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I actually have. It was stated earlier that aside from a stretch under Robins, he hasn’t been as effective at LW than at striker. He scored a brace v PNE (plus v Blackburn 3/4 games earlier) which was the game before we switched to a 4-2-3-1 and Haji’s role changed to LW. Between Plymouth...

He’s scored more and possibly even assisted more as a striker so that doesn’t check out. To do what you do with Simms a lot and focus on this ‘games scored in’… He scored in 3 games as a LW this season and scored in 6 as a striker last season. Played 16 games as a LW, 10 as a striker. Scored...

@fernandopartridge eye balled it and it’s about the same and off the top of my head, it’s about the same. So let’s test that. This season, it was 8 goals up front split evenly between 3-4-1-2 (Robins), 4-2-3-1 (Lampard) and then 4 goals from LW. 23/24, he started upfront on his own in about 4...

5 players to cover 3 positions… What could possibly go wrong!? Meanwhile, our CB scored more goals than one of our wingers… So why don’t we start with improving the 11 that’ll be starting the game? We’re talking about Haji Wright and where his best position is and based on goals, it’s not LW...

Then it wouldn’t be a player’s best position by definition? With the current squad, yes. The point I’ve been making is that we need wingers more than strikers. We have 3 strikers behind Haji in the pecking order and unless we make a sale, we won’t bring anyone in. Personally, I’d sell BTA and...

Unfortunately, facts don’t care about your feelings. The fact of the matter is that Haji Wright has scored more goals playing upfront than off the left in less games… In fact, Haji has scored 1 goal playing off the left hand side under Lampard.

Rapha as a 4th or 5th choice I can get down with. There’s clearly something there that coaches want to work with. Binks, I don’t think Lampard particularly rates him and would sell him. Right, so he scores an extra penalty playing LW… That’s 11 goals at striker and 8 goals LW. Adjust for...

I discounted his penalty goals anyway and he still scored more playing striker. 19 goals in total, 4 penalties and 8 were scored playing upfront and 7 LW. He played 6 more games at LW too and was scoring at a rate of 1 in 3 or so.

Haji has a tendency to drift out wide and cut in even when he plays as a striker so that’s probably why Robins found a niche role for him at LW back in 23/24. I have a good feeling that Haji and EMC will have big seasons for us. We just haven’t had a prolonged period where both EMC and Wright...

To clarify, I said 6 goals from the wing + the winner v Wolves so it’s been credited with a goal from LW for that game as well as, Leeds, Ipswich, Southampton Plymouth, Boro and Swansea. It’s all visible on websites like Transmarkt anyway. Having done this exercise, the only Haji goals I...

This isn’t correct Fernando. Last season, he scored 4 of his goals playing LW out of 12. 2 v Oxford, 1 v Blackburn and Plymouth away. We played 5-3-2 v Leeds, PNE, QPR, Luton, Boro, Derby and Sunderland where Haji scored 4 goals. Then post-Lampard, scored 3 v Sunderland and another v Burnley in...

Wright will play upfront because it’s objectively his best position and has been throughout his career to date. Just because he had a good 20-odd game stretch under Robins, doesn’t make him a winger. He’s played made 2/3s of his career starts and scored 72.4% of his goals as a striker. So...

Firstly, Haji has been generally reliable when it comes to injuries. Second, both Simms and BTA have hit double figures leading the line in the Championship. Which is sufficient in terms of injury cover. What are peoples expectations for a 2nd or 3rd string striker? Yes, you should’ve done...

Haji has scored most of goals upfront for us lol… Besides, how are you fitting EMC in the team as well?

We need big seasons from EMC, Rudoni and Haji who all need to get 15-20 goal contributions. There aren’t much goals in the starting 11 after these players. For me, if Sakamoto or a new signing can get 12-17 goal contributions from RW, we could force ourselves in the conversation. We can’t go...

The only palatable option there is playing Wright LW which he is only record saying he views himself as a striker and wants to play there. Unless he forces a move, he’ll be our number 1 striker. If we’re in a position where our fullbacks need to play RW and LW, it’s not a good spot to be in and...

It’s illustrative at this point because the only winger in the squad outside of Sakamoto and EMC. I’d be surprised and disappointed if we don’t sign at least 2 forward players before the end of the window. If we had 2 wingers who could get 6-9 goal contributions from the bench, that would make...

Exactly. You can’t really say ‘Haji can play LW’ if he’s starting upfront and Lampard has given every indication that is what he intends to do. If we sell/loan a striker out and we sign someone who can play multiple positions that’s ideal. Even multi-positional players like Windass or Goodrham...

Haji is a proper number 9… One area we struggled last season was that we didn’t have options to change matches from the bench. If Rudoni/Sakamoto/EMC were having off games, there wasn’t any alternatives to switch things up. There isn’t much point in having 3 strikers on the bench when your...

Haji Wright was the 4th highest scoring striker whilst missing 3 months of the season… As things stand, the front 3 will be Sakamoto-Wright-EMC. It really is that simple and if you want a player better than Haji, you’re gonna need to spend in the region of £10m.