Jerry Yates

LeedsSeasider said:
Has now scored as many league goals for us this season as he did in League 2 for Swindon last season. Proved all of his doubters wrong and I’ve loved every second of it. Go on Jerry! 🧡
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Not quite! 13 league goals for Swindon last season , 12 for us so far. On target for 20 which is a good return for any striker.
 
LeedsSeasider said:
Has now scored as many league goals for us this season as he did in League 2 for Swindon last season. Proved all of his doubters wrong and I’ve loved every second of it. Go on Jerry! 🧡
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And some posters were wanting to swap him for Gnando earlier in the season. 😩

We haven't had a striker who works as hard, on top of scoring goals since Brett.
 
Very calm when in a position like against MKD. Took it round the keeper with ease and slotted it home.
Great signing.
 
A proper striker, you can tell the confidence he now has with the fact he took that goal on himself and didn't try square it. He's got 5 games to match Gnanduillet's 15 in 35 games last season, he's currently got 12 in 30 👀

I hope we keep hold of him if we don't go up, my Oyston PTSD has me feeling as though we're just gonna cash in one him. I'm sure now we're under Sadler we'll actually look to retain our well performing players!
 
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I never understood the stick he got at the start of the season.
He was playing alongside new team mates after stepping up a division. he might not have found the net but he gave 100% every single time he played.
More often than not young strikers will struggle to find their feet for a few games, especially at a new team, ones that don't will be the exception to the rule.

It honestly makes you wonder if some people have much knowledge about football in general.
 
Jerry Yates has been given game time and has grown in confidence with scoring goals. But Bez Lubala who previously had a great
goalscoring record with his previous club has not been given that time, at the moment he doesn't even feature on the bench.
 
Alf said:
Was it 62 that said he shouldn’t be here as he has no goal scoring record? Was it Eoin Doyle he suggested we get instead?

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I think he said something like “he doesn’t look like a footballer” but I’m sure he said that about every other player we’ve fielded this season...
 
fcblackpool said:
My POTS.

The goal he scored on Tuesday he wouldn't have earlier in season. Much more confident and assured.

Just imagine if he got decent service.
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I honestly don't think we'd be able to keep him past the next January window if he was given even a half decent amount of chances per game.
 
LeedsSeasider said:
I think he said something like “he doesn’t look like a footballer” but I’m sure he said that about every other player we’ve fielded this season...
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And the goals he scored in League Two don’t count because we’re not in league two, we should have signed Eoin Doyle who is now matching Yates’ goal scoring record... in league two 😂
 
At the start of the season there was a number of threads asking who was going to be our best recruit at the end of the season. Initially a lot of people went for CJ, I went for big Marv but cannot help thinking that Jerry is on course to win by some distance, all whilst we have had some other very good recruits.
 
When they had him as the false 9 Firmino copy attempt at the start he looked like he wished he was still at Swindon to me. First half at Stoke in the cup, having to be a one man crusade against Danny Batth with nobody within 20 yards of him, he wasn't happy. All good character building but no threat on goal. He got booked at Crewe for kicking out in frustration second half when they put him out wide in a stranded fixed position, as they were trying allsorts to make it work that day. But he looks more comfortable when he has the freedom to roam around as the second striker and when there's support around him. I don't think it's much of a surprise that his season started at Burton with the formation change and the switch to actually facing towards goal.

He's still got to fit into a structure where individuality isn't promoted as being a good thing, but you can see his confidence is gradually building up now to the point where he'll try things and take the rollocking for not fitting an extra pass in if it goes wrong. The Northampton and Portsmouth goals came from his own mind and not the training ground and that will be more power to him if he's career aspirations to climb the levels in the next few years.

Usually when the feeling starts to grow that a player has it sussed there will be something go awry (I thought he was going walk for that push last Saturday for example) so just take it a game at a time now. I can see him getting dropped at seemingly random when Madine makes his comeback, or more likely when they feel Simms has had his time out as well. As they'll be concerned about injury risk through over exposure.
 
Alf said:
Was it 62 that said he shouldn’t be here as he has no goal scoring record? Was it Eoin Doyle he suggested we get instead?

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I can't remember the Eoin Doyle comment, but here are a few pearls of wisdom from him. It's almost as if, if you give players a few games, they might come good...


62years&counting said:
Yates is 24 in November, so not a kid. Unfortunately he's just useless.
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62years&counting said:
Yates has no goalscoring pedigree outside of one season in league2. He will not be prolific in league1 and definitely not the way this team is set up. Purely a workhorse at present.
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62years&counting said:
Yates has barely scored a goal outside of league2. Unproven and a bad signing.
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62years&counting said:
Yates doesn't have a striker's instincts. Few doubt his work ethic, and service hasn't been the best, but except for one decent season in league2 he's done little.
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[in response to someone saying he might end up being a poacher]
62years&counting said:
Yates couldn't poach an egg. Mind you it's not that easy lol
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clappers said:
He’s on a two year deal, no details about an option for a further year. I would be looking to tie him a bit longer and bump his wage now the salary cap is extinct and bitten the dust.
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He's on a 3+1 up to June 2023 provisionally. Someone the club have been convinced to invest in for a potential future profit. Which will be part of how the performance of the head coach is measured. See also Bez Lubala.
 
thefutureistangerine said:
I can't remember the Eoin Doyle comment, but here are a few pearls of wisdom from him. It's almost as if, if you give players a few games, they might come good...










[in response to someone saying he might end up being a poacher]
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We’ve all said things that look silly in hindsight. Even board icons get it wrong from time to time...”If the Oystons do well....” 🤪🤡
 
clappers said:
He’s on a two year deal, no details about an option for a further year. I would be looking to tie him a bit longer and bump his wage now the salary cap is extinct and bitten the dust.
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It was a three year deal with a further year’s option from memory.
 
clappers said:
Says 2 on fish....

Jerry Yates - Forward - First Team - Blackpool FC

Jerry Yates signed for Blackpool on a two year deal from Rotherham United in the summer of 2020.
www.blackpoolfc.co.uk www.blackpoolfc.co.uk
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They need to update that section.

Blackpool FC | Blackpool Football Club

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Blackpool Football Club is pleased to announce the signing of in-demand striker Jerry Yates from Rotherham United for an undisclosed fee.

Yates, 23, joins the Seasiders on a 3 year deal with the Club having an option to extend for a further year.
 
95% of strikers in league one would've hit the ball straight at the keeper if presented with the chance on Tuesday night. Some of the goals Yates has scored this season have been outstanding and all quite different - trickery against Northamption, pace and strength away to Portsmouth, opportunism and composure against MK Dons. Very good player, and dare I say it another who has improved under Critchley. Of all the tinkering Critchley has done this season, he rarely leaves Yates out which tells you something.
 
He has got better and better as the season has gone on. It was great hear Tobes-Darling commentator saying what an asset he was. I think their goalkeeper is still having nightmares about the goal and about every time JY went anywhere near him.
 
I remember some Rotherham fans laughing and saying we had been robbed paying what we did for him. How wrong they were, worth every single penny.
 
I bleed Tangerine said:
I remember some Rotherham fans laughing and saying we had been robbed paying what we did for him. How wrong they were, worth every single penny.
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Some of ours were laughing at Plymouth wanting Hardie. What doesn't work for one might for another and fans know what's best for their own teams and how they set up.

Paul Warne's teams are big and strong. Opposition defenders get a different type of shoeing off their strikers than Jerry Yates milling about under their feet. We'd have had more joy at the start of the season in a 4-1-2-3, before dropping it, if we'd have signed Michael Smith off them instead. Or Matt Crooks for one of the roles in behind the front three rather than trying to play two wide men there.
 
BFC_53 said:
95% of strikers in league one would've hit the ball straight at the keeper if presented with the chance on Tuesday night. Some of the goals Yates has scored this season have been outstanding and all quite different - trickery against Northamption, pace and strength away to Portsmouth, opportunism and composure against MK Dons. Very good player, and dare I say it another who has improved under Critchley. Of all the tinkering Critchley has done this season, he rarely leaves Yates out which tells you something.
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He's one of the most intuitive strikers I have seen in a tangerine shirt for a while.

As a team, we don't create enough goal-scoring opportunities and it's something we need to improve on. We've seen Jerry run his head off for 80 mins, at times, before getting his moment.

He's often feeding off scraps and the stats show this (using BBC stats here). At the minute, he's operating on just over 1/3 of all of his shots finding the back of the net. Out of the top fourteen scorers in the league, his conversion percentage is highest - he's also taken 50(!) less shots than the league's top scorer in 3 games less.

Of course there are differing factors at play, I think Yates likes to get a sure shot at goal (we've seen him try and take an extra turn and open the space up more) and, granted, his conversion % would lower if as a team we created more goal-scoring chances - but I reckon he'd be pushing for top scorer in this division if we did.
 
I`ll put my hand up and acknowledge that hardest thing to admit.......deep breath, it looks like I may have been wrong when I questioned his signing on the basis of his record in League One and above with Rotherham. He started slowly for us but has subsequently turned the corner and currently is on a good run.

However it is always nice to be proved wrong when things turn out better than expected as they have done in his case.

PS just for balance I wasn`t wrong when I first came on here around 10/11 years ago and roundly condemned the Oystons much to the ire of many posters on here at that time nor was I wrong when I disagreed with the decision to appoint Grayson as our first manager after the revolution. So I like to think I get a few right.
 
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I watched some of his previous goals before he joined us & thought if he can do that for us then brilliant. He has since proved that he certainly can. 👍 👍 we just need a few more of the hopefuls with potential to come good & that will give us options in the future. As for now we also need a fit Madine back in the squad. Well done to Jerry, there are similarities to when Brett joined us, as he didn't bed in from the first outing, but you could see he had potential too.
 
Danny Ocean said:
I understand that it is a cruel world, but Bez has only been given 418 mins, and no continuous run of matches. In comparison, Demetri Mitchell
who has just got back into the team has played for 994 mins. Bez for me looks like a player that is lacking in confidence and Yates was the same for the first few games until he started to score on a regular basis. Critchley kept playing Yates until he scored and then his confidence returned, and he now looks a much better player. It is a shame that Bez hasn't been given more time to gain confidence, in the same way, especially with the amount of game time that KaiKai has got.
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I know this isn't a Bez thread, so apologies, but I feel his ship has sailed here.
I don't think he was treated particularly fairly, rarely getting much of a chance, yet offering very little when an opportunity did come his way.
I can see him being loaned out early next season and then we'll never see him again, which is a shame; he will be another casualty of the transfer window where we signed a load of similar players, none of which had a set position to work on and improve.

Having said all that, I genuinely hope I'm wrong and he's able to force his way back in to contention and make an impact.
 
I'm sure almost every club in the EFL would be delighted to have him on board.
Hopefully he's destined to become a legend here.
Imagine what it will be like next season with the fans behind him.
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Re Bez Lubala...I'm hoping he is going to benefit from some top quality coaching behind closed doors and will be unleashed soon to devastating effect!
 
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