| Charlie Austin and new strikers 16:12 - Jun 3 with 5545 views | Gloucs_R |
Would you take him back next season?
Seems to still have a soft spot for us and get the impression he's not settled at WBA. Could see him being released on a free. [Post edited 4 Jun 2020 7:19]
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| Charlie Austin on 16:16 - Jun 3 with 3114 views | daveB |
doubt they will release him on a free, paid a few million for him and had another year left on his deal. Plus they are likely to go up so doubt he will want to leave |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 16:17 - Jun 3 with 3111 views | stevec |
Told that was going to happen, though the last 3 months might have changed that. |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 16:18 - Jun 3 with 3110 views | Gloucs_R |
| Charlie Austin on 16:16 - Jun 3 by daveB |
doubt they will release him on a free, paid a few million for him and had another year left on his deal. Plus they are likely to go up so doubt he will want to leave |
If you follow him on Twitter, you sense that his heart isn't in it..... At West Bromwich anyway. | |
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| Charlie Austin on 16:23 - Jun 3 with 3087 views | daveB |
| Charlie Austin on 16:18 - Jun 3 by Gloucs_R |
If you follow him on Twitter, you sense that his heart isn't in it..... At West Bromwich anyway. |
Given his injury record in recent years, lack of goals this season and wage demands, I'll pass to be honest | | | |
| Charlie Austin on 16:31 - Jun 3 with 3056 views | BrianMcCarthy |
No. Injury prone and his wages would almost certainly be too high. |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 16:33 - Jun 3 with 3040 views | RANGERS4EVER |
Not that it is possible, but even if it was think it would end in disaster. Have to admit when i watched him this season he seemed disinterested in football completely |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 16:39 - Jun 3 with 3014 views | DannytheR |
Rather have a 20th anniversary reunion season with Crouchinho. |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 16:42 - Jun 3 with 2991 views | Boston |
Charlie’s past his checkpoint. |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 16:44 - Jun 3 with 2982 views | Toast_R |
Austin for the past year looks overweight and knackered. |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 17:16 - Jun 3 with 2905 views | robith |
Love what he did for us, but
a) never go back
b) he clearly only cares about the gee gees these days
c) his relationship with the fans here got pretty nasty towards the end. Not sure it'll be a happy ever after tale |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 17:23 - Jun 3 with 2883 views | thehat |
Not for me the ship has sailed
Far to rich now and won't have the hunger - Too old and injury prone too.
Give Oteh a go or look lower league or even use the loan system again. | | | |
| Charlie Austin on 17:25 - Jun 3 with 2873 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Charlie Austin on 17:16 - Jun 3 by robith |
Love what he did for us, but
a) never go back
b) he clearly only cares about the gee gees these days
c) his relationship with the fans here got pretty nasty towards the end. Not sure it'll be a happy ever after tale |
Love Austin, always will, but we're a different animal now, so not for me. Would love us to keep our current number 9 to be honest.
But you can go back. Thank God we did with Kev. And Lee Cook. And Danny Shittu did ok second time around. Mackie also, if not to his original greatness. |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 17:34 - Jun 3 with 2840 views | DannytheR |
| Charlie Austin on 17:25 - Jun 3 by Antti_Heinola |
Love Austin, always will, but we're a different animal now, so not for me. Would love us to keep our current number 9 to be honest.
But you can go back. Thank God we did with Kev. And Lee Cook. And Danny Shittu did ok second time around. Mackie also, if not to his original greatness. |
Raise you Nigel Quashie - such a beast of a player for us first time round - coming back under Paladini appearing to weigh about 17 stone and repeatedly passing the ball into touch as we got turned over 5-0. | | | |
| Charlie Austin on 17:36 - Jun 3 with 2840 views | Northernr |
Unless his spot is soft enough to accept about a fifth of his current salary it's probably a non-starter. |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 17:43 - Jun 3 with 2807 views | wood_hoop |
| Charlie Austin on 16:31 - Jun 3 by BrianMcCarthy |
No. Injury prone and his wages would almost certainly be too high. |
ditto |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 18:08 - Jun 3 with 2734 views | PlanetHonneywood |
Surely we’re done with big time Charlies? |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 20:08 - Jun 3 with 2571 views | TripleR |
No.
He looked over-weight and disinterested in our home game against WBA. His "sprint" for a loose ball against our BFG Leistner was like watching the game in slow motion, best part of a miserable match. |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 20:39 - Jun 3 with 2492 views | Northernr |
For all the straight 'nos', fair enough, some perfectly valid reasons given, and like I say money makes it a non-starter, but...
We're a couple of weeks away, again, from our strikers being:
Oteh.
We've relied for two seasons now on loaning strikers, for all the reasons we've done to death before. This season we've done brilliantly well with that. I mean Hugill has done a real hard effort for us, playing as it turned out through a very painful injury for quite a lot of it, but to get Wells on top of that was incredible. I'd say the chances of being able to get two like that, in that form, again would be very hard. Previous season we had Hemed, who started well, disappeared for four months with a similar injury to the one Hugill played through, came back and didn't look arsd, and Wells who started well and then also looked like his mind was on his next move for the last few months.
It's a real game of chance, and it also means you don't tend to get your strikers until right at the end of the window. Probably not an issue now but next season was meant to start first weekend in August with transfer window end of August, which would have meant us playing half a dozen games without a completed squad, and we know how that went for Shteve.
I guess what I'm saying is would you have Austin over Hugill and Wells? Nah. Would you have him over Hemed? Yeh. And we don't know what we'll be getting next season, so it might not be such a hard no down the line. | | | |
| Charlie Austin on 21:53 - Jun 3 with 2393 views | Lblock |
Concur with the above over Hugill - a player I've always rated. To hear he's willing to put it in when injured speaks volumes for him and another load of positive capital for him in my book.
Which gets me onto Charlie... (I'll be up all night)
Amazing how "in the right frame of mind and attitude" certain players injury prone at one club suddenly become made of old boots in another club under a different regime.
Just sayin like
I'd love him back. Natural born goal scores score goals.
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| Charlie Austin on 22:11 - Jun 3 with 2347 views | kensalriser |
If we think he's fit enough and is within our wage budget, sure. If not, he's no different to any other player we might or might not be interested in. As the disclaimer goes, past performance is not necessarily indicative of future performance. |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 22:37 - Jun 3 with 2301 views | Antti_Heinola |
| Charlie Austin on 17:34 - Jun 3 by DannytheR |
Raise you Nigel Quashie - such a beast of a player for us first time round - coming back under Paladini appearing to weigh about 17 stone and repeatedly passing the ball into touch as we got turned over 5-0. |
Er... yes mate. My point was never 'yes, always go back under all circumstances.' | |
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| Charlie Austin on 22:46 - Jun 3 with 2273 views | Jigsore |
Austin likely only joined us because he failed that medical at Hull. Another stroke of luck, bar his shoulder falling apart midway through the Zamora season, was we actually sold him while he was still relatively fit and available. Albeit not for much. Usually we're the mugs who buy the Austin Southampton got.
with all that luck going our way already not sure why you'd take a gamble on him! |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 22:49 - Jun 3 with 2258 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
WBA second top score
Best on mins played per goal
Charlie Austin
132 mins per goal
1185 Mins played
9Goals scored
1 Assists
Shots on target Total 62% 21 Total 34
Not finished yet but just can't see it for lots of reasons |  |
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| Charlie Austin on 23:00 - Jun 3 with 2255 views | rsonist |
| Charlie Austin on 22:46 - Jun 3 by Jigsore |
Austin likely only joined us because he failed that medical at Hull. Another stroke of luck, bar his shoulder falling apart midway through the Zamora season, was we actually sold him while he was still relatively fit and available. Albeit not for much. Usually we're the mugs who buy the Austin Southampton got.
with all that luck going our way already not sure why you'd take a gamble on him! |
Gary Hooper was our first choice at the time too. |  | | |
| Charlie Austin on 00:04 - Jun 4 with 2168 views | distortR |
| Charlie Austin on 20:39 - Jun 3 by Northernr |
For all the straight 'nos', fair enough, some perfectly valid reasons given, and like I say money makes it a non-starter, but...
We're a couple of weeks away, again, from our strikers being:
Oteh.
We've relied for two seasons now on loaning strikers, for all the reasons we've done to death before. This season we've done brilliantly well with that. I mean Hugill has done a real hard effort for us, playing as it turned out through a very painful injury for quite a lot of it, but to get Wells on top of that was incredible. I'd say the chances of being able to get two like that, in that form, again would be very hard. Previous season we had Hemed, who started well, disappeared for four months with a similar injury to the one Hugill played through, came back and didn't look arsd, and Wells who started well and then also looked like his mind was on his next move for the last few months.
It's a real game of chance, and it also means you don't tend to get your strikers until right at the end of the window. Probably not an issue now but next season was meant to start first weekend in August with transfer window end of August, which would have meant us playing half a dozen games without a completed squad, and we know how that went for Shteve.
I guess what I'm saying is would you have Austin over Hugill and Wells? Nah. Would you have him over Hemed? Yeh. And we don't know what we'll be getting next season, so it might not be such a hard no down the line. |
i'd forgotten all about us only having one striker of our own.
ouch. | | | |
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