Marino Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Being the youngest and still to realise his full potential, are we happy that McG is the one of the three still with us ? Dexter is scoring goals this season and Best cant get into the Coventry team, but all 3 are young enough to improve further. Personally I would have preferred to have kept the proven poachers instinct of Blackstock rather than the deeper lying McG who admittedly has more ball skill but who still tries to do too much rather than the simple pass imo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KK the 2nd Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 I always thought there was little to choose between the three. All were ok, but only ok. Fully understand why we let Best & Blackstock go and would have accpeted any one of three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flyer Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Dex > Mcgoldrick > Best. I know Dex will make it, he has played superb all season and is well on his way to 20 goals, Mcgoldrick is above Best because I never once saw Best have a decent game, for saints or QPR when he was on loan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintkiptanui Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 They are all black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chez Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Difficult to judge as Blackstock has played a fair few more CCC games than the other two. McGolrick is a year or so younger so that should be taken into account. None really excite me as only Blackstock dribbles the ball and he never seems to do so at pace. Lets hope McGoldrick improves greatly as we have three more years of him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legod Second Coming Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Difficult to judge as Blackstock has played a fair few more CCC games than the other two. McGolrick is a year or so younger so that should be taken into account. None really excite me as only Blackstock dribbles the ball and he never seems to do so at pace. Lets hope McGoldrick improves greatly as we have three more years of him. There were lots of QPR fans feeling the same way about Dexter as some of ours feel about McG. He's had a bloody good run in the side there and now in his 2nd/3rd season is finally coming good - and good on him to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saintandy666 Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 I nevee understood why we let Dexter Blackstock go so easily. Always liked him, and he seemed pretty good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 I nevee understood why we let Dexter Blackstock go so easily. Always liked him, and he seemed pretty good. He wanted to leave as we couldn't guarantee him first team football. We wanted to keep him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ottery st mary Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Dexter A GOALKEEPER TOO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saintjinksie Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Being the youngest and still to realise his full potential, are we happy that McG is the one of the three still with us ? Dexter is scoring goals this season and Best cant get into the Coventry team, but all 3 are young enough to improve further. Personally I would have preferred to have kept the proven poachers instinct of Blackstock rather than the deeper lying McG who admittedly has more ball skill but who still tries to do too much rather than the simple pass imo. I would rather have Blackstock, Best and McGoldrick in that order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TijuanaTim Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 No contest, the one we kept is the best...the others have done very little since leaving. Dave could (big 'could') score for us one day in the prem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven on the wing Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 The big suprise with Dexter was we sold him at just the time when he was looking as though he would come good and at a time when money was not as tight - just proves Burley was a poor judge of forwards imho ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Village Saint Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 No contest, the one we kept is the best...the others have done very little since leaving. Dave could (big 'could') score for us one day in the prem... Indeed. The equation is simple. Dex and Best will only ever be at best Champioship players because of their obvious limitations (and good luck to Dexter in that - he is an honest tryer). However, McGoldrick has the potential to be much better than that. So far it is only potential but in two years time when he has reached teh stage the other two have reached in their development we will be able to make a judgement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L1Minus10 Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Dexter best of the 3 by a mile. A Burley classic.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glasgow_Saint Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 McG is best Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MulletMan Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 They are all black. And your point is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callysaint76 Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 I may be the only one but i think that big Leon is the best. I think people judge him because of what happened against Derby which is unfair, he scored 2 against southend, and the winner away at Norwich and also played his part in the 6-0 win over wolves. His hold up play is the best of the 3 and would fit Best into the new system. i'm not sure about the next two as they are completely different, Dexter is a harder worker but Mcgoldrick is cleverer and more skillfull. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Minsk Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Why are so many having a go at Burley on this thread? Dexter wanted to leave as he wanted guaranteed first team football. Best refused to sign a new contract. DMG HAS signed a new contract here, so for me he gets the vote. I would rather have a player who wants to be here than one who doesn't. Oh, and I firmly believe that when DMG has as much first team experience as Dex currently has he will be far better than Dex is now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rebel Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 I'd have kept all three of them! Dexter is a real centre forward and a natural goal poacher, brave and a hard worker. Best is a good forward with real pace and power, able to play down either wing and run at the opposition from deep McGoldrick is a second striker, able to play in the hole and probably the best with the ball at his feet out of the three right now a forward line of Dexter upfront, with McGoldrick in the whole, Lallana on the right and Best on the left would do me they'd certainly score a few goals! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordswoodsaints Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 i always thought that dexter was the better of the 3 but only just,best and mcgoldrick are the same type of player........lazy.Dex seems a bit more hungry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy_Saint Posted 19 September, 2008 Share Posted 19 September, 2008 Remember that when Dex was let go we had a 1st choice pairing of Rasiak and Fuller with Jones and BWP as back-up. The club wanted to keep him and he refused to sign a new contract sighting the very justified reason that he wanted 1st team football which we couldnt promise due to the arguably better strikers ahead of him in the pecking order. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodsaint Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 I may be the only one but i think that big Leon is the best. I think people judge him because of what happened against Derby which is unfair, he scored 2 against southend, and the winner away at Norwich and also played his part in the 6-0 win over wolves. His hold up play is the best of the 3 and would fit Best into the new system. i'm not sure about the next two as they are completely different, Dexter is a harder worker but Mcgoldrick is cleverer and more skillfull. Have to agree that people were a bit harsh on best because of his performance against derby in the 2nd leg (burley should have taken him off) but just showed that when it came to the big games he just didnt perform. Its not good enough for a centre forward to just chip in with the odd goal every 10 games. I think we have the best in mcgoldrick and hopefully time will prove this Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildgoose Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 Really disappointed at the time that we let Dexter go. But imo Mcg is better than Best and could prove the best of all in the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BotleySaint Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 Really disappointed at the time that we let Dexter go. But imo Mcg is better than Best and could prove the best of all in the end I thought Best was just starting to look ok when we he refused the contract and left us. He scored a couple of goals to help us into the play-offs. Ok so he scored the freak own-goal and missed a penalty too... But I was starting to like him, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 To me the big thing is that we let Blackstock go because we got BWP. Who honestly wouldn't go back in time and change that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint_clark Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 To me the big thing is that we let Blackstock go because we got BWP. Who honestly wouldn't go back in time and change that? Wrong. Blackstock requested a transfer, we wanted to keep him but he said he was not guaranteed first team football so said he wanted to go, and he left. I really don't understand why people still think we wanted to get rid of him. It's been said enough times on here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_bert Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 I thought Best was just starting to look ok when we he refused the contract and left us. He scored a couple of goals to help us into the play-offs. Ok so he scored the freak own-goal and missed a penalty too... But I was starting to like him, What people forget about that game is he had an amazing one on one with their gk and just shot straight at him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_ed Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 They are all black. Great spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St Landrew Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 Of the 3, I had no problem with Saints letting Leon Best go. He seemed slow of thought and deed. I always thought Dexter Blackstock would get better and I was disappointed when Saints transferred him. But then, we had the likes of Rasiak, Saganowski, etc... Now we have McGoldrick, so fine... a good striker who will get better. Perhaps a lot better than both his contemporaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_ed Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 McGoldrick was just on show boat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
up and away Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 I know out of Blackstock, Best and McG, that Best easily had the most skill. But at this point in their careerer it really depends upon how they apply themselves and the chances they have available to do that. Dexter is your Michael Owen type of striker and that relies a lot on positioning and timing of the runs than anything else. So it would not surprise me if he went on a decent run with good players around him that he could make the grade in the Premier. Put Dexters attitude into Best and there would be no doubt who would come up trumps, but all Leons problems lie within himself. McG we will never know until he steps up and makes his mark on a consistent basis, but will always be useful. The one I feel that will be the far greater miss is Baseya. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danny Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 (edited) Wrong. Blackstock requested a transfer, we wanted to keep him but he said he was not guaranteed first team football so said he wanted to go, and he left. I really don't understand why people still think we wanted to get rid of him. It's been said enough times on here. Okay then smartarse, if you're so certain of the fact that BWP's signing had no impact on Blackstock leaving, how do you know that had we not signed BWP in July 2006 that Blackstock would not have had a regular place in the first team? At the time, Jones was still on the periphery of the squad and far from showing signs of fulfilling his potential and Fuller was about to leave shortly after the season began. To my mind, the signing of BWP pushed Blackstock down the pecking order, bearing in mind that for the only time all the strikers (along with Rasiak) were are at the club together, Jones and Blackstock didn't even make it on to the bench. And I'm sure you'll forgive me if I don't treat all that I read on here with any real level of faith of it being Gospel, regardless of it "being said enough times". :wink: Edited 20 September, 2008 by Danny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuperMikey Posted 20 September, 2008 Share Posted 20 September, 2008 I wish we'd kept Blackstock, he's got real potential and would work well in our team now playing with SJ or DMG up front. He always looked dangerous and is playing regularly for QPR now and scoring loads of goals in the process. If QPR don't get promoted this season then he'll go to a smaller Prem club, no doubt. He's a very good player imo. McGoldrick is also good, but on a different level to Blackstock. He has the power that Blackstock lacks and his ability to run at the defence is very good, although I worry sometimes about his finishing. We made the right choice by letting Best go, he's not good enough to be at the club. Sure, he has pace, but he rarely scored (some might argue that neither DMG or Blackstock did either) and was flimsy. If he's struggling to get into the Coventry team now he'll be leaving in January to go to some League 1 club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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