City Man is the one who goes on about metropolitan areas to explain why our crowds are poor in comparison to other clubs.
There used to be much discussion at the start of each season about Waggy’s weight. The consensus was either Waggy had lost weight or put it on. Looking at the old programmes his weight hardly varied.
Incorrectamundo. You have an almost Diane Abbott-like inability with figures. You seek to 'spin' the numbers to give credence to your points about our poor gates. In your stat bubble, support stops at the city boundary. Nice to see the vermin's gates holding up, they are arguably pro rata just about beating ours for the first time in about 15 years
Is that as a proportion of the population in Leeds city boundary compared to Hull’s or the Leeds Metropolitan area, as pro rate they will never match us using the Metropolitan area.? You are the one that compares the metropolitan area of Sunderland and the population of Norfolk for Norwich rather than just comparing city populations.
I would reckon this would happen. A lot of great goalscorers just have the knack regardless, classic fat git from a bit later on was Micky Quinn, then you have Sheringham about that time, even Kane now is average in terms of pace. Waggy would probably be made into a little muscleman
Most great, prolific strikers/goal scorers only have to be like lightening over 1 yard. It's the mind to limb speed that counts. Weight has little to do with it. Edit: I should add mind to neck/forehead speed is also a factor.
Waggy had great ball control, a knack of being in the right place at the right time and superb finishing skills (3 goals in two games v Gordon Banks). He also had the great advantage of playing with Chris Chilton and they formed a deadly duo. The game may have changed but I think both would still have played at at least Championship level. As an aside, think how Ian Butler would have got on, talk about crossing ability!
I think this is the issue with Eaves, if he has to think too much and is not a natural finisher. Whoever signed him might not have done their homework properly
I'm sure you're correct. (I've never seen Eaves live). If it's not instinctive then the goals don't come. Some masters of the art were Jimmy Greaves, Dennis Law, Ruud van Nistlerooy, Tom Finney et al. Salah today has lightening awareness and reflexes. Joy to watch - as was Waggy.
I think we just took a gamble as we aren't going to pay the money for proven goalscorers at this level We had one of those but didn't want to pay the wages
Eaves is a different type of player than we have been seeing over the last few seasons.Hence some on here think he’s not good.He is holding the ball up for attacking mid fielders to feed off.Perhaps it is the mid fielders who are too slow....that the theory anyway.
Abel was available again too, would have happily taken him back, not that we would have paid his wages or he probably didn’t want to come back either. Would have been a nice option imo though. Henriksen not on squad again, if it is McCann’s decision, he’s being daft. We’re paying his wages anyway, so I would rather have him there.
I’ve not seen him, so can’t really comment, but doesn’t seem to have a good vibe at the moment, and I don’t think it’s negativity at all, we need a striker that can score 1 in 3/4, I don’t think it ls unreasonable for fans to expect that. Imagine the goals we may score with a striker that converts??
He hasn't been here that long for that to be a factor, either a confidence issue or he's not good enough to step up. Apparently Whitehurst only scored once in his first 26 appearances so it's not time to give up hope yet.
Correct about Whitehurst .. but the legend that is Chris Chilton took him under his wing and made him into a decent striker.
