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'Right now' you don't want to talk about scoring rates, because you want to point out that Shane has the same number of absolute goals as a host of other players.
Listen, H+Gwathoppa, Vewy carefully. I-WAS-MAKING-A-SEPARATE-POINT.
I know it's very difficult for you to hold more than one thing in your head at a time, but
I-WAS-MAKING-A-SEPARATE-POINT. The point is, very simply, that DOZENS of strikers,
in fact about
FIVE DOZEN officially-classed-as-a-striker strikers, have, as yet, 14 or so
games into the season, scored either 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 goals.
That POINT has NOTHING to do with scoring-rates, or goals-per-minute, or goals
as a starter, or goals-as-a-sub, or the length of anyone's penis (that's a willy); it means,
wait-for-it, MERELY, wait-for-it, wait, that about FIVE DOZEN officially-classed-as-a-striker strikers,
have, as yet, 14 or so games into the season, scored either 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 goals.
And THAT means what?
It means, that after 14 games, given any individual striker, whether his name be Shane or Shaun
or Albert, whether he be LONG or short, or anywhere in between, even ZERO goals against his name,
matters-very-little
TOMMY SMITH, 9 appearances, no goals, yet he's a GREAT player at this level;
Mark Cullen, FOURTEEN appearances, no goals, still being chosen; Dele Adebola, another with 9 appearances and not a single goal; Counago, no goals from 8; Gallagher no goals (NOTE ZERO GOALS, NIL GOALS, NADA ZILCH, despite
ten appearances, still being picked; the VERY classy Arsenal boy Jay Simpson, TEN appearances and no goals, not one, not a goal, in round figures zero goals. You SEE?
Not one of those players is a bad player. Tommy Smith we should have paid a million for, just a season ago, but a Premiership side came in for him. NO GOALS AT ALL.
Do you get it yet?
This is not about Shane Long. It's about how ALL strikers have hot and cold patches, how bookies make loads of money, how even GREAT players can take time to find the net