Sam Cosgrove

[Parklife]

1 minute ago, DelMonte said:

I’ve thought he was good since his first game. 

He's a good player. People are definitely exaggerating how good though. 

1 minute ago, DelMonte said:

"Penalty box strikers” are still expected to do the basics like hold the ball and chase everything. He’s had plenty chances in the penalty box the past few games but his touch is honking and he’s low on confidence.

He's definitely low on confidence and in poor form. 

1 minute ago, DelMonte said:

I don’t think Cosgrove is as bad as made out by some but last few games he’s been abysmal and it’s down to him, not the team.

It's partly down to him but he's not the reason we've been shite. Bar Kennedy, I can't think of a single player (outwith the back line) who I'd say has been good of late. We've been utter shite right throughout the team. 

[Guest]

6 minutes ago, Millertime said:

Delighted he is going, just crap that most of the money if not all will be plugging a covid gap!

Sign of times MT. At least we have someone to sell.

On a positive note reckon our best performances of season was when big Sam was injured?

[Tord31]

21 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

The fucking Ross County bench was stronger than ours a few weeks back. Billy McKay would do a better job than Main and Anderson combined, if and when Cozzie leaves

We normally run with four strikers. We need to recruit four new strikers and in a perfect world we can get two of them in this week.

However i'd be happy with two loan signings this weekend leaving a lot of space to recruit strikers in the summer.

[sooth_stander]

Stewart and McKay (loan) in now and Cossie and Main (swap with Main) out.

And then we take a deep breath and look at do the major striker surgery in the summer (Watkins)

[DelMonte]

4 minutes ago, rocket_scientist said:

You can't afford to take such a high ground condescending tone. You know fuck all about fitba, unsurprisingly given you've never invested enough time in it nor have any direct personal experience of the game.

If you knew the slightest thing about football you would be able to back up what you posted and tell us all these strengths you see in Cosgrove, the worst CF at AFC for the whole of my lifetime and I first started going to Pittodrie in the 1960's. 

Please don’t bother. Leave this shite to the other forum. Makes it unreadable. 

[Parklife]

2 minutes ago, DelMonte said:

Please don’t bother. Leave this shite to the other forum. Makes it unreadable. 

He's just trying to bait me because he's a sad old man who has a weird desire to argue with me at every opportunity and hates that I just ignore him. 

I'll not be getting drawn in to his sickness. 

[Tord31]

5 minutes ago, sooth_stander said:

Stewart and McKay (loan) in now and Cossie and Main (swap with Main) out.

And then we take a deep breath and look at do the major striker surgery in the summer (Watkins)

Billy McKay. About ten years too late now.

[sooth_stander]

1 minute ago, Tord31 said:

Billy McKay. About ten years too late now.

Still ten times the player that Main is

[NEM]

12 minutes ago, rocket_scientist said:

If you knew the slightest thing about football you would be able to back up what you posted and tell us all these strengths you see in Cosgrove, the worst CF at AFC for the whole of my lifetime and I first started going to Pittodrie in the 1960's. 

Come on now he’s off form but that’s clearly nonsense ?

[The Boofon]

32 minutes ago, Millertime said:

Only in a shootout

Wrong. Again. 
 

Last game of season 2 years ago against Hibs. 
 

Missed one then. 

[sooth_stander]

Cosgrove deal to be completed today, according to Bob Thomson in the Sun

[NEM]

1 minute ago, rocket_scientist said:

 

However if you really are mature enough to debate football matters, I have a challenge for you; name ONE first pick CF worse than Cosgrove in the last 60 years?

I’ll bite

Barren Mackie

[The Boofon]

Just now, Millertime said:

Sure that wasn't the shootout?

You don’t get shootouts in league games. 

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Steve Lovell, Lee Miller, Scott Vernon, Josh Magennis, Calvin Zola, Eugene Dadi, Laurent D'Jaffo, David Zdrilic, Stevie Crawford and that took me about 18 seconds to think of

It was quite fun though. So thank you rocket

[Ten Caat]

48 minutes ago, Millertime said:

Can't shoot?

He has a piledriver of a shot

You have a piledriver of a chin. No guarantee of quality

[The Boofon]

1 minute ago, rocket_scientist said:

Disagree. I was there when we stole the SC QF at Parkhead. Mackie won it singlehandedly. He was a poor footballer but he could at least do some of the basics. 

LOL

[The Boofon]

1 minute ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Steve Lovell, Lee Miller, Scott Vernon, Josh Magennis, Calvin Zola, Eugene Dadi, Laurent D'Jaffo, David Zdrilic, Stevie Crawford and that took me about 18 seconds to think of

It was quite fun though. So thank you rocket

Take Vernon off that list immediately. 
 

and Lovell. 

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

1 minute ago, The Boofon said:

Take Vernon off that list immediately. 
 

and Lovell. 

 

Just now, Millertime said:

Remove Miller from that list immediately

Edit it

NOPE

Those 3 unquestionably the best on the list though. I had time for all 3. Cosgrove has been better than them all since his arrival though, especially for 30k. Thats why he has more goals, our league placing has been higher and he is leaving for a decent fee.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

Just now, Millertime said:

Lee Miller had the hair of Brad Pitt, the eyes of Brad Pitt and the footballing technique of Dimitar Berbatov 

He should be nowhere near a list of worst strikers 

Its not a list of worst strikers.... just ones not as good for Aberdeen as Sam Cosgrove

[NEM]

2 minutes ago, rocket_scientist said:

Disagree. I was there when we stole the SC QF at Parkhead. Mackie won it singlehandedly. He was a poor footballer but he could at least do some of the basics. 

So was I. He maybe scored the goal but it was a good overall team performance. 
 

If by the basics you mean he could run fast then aye he did the basics. Beyond that he struggled 

Mackie 69 goals in 364 appearances. 

Cosgrove 47 goals in 103 appearances.

End of conversation 
 

 

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

2 minutes ago, rocket_scientist said:

Cosgrove was shite when he came. We have never in AFC history had someone in this key position for so long so bad. 

20+ goals striker two seasons in a row and qualifying for europe both times

not so long ago we finished 9th and our top goalscorer that season was zander diamond with 5

[RAZOR]

9 minutes ago, Byrne Baby Byrne said:

Steve Lovell, Lee Miller, Scott Vernon, Josh Magennis, Calvin Zola, Eugene Dadi, Laurent D'Jaffo, David Zdrilic, Stevie Crawford and that took me about 18 seconds to think of

It was quite fun though. So thank you rocket

Come awa min. Absolutely no chance. 

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

1 minute ago, Millertime said:

I know, but he still shouldn't be on it because he wasn't worse than Cosgrove 

But your main argument for this literally includes his hair and eyes ?

[DelMonte]

15 minutes ago, rocket_scientist said:

Have you seen a worse first pick CF than Cosgrove at AFC?

Of course I have, stop looking for attention 

[Poodler]

Birmingham fans looking in will be bemused at the opinion of him here, his stats are very misleading 

 

Cosgrove is shite: thanks for the money, suckers 

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

5 minutes ago, rocket_scientist said:

Perhaps we are talking about different things?

Harper through Shearer, Rooney and Cosgrove. Not the hingers on who were so shite they never made it or lasted.

Like Clangers getting so long, it's embarrassing that Cosgrove has been the main focal point for goals, him taking all the pens giving a false boost to his conversion rates and his ability, which is fucking useless. 

This is a lot of goal post shuffling. We have gone from any striker in the last 60 years to just 4 strikers.

Ok I am willing to admit Harper, Shearer and Rooney were better than Cosgrove.

[Byrne Baby Byrne]

1 minute ago, rocket_scientist said:

No shuffling. I edited my original post PRECISELY for the reason anticipated.

There are many first choice strikers from Harper through to our last two, Rooney and Cosgrove. That's why I said "through". Did I have to spell that out too?

Weird how EVERYONE interpreted it that way. EVERYONE must be wrong all the time and you always right ?

[Poodler]

Leigh Hinds was a piece of shit

Foster levels of piece of shit 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Parklife said:

What he's best at is putting the ball in the net. If you have essentially a penalty box striker and then ask him to play with his back to goal, 40 yards out, then it's pretty obvious to anyone (apart from folk on here and McInnes) that he'll likely be poor. 

I don't think he's brilliant but he's far from shite and if it weren't for Covid, we'd be selling for much more than £2 million. 

I totally agree, and have said as much myself. He's a penalty box striker. But if you go with that line of thinking, he's lost the instinct. The last few games I've watched him he fails to make any movement in the box, and actually appears to hide behind defenders. 
 

You should remember pre Covid, Curtis Main was getting a game, and scoring, ahead of him. 
 

£2,000,000 is great money for him on current form. 

[Durrant Dived]

9 minutes ago, Poodler said:

Foster levels of piece of shit 

Harsh on pieces of shit.