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He was arguably our MOTM which is high praise. Was gutted he had to go off as a potential penalty taker… We need quick longer balls to take advantage of the good physical qualities we have in the team; EMC, Saka, Wright, Simms and BTA. Hopefully more to follow.

Let’s not forget that he’s played roughly half his appearances upfront and tactically his role wasn’t a winger in the traditional sense like Sakamoto. I’m happy with Wright’s output in 23/24 as well as 24/25 and I’m not one of the boneheads suggesting we should sell him. If we want to have a...

Absolutely not. He played 1000 more minutes than Simms and scored the same amount of non-penalty goals.

After all, Wright did cost double the price and is closer to his peak years. It’s a reasonable expectation Either way, you’re moving the goalposts because the facts aren’t friendly to you. We’re talking goals and Simms scored more from open play in the league and in the cup and his peak form...

There’s no shitting on Haji from me at all. It’s using your own logic against you. I’ll reiterate the fundamental point that tactically, something needs to be adjusted to get more out of Wright, Simms, BTA and Bassette because I think all of those players are good.

The whole season was 19 goals for Simms. Wright scored 3 more league goals and he scored 4 penalties. Godden also didn’t score in the league past September, only 2 goals v Oxford in the cup. Likewise, Haji scored 6 in his first 25 games so all those forwards were struggling to various degrees...

1 hattrick which using your ‘Simms Formula’ is scoring in 2 out of 6 games. In actual fact, he’s scored in 3 games in 14. It’s not bad, but could be better. That Sunderland home performance v much looks like an outlier, unfortunately.

I was talking about Wright here…

I hope you’re right but his post-Lampard numbers concern me, just as they do with all of our strikers.

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...