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There’s no argument that his crossing and assists are great assets… The way a lot of people talk about Sakamoto as being an undisputed starter and whilst he’s a good player, he doesn’t have that ‘x factor’ to be a game winner for us, week in and week out. Again, all this focus on...

If we want to improve on 5th place, we need more than 20 goal contributions in a season from the wing. This debate has been had out, but it’s pretty clear that Haji wants to play striker and that’s also where Lampard wants to him. Haji is a blue chip striker in this league and his output for us...

Not Sakamoto? His FotMob match rating was 6.80 over 44 games. His goal tally of 4 outperformed his xG of 3.11 (or something like that). Bobby Thomas’ xG was 4.78 for reference and had about 15 more shots too. When you’ve got 10+ wingers from last season on 12-15+ goal contributions and we have...

Having 4 strikers for 1 starting position must’ve caused a lot of problems last year. None of them got a good run of games and either got bit part minutes, played out of position or both. Pretty sure all 4 strikers believe they should all be starting in their preferred position. Signing...

Given that most away games go to general sale, the ‘abuse’ clearly isn’t widespread. Sure, there’s been games where a mate has helped me out and vice versa. Trust me, to get to 1400+ or so, there’s times where it can be a labour of love. I was questioning my sanity when going to Blackburn away...

I don’t know too much about BTA from his WBA days but I agree with these assessments based on his time with us. In his and Simms’ defence, they formed a good partnership with a lot of goals in the Jan-Feb run where we played 5-3-2. For me, given that all of our strikers have struggled in a...

All the signings ought to be players who can fight for a starting berth from Day 1. I don’t think we’ll sign a striker nor is it the number 1 priority imo. The question should be how we get BTA or Simms back up to their 23/24 stats. Do that, and it’s serviceable until Haji is 100% fit and...

He is a striker though, he made half of his career LW appearances under Robins in 23/24 and 24/25. On that note, not only had Haji slowed down in terms of goals and assists playing LW from Jan 2024 and into 2024/25… we’ve changed manager and the tactics aren’t the same. Haji’s one goal from LW...

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...