Goals from midfield

[michael]

I have a 'rule of thumb' that a decent midfield achieves about 24-30 goals from its midfield players-normally accumulated by 5/6 players who play in midfield over the season.About 6 each-and ideally 8

 

Now i have gone on about midfield being our relative 'weakness' this season-and still maintain thats the case,but overall-the goals from midfield players has been reasonable this season.

Stubbs 6 (maybe as a penalty taker-you need him to be getting 8 at least )

Bodkin 5

Avery 4

corneill1

 

arguably robinson a couple although he must be dizzy knowing if he is a defender,central midfield,wide midfield or striker !

 

so with really only 4 'regular' midfield players all season,whilst i maintain its not the best midfield in the world-,those 16 goals fall a bit short of what is required-but not too bad overall.

 

Maybe over the next two games-they may get another 3 goals between them to make it look a decent return.

 

On similar lines-i reckon Bradbrooks 9 goals as a striker from just 23 appearances is a fair return and not recognised enough

[blue balls]

Corneille and Avery are more defensive operating m/f so no surpise their goal tally is low. Would have expected a higher return from Stubbs and Bodkin though. Suprised Robinson hasn't chipped in with a few more. Also very few goals from our defenders. Maybe we should work a lot more on our set pieces. I'm not a Bradbrook fan I'm afraid and If I was CK the first priority for next season would be a new striker. Makes you wonder where we would have ended up without Kwesi?

[Wellsie]

Well, as for the Kwesi debate, we would almost cretainly have not had such a good striker but would still have him!

[michael]

Without Kwesi-i reckon the club would have been in financial difficulty.

 

Never mind the goals/league we are in/play-offs- first priority is survival of the business.

 

Up the 'Gate

[dflman]

4-4-2 would probably give more goals from midfield

[Pudding]

4-4-2 would probably give more goals from midfield

Hasn't it been 4-4-2 for the majority of the season?

[bluealan]

Wayne Wilson scored 9 goals from 31 games last season, and we are paying him £800 a week plus car and we don't play him, no wonder we are 15th in the league

[Coffin Ender]

I think I'm right in saying of the leading teams only Hornchurch and Wealdstone have a player on more than 20 league goals (Tuohy and Jolly, who ran the London Marathon so I wonder what state he'll be in tomorrow). All the other challenging sides have spread the goals around. Which makes sense when you see what happened to us when Kwesi left.

[dflman]

i meant to say 4-4-2 SHOULD give more goals from midfield