Troy Parrott F AZ Alkmaar b.2002

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Originally Posted by Razors left peg

I read a story about how the Ferencvaros Ultras actually dressed up as stewards and attacked the AZ fans, it wasnt stewards employed by the club

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That is the story the club put out - both anti-fascist groups in Hungary and the Dutch fans said they were stewards. Even if it was a case the weren't official 'stewards' - it is pretty clear that the club did nothing to prevent this from happening. Remember, the president of the club is a party director of the far-right Fidesz party of Hungarian prime minister Orban for the past 20 years and a vice-president of the far-right party for the past ten years. Ferencvaros President Gábor Kubatov has been vocal in calling for Fidesz to establish it own paramilitary army modelled on the Nazi SA. By the way - up until recently Fidesz were in the same European Parliamentary group as Fine Gael.

Scores again, in a win against MacNulty's PEC Zwolle

Turning into a consistent scorer lately. 7 in his last 11 games, and those across 7 different games.

second top scorer in the league, 5 behind Sem Stijn of FC Twente. you'd love him to push for a golden boot.

it'll be interesting to see who HH goes for in March - you could easily see any of Parrott, Idah, Ferguson, Szmodics, Cannon or Robinson start depending on how the next month goes

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Originally Posted by elatedscum

second top scorer in the league, 5 behind Sem Stijn of FC Twente. you'd love him to push for a golden boot.

it'll be interesting to see who HH goes for in March - you could easily see any of Parrott, Idah, Ferguson, Szmodics, Cannon or Robinson start depending on how the next month goes

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I think Robinson is finished with us.
He doesn’t have much to offer.
Parrott and Ferguson and hopefully Cannon are the future

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Originally Posted by Fixer82

I think Robinson is finished with us.
He doesn’t have much to offer.
Parrott and Ferguson and hopefully Cannon are the future

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Ah he did well in his last game for us against Greece, he's still in his 20s and he's scored 6 in his last 8 games for his club and he's in double figures for the season.

Robinson is arguably our best performing striker at his club this season, relative to the strength of the league he's playing in and the standard of club he's at within that league.

Robinson: 58 Championship and 6 Premier League goals so far. Not spectacular for a player just turned 30, but not shabby either.

I am not sure that his hamstrings are that reliable, to be adding international football to the football work-load !

I just don't see him being effective for us. He drives me insane not he pitch. He's done well for us. But I don't see much of a future for him in a green shirt. I would take a fit an sharp Obafemi over him any day, but that's obviously a rarity

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Originally Posted by Fixer82

I just don't see him being effective for us. He drives me insane not he pitch. He's done well for us. But I don't see much of a future for him in a green shirt. I would take a fit an sharp Obafemi over him any day, but that's obviously a rarity

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I read this first without the context of previous messages and thought you were saying you'd take Obafemi over Parrott and I honestly thought you had lost you mind :D

My main concern with Parrott and it’s less of a concern than just a reality is that I’m not sure he can lead the line as a lone forward, especially if we are playing on the counter.

I suspect he’ll be used in situations where we’re chasing a game and need a second striker up top or when we’re playing against inferior opposition.

Not a bad guy to be coming on in those situations I just don’t know if he has the pace or physicality to lead the line alone for 90 minutes if we have less of the ball.

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Originally Posted by irishfan86

My main concern with Parrott and it’s less of a concern than just a reality is that I’m not sure he can lead the line as a lone forward, especially if we are playing on the counter.

I suspect he’ll be used in situations where we’re chasing a game and need a second striker up top or when we’re playing against inferior opposition.

Not a bad guy to be coming on in those situations I just don’t know if he has the pace or physicality to lead the line alone for 90 minutes if we have less of the ball.

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But he has been leading the line as the lone striker for his club for the last 2 seasons and done very well. Im not sure he has the raw pace to ever be a top level Premiership striker but I wouldnt be surprised to see him end up at a top club in Italy

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Originally Posted by irishfan86

My main concern with Parrott and it’s less of a concern than just a reality is that I’m not sure he can lead the line as a lone forward, especially if we are playing on the counter.

I suspect he’ll be used in situations where we’re chasing a game and need a second striker up top or when we’re playing against inferior opposition.

Not a bad guy to be coming on in those situations I just don’t know if he has the pace or physicality to lead the line alone for 90 minutes if we have less of the ball.

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Totally agree with this. Think Parrott was born in the wrong decade, think he would be a tremendous 2nd withdrawn striker, aka Sheringham,, Beardsley. Etc. Not sure he has the presence to play as a lonel striker or the speed to play out wide in a top league.

The lad is 2nd top goalscorer in Dutch Eredivisie and 3 goals in Europe this season while playing as a striker, but lads on football forum still think he cant play as a striker. Strange world!

It's all about the level he can play centre forward at though, obviously he can play it at some level. Eredivisie isn't a great standard, if it's in the context of us needing to beat Hungary to make a WC playoff, Hungary are better than almost every team in that league.

You have players being sold from the Dutch league for big money all the time. It might not be one of the top 5 leagues in football but it's one of the better feeder leagues. If you do well there it's a good stepping stone to better things. I just find it stupid for anyone to say he's not a striker when he clearly is

Only issue I'd have about Parrott leading the line as a lone striker is do we have the midfield and wide players to support him.

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Originally Posted by Razors left peg

I read this first without the context of previous messages and thought you were saying you'd take Obafemi over Parrott and I honestly thought you had lost you mind :D

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If we could get February-September 2022 Obafemi back, he'd leapfrog Parrott in my mind - has an Irish player ever produced two moments in one game as audacious as his goal and assist against Scotland? Even Robbie?

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Originally Posted by samhaydenjr

If we could get February-September 2022 Obafemi back, he'd leapfrog Parrott in my mind - has an Irish player ever produced two moments in one game as audacious as his goal and assist against Scotland? Even Robbie?

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His candle burned very bright for a very short space of time. He'd be a top class striker if he keep on the trajectory of how good he was for those few months

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Originally Posted by Razors left peg

The lad is 2nd top goalscorer in Dutch Eredivisie and 3 goals in Europe this season while playing as a striker, but lads on football forum still think he cant play as a striker. Strange world!

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To be clear I have no doubt he can play as a striker. The issue is can he play there effectively for us, who will inevitably have less of the ball when it matters most. In a premier league context, he’s the kind of forward that would thrive at a top 5 club but I don’t think would be effective at all in the bottom half of the league. I’m not happy about it but we are in a bottom half of the league situation and I don’t think his skillset is optimal for what we require.

To be clear I hope I’m totally wrong about this and he goes on to be prolific for us.

I have watched a few of the European matches where AZ is the underdog and Parrott has in some of those matches been coming off the bench, not playing from the start which factors into my assessment.