It wasn't really until the Chelsea game that I realised where Jerome's value is. Ok, he doesn't score a whole lot but he's big, strong and pacy and he's capable of seriously disrupting defences, offering scoring opportunities for others.

Let's not forget, a player who can cause havoc in front of goal AND score on a regular basis is like gold dust and would sure as hell be well out of our price range.

Very, very useful player to have and we should make every effort to get him on board permanently in the summer.

Yep. That'll be a Didier Drogba.

If Dwight had played in place of Cameron for every game we would probably have him as a top scorer with 6 or seven goals by now. I also feel we would be possibly 6 or 7 points lighter.

I'm guessing that is roughly how TP reads it too.

CJ is not about goals. Strange for a striker indeed but proof is in the 37 point pudding.

Nailed it Kerms, although Im not sure if Gayle does have more goals in him than Jerome.

I watched him yesterday chase the ball as they passed from one defender to another, never once did he get it, but it totally unsettled their system and is huge asset for us. For those here who just don't get it... roll the ball out to the defender who has to make a forward pass and apply no pressure on him and see how many times out of 10 he is successful. Do the same experiment again with Jerome chasing them down - lots of misplaced passes and defenders going out of position to avoid him. Unsettles the whole team. He's big, strong and very quick - easily the quickest in our team and a real handful for defences.

For this alone he is worth it. I would LOVE to see him bang in a couple and get his confidence up.

Should we progress in this league then this will need to be reviewed but for where we are and the team we need to be, hes a big part of our success for me.

Edited by FinchleyEagle (13 Apr 2014 6.52pm)

This basically undermines your whole post. Gayle has scored three times as many in significantly fewer minutes on the pitch so he clearly has more goals in him than Jerome.

But would Gayle or anyone in the team get the opportunity to score goals. Jerome is not one for stats he pulls defenders apart, disrupts their flow and really is just a bully. Gayle would more likely score if he got through on goal then Jerome. But would we get through on goal as much with Gayle instead of Jerome I don't think so. One of the reasons we are winning games is because Jerome defends from the front and messes up any attacks they will mount. He also allows other players to score our goals like Puncheon and Chamakh by f***ing their defenders up. If we played Gayle instead of Jerome Gayle would be on about 6 goals but we would be 7 points worse off.