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I think we all had a large chuckle at that even at the time.
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Not even an ex-Villa star when we were a championship team.
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Didn't one of them just die?
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Chop chop! Lets all gawp at Newcastle (again)
Hobsons Choice replied to Jimzk5's topic in Other Football
I quite like him. He'd be quite good for us at this moment in time, but not for the fee/wages they'd want. -
That's what you guys took from that argument?
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OK, substitute that with 'unlikely'. How likely is it that all of our strikers and forward players improve to levels hitherto undemonstrated in their career to address the lack of goals. All that assumes the goal contributions of everyone else in the team remains unchanged. And all of that still puts us mid table in terms of goal scored. Assume wizard Emery extracts more wins than expected from that goal tally, which he likely will. It follows that it will perhaps have us knocking on the door of top 10ppg. Expecting anything more with this squad imo is just a pipe dream.
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Well if we make a signing yhen all bets are off, because that was the point. All the above sounds a bit what if to me. Watkins may be a 1 in 3 striker but he's not been so far this season he's been more like 1 in 5. Maybe he becomes that, maybe he doesn't. If he does that's another 6 goals from him. Remember he's having to score not only his contribution, but Ings' as well. That was 7 in 20. Even as a 1:2 that won't pick up enough goals to replace him. Assume Watkins 1:2 and Jhon picks up 4 or 5, maybe. But we've never even seen him play.
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You got it, no empty promise.
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Fair enough, well reasoned. Hope you don't think I'm being arsey here, just a friendly debate. Follow up question to your post above. Who is going to score us the goals to achieve the ppg? I hope you are right, I really do, I just have some concerns about where our goals are coming from. Asking Watkins to double his goal scoring rate is a massive stretch. Jhon has not played a minute of PL football and is 19, Bailey couldn't hit a barn door with a banjo now defences have sussed how one-footed he is. Coutinho has dropped sharply in level, Buendia is very much struggling at the moment. JJ is probably the most likely, but we can't be asking him to score all our goals. Dougie and Kamara are DMs. I just don’t see where our goals are consistently going to come from atm.
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I reckon over the years Kenneth Williams is up there in the top 10 of VT contributers.
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That's not true though. We sold our top scorer.
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Fair enough. But it seems as though it's the players turning us down not the clubs, and our targets will be the same in Summer as now, no? Our number 2, 3, 4 choice in the summer will have been our number 2,3,4 choice now.
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Again, we've lost a lot of goals this window. Top 7 ppg by the end of the season is, unfortunately, a fantasy, and I'm happy to donate £50 if we retain a top 7 ppg by season end. It just won't happen without more up top. Sure Emery is a great coach but the squad is weaker than it was, and you cannot expect better results than he's already had with a weaker squad. It's just logic.
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One question, if we're failing to attract targets, and we have a mediocre season because we've failed to sign targets, why would we be any more attractive a proposition to said targets in the summer?
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Is that the full beans, or a watered down console version? That just so happens to coincide with a certain person's birthday....ahem, so if it's any good I might get it on PS5 rather than PC, where my time is a bit more limited. Ooh also, I always mod to get real life teams/badges, any idea if we can do that on PS5, or if (like most PS5 games) it's a closed shop?
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Incognito mode, dude.
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Aaaaaaand it's time I left this thread for the next 8 hours.
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Oh, man, you just made me click on the Mail Online. You just dirtied my browser.
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25?! That's mental. I think I was 25 when we signed him, and I'm nearly dead now. In fairness he's had a tidy career for himself after he left us.
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Having a medical? Kinky.
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Are you moaning at me? Moan you, you big moan.
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Like people moaning?
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Ahhh. The Hammock District.
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Any idea where I can get a business hammock?
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Haha, omg. Yes Brian. In my defence it's been a long day, and my kids kept me up all night.
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