Our striking situation is just hilarious.

[absolute bobbins]

None of Pav, Defoe, Bent or Ade is good enough for us. Luckily for us Bale play like a striker nowadays.

Agreed, we need to spend HUGE on the strike force over the summer! We need two proven strikers, one of whom should be a marque signing. These two should be supplemented with a fantastic prospect that has already shown some brilliance!

Defoe was good until his injury and has been double wank and shit chips ever since, I feel he should be retained next season as a backup or a plan C or D striker! Ade has shown more fight in the last couple of weeks but he just hasn't been good enough this season!

 

[absolute bobbins]

I wish AVB was a bit bolder and dropped both strikers and played Dempsey as a striker. I think he'd do better in the box because he has shown great movement and that will create a lot of goals alone. Keane was an expert and scored a ton of goals with clever movement.

We should only do that against Man Utd

 

[BringBack_leGin]

Anyone care to admit that Redknapp was wrong to sell Pav and Bent? I might give you Bent because he's struggling to get into the Villa team but I think Pav would have buried some of those chances yesterday.

I wish AVB was a bit bolder and dropped both strikers and played Dempsey as a striker. I think he'd do better in the box because he has shown great movement and that will create a lot of goals alone. Keane was an expert and scored a ton of goals with clever movement.

Long term though, we need two top quality strikers. Adebayor, Defoe and Crouch were bad buys

Defoe not good enough? Yes?

Defoe a bad buy? Not on your nelly. Every season that he's played regularly since we resigned him, so including this one, he's scored double figures in the league and we've finished (or this season look like finishing) in the top four. He's limited, he's frustrating and he is definitely one to improve on, but he's been a good signing. There's a reason why he's 7 goals from being our 5th all time highest scorer, is our all time highest scorer since the premiership began and is 10 goals off being our highest ever premiership scorer.

He's flawed and we need better, but he's done very well for us and deserves recognition of that.

 

[elDiablo]

I think Adebayor started that move from a deeper position. Bale was heading directly for goal.

If you've only seen the highlights you won't have been subjected to the most abject 30 minutes of football served up since Pavlyuchenko was up front. Defoe was a disgrace.

I agree that Defoe has been really poor of late. The only positive from his play i can think of, is that he does make runs to pull defenders out of position which has helped the main man Bale. Is that enough to justify his position? Certainly not, but the problem of choosing between shit and shitter is being exacerbated each week.

 

[Davo99]

__________________Lloris__________________

Walker______Kaboul______Vertonghen_____BAE

__________________Sandro________________

Lennon_______Holtby______Dembele_______Sig

___________________Bale__________________


Would this work?

 

[Gbspurs]

__________________Lloris__________________

Walker______Kaboul______Vertonghen_____BAE

__________________Sandro________________

Lennon_______Holtby______Dembele_______Sig

___________________Bale__________________


Would this work?

Why move bale out of a postion when he is destroying teams in his current position? Keep with Ade/Defoe, keep bale on fire and re-evaluate in the summer.

 

[mpickard2087]

I agree that Defoe has been really poor of late. The only positive from his play i can think of, is that he does make runs to pull defenders out of position which has helped the main man Bale. Is that enough to justify his position? Certainly not, but the problem of choosing between shit and shitter is being exacerbated each week.

I don't even think he offers this.

 

[Davo99]

Why move bale out of a postion when he is destroying teams in his current position? Keep with Ade/Defoe, keep bale on fire and re-evaluate in the summer.

It's not moving Bale out of position though, he doesn't really have a position, he has a free role.

 

[Gbspurs]

It's not moving Bale out of position though, he doesn't really have a position, he has a free role.

True, but by putting him as the lone striker you would take away that freedom and if you let him roam all over in that role you would lose any structure.

 

[not_tenth-again]

We're laughable up front - its undeniable.... Having said that, we're still winning. Go figure.

 

[Shadydan]

__________________Lloris__________________

Walker______Kaboul______Vertonghen_____BAE

__________________Sandro________________

Lennon_______Holtby______Dembele_______Sig

___________________Bale__________________


Would this work?

Roma played with this formation under Spalletti, Totti playing the 'striker' although he wasn't a striker, he was a false no9 and had a free role which meant that defenders and midfielders would have a hard time picking him up.

No idea of it will work for us but moving Bale from his current position where he's playing out of his skin just because our strikers are pap is kind of a pointless exercise. We of course don't know how Bale would play the man up top so it's best to keep him where he is for the moment.

 

[lol]

the current striker force is a joke, but the best formation is still bale behind the striker with ade leading the line up till 60-70mins, and if we need a goal we put in defoe to nick one

 

[eddiev14]

Look at our goal difference versus the others in the top 6. Says it all.

If we had a goalscorer I think we'd have finished 2nd this season.

 

[chinaman]

Or if Bale had been given his current role earlier, our goal difference could have improved by at least 5.

 

[cozzo]

the current striker force is a joke, but the best formation is still bale behind the striker with ade leading the line up till 60-70mins, and if we need a goal we put in defoe to nick one

Have you just joined this forum?

 

[lol]

Have you just joined this forum?

do you know does does absolutely nothing except shoot the ball? but as much as you and i dont like him, he DOES have a thunderous shot in him although 9/10 times it doesnt go in. but much like pav's , if its hit right, its unstoppable. its just a matter of lottery at times of desperation. on the other hand ade have 0 finishing. his only forte is hold the ball so bale can get to a more advance position. do you even understand football?

 

[Mikegold]

Roma played with this formation under Spalletti, Totti playing the 'striker' although he wasn't a striker, he was a false no9 and had a free role which meant that defenders and midfielders would have a hard time picking him up.

No idea of it will work for us but moving Bale from his current position where he's playing out of his skin just because our strikers are pap is kind of a pointless exercise. We of course don't know how Bale would play the man up top so it's best to keep him where he is for the moment.

I'd consider doing the same formation but with Sig up front. He does know how to shoot (if he gets his confidence back) and just play the spain way. At least try it. The ONLY negative I can see is defenders marking Bale more easily as possibly Defoe and Ade do more than we think. If however, we're right in thinking they do nothing, Sig up front would be decent.

 

[cozzo]

do you know defoe does absolutely nothing except shoot the ball? but as much as you and i dont like him, he DOES have a thunderous shot in him although 9/10 times it doesnt go in. but much like pav's , if its hit right, its unstoppable. its just a matter of lottery at times of desperation. on the other hand ade have 0 finishing. his only forte is hold the ball so bale can get to a more advance position. do you even understand football?

No, I don't understand football.

 

[UncleBuck]

Hmmm, think the general consensus is that if we get CL this season we need to review our striking options.....
I'd love to see both ade and jd being top of the scoring charts but the stats for the last twenty games don't lie, the only reason we are in third is because of the goals GB has scored, one striker with a 'confidence' problem is fair enough but the pair of them is quite frankly unacceptable. If we are going on performance they would have both been given a p45 six weeks ago.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Hmmm, think the general consensus is that if we get CL this season we need to review our striking options.....

TBF 3/4 of SC have been saying it for almost 2 years now. Hopefully it's taken this uber-drought to ram the point firmly up our shiny headed leaders jacksey. Although I wouldn't be putting much money on it.