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Match Thread: Port Vale v Newport County


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1 hour ago, philmpv said:
3 hours ago, TylerB said:
Why, have we suddenly signed a forward? If Pope isn't fit nothing will change. When are people gonna stop suddenly expecting the likes of Guthrie and Robinson to score goals for us. We can create as many chances as we like, it doesn't really matter, we're now absolutely toothless in front of goal. Our forward's don't score, our midfielders don't score. I'd be very surprised if we score more than 1 goal in any of the remaining games this season.

When are people gonna stop suddenly expecting Pope to score goals for us? I know, if you listen to some on here, he's scored 10-15 since he's been out, but he's scored 3 goals out of our 43 this season, across 2 games, and got barely any assists. People say if he'd played against Oldham, he'd have had a hattrick. The Oldham game was very similar to the King's Lynn game. Pope played. Didn't score. Sick to the back teeth of some giving Rodney et al hell on here, yet Pope gets all of the leeway in the world. Rodney, in his first full FL season, has scored pretty much what Pope has in nearly 2 league seasons. Robinson has scored more than Pope this season across all competitions. Hell, Cullen is only 1 behind Pope. The issue with this squad is not our strikers. It's our service. I've said it time and time again. Our service to our strikers is absolutely shocking. This is a squad that was built largely by Aspin to 'feed Pope'. Pope's powers have waned to the point where he's a sub player at best. I can't see DC offering any of our out of contract players a new deal at the end of the season, so I'm confident that next season we'll see a very different style of play and, most importantly, results.

He's still our best forward by a distance regardless of what you think. Clearly he's past his best, and has been for a couple of seasons now, but I'd still expect him to bury a few of chances our other Donkeys have been missing.

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You're probably right. I only judge a striker on 1. Goals 2. Assists and 3. All round contribution. So I'm obviously looking at the wrong things.

He's still our best forward by a distance regardless of what you think. Clearly he's past his best, and has been for a couple of seasons now, but I'd still expect him to bury a few of chances our other Donkeys have been missing.
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