Tshimanga

[Chicken Balti Pie]

As a matter of interest which would you consider to be the last team who got promoted from this league by spending (comparatively) big?

Probably Harrogate? Before that Forest Green Rovers really

[Chicken Balti Pie]

Salford.

Forgot about Salford!

[jacobncfc]

So apart from Barrow and Sutton, in the COVID affected seasons, most of them it seems. Worrying given the spending going on around us. But I think team spirit and enthusiasm goes a long way. Stars in the dressing room can dampen that.

Hartlepool didn’t spend much at all, and Harrogate only did relative to the size of the club really rather than the rest of the league.

[TSANHO]

A keeper needs to be judged over the course of a season. Slocombe has definitely won Notts more points than he’s lost. Yes, he’s made a few mistakes preseason. But, I rate him as one of, if not the best in the NL.

Slocombe has been one of the best signings we’ve made since losing our football league status. He has been largely excellent for us. He’s playing in the National League, he’s never going to be fault free, like any keeper at this level.

[Killerkline]

Slocombe has been one of the best signings we’ve made since losing our football league status. He has been largely excellent for us. He’s playing in the National League, he’s never going to be fault free, like any keeper at this level.

Completely agree. I think you’d struggle to find a better keeper in L2.

[ncfcog]

This whole debate about signing a proven goal scorer and Tshimanga is better than Wootton etc is just nonsense. Wootton actually has one of the highest goal contribution stats in the NL for last season when you include assists, even better if you factor in 2nd assists.

Compared to Tshimanga, Wootton scored 17 non penalty goals in the NL league last season, Tshimanga scored 14 non penalty goals and 5 penalties so scored 2 more in total in the league. If Wootton had scored the two or three pens he missed then their stats would be almost identical.

Wootton plays to our systems strengths, I'm not sure Tshimanga would. In Wootton I honestly believe we have one of the best strikers in the league already and if the Maddens, Mullins and Tshimanga's of the world don't get the service they need to score goals they will have been very expensive experiments for those sides.

With Ruben, Roberts, Mitchell, Taylor, Palmer and Nemane behind him I would suggest Wootton has a very good chance of bagging an absolute hatful this season.

Oh, and regarding his missed chances, his xG is fractionally higher than his actual goals so although he maybe missed a few sitters there are goals he wouldn't have been expected to score but did.

. . . and I'm not writing all this just because I love Kyle Wootton, well i am really!

[Chicken Balti Pie]

This whole debate about signing a proven goal scorer and Tshimanga is better than Wootton etc is just nonsense. Wootton actually has one of the highest goal contribution stats in the NL for last season when you include assists, even better if you factor in 2nd assists.

Compared to Tshimanga, Wootton scored 17 non penalty goals in the NL league last season, Tshimanga scored 14 non penalty goals and 5 penalties so scored 2 more in total in the league. If Wootton had scored the two or three pens he missed then their stats would be almost identical.

Wootton plays to our systems strengths, I'm not sure Tshimanga would. In Wootton I honestly believe we have one of the best strikers in the league already and if the Maddens, Mullins and Tshimanga's of the world don't get the service they need to score goals they will have been very expensive experiments for those sides.

With Ruben, Roberts, Mitchell, Taylor, Palmer and Nemane behind him I would suggest Wootton has a very good chance of bagging an absolute hatful this season.

Oh, and regarding his missed chances, his xG is fractionally higher than his actual goals so although he maybe missed a few sitters there are goals he wouldn't have been expected to score but did.

. . . and I'm not writing all this just because I love Kyle Wootton, well i am really!

My view is not to replace Wootton because he does an awful lot for the team as a whole. But I do feel we are lacking one of those out right goal scorers (and no, I don't believe Tshimanga is that!) But you're yet again bang on with your analysis.

[Killerkline]

This whole debate about signing a proven goal scorer and Tshimanga is better than Wootton etc is just nonsense. Wootton actually has one of the highest goal contribution stats in the NL for last season when you include assists, even better if you factor in 2nd assists.

Compared to Tshimanga, Wootton scored 17 non penalty goals in the NL league last season, Tshimanga scored 14 non penalty goals and 5 penalties so scored 2 more in total in the league. If Wootton had scored the two or three pens he missed then their stats would be almost identical.

Wootton plays to our systems strengths, I'm not sure Tshimanga would. In Wootton I honestly believe we have one of the best strikers in the league already and if the Maddens, Mullins and Tshimanga's of the world don't get the service they need to score goals they will have been very expensive experiments for those sides.

With Ruben, Roberts, Mitchell, Taylor, Palmer and Nemane behind him I would suggest Wootton has a very good chance of bagging an absolute hatful this season.

Oh, and regarding his missed chances, his xG is fractionally higher than his actual goals so although he maybe missed a few sitters there are goals he wouldn't have been expected to score but did.

. . . and I'm not writing all this just because I love Kyle Wootton, well i am really!

How dare you bring balance, supported by stats, to a discussion. Moderator, please can you have a word with this sensible poster!

[countygump]

How dare you bring balance, supported by stats, to a discussion. Moderator, please can you have a word with this sensible poster!

I've noticed this. Mr Og's postings are far too accurate and believable. Ruins the tone of the whole board.

[Elite_Pie]

I've noticed this. Mr Og's postings are far too accurate and believable. Ruins the tone of the whole board.

Agreed. Maybe we need a specific "sensible discussion" thread so we can easily avoid that kind of thing.