In my opinion that’s really unfair though. He’s a striker, if he’s not getting service it’s going to be hard for him to score, and he didn’t get anything today, he didn’t play well at all, but to expect him to dig us out of that shitefest is very unfair. When he gets good chances and fluffs then he rightfully gets flak, today however, was a shambles from front to back.
Again I’m not saying he doesn’t deserve criticism, I just can’t go him being singled out for special criticism all the time. We had people in the match thread demanding he be brought off at half time, despite the fact Lafferty didn’t get involved AT ALL. As much as I like him, he’s not the type of player who’s going to pick up the ball just inside the half way line and beat everyone and score, that’s what would have been needed today with how poor the midfield were, the service from both Tav and Barisic was really poor.