Andy Carroll - Best Striker in the World

[James P]

a horribly bloated mod team.

It's probably just water retention. Try cutting back on your consumption of wheat.

[Neil Young]

I have done since Monday, with startling results!

[Vermilion]

I just feel Carroll is too limited a player to be playing for us week in week out. A new striker is a priority for us.

There are strikers out there who are good in the air yet still have the ability to take others on and make chances out of nothing.

Carroll is just not well rounded. He does link up play well and often wins headers but I feel we need a complete forward, rather than a limited one. He is a target man and right now under Kenny's pass and move style it is not working for us.

I have nothing against him, I am sure he can be good for another team but right now he should be sitting on the bench. Unfortunately he's one of our only options up front and that's why we need to get a striker in this transfer window.

Tbh though, i'm not sure Drogba was the striker he is today when he was Carrolls age either.

[danperkins]

Our crossing is pretty medoirce to say the least and no service got to Carroll last night because of it. However, Carroll is too one dimensional at the same time and doesn't offer enough variation in his play.

[dww]

Our crossing is pretty medoirce to say the least and no service got to Carroll last night because of it. However, Carroll is too one dimensional at the same time and doesn't offer enough variation in his play.

I think the City game was different to many others in that in most games we have either a/ had someone in the box and bad crosses or b/ noone in the box so all crosses look bad. All our attackers started so deep against city it was ludicrous, Carroll also showed little sign of bursting forward which didn't help.

[Mostar]

Turned 23 today.

[yamiedo]

Happy Birthday Big Andy, take it easy on the Red Bull.

[RedSince1964]

Turned 23 today.

Hope he got a pair of new scoring Boots off LFC as a present

[Exiled_red]

Lets hope he can get a few goals to celebrate.

[lickedlollipop]

Happy Birthday Big Andy, take it easy on the Red Bull.

[McDermotX]

Turned 23 today.

Was just playing a quick game of FIFA there an hour ago, and when the ball fell to Andy, the commentary mentioned something along the lines of "working hard for his team, on his birthday", which was very unexpected.

The falling over after a **** shot was, however, completely expected.

[Craig_H]

This picture doing the interweb rounds, apparently it's Carroll out celebrating his birthday - cant really see if it's him, but some bluenose has been tweeting it all night, to journos and whoever else he can.



This is the bluenose

https://twitter.com/#!/jamie_heston

[ChesterDave]

Clearly a total nob. Got the chance of a lifetime to grab a snap to mock your rivals and the quality is worse than a toilet log sandwich.

[Gibbo]

I'm not sure that's Carroll

[ChesterDave]

I'm not sure that's Carroll

Not sure about the lad zonked out in the background though