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It’s a dire record when you willingly airbrush the part of the season he scored 17 goals…

It’s not happening and Wright will almost definitely start the season as a lone striker if he stays this season.

That’s not the point and again, you’re making this about Simms. If we only created one or 2 big chances a game for Vik, he wouldn’t have scored 23 goals in 22/23 and we wouldn’t have got the money for did for him. As great as Vik was that season, he had a 10 game barren spell and had the...

You’re making this about it Simms. I’m talking more generally about Wright, Simms and BTA. Based off what you’ve seen from Wright when he’s played as the lone striker are convinced he’ll be a 15-20 goal a season striker? If the answer is no, it should concern you because he is at that level...

If Gyokeres only had 1 big chance a game, chances are he wouldn’t have scored as many as he had in 22/23. Good strikers will miss big chances and we really need to be giving them 2-4 big chances a game. Our xG has taken a bit of a hit in the past weeks which tells me we’re creating less.

Simms is on a 4 year contract, his first season was, overall, a success. Second season, we will agree (overall), has not been good enough. I doubt the club will give up on him because as I’ve laid out in a previous post, when we’ve played 4-2-3-1, we’ve struggled to get our strikers scoring...

I’m not an expert but comparing the goals we scored (specifically Simms & Wright) on the counter under Robins last season versus the goals we’ve scored under Lampard… last season, we put a lot more balls behind defences for players to run into and this season we’ve scored a lot of goals from...

If we’re doing this… Now do the same exercise Morris and Keiffer Moore. Spoiler: it’s not looking good. Both players have scored penalties as well. I’m all up for hearing alternatives but when you and others keep landing on these two players, it’s jarring.

You’re comparing apples and pears. Aerials win % doesn’t necessarily correlate to headed goals scored. Rudoni has 6 headed goals alone and if we played him upfront, he wouldn’t have a strong aerial win %. Likewise, Carlton Morris would have more goals than he does. He’s scored 2 headers this...

Haji and Simms scored 19 goals a piece in 23/24, the pair were utilised well that season. They’ve not become bad players overnight imo.

Morris has scored 9 headed in his last 3 seasons which is the same as Simms but in a lot more games and minutes because Simms had half a season in 22/23. We’re not signing Morris so this is a redundant conversation and your point isn’t backed up by facts. Facts are friendly. These players were...

That’s my point actually because I’m not doing that. It’s Grendel and other who peddles this ‘he’s only scored in “x” games’. In the same back and forth, Grendel switches to the Haji Wright scores every 1.5 games which is an MPG stat. I’m calling out the obvious hypocrisy of using one metric...

Simms is objectively our best heading forward and frankly, has scored more headed goals than the likes of Ivanovic, Keiffer Moore and Carlton Morris (more headed goals this season than both players over the last 2). Names I’ve seen touted to come in and do a better job in that respect. For me...

He’s scored in 3 games in 14 under Lampard. Take out that one 10/10 performance v Sunderland, even in the games he scored (Burnley & Plymouth), has he had a standout performance? For me, I’d say no. On his day, Wright is one of the best players in this division but he has t hit those heights...

Under Lampard? He’s scored in 3 games out of 14. Which, ironically for you, is around the ratio of Simms last season. If braces and hattricks count after all, stop parroting the ‘Simms has only scored in “x” games’ nonsense. After all, his hattrick v Sunderland only counts as ‘one game’ scored...

If all the strikers are out of form, does that say more about them or the team?

BTA is a penalty taker, Simms isn’t. He started in the first leg off the back of a good 20 minute cameo v Boro. Before then Simms was definitely higher in the pecking order and you know that.

Probably a mistake. Lampard sees Haji as the man to lead the line and since he’s come back, barring the league game v Sunderland… hasn’t been convincing in that role. With the game heading to penalties, Wright was never coming unless he had to.

They didn’t set up perfectly at all. They lost in 90m and one set piece went their way before the lottery of penalties. MVE giving a back pass in the first leg isn’t something either manager can legislate for. Sunderland defended v well and deserve all the credit in the world for that. They...

I was talking about Wright’s performances. More generally, if you have 3 Championship strikers with decent records and they’ve all underperformed this season… it might not be them at fault.