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Post by talyfan on Feb 22, 2023 8:04:15 GMT
You simply can't ignore it now.
He's notorious for being streaky but at the same time hes playing regularly, bang in form and the other lads we would use as forward options aren't up to speed at the moment either.
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Post by marsvolta on Feb 22, 2023 8:15:04 GMT
Yeah, he’s notorious for being streaky but if one of these purple patches coincides with a few of our games he might grab a goal or two for us.
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Post by allezlesrouges on Feb 22, 2023 9:28:16 GMT
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Post by welshrover on Feb 22, 2023 12:06:31 GMT
He may by now be of the opinion that international football has passed him by and in the mindset of "is it worth bothering with now at my age"
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Post by cadno on Feb 22, 2023 12:20:23 GMT
He may by now be of the opinion that international football has passed him by and in the mindset of "is it worth bothering with now at my age" No he’s desperate to play for Wales. Rowett said he had some bad knocks, injured with hamstring & bruised ankles, which is why he didn’t start yesterday. He’s streaky in terms of goal scoring but always gives everything he’s got, brings a lot to the team. And I think the service he’s been getting at millwall hasn’t been the best. Put him in our side with Moore / Johnson / Ramsey / Connor etc, I think he’s the type of player that could be class on the intl stage, sadly he’s been ignored over the years. But tbf the team was largely built around getting the best out of Bale. So maybe nows the time for him / Mullin / Collins to get a chance. I just hope they get a run of games and not a couple of sub appearances then shifted if they don’t hit the ground running with goals. |
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Post by dai on Feb 22, 2023 13:55:02 GMT
Find it baffling we’re calling Bradshaw streaky and inconsistent when we’ve been picking players who cant f*cking score at all…….
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Post by iot on Feb 22, 2023 15:09:38 GMT
It's almost like there's more to football than scoring goals...
I know cadno rates his all-round game, but I'd be interested to know how much you've actually watched him cadno? I've always thought of him more as a finisher who can drift out of games. I know you mentioned Rowett's comments earlier, but I don't think that's a lot to go on.
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Post by cadno on Feb 22, 2023 16:56:34 GMT
I’ve seen him play a few times live and on tv yes, same as Morgan Fox - who’s always impressed me when I’ve seen him play. If you asked any millwall fan they’d tell you bradshaw does everything else even when he doesn’t score. He’s good at bringing others into play/making good runs etc. Deffo worth a call up for that alone imo, and he knows where the back of the net is!
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Post by jimexotic on Feb 22, 2023 18:20:50 GMT
The only thing that wins football matches is goals so if we have a player good at scoring, stopping or creating them they deserve a look. Bradshaw has done enough to deserve a look, it's not like we have a massive pool of talent to choose from, most of us would happily have Bradshaw, Collins and Mullin in the next squad.
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Post by allezlesrouges on Feb 22, 2023 18:30:29 GMT
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Post by cadno on Feb 24, 2023 10:39:34 GMT
(Via DS) londonnewsonline.co.uk/perfect-team-player-millwalls-tom-bradshaw-is-flying-high-in-goal-charts-will-wales-international-return-be-on-cards-next-month/Rowett comments: “But, as a neutral, Tom is scoring goals in the Championship and is a perfect team player – whether he starts or comes on to impact a game. He is an absolutely fabulous player to, at the very least, have in your squad as an international manager.“ “You find very few strikers who will play for the team so wholeheartedly as Bradders. A lot are a little more selfish and don’t want to run quite as much as the manager wants them to run. Bradders is one who just gives you everything and what is nice is that he can score goals. “He has little runs where he looks really confident and he’s scored goals in his career over a long, long time at different levels. “He’s been incredible to just keep churning out performances – physically. That’s the big thing for me. He gets battered up there and gives defenders an absolutely torrid time, he doesn’t give them a second’s respite on the ball.“ “He is a real all-round striker, he can do everything pretty well. Now he is adding those regular goals, also.” |
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Post by iot on Feb 24, 2023 11:24:03 GMT
My impression of him is that he's a decent finisher and a hard worker. The main issues have always been his consistency, with his goalscoring extremely patchy, and there's probably a question mark on his overall quality in terms of being that focal point and bringing other players into things like all the good modern-day forwards do. He definitely deserves a call-up based on current form, I just have a feeling some of those deficiencies would be very apparent if he played against the likes of Croatia.
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Post by cadno on Feb 24, 2023 11:28:31 GMT
Whenever I’ve seen him play he does really well to hold the ball up and bring others into play, a simple lay off and spin. To be fair he’s most likely only going to get 20 mins to start with if he plays at all. He’d enjoy having a bit more quality around him compared to playing with Millwall too
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Post by jimexotic on Feb 24, 2023 22:42:44 GMT
You could say that all of our strikers are extremely patchy in front of goal. I love Brennan and Kieffer but they've hardly been banging them in this season. I've liked a lot of the little I've seen and the lot that I've heard and read about Aaron Collins but he has 1 goal in his last 7 games in the third tier of English football and I'm pretty certain just the one assist in that time too. Harris and Roberts have been well documented on these pages and that just leaves Paul Mullin as the only consistent goalscoring Welsh (hopefully!) striker this season. We hardly have any strikers so if one is in form he should be getting picked whether he's 15 or 35.
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Post by surge on Feb 25, 2023 19:54:29 GMT
90 minutes or so today. Think it will go down as a performance for the team rather than highlight as an individual, but being trusted to do that for 90mins is a positive sign as well.
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Post by jimexotic on Feb 27, 2023 18:29:28 GMT
Is it fair to say that this is the best he's ever been and at a time where our forward options are quite light. I've been hesitant before but he has to be picked, he'll offer something different to Kieffer and Brennan and I think it would give him a boost knowing he's not been forgotten. 30 is young in today's game.
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Post by insertname on Feb 27, 2023 18:36:27 GMT
I actually worked it out a while back that in terms of streaks his best goals per game streak in the championship was around the Christmas/new year period in 2021 then he got injured in January. I suspect this streak is still not as good as that one because his goals are compacted into fewer games due to the hat trick and the double. He’s still done enough to merit a call up over the type of players Page typically prefers to call up. I’d just hope Mullin and Collins get the same opportunity too as their records are also outstanding albeit in different ways.
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Post by fiveattheback on Feb 27, 2023 19:14:07 GMT
It's already his best scoring season at Championship level
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Post by allezlesrouges on Feb 27, 2023 19:45:33 GMT
With Bale retiring and Harris/Matondo/Tyler/Colwill not impressing there's certainly space for all 3
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Post by talyfan on Feb 28, 2023 21:19:27 GMT
The lad absolutely stinks of goals! Scores again tonight also has an assist!
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Post by cadno on Feb 28, 2023 21:21:00 GMT
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Post by allezlesrouges on Feb 28, 2023 21:31:03 GMT
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Post by fiveattheback on Feb 28, 2023 22:02:47 GMT
Can't be ignored
Is that Lockyer captaining Luton?
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Post by jimexotic on Feb 28, 2023 22:27:54 GMT
Great assist and brilliant instinct for the goal, we've got to call him up and to be honest call up him up with a view of having him around for the next two to three years, Harris and Tyler aren't going to be knocking on the door anytime soon.
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Post by welshrover on Feb 28, 2023 22:29:15 GMT
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Post by talyfan on Mar 1, 2023 8:26:13 GMT
Got to be included. Not to be dramatic but if Rob Page doesn't include him he's either been lobotomised or committing an act of treason against his country by not selecting Bradshaw at this point.
Absolutely no disrespect to either of them and hopefully they'll become fine players for us but if likes of Colwill and Mark Harris get selected and he doesn't then there is something seriously seriously wrong going on.
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Post by cadno on Mar 2, 2023 15:34:56 GMT
Skip to 50 seconds, for his goal against Luton, Bradshaw shows real skill and awareness, with his back to goal he guides the pass brilliantly before moving into an area to get the ball back and score. It’s exciting that he should finally get a chance for Wales now! youtu.be/jR-TtElc_mQ |
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Post by marsvolta on Mar 2, 2023 18:16:12 GMT
Got to be included. Not to be dramatic but if Rob Page doesn't include him he's either been lobotomised or committing an act of treason against his country by not selecting Bradshaw at this point. Absolutely no disrespect to either of them and hopefully they'll become fine players for us but if likes of Colwill and Mark Harris get selected and he doesn't then there is something seriously seriously wrong going on. A) that is being dramatic B) if Colwill is selected, it won’t be instead of Bradshaw. They play in totally different positions |
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Post by marsvolta on Mar 4, 2023 15:24:10 GMT
Another goal for him today so surely in with a chance of a call up now.
This is the first time (I think) that his bursts of form have coincided with a Welsh squad being announced (he usually fizzles out before the next international break)
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Post by cogancoronation31 on Mar 4, 2023 15:49:21 GMT
He's got to be in the squad now.
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