[theo_luddite]

Bowen at West Ham is showing what he used to do for Hull. They stuck with him while they worked it out. He's only one behind his best total for West Ham on 11 when his best total so far was 12. His best for Hull was 22. Hull found him at Hereford.

What am I driving at?

OK, we've picked up Sorba Thomas and Jack Rudoni in recent seasons from lower leagues. Hard to argue they aren't capable at this level (some might on some forums becuse they were plucked from lower leagues and will always be lower league players in their opinion). We also plucked Hudlin from the lower leagues, same club as Rudoni I think. Wombledon? Erm, is he our best bet as a future Bowen?

I'm having a hard time seeing him as a Championship player. I'm having a hard time seeing him as a professional footballer if I'm honest. What exactly are our 'Football Manager' influenced scouts looking at?

If he scores 20 goals between now and May I might change my opinion but in all honesty I've more chance at my age of finding 20 new 'girlfriends' on certain t'interweb sites that just want to be friends and spend all their money on me. Like that's gonna happen, and it's not that I frequent those kinds of websites anyway. I'll stick with the real friends I've got thank you very much.

Maybe I should invest in 'Football Manager' and others as my own Christmas gift and offer my suddenly acquired skills to Town?
What could possibly go wrong?

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Let me clarify that - Hudlin isn't the cause of our problems, particularly when it comes to scoring goals.
I've nothing against him personally. Hell, we've other guys that are far more inept than him in that department who have played for years and are supposedly seasoned goal scorers.
He's a sympton of something that is very, very wrong in the club when it comes to recruitment.