I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
We dont really. There are exceptions to most rules, and Bamford was probably one of those a late bloomer, and the right trajectory at pivotal points in his career. Vardy is another exception. Parrot was being touted as a great player with great potential. He scored a couple of goals for the u21s and there were calls to play him at senior level, and it wasn't just out of desperation. He has done very little to show outside of youth football he has got anything other than the ability to outshine his peers at youth level.
I'm a bloke,I'm an ocker
And I really love your knockers,I'm a labourer by day,
I **** up all me pay,Watching footy on TV,
Just feed me more VB,Just pour my beer,And get my smokes, And go away
How can anyone try to hype a striker on the basis on scoring 1 goal in 1560 minutes? I worked for a Sports Data Collection company until last month. We covered every League 1 game live. I saw plenty of Parrott with Ipswich and very little to get overly excited about. All that he's proven this season is that he's currently nowhere near Championship standard and, at a push, not a good League 1 striker yet either. He's young enough to have the potential the develop alright. For his sake (and the sake of us all) I hope he does so but he should be well behind Connolly and Idah at the moment in the pecking order by any metric.
The ball is round and has many surprises.
Bamford's 3 assists on his MK Dons were not in different seasons to Parrott's
Parrott played four games (95 minutes) for Spurs in the 19/20 season. So if Bamford's first season was 12 minutes for Forest and his second was 3 assists on his debut, then Parrott's first season was last year and his second has seen 29 games and 1 goal.
I'm "clearly biased"? How on earth do you figure that?
If Parrott had done something in his 1650 minutes on the pitch, it would definitely be relevant. But I'm sure Bamford could have played those games and not scored at the same age as well.
I think next season, while far from a make-or-break year for Parrott, will tell a lot about how far he's going to go.
Also - would you ever relax a bit. It's great to see new posters on the board, but there's no need to be quite so aggressive. (I see you've quietly dropped your complaints about 18 goals in 37 league games for example)
Last edited by pineapple stu; 22/04/2021 at 1:42 PM.
They were in different seasons. Those assists came in his second season. His 3 assists came in the 2012/2013 season when he was 19 going on 20, so Parrott played 95 minutes for a top 6 club whereas Bamford played 12 minutes for a championship club and people have the audacity to compare the two in the same season, surely that in itself should tell you who’s done more at that point in their career.
29 games in parrots first season compared to 2 games in Bamford’s. That’s the direct comparison.
What has Bamford done in his 12 minutes on the field? If you weren’t biased you’d compare the two in the same playing Field when they were both 18/19 years old, right now you were comparing a 18/19 year old with a 19/20 & 20/21 year old.
Because this argument is incredibly stupid,
Last edited by CSAD; 22/04/2021 at 2:52 PM.
Just because I'm coming in pointing out errors in your posts - such as denying 18 goals in 37 games, or your continual mis-counting of the players' senior seasons, which you're after doing again in your most recent post - doesn't mean I'm biased. And there's still no need to be quite so aggressive.
FWIW, tomorrow Parrott is the exact same age as Bamford was when he got those three assists on his MK Dons debut. The clock to obscurity starts then...
Yeah that was me who said that. There are lots of players that lack pace and still do well, but I thought at times he looked cumbersome. Not only a lack of speed but also a lack of quick thinking.
Ive completely flip flopped on my opinion of Parrott. Its not that long ago I was calling for him to start for Ireland. I thought he would get a big confidence boost after his first goal but that never happened and hes actually looked worse since.
The Stokes or Graham Barrett comparisons look fairly accurate right now
Barrett was a tragedy. All those injuries destroyed him. I think he could have been a wonderful player but thems the breaks in the game. I remember him captaining Arsenal to the Fa Youth Cup and all the big English journalists talking about him as the next big Gunner...a little like the boy Troy I guess to be fair.
There's a bang of 'he's 28 until he's 29' off these first or second season arguments. I don't really get what Bamford has to do with this anyway.
His coaches at Spurs obviously rate him and have tried to get him experience at different levels but it hasn't really happened yet. I'm sure they won't give up so it's a bit pointless drawing wide-ranging conclusions now, particularly comparing him with one of the best strikers around at the moment.
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