I think if any striker gets enough chances over a period of time he's bound to score- after his initial purple patch, which I agree was good, he scored 2 in 14 after his loan was made permanent. That's not good even by our standards. Did he get many assists? I can't remember them.ejh":8tku7do4 said:GreenSam":8tku7do4 said:I don't agree with personal abuse of him or calling him bad names at all, but I entirely disagree that we would have gone down without him. I think better strikers could have done what he did in his loan spell and over a longer period of time. He did very well in that second half at Rovers granted, but it didn't transcend anything that a genuinely good League Two striker could have done and he could have done it over the whole season not just his loan spell.ejh":8tku7do4 said:I never said our survival was due to Chadwick, I wrote we would have been relegated without him, which we would have.
His performance in the 2nd half v Bristol Rovers for a start, scoring 1 and setting up 2 goals when we were 2 nil down and getting battered.
He brought strength up front and was streetwise in winning free kicks and breaking up play for a young and inexperienced sid that didn't know any better.
Now we have different and more in form options it might be in vogue to criticise him and call him all names under the sun, but cast your minds back to when his loan ended from Stockport - I seem to remember most of pasoti pleading with Brent to sign him permanently.
Even if we hadn't won that Rovers game, that's one isolated game and aside from that Chadwick did very little to contribute in my view. A better striker could have done more.
Chadwick contributed more in real terms than Feeney (or any other Argyle forward) in the second half of the season - by real terms I mean goals and assists.
And as for theorising another striker would have done better, there is no way of knowing that. The strikers you are thinking of - were they in demand at the time, and come as cheap as Chadders, allowing us to bring in Purse, Blanch, Wotton and MacDonald? Madjo for example would have been impossible at that time and for these reasons.
As for other striker doing better in his 14 permanent games, I know this may sound harsh but I don't think many could have done much worse. He didn't score many goals, he didn't provide many assists and he didn't offer much more to the side at all after he signed for us permanently, in my opinion. He had a fantastic loan spell granted but that's it. We may have to disagree on that.