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Post by terriersyndrome on Sept 9, 2024 19:53:46 GMT 1
Just over a 1 in 2 strike rate in league 1. Not the player we were hoping for but we're down to the bare bones up front and Duff says he likes to rotate his strikers during games, so it'll give him an extra option. How long it'll get him up to match fitness a month into the season I have no idea, but it's the issue you have when you don't get the players you need during the window. Was at Ipswich until late August, so should be straight into the squad without the need for long fitness regimes. Good to hear. Just match fitness needed then 👍
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Post by Sio on Sept 9, 2024 19:56:08 GMT 1
Silly signing Reaks of panic Ladapo is not a great striker and shows how naive the recruitment team is at the club And you know better than the professionals then? If he had still been at Ipswich, and not on a free, and we had landed him in the window people would be really pleased. A proven striker at this level.Any excuse to have a pop. Try supporting the club for a change. Happy to reserve judgement on this guy but let's not overlook that he managed a sum total of 3 goals in 31 appearances last season across Championship and League One football. I can understand why people might be concerned at signing a free-transfer with those statistics rather than the 23 goal Alfie May or 21 goal Joe Taylor. But in his defence, he's had some solid seasons at this level previously so let's hope it's a case of rediscovering that form, rather than him being past it.
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Post by FloridaTerrier on Sept 9, 2024 19:58:58 GMT 1
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Post by JonsonClarkParis on Sept 9, 2024 19:59:50 GMT 1
Silly signing Reaks of panic Ladapo is not a great striker and shows how naive the recruitment team is at the club And you know better than the professionals then? If he had still been at Ipswich, and not on a free, and we had landed him in the window people would be really pleased. A proven striker at this level. Any excuse to have a pop. Try supporting the club for a change. Will always support the club but will come back to this when you’ve seen him play
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Sept 9, 2024 20:03:51 GMT 1
And you know better than the professionals then? If he had still been at Ipswich, and not on a free, and we had landed him in the window people would be really pleased. A proven striker at this level. Any excuse to have a pop. Try supporting the club for a change. Will always support the club but will come back to this when you’ve seen him play Many on here mocked Rotherham for signing Johnson Clarke Harris seemingly confident that we would sign someone better. I wish we had Clarke Harris now
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Post by pterrier on Sept 9, 2024 20:09:28 GMT 1
Our recruitment of strikers is like witnessing a chancer playing championship manager who has somehow ended up as our director of football . He knows the names of about two strikers within our budget (Taylor and May) because they scored some goals at league 1 level on the top scorers list after a quick scan of sky sports news reels. Doesn’t know any names outside of the English leagues, apart from a bloke that was top scorer in the finish leagues but him being an utter disaster has convinced him that the foreign market isn’t the way to go. With no real contacts in the game and When he is unable to sign the only two blokes he’s heard of, in utter panic he then types into Google ‘free agents, strikers’, the same list which random DATM punters trudge out in desperation each season. He sees a list of big names and then scrolls down until he notices the first realistic name (that he recognises): ladapo. ‘I’ve heard of him, he scored goals a few seasons ago at league 1 level and ‘he’ll know the league’. Delighted he jumps out of his gaming seat and runs to tell Duff. ‘Ludapo?! Isn’t he 31 and he only scored two goals last season, only one at league 1 level!’ Says Duff. ‘Yea but he was good five seasons ago pal’ replies Cartwright. ‘But mark, he’s 31, injury prone, no pace and haven’t we got enough old strikers?’ ‘Please Michael, he’s all I’ve got’ ‘Ah sod it, I’ve got a train to catch to Cheltenham, do what you want Mark. It’s a shit league anyway. See you on Tuesday’.
The next noise you hear … ‘So Freddy, when did you first hear about the club being interested in you’ ‘Well it all came around pretty fast…’ ‘Shut up freddy, it’s all all part of a long term strategy’ hastily interrupts a red faced Cartwright.
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Post by nicovaesen on Sept 9, 2024 20:13:59 GMT 1
Is he better than lord ward?
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Post by bells ringing :) on Sept 9, 2024 20:25:31 GMT 1
Is he better than lord ward? Well that is the million dollar question.
He might not fake injury if we start losing though , he might be more focused on football instead of his handicap....
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Post by willo on Sept 9, 2024 20:30:26 GMT 1
I don’t know what people expect. We needed a striker as we all know what we currently have either aren’t going to get us the goals needed or are forever injured. We let Rhodes go who many said wasn’t good enough and we wasted another summer chasing down shadows in the striker department. This lad has a decent enough record at this level and deserves to be given a chance. Literally nobody can say how good or bad he is until he’s played a dozen games for us.
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Post by runner76 on Sept 9, 2024 20:39:08 GMT 1
Could be a decent signing - all good for me. Good experience and another option.
We’ve more decent strikers than we had this time last year, in a higher division.
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Post by terriersyndrome on Sept 9, 2024 20:41:09 GMT 1
Our recruitment of strikers is like witnessing a chancer playing championship manager who has somehow ended up as our director of football . He knows the names of about two strikers within our budget (Taylor and May) because they scored some goals at league 1 level on the top scorers list after a quick scan of sky sports news reels. Doesn’t know any names outside of the English leagues, apart from a bloke that was top scorer in the finish leagues but him being an utter disaster has convinced him that the foreign market isn’t the way to go. With no real contacts in the game and When he is unable to sign the only two blokes he’s heard of, in utter panic he then types into Google ‘free agents, strikers’, the same list which random DATM punters trudge out in desperation each season. He sees a list of big names and then scrolls down until he notices the first realistic name (that he recognises): ladapo. ‘I’ve heard of him, he scored goals a few seasons ago at league 1 level and ‘he’ll know the league’. Delighted he jumps out of his gaming seat and runs to tell Duff. ‘Ludapo?! Isn’t he 31 and he only scored two goals last season, only one at league 1 level!’ Says Duff. ‘Yea but he was good five seasons ago pal’ replies Cartwright. ‘But mark, he’s 31, injury prone, no pace and haven’t we got enough old strikers?’ ‘Please Michael, he’s all I’ve got’ ‘Ah sod it, I’ve got a train to catch to Cheltenham, do what you want Mark. It’s a shit league anyway. See you on Tuesday’. The next noise you hear … ‘So Freddy, when did you first hear about the club being interested in you’ ‘Well it all came around pretty fast…’ ‘Shut up freddy, it’s all all part of a long term strategy’ hastily interrupts a red faced Cartwright. 5 seasons ago? The season before last he got 21 goals in all competitions, 17 of those in the league and a league 1 winners medal. Last season didn't go too well but he only played about 15 games in all comps but still managed 5 goals. He's averaging nearly 1 in 2 at this level. Not a bad addition on a free.
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Post by saintlyterrier on Sept 9, 2024 20:43:25 GMT 1
For what it's worth, Ipswich fans today thanked him for getting last two seasons, and wished him luck. Seemed genuine.
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Post by Million Dollar Babies on Sept 9, 2024 20:45:13 GMT 1
For what it's worth, Ipswich fans today thanked him for getting last two seasons, and wished him luck. Seemed genuine. We did the same with Harry Bunn
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Post by isitjustme on Sept 9, 2024 20:48:28 GMT 1
Is he better than lord ward? You'd bloody well hope so.....!!!
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Post by tepidterrier on Sept 9, 2024 20:55:31 GMT 1
Not surprised you lot are all shitting yourselves and throwing it at each other! I think this could be a good signing, and have said on a few occasions this summer that we should sign him if we're signing a striker.
He's the type of player we lack up front, good physical presence, can play with his back to goal, but is quite direct on the front foot too. His record in League 1 is a goal every 192 minutes on the pitch, and every 222 minutes in the Championship. These are the stats we should be paying attention to, not his appearances:goals.
What do you people want? If we sign him we'll have Healey, Koroma, Marshall, Radulovic, and Ladapo before we even think about seeing Danny Ward on a football pitch again. Last season we were perpetually 2 injuries away from a front 2 of Harratt and Hudlin.
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Post by Frankiesleftpeg on Sept 9, 2024 20:57:39 GMT 1
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Post by pterrier on Sept 9, 2024 20:59:51 GMT 1
Our recruitment of strikers is like witnessing a chancer playing championship manager who has somehow ended up as our director of football . He knows the names of about two strikers within our budget (Taylor and May) because they scored some goals at league 1 level on the top scorers list after a quick scan of sky sports news reels. Doesn’t know any names outside of the English leagues, apart from a bloke that was top scorer in the finish leagues but him being an utter disaster has convinced him that the foreign market isn’t the way to go. With no real contacts in the game and When he is unable to sign the only two blokes he’s heard of, in utter panic he then types into Google ‘free agents, strikers’, the same list which random DATM punters trudge out in desperation each season. He sees a list of big names and then scrolls down until he notices the first realistic name (that he recognises): ladapo. ‘I’ve heard of him, he scored goals a few seasons ago at league 1 level and ‘he’ll know the league’. Delighted he jumps out of his gaming seat and runs to tell Duff. ‘Ludapo?! Isn’t he 31 and he only scored two goals last season, only one at league 1 level!’ Says Duff. ‘Yea but he was good five seasons ago pal’ replies Cartwright. ‘But mark, he’s 31, injury prone, no pace and haven’t we got enough old strikers?’ ‘Please Michael, he’s all I’ve got’ ‘Ah sod it, I’ve got a train to catch to Cheltenham, do what you want Mark. It’s a shit league anyway. See you on Tuesday’. The next noise you hear … ‘So Freddy, when did you first hear about the club being interested in you’ ‘Well it all came around pretty fast…’ ‘Shut up freddy, it’s all all part of a long term strategy’ hastily interrupts a red faced Cartwright. 5 seasons ago? The season before last he got 21 goals in all competitions, 17 of those in the league and a league 1 winners medal. Last season didn't go too well but he only played about 15 games in all comps but still managed 5 goals. He's averaging nearly 1 in 2 at this level. Not a bad addition on a free. A lot of the post was tongue in cheek stuff, I don’t literally believe the conversation went like that
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Post by Russlad on Sept 9, 2024 21:02:36 GMT 1
Realistically the best we can get on a free at the current time. Don’t know people are moaning for.
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Post by pterrier on Sept 9, 2024 21:12:02 GMT 1
Realistically the best we can get on a free at the current time. Don’t know people are moaning for. Probably because we are told that we now have a thorough recruitment process in place. We have been unable to address a severe lack of goals in the striking department. Linked with a couple of names but had no real plans in place outside of the two identified strikers who we couldn’t land. We are then told that the strikers we have are good enough but then after a week we backtrack and are trying to sign an out of form and out of contract free agent who hasn’t exactly come with glowing reviews from Charlton who were appalling last season. Recruitment seems to be based on little scouting infrastructure or systematic process.
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Post by saintlyterrier on Sept 9, 2024 21:14:02 GMT 1
For what it's worth, Ipswich fans today thanked him for getting last two seasons, and wished him luck. Seemed genuine. We did the same with Harry Bunn I certainly didn't!
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Post by dezzly on Sept 9, 2024 21:29:06 GMT 1
Whatever anyone’s opinion of why this signing has ended up happening I think we should at least give the lad a chance. His record in league one his last last 4 full seasons he’s averaged around 1 in 3.Last season with Charlton wasn’t a success but there’s a world where it could work for us. There is also one where it very much couldn’t. I’m interested to see the contract length as it should be for 1 year only in my personal opinion.
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Post by stinkypete on Sept 9, 2024 21:33:37 GMT 1
A much needed striker, with a decent record at this level, on a free, can’t see the problem!
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Post by Big Ern on Sept 9, 2024 21:35:14 GMT 1
Theoretically should be a better signing than Taylor given he has proven himself in this league, yet some people have their knickers in a twist because we might be signing him and haven't signed Lutons 4th choice striker.
Fucking bonkers some of you.
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Post by wildhogg on Sept 9, 2024 21:39:25 GMT 1
Seems like a good acquisition. A really good record at this level and a big lad who offers something different to what we have. What's not to like, other than his age meaning that he's a bit of a shorter-term option than we'd been hoping for? Then again, Alfie May is also 31.
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Post by bluesandtwos on Sept 9, 2024 21:39:33 GMT 1
And you know better than the professionals then? If he had still been at Ipswich, and not on a free, and we had landed him in the window people would be really pleased. A proven striker at this level. Any excuse to have a pop. Try supporting the club for a change. Will always support the club but will come back to this when you’ve seen him play Promise? Even if he does well?
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Post by pterrier on Sept 9, 2024 21:43:34 GMT 1
Theoretically should be a better signing than Taylor given he has proven himself in this league, yet some people have their knickers in a twist because we might be signing him and haven't signed Lutons 4th choice striker. Fucking bonkers some of you. Proven himself in this league? So has Jordan Rhodes (last season in fact) and I wouldn’t want him in this team because he doesn’t have the attributes we need up there, namely pace. Hardly bonkers at all to feel a little underwhelmed by what’s going on. How can you go from saying we have a striker in mind but if he doesn’t come off then we are content with what we have to then one week later changing your mind and panic signing Freddy ladapo because that’s exactly what this is, a panic signing. People can question, people can spot contradictions and a scattergun approach when they see one. Allow people to question without resorting to calling them ‘fucking bonkers’; it’s a message board and a place for debate.
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Post by tepidterrier on Sept 9, 2024 21:53:04 GMT 1
Fuming that we didn't sign 31-year old Alfie May, who before this season had scored 66 goals in League One, for £1 million on 20 grand a week And instead are going to sign 31-year old Freddie Ladapo, who before this season has scored 66 goals in League One, for £0 on presumably less than 10 grand a week
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Post by daltonterrier44 on Sept 9, 2024 21:54:40 GMT 1
Silly signing Reaks of panic Ladapo is not a great striker and shows how naive the recruitment team is at the club And you know better than the professionals then? If he had still been at Ipswich, and not on a free, and we had landed him in the window people would be really pleased. A proven striker at this level. Any excuse to have a pop. Try supporting the club for a change. decent signing but it is worth questioning the fact we was told by the owner last week we didn’t need a striker and theirs only TWO strikers they wanted and suddenly we sign him a week later? I’m glad of the signing but makes you question the people at the tops statements.
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Post by pterrier on Sept 9, 2024 21:58:38 GMT 1
Fuming that we didn't sign 31-year old Alfie May, who before this season had scored 66 goals in League One, for £1 million on 20 grand a week And instead are going to sign 31-year old Freddie Ladapo, who before this season has scored 66 goals in League One, for £0 on presumably less than 10 grand a week Ask Charlton fans the difference between the players.
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Post by boooothy on Sept 9, 2024 22:06:10 GMT 1
How can signing him be a bad thing?
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