Even in the prem? If we get promoted do you still give him one season? Do you keep him in as a squad player or do you get rid?
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People can say what they like about him and have their opinion of him. But he is the only player we have who has scored in The Premier League.
We are still a long way off anyone having the opportunity to better that.
Weirdly you could argue his best performances came against premier league opposition
I want to like Simms, but he can be so frustrating. That said, I agree entirely with you here - he's ours, he's honest, and with a bit more confidence he can do a proper job for us. We should get behind him.
I think we need to find another striker next season. Simms has all the tools, but can’t seem to put it together consistently. He should get 20 a season on his attributes really but most games doesn’t look like scoring, so frustrating. I hope I’m wrong like I have been on a lot of players!
Simms is a better number 9 than wright IMO. He’s had a bad season and been in an out of the side but most seasons he’ll score you 10-15 and do a job as a target man. I think we can upgrade but I wouldn’t be desperate to move him on. Maybe bring in another option instead of BTA
Very hard to replace Simms with another striker capable of scoring 10-15 goals in his first season. He does a decent job without being a great goalscorer. Seems to play a lot of the game with his back to goal which isn't helpful when trying to scoring goals.
until Recently, we’ve never really had prolific goal scorers, even Regis didn’t score many but his work rate was outstanding, it’s not always about the goals, but simms problem is when he’s not scoring it looks like he doesn’t offer much either, personally I’d still keep him, good to have off the bench, frustrating that for the size of him he should be battering defenders,
Go through this and other than names like Wilson, McNulty, Gyokeres, most of our top scorers have scored about what Simms does. We’ve been spoiled with Godden Vil and Wright to think every striker is a 20-a-season player.
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Great point, if he could just give us a bit more he’d be ok for us, he shows signs, thought He looked a bit quicker Friday,Go through this and other than names like Wilson, McNulty, Gyokeres, most of our top scorers have scored about what Simms does. We’ve been spoiled with Godden Vil and Wright to think every striker is a 20-a-season player.
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He frustrates me, you can see a very good player in him, but when he has to control a ball coming to him in the air it seems to bounce off him, you need your number 9 to hold the ball up and lay it off. And is it just me, but he looks like he has massive feet. 
He was brilliant against Wolves and Man United. Better than I've seen him against any Championship opponent (Rotherham don't count.) It's so weird.
So what we’ve summoned is he needs to play either really good or really bad teams.
I can understand the frustrations with Simms because when he’s confident and firing he’s an absolute beast and we maybe don’t see that enough, however, that lone striker role can be a thankless task*. The last few games he’s played his part and with a bit of luck could’ve got a couple without receiving much service. His link play has improved a lot and he now uses his body better. I’ve seen enough of him to know he’s as good as we’ve got in that role and if he can retain his confidence and a bit of aggression he can still be a really good player for us
*I still think others need to get a bit closer to him when balls played up so they can pick up the pieces
*I still think others need to get a bit closer to him when balls played up so they can pick up the pieces
Poor Ellis has had a mare of a season. At the moment with him at no 9 we're not getting the best out of Haj wide on the left with a back 4 behing him (instead of 5 least season) You can see Lampard's working on it and Haji is a very intelligent player you can see that in this rapport with Rudi but Simmo doesn't look like scoring in a month of Sundays. With one goal in six and few assists Simmo has to do better, but he'll know that. Let's hope he can get a goal or two in the remaining games if he continues up the middle. A change of scenery might do him good next season.
It’s been said before - Simms attracts attention from the defenders which creates room for Haji and Jack - while he may not be in the goals his role is pretty critical imo
Pretty sure Simms was dragged down by one of the WBA defenders in the second half and should have earned a penalty.
Go through this and other than names like Wilson, McNulty, Gyokeres, most of our top scorers have scored about what Simms does. We’ve been spoiled with Godden Vil and Wright to think every striker is a 20-a-season player.
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We were often a team struggling in the past .. we aren't that team anymore
Josh Sargent might make a very interesting partner for Haji when we go up. Just a thought but those two are the stand out strikers in the Championship.
We’ve scored 61 goals in the league this season, with 6 of them coming from Simms. OK fine, maybe he should have scored 20 by now, that puts us on 75 - for context that’s more than any team bar Leeds in the entire EFL (Birmingham are on 73!)
I’ve been disappointed in Simms for large parts of the season, but I think it’s fair to say that this team is not wanting for goals, and as the striker who’s played more minutes up front than any other player, he’s clearly played his part in that. To demand that he becomes a 20-goal striker is to essentially insist that we should be winning the league at a canter.
I’ve been disappointed in Simms for large parts of the season, but I think it’s fair to say that this team is not wanting for goals, and as the striker who’s played more minutes up front than any other player, he’s clearly played his part in that. To demand that he becomes a 20-goal striker is to essentially insist that we should be winning the league at a canter.
He should love games like this, need to coach him in the summer to be a nasty bastard.
If Simms had scored 20 goals this season AND the rest of the side was scoring at the same rate then I think we would probably be up there challenging for the autos. I just don’t know if you realistically could have both - if so then maybe this was a top 3 deck after all; if not then it seems harsh to criticise the striker in a team that scores goals extremely frequently.
In the interest of balance have you got stats on how many of Simms first touches have gone further than Thomas's clearances?