Wilder 'daft not to give Akpom a chance'...

buffaloboro said:
Exactly , who knows what is going on in his head ? May be the penny has dropped , he is a few years older etc . Either way , he is not going to perform if the crowd are on his back.
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Agreed. While I have low expectations of him I would be furious if anyone chose to get on his back. He's our player, and never done anything to deserve that. Very few have, to be honest
 
wilkos_perm said:
He went a long period after initially scoring a couple looking like he was never going to score another goal (which he didn't).
They were both rubbish ultimately
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Well wilco, we’ll have to agree to disagree then…
Yes Akpom's Boro’s stats that season were certainly not prolific but he did contribute more than you say and IMO is undeserving of your ”rubbish” rating.
In 20 starts, he scored 5 goals (4 of which were match winners) and he assisted on 2 others. Overall, he scored one goal on the equivalent of roughly every 4 full matches on the pitch.
Before deciding to ship him out, I think CW will be open-minded enough to give the lad some playing time.
 
Ravs said:
Well wilco, we’ll have to agree to disagree then…
Yes Akpom's Boro’s stats that season were certainly not prolific but he did contribute more than you say and IMO is undeserving of your ”rubbish” rating.
In 20 starts, he scored 5 goals (4 of which were match winners) and he assisted on 2 others. Overall, he scored one goal on the equivalent of roughly every 4 full matches on the pitch.
Before deciding to ship him out, I think CW will be open-minded enough to give the lad some playing time.
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His success came early on though and that goals ratio was getting progressively worse as his performances were more and more anonymous.
I hope as much as anyone that he has some success but I don't hold out much hope. Once we bring in more strikers he's certain to be out on loan somewhere
 
Can’t really remember Akpom missing many easy chances for us to be honest, unlike some of our strikers last year. Some of this tomorrow would come in handy tomorrow Chubs. (y)

 
wilkos_perm said:
His success came early on though and that goals ratio was getting progressively worse as his performances were more and more anonymous.
I hope as much as anyone that he has some success but I don't hold out much hope. Once we bring in more strikers he's certain to be out on loan somewhere
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Again.. he was clearly not prolific overall on the scoring front.
But using your overly focused rationale, he must have been f#@king dynamite scoring 2 of those 5 in the first 3 of those 20 starts.
Should he get his chance tomorrow, the good news is that, unlike with the former regime, Wilder won’t be having him stranded all alone up front by himself. We’ll see.
 
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sambaDTR said:
Can’t really remember Akpom missing many easy chances for us to be honest, unlike some of our strikers last year. Some of this tomorrow would come in handy tomorrow Chubs. (y)

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I remember him missing the target from one yard out. It would have been called for offside had it gone in, but still…
 
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