Yep he's terrible, incidentally we put quality service into the box at Bolton in that 2nd leg he looked a different player rather than trying to walk it in, Stockport obviously believe he can add to their squad, time will tell I guess, one thing that can't be argued is there is a risk.
I think it speaks volumes 2 managers have had him both gave him chances and be couldn't get in the side. Now he couldn't get in infront if watters and Humphrys who aren't exactly scoring.
Posted by 90's Hatter on February 22, 2025, 22:56:26, in reply to "Re: Frustrating afternoon " The chance for wootton in the first half, he has to round the keeper. Easy chance at this level. MSH has got to bury that header. Then in the second half Cosgrove practically misses an open net. Woots also missed a header at the far post.
He's clearly just not being used right. Again. In fact, every club in his career other than Plymouth for half a season have just used him wrong. That's the only explanation for him being a sack of cack at all of them.
Or they got lucky/he had the best run of his career and that got him another couple of years at good money. He looks like he should be a good League One striker. But he just isn't.
According to Opta... Game 1: Played 17 minutes gave away 2 fouls. Game 2: Played 30 minutes gave away 4 fouls.
I don't think he played well for Plymouth. I was really surprised that so many people were so pleased he'd signed after his season with them. I knew nowt abut him, pretty much like I know nowt about 99% of players we sign, but after looking at his stats at Plymouth, I felt a bit 'meh'. He was on loan for the full season, they only started him in 13 league games, and brought him on as a sub 20 times. He got 8 league goals. He did well at Aberdeen, which I'll come to in a bit - 31 goals in 64 league starts and 15 sub appearances. And he does well in games that are not in the league: 7 goals in 10 FA Cup starts + 7 as sub, 13 goals from 20 starts in 'other' competitions + 3 as sub (play-offs, Football league trophy, Europa League). But at every team other than Aberdeen he's got way more sub appearances than starts. A club sign him, permanently or on loan, try him for a few games, drop him to the bench, then get rid. When he was 20 he went on loan to North Ferriby and after 3 starts they dropped him to the bench. The following season Carlisle signed him and they also gave him 3 starts before dropping him to the bench. It looked for all the world like he was going to drop out of the pro game in to non-league. Then Aberdeen signed him in the January 2018 transfer window, for reasons best known to themselves. He got sent off in his first game for them and they barely played him for the rest of the season. By the time he turned 22 in early December 2018, Wigan had let him go without ever playing him, he'd had unspectacular loan spells at Barrow, Chorley and North Ferriby, Carlisle had seen enough after 6 months and he'd scored a grand total of 3 career goals. 1 for Carlisle and 2 in almost a year with Aberdeen. Then something amazing happens. A week after his 22nd birthday he scored against Livingston. Four days later he scored against St Mirren. And in the next week he got 2 against Dundee, 2 against Hearts, and 1 against Celtic. On 10th December he'd scored 3 goals in his entire career. By the end of Boxing Day he'd got 10. 7 goals in 2 weeks. From 11th December 2018 until 18th January 2020, from 55 games in 13 months he scored 40 goals! Straight up, he did. Sam Cosgrove scored 40 goals in 55 games. Sounds like fantasy land doesn't it. A month or so later he picked up an injury and whatever spell he was under deserted him and it hasn't returned. After that run of phenomenal form, he was with Aberdeen for another year but only got 5 goals in 25 appearances. Birmingham signed him for a lot of money, clearly based on what he'd done a year earlier, played him a couple times, relegated him to the bench, then they'd had enough. He did 6 months at Shrewsbury and 6 months at AFC Wimbledon the following season and managed 3 goals. Then got 8 for Plymouth in a year and has managed 4 for us in a year and a half. 53 league starts and 79 sub appearances over 4 years since he left Aberdeen scoring just 15 goals. He got 7 in 2 weeks 6 years earlier playing against the likes of Celtic and Hearts. He clearly had something in that golden period for Aberdeen, he wasn't just scoring against the teams making up the numbers in the Scottish Premier League, he got goals against Celtic and Rangers too. But whatever he had, it appears to be long gone.
