Chris OGrady

JCL666

absurdism

Sep 23, 2011

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• Oct 27, 2014

• #21

He can score goals. There's not many that would win goal of the season, but he is capable of finding the back of the net, see the video below.

I was harsh on him in the match ratings, and someone mentioned that he or any of our forwards might score if they are given the opportunity, but at the moment we are not creating the opportunities.

On reflection he looks to me like a striker with no confidence.

You know what, he might be a journeyman striker, he might not have loads of pace, but he can't create chances out of nothing. There's a reason why Leo was sold for £8m and OGrady wasn't. I don't blame him.

 

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Eric Youngs Contact Lense

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• Oct 27, 2014

• #22

He is a striker massively short on confidence - same as CMS, Baldock. No great surprise - a striker is bought for goals, and the longer it goes the worse it gets. With the crowd on his back, no great surprise if it gets a lot worse before it gets better. On the video posted on this thread, it is COG taking penalties - would he be confident of scoring one for us.??
The lack of clear cut chances is also true, but I do think he has been bought to hold the ball, bring the midfield into play primarily which I think he does pretty well - better than Barnes at any rate. I think his future is in the balance depending on what kind of character he is . I hope he sticks with it as he offers a different option to the others.

 

ConfusedGloryHunter

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Jul 6, 2011

2,051

• Oct 27, 2014

• #23

Wrong-Direction said:

I hear ya, Dunk has scored every one of his chances and he spends 90% of the game in our half..

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Wasn't his header saved on Saturday? Dunk out!

 

Trigger

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Jul 4, 2003

40,457

Brighton

• Oct 27, 2014

• #24

The Burke did NOT do his job properly, AGAIN.

 

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oldboyroy

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Oct 10, 2009

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born and bred in Eastbourne but now live in West M

• Oct 27, 2014

• #25

Lets be honest we dont have any decent strikers...CMS not good at this level,Baldock the same, Colunga from what I have seen not any better and the same with COG. The recruitment of these 3 was desperate last minute cheapest option with Baldock being the "star we have been after for some time" signing to say "we are spending some of the Ulloa money".

 

kevtherev

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Feb 28, 2008

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Tunbridge Wells

• Oct 27, 2014

• #26

Mustafa said:

He was 28 and that was his best season in a career that was spent mainly in League One... Many of us predicted this would be a crap signing. 5 years younger and he might have been worth a punt, but this was just an expensive & idiotic mistake.

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Spot on...Those of us who bothered to research the guy, found out he has spent most of his career bumming around the lower leagues, mostly on loan and not scoring that many goals....Sign him up I say, he might just be the answer to replace our £8m out going striker. You couldn't make it up really. Like I have said before, it's a joke and we the fans are the punchline!!

 

Guy Fawkes

The voice of treason

Sep 29, 2007

8,214

• Oct 27, 2014

• #27

kevtherev said:

Spot on...Those of us who bothered to research the guy, found out he has spent most of his career bumming around the lower leagues, mostly on loan and not scoring that many goals....Sign him up I say, he might just be the answer to replace our £8m out going striker. You couldn't make it up really. Like I have said before, it's a joke and we the fans are the punchline!!

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So you would have agreed with not offering Murray a new deal and letting him go for nothing then as he was unproven at Championship level?

O'Grady had played there before and got 15 goals in a struggling Championship side last year which is far more than Murray had ever done before he left us. I really hop ethere are no posts by you bemoaning the fact we let Murray go on here, especially during or after his second season when he finally started scoring for Palace, and saying it was a mistake to ever let him walk away.

Without knowing what Murray then went on to do at Palace, who would you say was more of a risk? Proven Championship striker or unproven League 1 / 2 striker for the whole of his career?

 

Ernest

Stupid IDIOT

Nov 8, 2003

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LOONEY BIN

• Oct 27, 2014

• #28

I said at the time he was another Barn Door Billy, one flukey season where he scored a few goals and lived on it ever after

 

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sir albion

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Jan 6, 2007

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SWINDON

• Oct 27, 2014

• #29

Dan The Man said:

one club, one ambition, one point a game....

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One goal a game if we're lucky aswell

 

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mona

The Glory Game

Jul 9, 2003

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High up on the South Downs.

• Oct 27, 2014

• #30

Meantime Bournemouth replace Grabban with a Div 1 striker ( got to be sh*t surely say many on NSC ). Eddie Howe replaces his striker properly. One club One ambition One corporate cock up haven't a clue.
FFS don't blame O'Grady, Baldock or Colunga for the club's shambolic recruitment of players.

 

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BensGrandad

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Jul 13, 2003

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Haywards Heath

• Oct 27, 2014

• #31

BUTTERBALL said:

What would you think if he scored the winner against Spurs on Wednesday night

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Would make no difference to my view that he is not good enough. The Spurs game is a glory game for us and of no real consequence, Bournemouth is much more important score the winner and I may reconsider.

 

seagullsovergrimsby

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Aug 21, 2005

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Crap Town

• Oct 27, 2014

• #32

Seems like we've signed a big lump who over achieved with Barnsley last season. Sure he can hold the ball up if the defenders don't out muscle him in a challenge but he doesn't have the ability to go past them because he is too slow. Compared to Revell who was positioning himself in the box every time an attack was on or if he had the ball was running towards our goal as the defence backed off five yards and O'Grady is simply not good enough at this level.

 

Ernest

Stupid IDIOT

Nov 8, 2003

42,739

LOONEY BIN

• Oct 27, 2014

• #33

There is a reason why O'Grady has been jobbing round Northern League 1 clubs like Rochdale, Barnsley , Oldham etc for years and that is that he is crap and why we ever spunked half a million on him I'll never know

 

WATFORD zero

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Jul 10, 2003

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• Oct 27, 2014

• #34

seagullsovergrimsby said:

Seems like we've signed a big lump who over achieved with Barnsley last season. Sure he can hold the ball up if the defenders don't out muscle him in a challenge but he doesn't have the ability to go past them because he is too slow. Compared to Revell who was positioning himself in the box every time an attack was on or if he had the ball was running towards our goal as the defence backed off five yards and O'Grady is simply not good enough at this level.

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Now that has to be bollocks, because the one thing the whole of NSC agreed was that Revell was shit ............................... didn't we

 

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portslade seagull

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Jul 19, 2003

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portslade

• Oct 27, 2014

• #35

Hillian1 said:

As has been said previously, don't blame him for being shit, blame Hyypia for picking him.

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Don't blame Hyppia, blame the fools that signed him in the 1st place they must have watched him with blindfolds on