If we're quoting stats Paul, lets get them right. Becchio had scored 15 league goals (hes not having that Brighton goal). and more than a third of them were pens. So lets not get carried away with his scoring prowess. He has never scored 20 league goals in a season in his life. In the season he played with Beckford he got 15 and Beckford got 27 , another striker not good enough for the PL.
Ricky Lambert was not in the premiership when Soton bought him, he was in League One playing for Bristol Rovers and he cost 1 and a half million , only twice what we paid for Danny Pugh. Good business that and a bit of a fuck up on our part. Althoughy Danny Pugh did give us stability on the left hand side. Jordan Rhodes has scored 22 league goals ( according to BBC ) this season in a struggling Blackburn side. He ain't no world beater but he can trap a ball. Glen Murray shows you what you can do being an average player , with a bit of composure and skill in the Championship. Charlie Austin, Tom Ince all can play a bit and will score way over 20 goals this season - Austin already has. Kevin Nugent, he'll score 20 this season- a bit of pace, skill , control. There's fucking loads of players at Championship level that would help us get promotion. Becchio couldn't. Sent from my iPad On 3 Mar 2013, at 12:16, "Paul Cundell" <[email protected]> wrote: > Very selective of you Rich, Becchio scored 19 by the end of January THIS > season in the championship. > Ricky Lambert is in the premiership, I think, and Jordan Rhodes was until > relegated and has never scored 20 goals in the championship. > McCormack scored 18 last season not 20 and is nowhere near achieving that > this season (3), had that been Becchio you would have called last season a > flash in the pan. > Morison scored 20 goals in League One and 15 in the Championship for > Millwall. > Lambert played 90 minutes yesterday, didn’t score and couldn’t avoid getting > beat by QPR. > Rhodes played 90 minutes, did score but couldn’t avoid defeat by > Peterborough. > > So by your own admission we really have one example of a footballing > goalscorer and neither of us can remember his name – old farts that we are – > Glenn Murray > > I never thought Becchio was premiership standard either but that he was a > decent second division goalscorer. > > Our current goal drought against poor form teams leads me to believe that we > should be careful what we wish for. > > As for Macca’s pen being on target, that’s all it was – otherwise it was one > of the weakest attempts I’ve ever seen and if it had been Becchio you would > have been calling for his hanging. > > Rich W wrote: > >> of course you can have a goalscorer who can trap a ball , play a pass and > score goals at Championshiop level. Ricky Lambert is one and Morrison has > proved for Millwall that he can do it too (45 goals in 2 seasons). Also our > own McCormack has proved it can be done scoring 19 the previous season. If > you look around there are others - the bloke from Palace who has nearly 30 > goals already, Jordon Rhodes and many others. Yes some of these cost a bit > of brass but that's the sort of player we need to take us up. > >> and it's funny you talk about Becchio as if he's a proven 20 goal a season > scorer - he never managed 20 in one season in League One and got 11 season > before last so don't make out he's something he's not. > >> the Becchio watch thing is to demonstrate that this guy is just not up to > the premier league, in fact he's not even close. I never said he single > handedly could avoided getting beat against scum but he would have managed > the team or maybe the first striker sub if he was showing some promise. > >> and of course Becchio would have scored both pens yesterday - not if he > took it like the one he missed v Yeovil. At least Macca got it on target. > _______________________________________________ Leedslist mailing list Info and options: http://mailman.greennet.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/leedslist To unsubscribe, email [email protected] MARCHING ON TOGETHER
