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Put another way he did better for the team getting his chance when Whitehall is out than Elliot ever did.
I was not a particular fan of Elliott either, but that’s nonsense.
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Similar situation for Beck & Elliott IMO, failed to play to their strengths in both cases.
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We all want our players to do well especially strikers.
I am only telling it as I see it, Beck came here with a 1 in 7 goal ratio. That said his game was more of a provider or creater for others.
I have not seen anything to convince me he can create or provide or that he was worth paying money for.
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I did judge him on what I saw and he was limited
Of course he’s limited, as Torpey was limited. Beck’s a straight forward no frills targetman as was the aforementioned Torpey. What do you expect him to do exactly, Glide past players and start running the channels ?
I’m guessing you’re a new fan because you obviously have no idea what Torpey offered or what John Murphy offered Blackpool offered back in the day who was a similar type of player.
Those type of strikers are there to get the best out of others and not necessarily shine themselves. All they are there to do really is occupy defenders, lay the ball off and win flick on’s.
Torpey also knew what places to occupy; Beck didn’t. Taking into account the lower standard, I still don’t think he was very good for a target man. Beck was a yard off and I wasn’t expecting him to play a mirror image of Carlton. I said this previously, but why read that when you can make a highly presumptive tweet full of your usual flibbergibbet style?
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I did judge him on what I saw and he was limited.
Of course he’s limited, as Torpey was limited.
Beck’s a straight forward no frills targetman as was the aforementioned Torpey.
Those type of strikers are there to get the best out of others and not necessarily shine themselves. All they are there to do really is occupy defenders, lay the ball off and win flick on’s.
Torps scored 1 in 4 games for us!
Beck ain’t qualified to clean his boots let alone be compared with.
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Did you mean ‘flibbertigibbet’ Siderite? Damn fine word. Not used often enough IMO
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We all want our players to do well especially strikers.
I am only telling it as I see it, Beck came here with a 1 in 7 goal ratio. That said his game was more of a provider or creater for others.
I have not seen anything to convince me he can create or provide or that he was worth paying money for.
He created two opportunities for Beestin and Robert’s in the first half, it’s not Becks fault they both failed to make the best of them.
Rene, I wasn’t making a direct comparison in terms of goal output but drew comparisons as to their playing style. Two targetmen ?.
Siderite, of course Becks was a yard off towards the end when he came off because he isn’t match fit. Not really played much, has he ?
I’m not his biggest fan, but you really need to be a bit more fair.
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I don’t think Beck’s the answer but to me he looks like he would be most effective in a two with another forward feeding off him.
We don’t have that and we also have wide players whose first instinct is to cut inside and shoot rather than get to the byline.
He needs a “big man, little man” setup in a 442 with plenty of crosses into the box but unfortunately for him, nobody plays that way anymore.
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