ropy Posted 12 hours ago Report Share Posted 12 hours ago Stamatalopolous was involved in both goals on Saturday. I’d like to see Hendry get a game through the middle for comparison purposes. We’ve scored a few goals this season, that is not where the concerns have been. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weeyin Posted 11 hours ago Report Share Posted 11 hours ago 52 minutes ago, andalg said: Hopefully not another John Reilly ! If he sat on the halfway line for 90 minutes, he'd still be better than The Rile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stuwell2 Posted 10 hours ago Report Share Posted 10 hours ago 2 hours ago, BigManTam said: For me, it just looks like AP is missing that X factor. Every shot of his seems to be blocked, easily pushed off the ball, always struggling to keep hold of it. Lack of pace and strength. I think he might be out of his depth, and I think he knows it What a load of bullshit. The guys a good player and no where near out of his depth ffs he was capped for Australia last year and then spent most of the season out injured. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennyc Posted 8 hours ago Report Share Posted 8 hours ago 5 hours ago, Spiderpig said: Stamatelopoulos is not scoring more goals, his positional play is still suspect, so in what way has he improved? Looked to me like he was heavily involved in both goals v Killie. He was in the right position then so an obvious improvement and a decent contribution. Given his price tag he certainly needs to score more. But if others are scoring off his work then that helps. Only Hearts have scored more league goals than us up to now. I think he deserves a bit longer before he is deemed a failure. We have had other strikers who were not prolific goal scorers but contributed. Bowman springs to mind. He had a poor goals return. The rest of the team made up for his lack of goals and so far that is what we are seeing with Stamatelopoulos. But could he do better? Yes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grizzlyg Posted 5 hours ago Report Share Posted 5 hours ago 5 hours ago, Stuwell2 said: What a load of bullshit. The guys a good player and no where near out of his depth ffs he was capped for Australia last year and then spent most of the season out injured. I have been backing him since day one and I am still the same. I am with you pal 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellfan Posted 4 hours ago Report Share Posted 4 hours ago 4 hours ago, dennyc said: Looked to me like he was heavily involved in both goals v Killie. He was in the right position then so an obvious improvement and a decent contribution. Given his price tag he certainly needs to score more. But if others are scoring off his work then that helps. Only Hearts have scored more league goals than us up to now. I think he deserves a bit longer before he is deemed a failure. We have had other strikers who were not prolific goal scorers but contributed. Bowman springs to mind. He had a poor goals return. The rest of the team made up for his lack of goals and so far that is what we are seeing with Stamatelopoulos. But could he do better? Yes. Bowman had a natural number 9 in Moult alongside him. Stama, by contrast, was signed to be that number 9 himself, so the expectations are different. Comparing him directly with Bowman doesn’t really hold up. Stama’s had over a year now, which is more than enough time to have shown more than he has. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellgirl Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago Stama only played just over half a season last year due to injury as folk know - we can't criticise him for not scoring enough goals over the season when he wasn't playing for just over half of it. He was playing well until the wrist break from recollection Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dennyc Posted 3 hours ago Report Share Posted 3 hours ago 1 hour ago, wellfan said: Bowman had a natural number 9 in Moult alongside him. Stama, by contrast, was signed to be that number 9 himself, so the expectations are different. Comparing him directly with Bowman doesn’t really hold up. Stama’s had over a year now, which is more than enough time to have shown more than he has. And in that 'over a year', how much time did Stama miss through injury? He has not had a full year on the pitch. And on top of that the entire team is learning a new system under a new Manager with numerous new players being introduced.. My point re Bowman was that he played his full part in the team scoring. As has and is Stama. Although I accept Stama is looked upon by us fans as the main striker. But is he? Maybe Maswanhise is looked upon as the main goal threat. Could Stama do better? Of course he could. So could everybody else in the team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellgirl Posted 2 hours ago Report Share Posted 2 hours ago I personally think Maswanhise is pretty up and down a lot of the time but even if he scores a goal every few games it's worth it. I'll be happy to see what Hendry does when he's played a few more games. We very much miss someone like Spittal although Slattery does a good job in the middle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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