Fair enough I just strongly disagree the lads been our best player all season and dosent half get some stick, today after 3 weeks out I thought he put a good solid performance in don’t get me wrong it weren’t his best but I still thought he was one of the better ones alongside Yiadom mills Townsend and Pinillos
I was at the game, and I thought he was stand-out our poorest player. Not for want of trying, but I don’t think he found a red shirt with a pass all game. He had a stinker - anyone that was there could tell you that.
Mate I’ve just looked at the stats he had the most of the ball and highest pass completion in our midfield and there’s look and whoscored.com the kid is 21 and streets above Mallan and Gardner already
I watched the game on ifollow and Williams was the only one to put a tackle in and hardly gave the ball away. Gardner must have booted the ball into touch 5 times. The stick Williams gets is bizarre
I dont like Bradshaw personally. I dont think he is as good as the "top scorer" title shows.. 9 goals this year (im not counting the 2 goals that he is trying to claim). 2 goals vs league 2 side and another in cup vs derby. So 6 in the league really. Every 327 mins he scores goals in championship and he is our 'best' striker. Hedges scored a goal every 327 mins too.. Pinnock goal every 312mins... Cavare 360mins.. Bradshaw is not prolific clearly and only seems to score open goals or 6 yarders and for me gets too many minutes on pitch. Its like him and Hecky are best friends behind the scenes. Deserves to be dropped. Was dropped vs Sunderland and we won. My opinion.
I think Bradshaw is a decent goal-scorer who would get a fair tally and do fine in a dominant team. We are not a dominating team. I think this theory is backed up by the time profile of TB's goals for us this season. His official goal tally in the league is 8 (I know there are disputes and varying views on this but that is the number that the EFL has him down for). Of those 8, 1 was a penalty. Of the remaining 7, over half, 4, were scored in the opening few minutes of games in which we came out of the blocks and started like a house on fire, dominating for twenty minutes or so. He has only scored 3 goals from open play beyond 15 minutes into a game and 2 of them were in the same game! Therefore Bradshaw can only really score on the rare occasions when we are dominant. Unfortunately, we don't have any combination of ten other players at the moment that are going to be dominant for very long, if at all, in this league. We need all eleven outfield players to be able to bring something to the party in general play and Tom doesn't have the pace, strength, passing, heading ability etc to really do this to any great extent. So, reluctantly, I come to the conclusion that we have to replace him, probably with McBurnie, who at least looked lively yesterday, put himself about in general play and looked as if he could fashion something for himself and/or a team-mate.
Great cross came in from the right yesterday. It was begging for him to get a decent connection on it, but I think he lacks self belief with anything out of his range. On another occasion, someone played him in but he just wasn't quick enough and the chance came and went. I know people talk about lack of service, but the chances do come, not in the form of the tap ins he prefers, but they come more often than people choose to think. Some fans were on his back yesterday I noticed. Considering the amount of stick other players have had for months, I think he's done remarkably well to have avoided criticism. At the end of the day, a striker that doesn't score and doesn't really look like doing so is only ok if he's assisting in some other way, but Bradshaw isn't.
