Peter Crouch

[Imy]

That is the way we play with Crouch on the pitch. He wasn't any worse than Voronin but that is not the point. The point is that we change our tactic to a worse one just because of one player, Crouch.

Rafa deserves his bit of stick for that because he is the one who thinks that Crouch is good in the air. He is better on the floor than in the air so it's stupid to hoof them up time after time to Crouch.

He has an OK touch but in the grand scheme of Premiership/world strikers he aint special, Its not as if he can use his touch to get past a player, like what Torres did in his short cameo.

[Dhav]

Players like Crouch need to start staking their claims for a starting place when they play, and he just simply didn't do that today. He looked rusty and off the pace.

In any case, I've never thought Crouch had the movement and speed to be our best option away from home, and I think it showed again today.

[justyafivetimes]

I feel that someone needs to stick up for him and I'm surprised it's me. I was very apprehensive when we first signed him and didn't look too good until his first goal but he has surely proved everyone wrong at all levels since then, hasn't he?

You can't expect crouch to be match sharp when isn't getting matches. Too many fans, not the educated ones I might add, are giving him a really hard time at the moment. Rafa is surely to blame - he was dropped, for no apparent reason, when he was on a really hot scoring streak for both club & country. That must destroy your confidence and generally confuse you (especially playing 2nd fiddle to the likes of heskey!!).

He's always being told he's part of Rafa's plans yet he'll only field him against weaker opposition. It's not Crouch's fault that his team mates hoof it up to him - they should know he isn't strong in the air. With the ball at his feet (when he's match sharp) he's a formidable striker.

i feel for him

he has NEVER let us down he is a nice bloke - met him few times
but it must seem his life is fallin apart

no longer first choice
england regular no more
and his bird is gonna end up in my bed pretty soon


cheer up big man

[Imy]

Players like Crouch need to start staking their claims for a starting place when they play, and he just simply didn't do that today. He looked rusty and off the pace.

In any case, I've never thought Crouch had the movement and speed to be our best option away from home, and I think it showed again today.

Sell him whilst we can still get some money for him i say.

[carheex]

Seven of todays team are more or less regulars.IMO he has not done enough to have a starting place.Kuyt brings so much more to the team.We missed him todays linking the play are feeding the wingers with the ball.

I'm not so sure. When Crouch is on top of his game, he's every bit as good as Kuyt and Voronin.

[Imy]

i feel for him

he has NEVER let us down he is a nice bloke - met him few times
but it must seem his life is fallin apart

no longer first choice
england regular no more
and his bird is gonna end up in my bed pretty soon


cheer up big man

Firstly Welcome

Check out his bird on the NSFW thread !

Secondly, nice guys come last (unfortunately) he needs to get a winning attitude quick.

[AFII]

Crouch has a good touch but he is to slow to get any good use of it and that is a problem.

I know that he can't be match fit and that will also be a problem because he will only start every third, fourth or fifth game and that will be a problem the whole season for him.

[JPK]

We play nice football in the first few games and then revert to football that Lawrie Sanchez would be proud of.That's what pisses me off most.

[Dhav]

Sell him whilst we can still get some money for him i say.

I'm not averse to selling him per se, but only as long as we can get someone in better to replace him.

[Imy]

We play nice football in the first few games and then revert to football that Lawrie Sanchez would be proud of.That's what pisses me off most.

The fact Pompey played liked the away team didn't help, but guile, ingenuity, style was missing throughout the team today.

[JPK]

I'm not so sure. When Crouch is on top of his game, he's every bit as good as Kuyt and Voronin.

If Kuyt had more goals in his game we would all be raving about him.
He is underated in what he does for the team.He was missed today

[AFII]

Sell him whilst we can still get some money for him i say.

I agree. He isn't an option that makes the team better anymore and he isn't even a good option off the bench.

We have other players that should start before him every week, Torres, Kuyt, Voronin and Babel.

I like him but the team always comes first.

[Imy]

I'm not averse to selling him per se, but only as long as we can get someone in better to replace him.

In world football there are many strikers better, an exchange with Martins at Newcastle or Berbatov at Spurs (to name two in the Premiership)

[AFII]

I'm not averse to selling him per se, but only as long as we can get someone in better to replace him.

Elmander?
Huntelaar?

[JPK]

I agree. He isn't an option that makes the team better anymore and he isn't even a good option off the bench.

We have other players that should start before him every week, Torres, Kuyt, Voronin and Babel.

I like him but the team always comes first.

He has never scored for us after coming off the bench.