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Hooper should start against Reading. Hooper when fit and on form would contribute far more than Grabban - who unfortunately seemed to have tapered off since his promising start early on at the start of the season.

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Hooper any day of the week.

Feel a bit sorry for him really, been injuried on and off and never got proper run of games in the side regularly.

Had to play as a loan striker in that absolutely tactically terrible set up last season which flattered no forward players.

Getting a little fed up of watching grabban run around to get the ball and then panic when he gets in a goalscoring position. Hooper did show his qualities off the bench and more than deserves a run

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Feel sorry for Grabban, scored for fun when playing on his own, we were winning game after game. Adams goes 2 up top, Grabban doesn''t seem to know how to link up with Jerome and we start losing and drawing, must be frustrating. The question is, are we going to play 2 up top or 1? Surely that depends on the opposition. If we go 2 up top Hooper''s great at linking up (from his celtic and Scunthorpe days) but if we go 1, surely has to be grabban as that''s how he scored all his goals, not just this saxon, but last season as well

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[quote user="mrs miggins"]Feel sorry for Grabban, scored for fun when playing on his own, we were winning game after game. Adams goes 2 up top, Grabban doesn''t seem to know how to link up with Jerome and we start losing and drawing, must be frustrating. The question is, are we going to play 2 up top or 1? Surely that depends on the opposition. If we go 2 up top Hooper''s great at linking up (from his celtic and Scunthorpe days) but if we go 1, surely has to be grabban as that''s how he scored all his goals, not just this saxon, but last season as well[/quote]Good post that [img]http://services.pinkun.com/forums/pinkun/cs/emoticons/emotion-21.gif[/img]

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[quote user="mrs miggins"]Feel sorry for Grabban, scored for fun when playing on his own, we were winning game after game. Adams goes 2 up top, Grabban doesn''t seem to know how to link up with Jerome and we start losing and drawing, must be frustrating. The question is, are we going to play 2 up top or 1? Surely that depends on the opposition. If we go 2 up top Hooper''s great at linking up (from his celtic and Scunthorpe days) but if we go 1, surely has to be grabban as that''s how he scored all his goals, not just this saxon, but last season as well[/quote]

This all makes good sense.  My argument has been that we have to play one up with Redmond as an attacking player in behind, with a free role to go left or right as well.  This gives us space to have a more solid midfield with channces for them to get forward as well. My choice would be Lafferty - who can be terrific in that role - or Grabban, who is better on his own up front, with players buzzing around him.  

442 could well be instigated later in matches to chase games or whatever, thus having two distinct attacking groups in one match - a 4411 to start, with Grabban or Lafferty,  442 with Jerome and Hooper.  The best of both worlds.

A bit simplistic, but at least then there would seem be some structure and use of resources, much of which seems missing this season.

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Yesturday''s shape was truly abysmal until Redderz kept to his right hand side; his best position. The lack of balance is worrying and the first goal we conceded was an example of that. If we are going to play 2 up top with no proper left winger then we have to be smarter as a team

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[quote user="Jim Smith"]Those saying Hooper has not done anything to show he should be in the team. How could he? Adams has consistently snubbed him from the moment he came in as caretaker manager to the extent that he was prepared to play with no strikers for part of a game at Stamford Bridge we had to win rather than give Hooper a chance.

Adams attitude to Hooper has been terrible. Had we brought in a proper manager then probably Hooper and Bassong would have been regulars in the team for the last two months and we would have many more points.[/quote]

 

To be fair Jim those who were saying that had been right. Before yesterday Hooper had had 100 minutes game time with nothing to note. Yesterday he had 15 minutes and I would think did enough to start the next game. Not just because of that great finish. But because he looked fitter and sharper than previous appearances. He showed a great touch in front of me when he pulled the ball down in an instant. If he''d played like that in previous appearances he would have deserved a start sooner. But in previous appearances he looked at best off the pace and at worst disinterested.

 

 

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Hooper & Bassong would walk into every other team starting 11 in this divison.

This is why we needed start this season from scratch (new boss and coaches), so Bassong, Hooper, Pilkington all started with a clean slate under a new boss.

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The Grabban and Jerome partnership clearly isn''t working. Hooper was my hero on Saturday, coming on as a sub and saving us a point. As a result I want to see Hooper and Jerome start v Reading

When Hooper was playing for Celtic I reckon he was playing round about this level, and I believe he can still get a good number of goals for us this season.

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Julian wrote the following post at 25/11/2014 7:26 PM:Grabban will always be selected ahead of Hooper because Adams bought him.

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£50 Hooper starts ahead of Grabban next match, deal?

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[quote user="mrs miggins"]Julian wrote the following post at 25/11/2014 7:26 PM:Grabban will always be selected ahead of Hooper because Adams bought him.

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£50 Hooper starts ahead of Grabban next match, deal?[/quote]

Go on then Julian - money where your mouth is fella!

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