20-03-2016, 16:40
With the outstanding performances this season of that "over the hill" striker, Jermaine Defoe, including a key goal today at Sid James Park, it brought to mind our decision a few years ago not to offer a two year contract to Kevin Phillips when we promoted under Tony Mowbray. He must have been a similar age to Defoe is now so age is clearly no barrier. I know that there were some concerns over his long term fitness, primarily his knees, but don't tell me that Defoe, as excellent as he is, is/was a better natural finisher than Kev. One of our biggest issues that season was an inability to convert the limited chances that came our way. What we needed was a natural, instinctive goal scorer, if only we'd had one.......oh, hang on!