Jordan Rhodes

He's **** now, no thanks.

He was rubbish here, he's rubbish there and he was rubbish at Norwich.

Scored some crucial goals for us, but he was not good for us.
 
He's a goal poacher who does nothing but score tap ins and headers in the box. Won't fit the lone striker role
 
NorthumberlandBoro said:
I think we played a part in destroying his confidence.
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He was here for 12 months over 4 years ago, he started virtually every game in the Championship whilst here.

If his confidence was destroyed by 6 months of not starting in the Premier League, that says more about him than it does us.

He got a goal and an assist in his first two games at Sheff Wed, so it's not like he was going through a huge dry spell to explain a lack of confidence, he's just not a very good technically.
 
He's no target man - reasonable poacher and now a bit old at 31.

If Warnock stays next season and Norwich go up - Jordan Hugill will be available he's fine as a Championship target man for nippy players to play off. He is a bit better than when he played here before and showed that at QPR. He will not break the bank. We are not going to have £10m for a Toney.
 
TeaCider said:
He was here for 12 months over 4 years ago, he started virtually every game in the Championship whilst here.

If his confidence was destroyed by 6 months of not starting in the Premier League, that says more about him than it does us.

He got a goal and an assist in his first two games at Sheff Wed, so it's not like he was going through a huge dry spell to explain a lack of confidence, he's just not a very good technically.
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Not having a go but your memory fails you, Ak started lots of games with Rhodes on the bench, I remember having looked up his goals per minutes played for Boro and from memory it was about a goal every 195 mins so nearly a goal every other game, Ak didn't fancy Rhodes

Just looked this up
Squad: 18, Starting eleven: 13, Substituted in: 5, On the bench: 0, Suspended: 0, Injured: 0,

A goal ever 193.5 mins
 
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Fridgeman said:
Not having a go but your memory fails you, Ak started lots of games with Rhodes on the bench, I remember having looked up his goals per minutes played for Boro and from memory it was about a goal every 195 mins so nearly a goal every other game, So didn't fancy Rhodes
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He was here for 19 Championship games, he started 13 of them.
He played in 18 of them.
Of the 5 games he didn't start in, only the first 2 were consecutive.

The first game he didn't start was his debut, against the club we'd only just signed him from, and one was the last game of the season and everyone was shocked he didn't start but given Stuani scored the decisive goal, you couldn't question it.

It's a fallacy to blame his problems 4 years later on what happened here.
 
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Updated my first reply but here are the facts

Just looked this up
Squad: 18, Starting eleven: 13, Substituted in: 5, On the bench: 0, Suspended: 0, Injured: 0,

A goal ever 193.5 mins

Rhodes did not fail for boro, he was always a goal every other game player he kept that up here and had one good goal ruled out v Leeds when a crossed ball was judged to have gone out of play, Rhodes put it in the net and replays showed the ball did not to out of play so it should have stood and been 7 goals in 1169 minutes played which would have been a goal every 167 mins, better than a goal every two games despite being brought on of the bench in numerous occasions when losing the game and only getting 5 or 10 mins
 
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Rhodes never scored at the Riverside. In the decisive against Brighton, Nugent was picked ahead of him. Rhodes has struggled after leaving Boro. His best form was at Huddersfield and Blackburn - at one point he was absolutely deadly, but that was along time ago now. I get the impression that Warnock wants a physically strong target man which Rhodes is not.

Hugill may choose to stay in Norfolk, but I can't see him playing in the Premiership, so Norwich should be receptive to a move and this could reflect in the financial deal required by them.
 
Fridgeman said:
Updated my first reply but here are the facts

Just looked this up
Squad: 18, Starting eleven: 13, Substituted in: 5, On the bench: 0, Suspended: 0, Injured: 0,

A goal ever 193.5 mins

Rhodes did not fail for boro, he was always a goal every other game he kept that up her and had one good goal ruled out v Leeds when a crossed ball was judged to have gone out of play, Rhodes put it in the net and replays showed the ball did not to out of play so it should have stood and been 7 goals in 1169 minutes played which would have been a goal every 167 mins, better than a goal every two games despite being brought on of the bench in numerous occasions when losing the game and only getting 5 or 10 mins
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I didn't say he failed here, I said he was rubbish here, and I stand by that

He scored 6 vital goals in 18 Championship appearances, there's nothing wrong with that return and he helped us get promoted.

But his performances were largely poor, he never scored at home and he missed countless chances to do so.

He only came off the bench when we were losing three times, two of them were immediately after we'd signed him, and he scored in the second of those and we didn't lose either.

I'm not having people blaming his 12 months here for why he's still playing poorly 4 years later.

Especially not if you're going to argue that he did well here, which makes the argument that we ruined his confidence even more nonsensical.
 
TeaCider said:
I didn't say he failed here, I said he was rubbish here, and I stand by that

He scored 6 vital goals in 18 Championship appearances, there's nothing wrong with that return and he helped us get promoted.

But his performances were largely poor, he never scored at home and he missed countless chances to do so.

He only came off the bench when we were losing three times, two of them were immediately after we'd signed him, and he scored in the second of those and we didn't lose either.

I'm not having people blaming his 12 months here for why he's still playing poorly 4 years later.

Especially not if you're going to argue that he did well here, which makes the argument that we ruined his confidence even more nonsensical.
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I read the thread and replied that's it, I am not having a go, there have been many threads about how bad, rubbish, sh**t etc Rhodes was for us but that's not true, the stats don't lie, sorry for picking your post out for reply that wasn't personal, you think he was rubbish for us I would not agree but that's not a problem I respect your point of view, I am sorry if I implied that you had said he failed, it was just a generalisation, no hard feelings
 
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