Snowball
The thread is about the fact that when he plays NO STRIKER SCORES
and that's because he either
(a) doesn't suit the way we play
OR
(b) he is extremely selfish and goes for goal rather than put a team-mate in
OR
(c) he's not good enough
OR
(d) something about him or the interaction between him and other players seems to stop them playing as well
(a) In all the games I've seen him so far he seems to play on his own, rarely interacts with Doyle, whereas Doyle-Hunt just seem to know what each other will do, seem to play for each other. When the ball is sent up and Hunt jumps I actually expect him to win the header (unlike Lita) but also I expect it to go into the right space.
(b) Lita "should have passed" when it was 1-0 at Swansea, but again showed he's only interested in improving HIS goals-scored record (and we all know why)... He did the same yesterday shhopting from low-percentage angles rather than try to play others in.
(c) This season he has scored just the one goal, put through for a 1 on 1 (decent goal) but he hasn't turned any more of his 14 chances into goals.
Long is more accurate and scores more often and everyone thinks Long is sh!t
CLUB Statistics6 Starts (03 sub) 8 shots on target 6 shots off target 1 goals LITA
3 Starts (22 sub) 6 shots on target 5 shots off target 3 goals LONG
(d) I have no idea what the truth is, how Lita interacts with the team, but he's been "out of it" a lot
these last two seasons, wasn't prepared to be on the bench, was keen to stay at Norwich, and there
are other off-field "elements" which says to me he's not a Reading-type of player (as a person) and
I seriously wonder if he's part of the current malaise.
Example, unless Noel is being secretly disciplined, (eg maybe he got p!ssed at being dropped for Lita)
then he should rightly be upset... might that not affect his brother, the other Irish lads etc?
It takes very little to undermine a team. Look what happened last year.