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I understand the debate and doubt over Stama and Hendry. Statistically you can make a case for saying neither are very good when it comes to measuring their worth as a striker. However, that really depends on what their role in the team is and what they are being asked to do. No one actually knows that, and only Jens can really assess whether they are worth their place in the team or not. For what its worth, I did think Stama would have come good by now and scored more goals from open play, and since that hasnt happened, Im willing to conceed that we will be looking for re-inforcements come January. However, I keep hearing that Stama has continually fluffed his lines and Im struggling to recall this conveyor belt of sitters he has missed that proves any point. Similarly with Hendry. We are not a team that continually gets to the by line and throws the ball into the box for a striker to attack or pays off second balls that they could exploit. Everything we do is very measured and controlled to the extent we look like we are trying to score thw perfect goal on every occasion. As a result our strikers are lucky if they are getting 1 or 2 chances per game. Even Haaland would steuggle off that. And for those complaining that Maswanhise is just a winger and as such his goals dont seem to count as much? Id point out he plays a similar position to Mo Salah, and no one is saying he isnt a striker......

Trump getting a peace prize tells you everything you need to know about FIFA as an organisation.

awwww ffs........can you go back to predicting defeats every week please ? We were all a lot more confident then 😂

Stama’s inability to score from anything other than the spot has nothing to do with our system. He’s had chance after chance under different managers and setups, and he keeps fluffing them for reasons we’ve all gone over already. At this point he’s just an expensive investment who hasn’t delivered what you expect from a number 9. As for Hendry, I’m starting to think the jury isn’t out anymore and that he might not cut it either. We’re not short of goals right now, but we still need to go out in January and sign a proper striker.

We are sitting third in the league and only lost two games so far. Maybe the system is working ?

No sure why you quoted him, if you're unwilling to answer his question

I turned the TV off and went out and did something less boring instead... Why don't you?

It's Marcus Aurelius. "The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." (Actually reading that back I've got it wrong - but cannae be bothered deleting it - thought I was clever writing that - back to the bevvy now)

The jury was already out on Robinson before his injury and many including myself concluded that he wasn't a goalscorer. The only decent main striker we seem to have on our books just now is Sule and he's never really been tested.

I don't believe anything any manager (or assistant) says about injuries so mibbes aye, mibbes no. If he was technically available for Tuesday, but "load balanced" for example, then he could still play.

Yes the top goal scorer is a motherwell player a winger/ midfielder where the vast majority of our goals have come from, who will soon be going off to play in the AFCON tournament and be unavailable for a month at least. So presumably our alleged strikers will step up and fill the gap, very unlikely so i hope we have signing targets identified.

They're not scoring because the goals are coming from elsewhere and/or they're not getting the service. All these sitters "similar to Shaw" that you claimed they're missing are just made up. How good they may or may not be is a different conversation. Also, "what we currently have isn't working"? That's just bollocks. We're the 4th highest scorers in the league and the league's top goal scorer is a Motherwell player.

Lets not kid ourselves here, Stamatelopoulos does not fit the system we play apart from a few penalties he has been brutal and shows no sign of improvement, most games he played he was anonymous. Hendry puts himself about and does show promise so time will tell on him. We definately need at least 1 striker brought in during January, probably 2 as what we currently have is not working.

It will be a lot easier to score goals against league one defences, he was never good enough for the premiership. The championship and below is his level . Although AP and Hendry are not scoring as many goals as we think they should they are still miles better than Shaw.