You're really reaching here. 9 goals if you count those against Exeter and Accrington. Are those even professional league teams? Those matches are worth less than a training session.

Also, he's played a lot of time- 2250 minutes in the PL only. Counting that 1 PL goal was a penalty (against Arsenal), he basically has 4 goals and 1 assist and 2 more goals in the Cup against Liverpool (his sole awesome match this season).

So, on March the 18th (today) he has contributed with 6 goals and 2 assists in 2450 minutes agains PL teams this season. That's 1 in 300 minutes, a really bad number for a PL striker.

But I see that I can't change your mind. You like the player and that's what it is. But my impression is that West Brom is not a bad team because Jay Rodriguez doesn't have players to pass him good balls, rather that it's bad because he, as well as others, are not good enough for the PL level. After all, last year Mat Phillips and Chadli weren't so bad up front, they have some solid defenders, they also brought a good left back this year, who crosses well for the strikers (Gibbs).

Crikey Matteo, that is deep!!

Cantona would have been proud of that one.

I don’t think he’s a world beater, but looks decent whenever I’ve seen him. He controlled the ball first time yesterday and kicked it in the other teams goal, which I don’t see often at Palace.
I don’t check all the stats, they said he’d scored 9 goals on motd, assumes they were premier league goals.

I don’t take the blindest bit of notice of any ‘oracles’ on here, otherwise they would have told us how good Wan- Bissaka was when all the names (from FIFA or FM ) were being trotted out in January.
In my personal opinion Rodriguez is not a bad shout and a couple of years ago I thought he could do a turn for us up top. Not sure now if he’s that much better than what we’ve got - although when Wickhams back we may need another, different, option and he could fit the bill from the bench, with the odd start to tactically change.

Edited by Helmet46 (18 Mar 2018 10.40am)

Great crosser, if we are looking for decent service not a bad shout. In relation to strikers, if we keep everybody, need something different, a nippy finisher in my opinion.

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FFS you had to didn’t you...

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