by bigmick » Mon Mar 21, 2005 10:31 am
Very true JBG, but this is down to the judgement of Robson and beyond his control. All he can do is score, period. I have long said that he is lacking in overall team-play ability. All he can do is score goals. But, and this has been my point all season, he will ALWAYS score goals. Even playing for West Brom, he will score goals.
If you see his three goals on Saturday, the one which is the dead giveaway is the header. Ball gets knocked long to far post, as Players challenge for it Earnshaw actually looks away from ball and locates a spot in-between two defenders where can move into and give himself a chance to win any knock-ons. Ball gets headed back accross goal and Earnshaw scores. Cue the "FFS I could've scored that!" from the unknowing viewers. That awareness though, that look away from the ball and that three step movement into a gap BEFORE the ball gets there is what means he will always score goals. Ditto Garcia as he showed yesterday. Natural goalscorers move while everybody else stands still. It's really simple but impossible to teach.
Sofar I think I've been proven right. I said Earnshaw would score ten Premiership goals this season from open play and he has. Seasons not over yet either. I 'm not daft, I know we won't sign him but those who laughed at my original judgement and said he couldn't and wouldn't score at this level have been proven wrong, very wrong.
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