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Sometimes joining the right club and feeling settled brings out the best in a young player and allows them to kick-start their career. Young starlets tipped to be i.e. the "next Wayne Rooney" (as this lad was at Everton, some pressure that!) often lose their way in their teens and to be honest it's not surprising. Hopefully Spencer will flourish at the Hall if the fans give him a chance.
 
If our young strikers don't get on the score sheet immediately we seem to give up on them. Hooper, McDonald and Kightly are cases in point. I'm afraid that we (and yes I am included) must learn to have patience. What would we say now if we heard that either Hooper and Kightly were about to sign?

We must give the lad a chance to show what he can do.
 
blake said:
If our young strikers don't get on the score sheet immediately we seem to give up on them. Hooper, McDonald and Kightly are cases in point. I'm afraid that we (and yes I am included) must learn to have patience.
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Well, Kightly was a winger who never truthfully looked like amounting to much with us. He was very light-weight, tired after a 20 minute jog and was pretty inconsistent... Pretty much a Mitchell Cole in the making. No one can predict player development and while we probably released him too early, Nobody is to blame for "missing out" on Michael Kightly. Apart from Ricey's Girlfriend, that is...

MacDonald was slightly older and is a predatory striker first and foremost who didn't really fit in with our style of play, and Gary Hooper had more than enough chances to succeed at this club. It's no coincidence that the moment he moved away from his disruptive old man, he's rejuvenated his career.
 
It's no coincidence that as soon as he played as the main striker rather than Freddy Eastwood, Lee Barnard and Leon Clarke's support, and as soon as he played three games in a row he rejuvenated his career.

Hooper's Dad is a convenient excuse for him failing here when the real issue is that his Manager never had the faith in him to build the attack around him.

I completely agree about Kights but Hoops was a shocking error of judgement from Tilly.
 
Beefy said:
It's no coincidence that as soon as he played as the main striker rather than Freddy Eastwood, Lee Barnard and Leon Clarke's support, and as soon as he played three games in a row he rejuvenated his career.

Hooper's Dad is a convenient excuse for him failing here when the real issue is that his Manager never had the faith in him to build the attack around him.

I completely agree about Kights but Hoops was a shocking error of judgement from Tilly.
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None of us were too fussed about him leaving but I agree. He did well on all his loans and the only place he didnt do was with us.

He never got a real chance here and was played wide half the time.
 
Beefy said:
It's no coincidence that as soon as he played as the main striker rather than Freddy Eastwood, Lee Barnard and Leon Clarke's support, and as soon as he played three games in a row he rejuvenated his career.

Hooper's Dad is a convenient excuse for him failing here when the real issue is that his Manager never had the faith in him to build the attack around him.

I completely agree about Kights but Hoops was a shocking error of judgement from Tilly.
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Agreed Beefy, or when he was played with some consistency rather than as the support act to various other strikers who were also having issues with their goalscoring form here. I always spoke up in his defence on here, when very few were prepared to give him a chance, has to go down as one of a very small number of mistakes by the management duo.
 
ibwiajwa said:
I disagree. Walker and Scannell have pace. Laurent is also deceptively fast.
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How often do Walker and Scannell play though?

What I am really saying is that we don't have a Theo. We don't have someone with some pace who we can knock the ball over the top to. If Walker does play, he doesn't do that, he drops deep. He doesn't have the footballing brain to make clever runs in behind. Theo made massive difference last year because he gave us an outlet that we never seem to have in our team. We're crying out for a clone of him.
 
Andy_S said:
How often do Walker and Scannell play though?

What I am really saying is that we don't have a Theo. We don't have someone with some pace who we can knock the ball over the top to. If Walker does play, he doesn't do that, he drops deep. He doesn't have the footballing brain to make clever runs in behind. Theo made massive difference last year because he gave us an outlet that we never seem to have in our team. We're crying out for a clone of him.
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We were spoilt last year because Stanislas was the start of that, he had that ability too, Theo was here for longer so able to make more of it.
 
Andy_S said:
Theo made massive difference last year because he gave us an outlet that we never seem to have in our team. We're crying out for a clone of him.
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I wonder if Huddersfield now feel they got value for money with what they paid for Theo or whether our (according to Chemical Ron, it was T&B's) valuation of £50k is more accurate?
 
Andy_S said:
Theo made massive difference last year because he gave us an outlet that we never seem to have in our team. We're crying out for a clone of him.
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Whilst I'm not disputing that Theo made a difference I would also say the style of football we played last year wasn't attractive with him in the side, it was mostly kick-and-rush stuff. Winning is of course all-important, however we weren't great to watch last season.
 
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