Will Smallbone

Badgersboys9 wrote: McG wrote: 84ccfc84 wrote: dangere_here wrote: How many goals does he have?! f**k off with the goals or goal involvements or accessories sh*te. Not aimed at John, sound as a pound poster on here, but football in general. Goals or nothing. <div id="highlighter---tools" style="display: none;">     <div id="highlighter---tools--container">         <div ="highlighter--icon="" highlighter--icon-copy"="" title="Copy">         <div ="highlighter--icon="" highlighter--icon-change-color"="" title="Change Color">         <div ="highlighter--icon="" highlighter--icon-delete"="" title="Delete">      what a bizarre statement The goal involvement measure is becoming a pain in the hole. Assists being accredited like they're goals.  Evan Ferguson 10 apps/7 goal (involvements) and sh*t like that.  Aye for a striker maybe. Different story when it comes to a midfielder.

Not really as someone still scores in the end. Look at Bobby Firmino, 107 goals and 78 assists. Teams want a player that can do both, and even look at Weghorst at United. Though he doesn't score goals he was a cheap option but United have looked better with him up front.

Someone like Ferguson could fit in well as the type of CF that Ten Hag would like. Someone that puts in the work off the ball, can link up play for the other forwards, and should know where the back of the net is.

Edited by J89 - 05 Mar 2023 at 1:48pm

A few thing to note from the 5-1 victory over Sunderland: 

84ccfc84 wrote: its 2023 lads, stop sh*tting yerselves over a term used to total up goals + assists.

I would agree there are a lot more mirco-stats thrown at us average fans from the sport media in the last 20 years as there has been more and more space to be filled by football coverage and some or them you can roll your eyes at like (he assisted the assister) but actual assists are like one of the core stats been used for years and years and really after goals scored the best way to judge a player's attacking ability 

dangere_here wrote: 84ccfc84 wrote: its 2023 lads, stop sh*tting yerselves over a term used to total up goals + assists.  The only metric in my book is who hits the back of the net. Assists, goal involvements and all the rest is bollocksology from the likes of Sky. It's all part of the modern day soap opera to make twats feel like they are more involved in the game. Ask Roy what he thinks of all this palavar and you already know his answer. I follow the 2G metrics for a player, goals and graft.

Hit the bar there. Should have scored.

Playing really well here, should have had a penalty just there. Szmodics also denied a clear penalty just after.

SeaSharp wrote: Goals and graft

Missed another very good chance.