mangaman
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OK - Peter Crouch has now scored 21 goals in 38 games (55% and often off the bench)
compared to
Lineker - 48/80 appearances (60% mainly full matches)
Shearer - 30 in 63 (48% again mainly from the start)
Bobby Charlton - 49/106 (46%)
Wayne Rooney - 25/60 (42%)
Jermain Defoe - 11/40 (27.5%)
Emile Heskey - 7/58 (12%)
Is Crouchy the best kept secret we've got?
If he keeps on outscoring everyone else (even Rooney) can we leave him out?
Personally I think he is underappreciated as he is an unassuming bloke. I'd like to see him and Rooney up front as part of my starting 442 formation.
Forget trying Gerard up with Rooney.
Mature teams/managers like Spain pick the best system and then fit the players around them. We seem determined to shoehorn Gerard and Lampard into the team, whatever that does to the overall balance of the team.
Crouch and Rooney would be the 1st 2 names pencilled into my team.
Crouch seems to be the most underappreciated England striker ever??
compared to
Lineker - 48/80 appearances (60% mainly full matches)
Shearer - 30 in 63 (48% again mainly from the start)
Bobby Charlton - 49/106 (46%)
Wayne Rooney - 25/60 (42%)
Jermain Defoe - 11/40 (27.5%)
Emile Heskey - 7/58 (12%)
Is Crouchy the best kept secret we've got?
If he keeps on outscoring everyone else (even Rooney) can we leave him out?
Personally I think he is underappreciated as he is an unassuming bloke. I'd like to see him and Rooney up front as part of my starting 442 formation.
Forget trying Gerard up with Rooney.
Mature teams/managers like Spain pick the best system and then fit the players around them. We seem determined to shoehorn Gerard and Lampard into the team, whatever that does to the overall balance of the team.
Crouch and Rooney would be the 1st 2 names pencilled into my team.
Crouch seems to be the most underappreciated England striker ever??