No of course not, and I don’t disagree that Wright and Simms have so far been poorer than expected, but we’re simply not creating enough clinical chances for them to score. It’s almost like they’re carrying the weight of expectation for the whole team but the balls we’re giving them are just not “normal” chances that a striker would want to have. It’s not that we should only be providing tap-ins for our strikers but realistically how many “tap-in type” scenarios have we actually provided for them? It’s very few from my memory.
They’ve basically been expected to come here, hit the ground running and create wonder goals out of shit corners from Eccles or poor crosses from Dasilva or weird bobbly headed balls back into the box. I completely get the negative point of view that a lot of people have against Wright/Simms but I think if we want to do well it’s more than that, the whole team has to perform better, nothing seems natural or clinical or intelligent atm, it’s all last ditch attempts and blocks, it’s basically scrappy most games and so I just think it’s a bit harsh to blame everything on Wright/Simms.