Armstrong tailed off badly at the end of the season with us... took an age to score that 20th goal. McNulty has improved immensely and is peaking at just the right time. Not the same killer instinct but a better all round player. I go for McNulty... more a team player without sacrificing goalscoring opportunities.Armstrong without a shadow of a doubt. He might struggle to show consistency in the Championship but over the course of a season he's easily one of the best strikers in League One.
Ahh, I agree, but that wasn't the question.Armstrong wasn't ours! McNulty is.
So McNulty all day. Just cannot rave about loanees.
Armstrong tailed off badly at the end of the season with us... took an age to score that 20th goal. McNulty has improved immensely and is peaking at just the right time. Not the same killer instinct but a better all round player. I go for McNulty... more a team player without sacrificing goalscoring opportunities.
Didn't McNulty take time to hit any kind of consistent form this season? Armstrong's first half of his season with us wasn't much different to the second half of this season for McNulty. It took McNulty until the end of December to reach double figures in all competitions. Armstrong reached the same amount of goals by the end of October. Not to mention his movement on the ball was electric, he'd cause defences nightmares at times with his speed and skill and his finishing IMO is better than McNulty's. Also, I don't think you can completely blame Armstong's goal drought on Armstrong alone, the whole team went through a slump during a period of the season where we only scored 9 goals in 13 games.
Don't forget that Armstrong was 18 years old during his time with us, (4 years junior to MM) during at which time McNulty was struggling at Sheffield United at the same level in League One. So much so he was loaned out to Portsmouth in League 2, where in all fairness he did well
The post says ' if you had both players'!Ahh, I agree, but that wasn't the question.
Okay, so if we have Armstrong or McNulty as a City player who would you choose?
Ahh, I agree, but that wasn't the question.
Okay, so if we have Armstrong or McNulty as a City player who would you choose?
Yeah, sorry. should have made that clear. Armstrong and McNulty as City players, not or.The post says ' if you had both players'!
Well that's it isn't it. A league higher. Makes all the difference.In that case I'd go with 20 goal a season proven man in league one.
'It's the way you tell 'em'!Yeah, sorry. should have made that clear. Armstrong and McNulty as City players, not or.
McNulty is a great finisher, scored plenty of goals out of nothing. Armstrong played in a team that made him plenty of chances. McNulty doesn't.
You don't work in HR do you?One thing I've noticed over the course of the season is that McNulty very rarely plays directly in partnership with whoever he's up front with, in our attacking build up. Quite often we have 1 striker in each attacking quadrant, miles apart. What he excels at is making his own runs and finding the pockets of space either made for him or left for him by dodgy L2 defending. Think that hurt us against the 'park the bus' teams in the first half of the season because he was just choked out of the game when it became compressed into a 3rd of the pitch with not much movement around him. I'd be interested to see him as first choice in a more tactically astute league as I think that will have been a reason he's struggled a bit higher up the league.
At 25, he's still young and learning though. I always like to give my players a key area to work on for the season, as well a smaller incremental targets . Sometimes you beat teams with individual brilliance and sometimes you break teams down as a team and his decision making of when to drift around and when to play more with his partner would be up there for me as his key area to develop.
No mate, it was torn down in 2006.You don't work in HR do you?
Armstrong would score eleventy billion a game against the cavemen defenders in league 2
Armstrong has 29 goals in 59 games in league one, McNulty is 11 goals in 55 matches at that level.
That’s rubbish
McNulty has only started in about 13 league one games. He had 27 appearances as sub and a lot of those were late.
Armstrong’s goalscoring record other than one purple patch is far worse.
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