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Cook is joint third top scorer in the division and has probably got the best scoring rate we have had from a striker in some time, yes he misses chances too - but that is the nature of the beast at league 2 level. The last time I checked the stats Cook had missed the most big chances in the division, but the others in the top three of that category were also in the top four goalscorers. There is a reason these players are playing in league 2.

Our problem is there is no goal threat at all outside of Cook and that is what is costing us - our three in behind the striker do not offer goals, with the possible exception of Angol who cannot be relied upon due to fitness and if Cook was to be injured we'd be completely screwed in the goals department.

 

Only the (dare I say it) completely dumb retards don’t realise that goals win games and xG is completely irrelevant. Quality strikers who convert that phantom xG cost money and we don’t spend any.

 

U wot m8?

Have you tried clearing your cache?

 

But can xG predict how many swings of the banjo it will take until the cow gets walloped?

 

Sorry but what a load of nonsense haha. I doubt anyone was told until T & S we’re sacked and 15 of the squad from last year were still contracted to this season and are still here so had every reason to fight for promotion. We just weren’t good enough, creating a couple of chances a game and at times relying on worldies will eventually mean form drops off. Or shall we use that excuse for McCalls second season in his second spell as well?

 

We signed three strikers whose clubs they were at didn't want to keep. The stark opposite of the two strikers you mention. And that's the problem when you have decreasing budget restraints, the likes of Mullin and Stockton are gonna go elsewhere. January is going to be intriguing, its clear we need quality in the ranks and that costs, especially in January.

 

XG starts stats are fine but they don't put the ball in the net. Brentford used xG to find strikers that did though. Then paid lots of money for them relatively speaking.

 

Yep, after his first spell at Scunthorpe I think.

 

That goal he scored in the hat trick against us in the cup at VP, free kick from the half way line and I think it was Hornby he lobbed.

 

Most on here said he was useless.

 

If we had end product, we'd piss this league is the jist of xG.

Take Callum Cooke for example, in the league this season he's created 43 chances in 11 games, the most chances created in the EFL.... he has only 2 assists. Yes, it may boil down to the ball into the attackers feet/head being not the best quality, but 43 chances, surely that's boiling more onto the finishers. Andy Cook has had the most shots in L2 this season, only managing 5 goals from 36 efforts. Hopefully it starts dropping for them but we've been so wasteful so far.

 

It's like a primary school maths lesson.

 

Shhhhh, it's holiday time.

 

After a quick Google he joined Wigan in 2017 so if I remember rightly it was just prior to that move we were linked with him.

 

Ah WOAP. The blog that thinks it knows how to run and manage a football club and no-one else's opinion counts. Last I heard Edin was the editor

 

So without trying to decipher the rest of your meaningless crap, I agree entirely that a clinical striker in good form is the difference between success and failure and it’s been like that since the start of time.