Charlie Austin - should he be dropped?

[Toni German]

He's not scoring. Is the Premiership a step to far? Would dropping him be brave or foolish? What is the meaning of life?

[3London]

Drop our joint top scorer? Surely not! And for who! He's all we got til January!

[Fordy]

For who? He can only score if he is supplied with good service. How many clear cut chances has he had this season? Hardly any.

[The Legendary No. 10]

Pointless op really, drop him for who? In case you hadnt noticed we are quite light up front thanks to Remy jumping ship at the last hour.

[dogsrrs]

Drop him if you have an option yes! but we have't so make him spend the week looking at vidio's of how Peter Crouch played the game so he can lead the line that way he will have an effect if he does't score

[Macca]

Out of his depth in the prem, but we have not got anyone else, so we are stuck with what we have.

[ArcticHoop]

He started slowly last season too. I have a full confidence that he will score 10+ goals this season.

[zeberdee]

If Remy or Defoe or Crouch were at the club then you can chop and change the strikers and be relaxed that they will all deliver
but unfortunately none of them are at the club so making the most of Charlie makes the best of a bad job
it would be interesting to know who on earth decided to leave the team with so few proven goalscorers

anyway regarding Charlie's individual play - i've not seen anything to worry about so far

[Macca]

I think we have to look at Beard on his capability to negotiate with players and get the deal over the line, we seem to drag every deal out, and either someone else will come in and get the deal done and we end up with what's left at the end of the transfer window far to late to gel players in the team.

[dogsrrs]

If Remy or Defoe or Crouch were at the club then you can chop and change the strikers and be relaxed that they will all deliver
but unfortunately none of them are at the club so making the most of Charlie makes the best of a bad job
it would be interesting to know who on earth decided to leave the team with so few proven goalscorers

anyway regarding Charlie's individual play - i've not seen anything to worry about so far

Who decided to leave the team with out proven goalscorers the very man we all wanted ? Remy when he plssed off at the 11th hour

[Yousef]

He is not getting enough support. How many changes did he get yesterday? I think only one.

[West Acton]

No we should start creating some opportunities for him tell him to play in the box where he is best and see what he does before we consider taking him out team

[rickyranger]

There is no one to replace him, why not try a radical approach and coach him. Watch him in games, he rarely wins a straight header, simply because he fails to engage the centre half whilst the ball is in the air so really easy for the centre half to gain momentum and win the ball. Couple of hours on the training pitch could improve that massively, add a few more hours on his movement and there would be a marked improvement. Having said that there is quite a few of our players who could do with some coaching!

[dogsrrs]

There is no one to replace him, why not try a radical approach and coach him. Watch him in games, he rarely wins a straight header, simply because he fails to engage the centre half whilst the ball is in the air so really easy for the centre half to gain momentum and win the ball. Couple of hours on the training pitch could improve that massively, add a few more hours on his movement and there would be a marked improvement. Having said that there is quite a few of our players who could do with some coaching!

Absolutely spot on sayinging that you have to wonder what Joe Jordan does !
Even if Crouch hadn't scored he would still have had a great game , isn't it what BZ does in his 20 min cameo's

[Nick]

Hahaha Another cracking thread.... I'm just going to say No!