I remember when people wrote off Jermaine Easter after about half a season of shit after what was, at the time, a significant outlay.
They too had watched football for a long time.
I’m not saying Fink is anywhere near as good now, or ever will be in the future as Easter was. But sometimes a striker needs a run in the team and the chances he gets start going in and suddenly the mood changes.
As I said before, I thought he got better as the game went on and got in positions to score a couple of times. If he didn’t get into those positions, I’d probably help fashion some of the pitch forks.
I didn’t feel he was markedly better than what we already have and I’d rather keep developing Mullins.
To progress we need to be cultivating young players to later sell. If we need to plug a couple of gaps with loanees so be it. But recruiting similar players that displace our own young players in the 11 seems bizarre.
Given the Block T group were predominantly dads and their young lads I thought they did a great job of making some noise. I was sat in Block S also and certainly appreciated their efforts.
These things can’t be forced so I’d encourage them to keep at it for the rest of the season because (with some decent on pitch activity) it will build.
I mean, that’s just a ridiculous assessment. I can understand you don’t rate him, based on the evidence I’m sure many would share that opinion, but the guy has clearly put plenty of effort into today and to my mind actually played quite well in the 2nd half. You say he didn’t try to hold the ball up, I’d say he did that very effectively in the 2nd half, hence our improved performance overall. Please don’t confuse not being good enough, with not making an effort.
Rome wasn’t built in a day! They made some noise. That’s better than no noise, which is the norm. Stick at it, try to locate to a more central block over the summer and it could pickup some momentum.
As per the other thread, a pocket of safe standing in the upper tier would be an interesting experiment I think.
If we’d have got that equaliser early in the second-half then the atmosphere would’ve markedly changed. Block T was 50 or so folk put at the backside end of the stand, it was never going to transform AP into La Bombonera. Hats off to those that made the effort and to all the volunteers litter picking before the game, and to anyone who gives up their time freely for the betterment of WWFC and the community. That was the theme of the day and its spirit will (hopefully) live longer than the disappointment of today’s result.
I was beginning to think my phone was on the blink, so thanks for that reassurance! Kept getting some red flag warnings that the “something” app (began with an “F" and nothing to do with my phone) wasn’t configured properly and was a security risk, hence no web access).
Something about Fred wanting to be involved in changing nappies or something. Can’t see it myself.
To be honest I think he should have played today, imagine telling the child, when he/she is older how whilst mummy was giving birth Daddy was scoring a hatrick against the Posh.
Exactly this. We didn’t learn anything today we don’t already know. A big squad with bizarrely very little depth. We didn’t play that badly, but without Fred the lack of goals has cost us again. Put one of our chances away at 1-0 and Peterborough would probably have folded. Some good loans might help, but it’s looking like mid table now. I’m OK with that. We don’t want to be panic buying more duffers.
Jermaine Easter arrived mid-season for £80,000, shortly after a club tragedy, the manager’s wife was seriously ill, and our form was about to nosedive. He also had some pedigree in the EFL.
Fink arrived as a summer signing for an alleged cool mill as a complete unknown, has had his chances, and is testing everyone’s patience. Probably his own.
I admire your optimism but mine is very low in his case. As ever, hopefully he proves me wrong.
Happy to have a different opinion of what constitutes effort, but I saw him several times today not bother going after a ball that basically any player from the Ainsworth years would have been all over. He looks to me like he spends his entire time on this pitch waiting for everyone else to do all the work in the hope of a tap in.
What you saw as “played quite well in the second half”, I saw the same as the Opta stats which all the footy sites then used to give him the lowest rating of anyone on the pitch.
I’d love him to come good, I really would, and I also hate singling players out for criticism. What I find frustrating is that we offloaded 5 or 6 attackers in the summer and replaced them all with just one, who hasn’t shown any signs of being as good as any of those we lost. We’re now 3 weeks into a transfer window and still haven’t bothered. It’s inept.
I would argue that given the clubs owners and financial clout at the time, £80k in 2006 was more significant risk to the football clubs finances then, than whatever the fee Fink cost us last summer.
That’s not to say the alleged £1m isn’t something that needs to be considered, but there is also another side to that figure in that the weight of expectation that price tag puts on a young player.
You say he has had his chances? I would respectfully disagree.
He has regularly started games in a 3rd rate cup competition playing with other players that are (also?) arguably way off the league standard and are now being shipped out of the club. He has had what, 2 league starts after only being afforded the odd 10 minute cameo. It’s constantly in and out which, I think most football fans should agree one, is the worst way to judge any player. Let alone a striker.
I don’t know if Fink is going to actually be any good, but I would like to give him a decent run of back to back games before writing him off.