Conor Wilkinson remains my worst, though I admit he made nowhere near 50 apps. Thank the Lord. Cosgrove sadly makes the top 2, I say sadly, cos for two games he looked like the real deal and everyone wanted it to work. And he scored a corker early doors last season.
Connor Wilkinson was a awful footballer. Cosgrove looked good in the 2 games v Bolton got fans very excited but sadly looked like a raffle winner the rest of the time. Can't believe how many appearances he actually made for us. Did nothing at stockport either on loan.
I think when he signed there was alot of positivity about him was reportedly on a fortune at brum and came for games. Unfortunately never lived up to the hype.
Yeah I always thought that both he and Marc Richards were poor. And they made Daniel Nardiello look ten times better lol.
Tommy Wrong. Yeah, he wasn't great either. But, part of a promotion squad. And I doubt he was one of the club's highest earners.
The thing that perplexed me about cosgrove was the way he was (in my probably biased opinion) nearly always getting fouled by the defender and the ref always gave the defender the foul. otherwise significantly underwhelming
Because he wasn't nearly always getting fouled, he was just always throwing himself to the floor. Usually after fouling the defender
I didn't even notice that part of your post. I think that's the key part though, it was just your bias that refused to accept our player was the cheat while the reality was that Cosgrove was just fouling every time he went near another player. I think that's his biggest weakness that he needs to cut out because being a striker is a numbers game. Hit ten towards the goal and you may score one or two. Only hit one towards the goal because you throw yourself at the deck the other nine times and chances are you won't score with the sole shot you actually have. I don't think we, or anyone else, got to see what he was or wasn't capable of in front of goal because he fouled and dove way too much reducing the actual shooting chances he got.
I remember his two goals...one a header that hit him on the shoulder and went in off a defender, and the other was a complete slice that wrong footed the Stoke City goalie...and he ran around the touchline doing the Alan Shearer finger wag.
His problem was he wouldn't look for space, he'd pick the largest centre back, stand as close as possible and initiate a wrestling match...if he tries to play football there might be hope for him.
