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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 16:12:43 GMT
Apparently he had quite a nasty injury to his knee shortly before joining us, so it could be he has lost that extra yard needed to play at ten, or it could be he has lost his bottle. Either way he was bought to score goals not fart about with the odd assist here and there. The club are over a barrel with him though as unless he is kept in the shop window we won’t get a bag of stale doughnuts for him.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 16:28:27 GMT
Fair play , perhaps I was a bit generous with his valuation. You can blame the whisky for that. It doesn't really matter as I am going to call him Paul pogba from now on. Nobody will notice.
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Post by Deleted on May 13, 2019 17:07:46 GMT
I would like to know what his sprint times are over set distances and how that compares to other L1 strikers.
He's always looked slow to me.
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Post by Blue Mist on May 14, 2019 10:21:35 GMT
Scores a goal every 2,147 minutes. That's one goal for every 35 hours 47 minutes the free-scoring goal machine is on the pitch. And it was a penalty. So this also indicates an infinite amount of time to score a goal from open play based on 2018-2019 league appearances (36 games played). To infinity, and beyond. When you put it like that it does seem particularly poor, is there a worse record in the football league, ever? I mean stick me on the pitch for that long and Im sure a few would iust occasionally go in off my arse, i do have a big arse though.
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Post by Deleted on May 14, 2019 11:25:30 GMT
I love listening to Dean Saunders on talksport. He was a limited ability striker but always scored enough goals to justify his place. He says hover around the goalkeeper at corners. He will drop the odd one now and again. That should give you 5 goals a season from tap ins. The same applies to free kicks that's another 5 goals a season. Also the same with penalties when a goalkeeper saves and pushes the ball back into play for an easy finish. So that should be around 15 goals a season with little ability as a striker for starters. Very simplistic maybe but he played as a striker at the top level so he should know.
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Post by emperorsuperbus on May 14, 2019 21:17:31 GMT
I love listening to Dean Saunders on talksport. He was a limited ability striker but always scored enough goals to justify his place. He says hover around the goalkeeper at corners. He will drop the odd one now and again. That should give you 5 goals a season from tap ins. The same applies to free kicks that's another 5 goals a season. Also the same with penalties when a goalkeeper saves and pushes the ball back into play for an easy finish. So that should be around 15 goals a season with little ability as a striker for starters. Very simplistic maybe but he played as a striker at the top level so he should know. Your post might undersell just how good Dean was at his peak. Saunders might have had better service than Nichols has got this season? If we start a positives and negative column for Tom, any argument that pace and strength are negatives for him at this level? Any argument that a positive is his first touch? I also think there there is something in it we were good in goals against all season, can we attribute that just to defence and keeper? I understand other players liked him in because what he was doing attributed to the good defensive record. Scientifically that is the defensive forward nature of modern game, not just nuisance off ball an ability to hold the ball whilst team gets into shape? I don’t think Dean Saunders would be good at that it wasn’t the Fox in box game so we wouldn’t be comparing like with like. despite Tom’s goals and assist stats, were there not numerous times most the ground rose for him as a tired Tom trudged to the bench acknowledging what he had put into the game?
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Post by Igitur on May 15, 2019 8:02:04 GMT
More pages on TN, God it's going to be a long close season.
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Post by eppinggas on May 15, 2019 9:50:24 GMT
Scores a goal every 2,147 minutes. That's one goal for every 35 hours 47 minutes the free-scoring goal machine is on the pitch. And it was a penalty. So this also indicates an infinite amount of time to score a goal from open play based on 2018-2019 league appearances (36 games played). To infinity, and beyond. When you put it like that it does seem particularly poor, is there a worse record in the football league, ever? I mean stick me on the pitch for that long and Im sure a few would iust occasionally go in off my arse, i do have a big arse though. I think GasMacc1 did some analysis of Tom's goals prior to joining Rovers (I stand to be corrected if wrong)... they were in the box, short range, poachers goals. OK - we may not have got the ball in the box on a very regular basis... but Tom was never there. He never got into dangerous positions and never looked like nicking a goal. The odd 1 on 1 he may have had over the last 2 YEARS - he just looked like he was going to bcfc1982 himself.
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Post by GasMacc1 on May 15, 2019 14:31:23 GMT
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Post by gasheadnaboo on May 17, 2019 3:23:43 GMT
Scores a goal every 2,147 minutes. That's one goal for every 35 hours 47 minutes the free-scoring goal machine is on the pitch. And it was a penalty. So this also indicates an infinite amount of time to score a goal from open play based on 2018-2019 league appearances (36 games played). To infinity, and beyond. When you put it like that it does seem particularly poor, is there a worse record in the football league, ever? I mean stick me on the pitch for that long and Im sure a few would iust occasionally go in off my arse, i do have a big arse though. It's probably fair to say any of the strikers from the youth/dev squads would have scored more goals than Nichols has given the same game time. Nichols is certainly the worst signing in all the time I have been following Rovers, if not ever, and I personally cannot wait to see the back of him.
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Post by laughinggas on May 17, 2019 5:50:23 GMT
When you put it like that it does seem particularly poor, is there a worse record in the football league, ever? I mean stick me on the pitch for that long and Im sure a few would iust occasionally go in off my arse, i do have a big arse though. It's probably fair to say any of the strikers from the youth/dev squads would have scored more goals than Nichols has given the same game time. Nichols is certainly the worst signing in all the time I have been following Rovers, if not ever, and I personally cannot wait to see the back of him. Then you never saw Andy Spring!
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Post by CabbagePatchBlues on May 17, 2019 11:34:20 GMT
Has he gone yet?
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Post by emperorsuperbus on May 17, 2019 18:42:47 GMT
Andy “Evil” Went shortly after getting plastered in the merchants and raiding glenfrome infants of Janet and John books. But then had a mare of casterbridge spell, sobering up, going back to Ireland, and becoming a good manager.
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Post by Foran for England on May 20, 2019 9:00:38 GMT
I love listening to Dean Saunders on talksport. He was a limited ability striker but always scored enough goals to justify his place. He says hover around the goalkeeper at corners. He will drop the odd one now and again. That should give you 5 goals a season from tap ins. The same applies to free kicks that's another 5 goals a season. Also the same with penalties when a goalkeeper saves and pushes the ball back into play for an easy finish. So that should be around 15 goals a season with little ability as a striker for starters. Very simplistic maybe but he played as a striker at the top level so he should know. While the free kicks and corners comments are valid, there is no way that you see five penalty saves in a season that are pushed out towards onrushing players.
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Post by LPGas on May 30, 2019 18:20:51 GMT
I have certainly been a vocal critic of him at the mem, today though I thought the kid was outstanding. The trouble for him in this side is that he doesn’t have the gorilla alongside him to create the knock downs he can ghost in on. He reminds me of Alan Clarke alias sniffer of the Leeds united team of the 70’s, he had Mick Jones to do the heavy lifting, Tom should be using the bags of finesse he has to sniff out and bury chances in the same manner. One goal could well set him off on a consistent scoring run.Someone says that every year
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Post by LPGas on May 30, 2019 18:27:54 GMT
If Nichols is any good he will go to Walsall, but he has another year on his contract (Thanks DC)
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Post by Igitur on May 30, 2019 19:41:41 GMT
TN must be in the plans, otherwise he would be transfer listed (unless it is thought that nobody would come in for him.)
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Post by billyocean on May 30, 2019 20:06:37 GMT
I love listening to Dean Saunders on talksport. He was a limited ability striker but always scored enough goals to justify his place. He says hover around the goalkeeper at corners. He will drop the odd one now and again. That should give you 5 goals a season from tap ins. The same applies to free kicks that's another 5 goals a season. Also the same with penalties when a goalkeeper saves and pushes the ball back into play for an easy finish. So that should be around 15 goals a season with little ability as a striker for starters. Very simplistic maybe but he played as a striker at the top level so he should know. While the free kicks and corners comments are valid, there is no way that you see five penalty saves in a season that are pushed out towards onrushing players. Agreed. This is total BS. How often are penalty rebounds even scored by anyone other than the penalty taker? 5 a season is beyond nonsense
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Post by Deleted on May 30, 2019 20:21:16 GMT
TN must be in the plans, otherwise he would be transfer listed (unless it is thought that nobody would come in for him.) Who would buy him?! Not even DC is mad enough to spunk his budget on Nichols twice! The only outstanding question left about Nichols is what level is he going to drop to after his contract expires? The conference would really be about right but I'll bet a club near the lower reaches of league 2 will take him if there is no fee involved.
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Post by LPGas on Jun 5, 2019 14:28:31 GMT
TN must be in the plans, otherwise he would be transfer listed (unless it is thought that nobody would come in for him.) can you think of anyone? I cant, apart from Bath
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