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FairweatherEagle London 17 Jul 18 7.58am
Originally posted by Casual We need a striker that can score goals. No point having a midfield that can create with no one to put it in the net. I still think having a good midfield is more important, last season we got a good return of goals with JM, YC and RLC in the middle and Benteke not even on the pitch. I think if we can create lots of chances, everyone will chip in anyway.
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Originally posted by Casual

We need a striker that can score goals. No point having a midfield that can create with no one to put it in the net.

I still think having a good midfield is more important, last season we got a good return of goals with JM, YC and RLC in the middle and Benteke not even on the pitch. I think if we can create lots of chances, everyone will chip in anyway.

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Vaibow vancouver/croydon 18 Jul 18 2.06am
Originally posted by Casual We need a striker that can score goals. No point having a midfield that can create with no one to put it in the net. I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals. Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss. I actually want to go back to the pre holloway days (i believe) where we had strikers that could and play with the ball. Armstrong, Freedman, McKenzie, Svennson, Jansen, AJ, Morrisson, FFS wonder season. I miss that. This was once a quality forum....
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Vaibow

vancouver/croydon 18 Jul 18 2.06am

Originally posted by Casual

We need a striker that can score goals. No point having a midfield that can create with no one to put it in the net.

I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals.

Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss.

I actually want to go back to the pre holloway days (i believe) where we had strikers that could and play with the ball. Armstrong, Freedman, McKenzie, Svennson, Jansen, AJ, Morrisson, FFS wonder season.

I miss that.

This was once a quality forum....

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Vaibow vancouver/croydon 18 Jul 18 2.07am
dp Edited by Vaibow (18 Jul 2018 2.08am) This was once a quality forum....
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Edited by Vaibow (18 Jul 2018 2.08am)

This was once a quality forum....

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Casual Orpington 18 Jul 18 7.49am
Originally posted by FairweatherEagle I still think having a good midfield is more important, last season we got a good return of goals with JM, YC and RLC in the middle and Benteke not even on the pitch. I think if we can create lots of chances, everyone will chip in anyway. 7 goals between the 3 of them , a good return? Don’t fool yourself mate. Without Lukas penalties the chances are we would have been relegated. We need a striker that can score. We created chances, Benteke missed the most decent chances out of any striker. If he has a similar season , Wickham remains injured and Sorloth , still an unknown quantity, is used from the bench. If we don’t buy we will have the worst set of front men in the league.
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Casual

Orpington 18 Jul 18 7.49am

Originally posted by FairweatherEagle

7 goals between the 3 of them , a good return?
Don’t fool yourself mate. Without Lukas penalties the chances are we would have been relegated. We need a striker that can score. We created chances, Benteke missed the most decent chances out of any striker. If he has a similar season , Wickham remains injured and Sorloth , still an unknown quantity, is used from the bench. If we don’t buy we will have the worst set of front men in the league.

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KAOS In a tree 18 Jul 18 9.26am
Originally posted by Casual 7 goals between the 3 of them , a good return? Don’t fool yourself mate. Without Lukas penalties the chances are we would have been relegated. We need a striker that can score. We created chances, Benteke missed the most decent chances out of any striker. If he has a similar season , Wickham remains injured and Sorloth , still an unknown quantity, is used from the bench. If we don’t buy we will have the worst set of front men in the league. Yep! And there you have it! Facts!
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In a tree 18 Jul 18 9.26am

Originally posted by Casual

Yep! And there you have it! Facts!

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Rudi Hedman Caterham 18 Jul 18 10.04am
Originally posted by Vaibow I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals. Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss. I actually want to go back to the pre holloway days (i believe) where we had strikers that could and play with the ball. Armstrong, Freedman, McKenzie, Svennson, Jansen, AJ, Morrisson, FFS wonder season. I miss that. Yeah and I miss Alan Lee. So gifted. And Shefki Kuqi. Gave everything, every game. We miss this. COYP
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Rudi Hedman

Caterham 18 Jul 18 10.04am

Originally posted by Vaibow

I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals.

Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss.

I miss that.

Yeah and I miss Alan Lee. So gifted.

And Shefki Kuqi. Gave everything, every game. We miss this.

COYP

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Vaibow vancouver/croydon 18 Jul 18 5.48pm
Originally posted by Rudi Hedman Yeah and I miss Alan Lee. So gifted. And Shefki Kuqi. Gave everything, every game. We miss this. hilarious mate.. i mean i miss the days where we didn't generally hoof it up top and rely on a big target man.. which is pretty much what you described... you cannot sit there and say at times it wasn't great watching the goals those players scored? Ofcourse it was back in the day, but i would love to go back to that style of having a striker that can run at players and score a cracker. This was once a quality forum....
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Vaibow

vancouver/croydon 18 Jul 18 5.48pm

Originally posted by Rudi Hedman

Yeah and I miss Alan Lee. So gifted.

And Shefki Kuqi. Gave everything, every game. We miss this.

hilarious mate.. i mean i miss the days where we didn't generally hoof it up top and rely on a big target man.. which is pretty much what you described... you cannot sit there and say at times it wasn't great watching the goals those players scored? Ofcourse it was back in the day, but i would love to go back to that style of having a striker that can run at players and score a cracker.

This was once a quality forum....

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FairweatherEagle London 18 Jul 18 11.04pm
Originally posted by Casual 7 goals between the 3 of them , a good return? Don’t fool yourself mate. Without Lukas penalties the chances are we would have been relegated. We need a striker that can score. We created chances, Benteke missed the most decent chances out of any striker. If he has a similar season , Wickham remains injured and Sorloth , still an unknown quantity, is used from the bench. If we don’t buy we will have the worst set of front men in the league. Perhaps I want clear enough, I meant we still got a good team wide return of goals with good midfielders on the pitch i.e. a good midfield creating scoring chances is more important.. not that a striker isn't, just at this point in time, sorting the midfield to be properly creative and hold possession, is more beneficial to the team overall, and therefore the results. We created chances, but have lost 2 of the midfielders that were crucial to our end of season run, a largely Bentekeless run. Edited by FairweatherEagle (18 Jul 2018 11.10pm)
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FairweatherEagle

London 18 Jul 18 11.04pm

Originally posted by Casual

7 goals between the 3 of them , a good return?
Don’t fool yourself mate. Without Lukas penalties the chances are we would have been relegated. We need a striker that can score. We created chances, Benteke missed the most decent chances out of any striker. If he has a similar season , Wickham remains injured and Sorloth , still an unknown quantity, is used from the bench. If we don’t buy we will have the worst set of front men in the league.

Perhaps I want clear enough, I meant we still got a good team wide return of goals with good midfielders on the pitch i.e. a good midfield creating scoring chances is more important.. not that a striker isn't, just at this point in time, sorting the midfield to be properly creative and hold possession, is more beneficial to the team overall, and therefore the results.

We created chances, but have lost 2 of the midfielders that were crucial to our end of season run, a largely Bentekeless run.

Edited by FairweatherEagle (18 Jul 2018 11.10pm)

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lucashm 25 Jul 18 10.00pm
So, Golovin is having a medical at Monaco tomorrow. Unless we sign Pjanic now, guess who is staying at Chelsea next season
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25 Jul 18 10.00pm

So, Golovin is having a medical at Monaco tomorrow.
Unless we sign Pjanic now, guess who is staying at Chelsea next season

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pstrutt Busselton, WA 04 Aug 18 3.53pm
[Link] I so want this to be true! So I manage a Workshop which provides a safe learning environment for blokes struggling with PTSD and other mental health issues. Being a Palace fan isn't listed yet.
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Busselton, WA 04 Aug 18 3.53pm

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I so want this to be true!

So I manage a Workshop which provides a safe learning environment for blokes struggling with PTSD and other mental health issues. Being a Palace fan isn't listed yet.

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Booted Eagle Bristol 04 Aug 18 5.34pm
Originally posted by Vaibow I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals. Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss. I actually want to go back to the pre holloway days (i believe) where we had strikers that could and play with the ball. Armstrong, Freedman, McKenzie, Svennson, Jansen, AJ, Morrisson, FFS wonder season. I miss that. Good shout. Shows those type of strikers can and have been found/matured at Palace. Ideally a striker offering something different and can find the net. A few cards need to be taken out of Tekker's hand. Then he will have to start to perform in front of goal. Definitely need competition in that area if we are to increase the probability of having a comfortable season, free from relegation worries. “ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ” —United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld
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Bristol 04 Aug 18 5.34pm

Originally posted by Vaibow

I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals.

Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss.

I actually want to go back to the pre holloway days (i believe) where we had strikers that could and play with the ball. Armstrong, Freedman, McKenzie, Svennson, Jansen, AJ, Morrisson, FFS wonder season.

I miss that.

Good shout. Shows those type of strikers can and have been found/matured at Palace. Ideally a striker offering something different and can find the net. A few cards need to be taken out of Tekker's hand. Then he will have to start to perform in front of goal. Definitely need competition in that area if we are to increase the probability of having a comfortable season, free from relegation worries.

“ [T]here are known knowns; there are things we know that we know.There are known unknowns; that is to say there are things that, we now know we don't know.But there are also unknown unknowns – there are things we do not know we don't know. ”
—United States Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld

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Cucking Funt Clapham on the Back 04 Aug 18 8.18pm
Originally posted by Vaibow I agree, imagine if we had a striker last season that put away 12 goals. Although that would have taken the pressure off the midfield and let them play their usual role, but still, a few goals wouldn't have gone a miss. I actually want to go back to the pre holloway days (i believe) where we had strikers that could and play with the ball. Armstrong, Freedman, McKenzie, Svennson, Jansen, AJ, Morrisson, FFS wonder season. I miss that. McKenzie and Svensson? Add Ndah to that as well. A trio of utterly inadequate strikers. Wife beating may be socially acceptable in Sheffield, but it is a different matter in Cheltenham
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