hearn`s miss

Quoted from AndyGTFC

Strikers miss chances.  It happens. Torres has missed a couple of sitters for Chelsea and he's one of the top strikers in the world, nevermind a BSP striker. It would be more worrying if he didn't get into the positions to score.

Good point,

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We never paid £50k for Liam never mind £50 million.

really bad miss but was the best player we had and while we use him to work the channels creating chances for others he is not in the box where we need him

Yes he is learning all the time, but let us not forget, he's 25, not 19/20 as some would have you believe. Clearly a technically competent player, who has the ability to get himself in a lot of scoring positions, which is why he stuck so many away in the league below, but definitely needs to spend a good deal of time working on his finishing (which I'm sure he does). 2 or 3 games aside, he's been shown to be average for this division, but hopefully will be so much more in the years to come.

Would he have missed those chances if we were at home? I just don't think things are going our way at all when playing away. Something's starting to click when playing at BP, hopefully once that's settled we can carry it into away games.

His distance from the goal suggests that it WAS a bad miss. The cross was fairly hammered in (easily the best cross all day!) and he didn't have a lot of time to react to it. The problem is that chances are comparatively rare so misses have more of an impact.

Having watched Hearn throughout this season I don't think that he makes the best use of his angles when having shots. He tends to be drawn towards the near post at a tight angle making it easier for the keeper to get something on it. The proximity to the near post means that any richochet tends to end up going wide because there is no room for it to creep inside the post. I suspect it is quite a difficult job to put shots from that angle into the far corner of the goal.

Liam is 26, he's hardly as young as some people on here are suggesting, though yes its his first season as a full time professional, so will make mistakes. But if Elding had missed those sitters there would be multiple threads on how rubbish he is. Seems Hearn is turning into the player thats immune to critism on here like Connell was last season.

Having said that I believe he will come good and score closer to 20 goals this season than 10, which will make him our second best striker (though I'd put him first because he does more than just score unlike Connell) in a long time, no bad thing.

Quoted from cod.gtfc

Liam is 26, he's hardly as young as some people on here are suggesting, though yes its his first season as a full time professional, so will make mistakes. But if Elding had missed those sitters there would be multiple threads on how rubbish he is. Seems Hearn is turning into the player thats immune to critism on here like Connell was last season.

Having said that I believe he will come good and score closer to 20 goals this season than 10, which will make him our second best striker (though I'd put him first because he does more than just score unlike Connell) in a long time, no bad thing.

You could be right but at this moment in time I'd give my right arm for one of Connel's brilliantly executed goals which in all honesty last season made some games worth going to!