sign a young replacement, reasonably experienced for half the price. job done. instead we want to buy 5 players for 500k each in the hope they'll turn out great. problem being we're living up to the saying, buy cheap buy twice
 
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