Rhodes

Brett&Murphs. said:
A class apart. Literally ten minutes into his debut you could see he had that instinct of where to be. He’s good at everything he’s even good in the air.

I thought he was a poacher and smaller but his all round game is excellent. Be pushed to find a better striker in league one.
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Correct about being good in the air. When he got his head on balls in forward midfield he would direct them sideways into the path of one of our players.
 
He still has a very sharp footballing brain and an ability to place the ball where he wants it to go.
 
According to the not entirely reliable Wikipedia, Rhodes made 216 appearances and scored 38 goal across the 7 seasons after leaving Rovers in 2016 and prior to joining us in the summer.

Which average out at approx 30 appearances and 5.5 goals per season. Feels like a bit of a waste of his talents, but Im sure he wanted to play as high up the leagues and earn as much as possible.

It must have been frustrating though and he must be enjoying being in a place now where he is a regular starter and at a level where his ability enables him to do what he does best. Hopefully we will cash in from his new lease of life and he'll shock the world of sceptics by banging in 30 goals this season. I was dubious when we signed him. I was doubtful about Kouassi too. Looked like a lummox from Sutton Seconds. Delighted for them both to prove me completely wrong, keep it up chaps. Both made brilliant starts.
 
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voyeur said:
According to the not entirely reliable Wikipedia, Rhodes made 216 appearances and scored 38 goal across the 7 seasons after leaving Rovers in 2016 and prior to joining us in the summer.

Which average out at approx 30 appearances and 5.5 goals per season. Feels like a bit of a waste of his talents, but Im sure he wanted to play as high up the leagues and earn as much as possible.

It must have been frustrating though and he must be enjoying being in a place now where he is a regular starter and at a level where his ability enables him to do what he does best. Hopefully we will benefiting time from his new lease of life. I was dubious when we signed him. I was doubtful about Kouassi too. Delighted for them to prove me wrong, keep it up chaps. Both made brilliant starts.
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Does appearances include 5 mins here and there from the bench?
 
Wizaard said:
Does appearances include 5 mins here and there from the bench?
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I'm sure it does. Soccerbase has his League stats as...

Starts 98 Sub 118 Goals 38

What ever way you cut it, it's not a great use of 7 years of a goalscorer from age 26 to 33. The Massive paid 10m for him in 2017 and he got 15 league goals for them and then left in 2021 on a free transfer.

Maybe that's the explanation. 4 prime years at the Massive! Which included a season on loan at Norwich.
 
voyeur said:
I'm sure it does. Soccerbase has his League stats as...

Starts 98 Sub 118 Goals 38

What ever way you cut it, it's not a great use of 7 years of a goalscorer from age 26 to 33. The Massive paid 10m for him in 2017 and he got 15 league goals for them and then left in 2021 on a free transfer.

Maybe that's the explanation. 4 prime years at the Massive! Which included a season on loan at Norwich.
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Yes, Massive are a massive career killer.
 
traffordtang said:
All the right letters, not necessarily in the right order😀
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You could almost have said the same thing for anyone with the condition musical dyslexia, attempting to 'offer' a rendition of a particular musical number for the discernment of a certain recent US composer/conducter?

In fact, the parallels are nothing short of amazing!
 
I see Rhodes got in the EFL team of the week with a rating of 9.88. Interesting to note that he had a 100% Ariel Success Rate

Striker: Jordan Rhodes (Blackpool) - 9.88 rating

Completing the team this week is Blackpool hitman Jordan Rhodes. The Scot bagged a hat-trick in the Tangerines' 4-1 thumping of Reading at Bloomfield Road as he gave the Royals backline a torrid afternoon, mustering six shots in total, more than Ruben Selles' men managed combined (5). The 33-year-old also returned a 100% aerial success rate, winning all four contested aerial duels, to help land a WhoScored.com rating of 9.88.

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At Wednesday he was in and out of the team, and really did look slow and not particularly good. When we signed him, I did wonder if his day had gone. It just shows how much trouble the Owls are in, spending £10m on a player who doesn't deliver who eventually leaves on a free. They had a brilliant team late 80s/early 90s, 40k crowds, and sacked Trevor Francis after finishing a disappointing 3rd in Div1. Along came the Premier League and they signed foreign players who were on huge wages...most didn't deliver. 30 years later and they still haven't recovered.

Rhodes finishing has always been his trademark but the real surprise has been how classy he looks at times. Glad we have him.
 
He’s exactly what we needed .

We were struggling to hit a barn door until he rocked up .

Good focused recruitment .
 
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