I call it the "Smith Factor".
If you run around, get stuck in, tackle with the subtleness of a Bremner or
Hunter, you will be loved by the great unwashed even if you cant pass a ball
10 yards or score from free headers
Even in our "dire" times of late you could look at Robbie Blake and Kilkenny
as blokes who are said to be "fringe" players but all glory goes to a Naylor
or Prutton
Go figure
----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: "Tim Leslie" <[email protected]>; "list leedslist"
<[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: [LU] Soton.
Tim, I've been doing reasoned arguments on here for years and its got me
nowhere. So I thought, for once why bother...the end result would be the
same.
If Beckford scores at OT the Beckford-haters will all just queue up to say
"he's
only doing it cos he's in the shop window", and if he doesn't score then
it'll
be all the usual "never shows in big games"...makes you wonder why he'd
bother
at all really doesn't it? So no I won't take your bet. But I still reckon
that
if we keep him (and currently the only reason he'd go is cos half the
numpties
"supporting" the team he plays for, think that a goal ratio of 2 in 3 is
not
good enough...does not prove that he works hard enough "for the team")
then he
will score more league goals this season than all of his forward line
colleagues
added together.
Just a point about reasoned argument Tim, you can't say "we can't use the
stats,
the history" to judge a footballer. On that basis I propose our forward
line for
OT is Caspar and Hughesie because judging everything on what might happen
and
not taking any history into account, its about their turn to bag a few.
Beckford's in a lean spell - the team hasn't been firing all around -
missing
Kisnorbo, Naylor, Higgs and Johnson - the midfield, not quite sure whether
to
play Kilkenny, Howson, Doyle - that doesn't make him a bad striker (at
this
level)
Not every footballer has to charge around like a headless chicken to be
effective (Tony Currie, Gary Lineker, Mark Viduka, christ even the blessed
Lord
Lucas of Radebe looked somewhat less than switched on sometimes). Sure
every
team needs workers, but not every player in the team has to be that kind
of
player. That doesn't mean that I don't think Beckford earns his goals, I
think
that forwards earn goals in different ways - Beckford makes the runs he
thinks
are worth making - not always for his own benefit, see the late header
recently
when he went up against the keeper to set up Gradel. It's just not
appreciated.
If it is "so easy" playing up front in the current Leeds Utd team that
anyone
could get the goals why don't they? Why is it only Beckford who does? I'll
give
you a list - Vokes, Kandol, Showunmi, Grella, Trundell, Becchio - why
can't any
of them match his strike rate?
That header from 6 yards that Becchio missed on Saturday...Jesus if that
had
been Beckford half the crowd would have been after him. But because
Lucciano
runs himself into the ground he's somehow thought "easier to forgive".
None of the above means Beckford is perfect, far from it, but I want to
see
Leeds Utd out of the third division and moving up and it strikes me that
we have
a much better chance of achieving that with a guy who is a proven
goalscorer
(and who puts the shit up the other team's defenders). We've only got one
of
those and its Jermaine. If he played for anyone else in this league we'd
be
coveting him something rotten.
As far as speculation goes - I think he could probably do OK in the
Championship
and I hope that he does that with us next year. I don't think he has the
temperament or touch to make it in the Premiership.
On 21 December 2009 at 17:28 Tim Leslie <[email protected]> wrote:
Nothing like reading a reasoned argument ... then ignoring it and harping
on about a statistic eh Nick?
Let's take a good look at his record this season.
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