[Albion] Whose fault is this whole "not scoring goals" thing?

[BadFish]

#BrunoOut

If it is actually Bruno then whoever gave him that job is too blame. Love the guy but I am sure his skills can be out to better use. I am also sure there are better attacking coaches out there.

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[pork pie]

Potter. He selected the players and was happy with his options.

 

[whosthedaddy]

Of course it's a combination of many things but overall the players are woeful in shooting accurately, this season isn't the first time we've seen that either.

Passing has improved under Potter but our intensity and pace is missing hence we are ineffective in getting into the opponents last third with only the goalkeeper and possibly one or two defenders to beat. Usually by the time we arrive near the goalmouth their whole team has got between us and the goal

 

[GT49er]

Shirley, bearing in mind this is a 'Who/what to blame' type thread on NSC it's scandalous that there are no poll options for Boris, Tony B Liar or the 'B' word? Poor show by the OP, whoever that was.....







..........Oops.

 

[London Irish]

Whatever era you choose, it’s always mainly the manager, particularly if a manager has been at the club for a little while as he will have brought many of the players in

 

[Miami Seagull]

Arrows from the North Stand. This is what we need. Make it happen! Point the way!

 

[Guinness Boy]

Whatever era you choose, it’s always mainly the manager, particularly if a manager has been at the club for a little while as he will have brought many of the players in

But that's not how it works here.

Here the recruitment guy specifically brought in by the coach has worked with The Amazing Dan Ashworth, "like 100 other guys" and the world's greatest spreadsheet to bring us some players who are just good enough to loan to The Championship or Belgium.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Arrows from the North Stand. This is what we need. Make it happen! Point the way!

Can you imagine the lecture we'd get for THAT one!

 

[Washie]

The recruitment team, the coaches who seem to be teaching our players how not to shoot, Tony a little bit for thinking we can get top 10 on the cheap and maybe us the fans. We have a really good away record, yet terrible home. Is it the expectation? Is it us constantly moaning during the game? We do seem to pick up our play when the fans do get louder, so that could be a part of it.

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[Westdene Seagull]

Shite recruitment.

10 transfer windows, 5 years and at least £250m spent, yet unable to sign strikers or midfielders who are calm when presented with a chance.

Which brings the interesting question - Was Dan Ashworth really all he was cracked up to be ?

 

[Farehamseagull]

Whose fault is this whole "not scoring goals" thing?

Shirley, bearing in mind this is a 'Who/what to blame' type thread on NSC it's scandalous that there are no poll options for Boris, Tony B Liar or the 'B' word? Poor show by the OP, whoever that was.....







..........Oops.

Well you can blame Brexit for the choice of just players or manager. Everything is binary these days and will be passionately argued either way with no hope of changing minds, regardless of facts usually too! [emoji23]

 

[Weststander]

Which brings the interesting question - Was Dan Ashworth really all he was cracked up to be ?

Also wondering - was/is the DA/GP overriding strategy for all our teams (all age levels) to play like ManC?

On paper, virtuous. But probably hard to achieve on a fraction of their budget. In terms of being able to sustain that across 90 minutes and 38 games, score and win. Against increasing numbers of opponents who are splashing vast sums on quality players from across the world.

 

[Taybha]

This will all be water under the bridge when Ben bangs in a OG for us on Saturday.

 

[Gabbafella]

It's Potter and the players equally for me.

We're currently taking a water pistol to a sword fight. The recruitment team are the armourers and Potter is the second who agreed to it and came up with the tactic of squirting them to death.

Yeah, but who doesn't like a squirter when you start waving your sword around? And there's the chance of actually scoring.

 

[southstandandy]

Brexit

 

[attila]

A predictable, money sodden procession of a league (not just here, but here is worst) which puts such a high price on top class strikers that a few clubs have all the good ones either playing or warming their bench while the rest have to make do with the leftovers.
And when one of the 'smaller'clubs unearth a great striker he is immediately bought by one of the top clubs to warm the bench.
Transfer cap, salary cap and a US style draft system would sort it.

So the players, but it isn't really their fault. Certainly not Potter, he's doing his best with what he can obtain: this may be a lot more difficult now disgusting thug state money has bribed a truly great recruiter to leave.

And no, I won't either stop going, because I love the Albion as much as in 1997, or stop going on about this, because it stinks, and one day it will change, probably about the same time as the climate crisis impacts everyone's daily lives, even those of the super-rich.

 

[m@goo]

It is mainly the players fault and probably mostly to do with belief and psychological mindset. But you could argue that the Manager/coach is ultimately responsible for that.

 

[zefarelly]

Yeah, but who doesn't like a squirter when you start waving your sword around? And there's the chance of actually scoring.

Very good.

Just a shame all our players shoot too quick or miss the target.

 

[Swansman]

Whatever era you choose, it’s always mainly the manager, particularly if a manager has been at the club for a little while as he will have brought many of the players in

Except this era, because it doesnt work that way anymore. Times changed.

But that's not how it works here.

Here the recruitment guy specifically brought in by the coach has worked with The Amazing Dan Ashworth, "like 100 other guys" and the world's greatest spreadsheet to bring us some players who are just good enough to loan to The Championship or Belgium.

Indeed Macaulay is part of a team of a 100 (which is a small number compared to most PL clubs) or so people working in recruitment.

 

[casbom]

I'm surprised Ashworth is not on that list? Yes he has done some good things for us but if it is his philosophy to focus on getting up and coming, high resale youngsters at the expense of splashing out more on ready made options for the Prem, then I will put some of the blame on him.

However, overall I think the recruitment team are not the best at unearthing attacking players. Maybe they are missing an algorithm or something around being calm under pressure when in front of goal!