Food for thought on the Earnie Debate

[Syteanric 1]

During Robert Earnshaws injury we scored more goals on average with him out of the team than we did with him in it, so a look at the league table proves..

 We also played better without Earnshaw, Particularly Hucks who had a free reign a bit more...

one thing is we won 10 games with him in the team.. but only won 8 without him (all comps).

would we miss him? do we need him? it seems we are not that worse off without him results wise than we are with him.. yet we seem to play more as a team and score more without him.

jas :)

[Michael Starr 571]

Good call! When he plays, we tend to play more direct too, bypassing the midfield. I love Earnie, he''s an excellent player, but i''d rather we sold him now and used the money to tighten defensively... thus giving a few of the fringe strikers like Martin an opportunity to "prove his talent". I really think Earnie''s leaving! Hence the need for a striker right now.Thanks for the memories Earnie, i''m glad we were able to re-ignite his career. Maybe one or two other wobbling high profile players will look at Earnie and think "hmmm... could be a good move for me"

[Arthur Whittle 0]

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During Robert Earnshaws injury we scored more goals on average with him out of the team than we did with him in it, so a look at the league table proves..

 We also played better without Earnshaw, Particularly Hucks who had a free reign a bit more...

one thing is we won 10 games with him in the team.. but only won 8 without him (all comps).

would we miss him? do we need him? it seems we are not that worse off without him results wise than we are with him.. yet we seem to play more as a team and score more without him.

jas :)

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What games did he play in and didnt play in? May explain some of your points.

[GJP 79]

If only we had a good strike partner for Earnie...

[Dame to Blame 108]

You can bend stats however you feel fit  but for me i would keep earnie as this stat is the most important 19 goals from 28 games

[Northern Canary 0]

Dont forget that Earnie did score some important goals against the likes of Sunderland, some of them being when the rest of the team were posing little attacking threat.

[Pieman 0]

I don''t get this. If Earnie was fit for a full season, he''d be looking at 25+ goals no worries. You have to pay serious money to get that kind of return, and still give the new guy time to settle in. We should be looking at ANOTHER 20+ a season man to play alongside Earnie, not look to replace him imo. I know the rest of the side needs a pretty major overhaul, but I wouldn''t sacrifice one of our best players to do it. 

[Old Shuck 291]

Goalscorers like Earnie rarely contribute much to the team as a whole-people like Ian Rush weren''t team players at all, all he did was look to feed off the genius of DAlglish and score goals, but he had a long and glorious career at Liverpool at it-similarly he flopped at Juventus as their philosophy of total football meant he was always going to struggle. Even for us, one Ted McDougall was a lazy, moody goalhanger and nothing else-but he got 30 plus goals one season and wasn''t far off that for the others.

If Earnie stays, I''d like to see him get a chance to do something alongside Brown, we have all been pretty scathing of the bloke, but he deserves a season. Danny Mills was slagged off at Norwich and he didn''t end up having such a bad career.