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Yeah - I'll kind of raise my hand above elbow level.
Vydra is a decent player as I have said all along.
Wood and Vydra look great - occasionally
Wood and Barnes look combatative - regularly
Barnes and Jay - look promising occasionally
Vydra and Jay look creative
Barnes and Jay look promising
the missing link/word is potent - none of them have the X factor and therefore each of them though being really decent players creates wow.
Wood
Vydra is looking brighter and hungrier with the game time he is given whereas Jayrod is looking like a dud more and more.
Unfortunately he is not good enough at this level although I would say you cannot doubt his efforts. He is not alone as same can be said about JRod and Lowton
I think he quite a intelligent footballer Lancaster tbh ,and sometimes when I take a step back I think 3-4 years ago he was doing what olly Watkins was doing in the championship. ( I’m not professing he’s as good but when you start to look at other forwards at clubs he is where we are ).Quote:
Originally Posted by lancaster100
If we had bred a Watkins he’d have gone last season for 35/40 million and we’d be talking about the same things again ie our forwards not scoring.
I do sympathies with wood a bit as he must think get it wide and deliver it with pace and I’ll score my 14 goals again - pressure would be off .
As it stands at the minute we’re talking about Vydra who Dyche must nearly have convinced up to injuries last season that the best he could hope for was 10 mins impact player and really wouldn’t be considered weekly starting.
We would get a much better return from all the front men if we had creative - and width - pace in the shape of 3/4 players.
I know I bang on about him but JBG should be called the invisible wide man , the amount of times over the years he just disappears in games for prolonged periods is beyond me ( he’s got a new deal as well - that’s beyond me aswell ).
New blood required and quite a lot of it regardless of if we survive in this league ( especially if we survive ).
He had a bit of "bite" and aggression about him today. He did enough to start next week for me.
Maybe he's slipped the occasional pudding, chips, mushy peas and gravy into his diet, beefed himself up a bit ? Worked wonders for me, I was the best left-back in D2 of the Burnley Combination back in the day, on a diet like that. >;)Quote:
Originally Posted by The Bedlington Terrier
Hes a good player, the more he doesn't feel on trial by the management the better he will get, so as long as he gets a long run he will keep getting better. For me one of the best two strikers at the club. That ball in for Wood was great as well.