Do be serious

Edited by cpfckirby96 (23 May 2012 5.25pm)

You seem like a level headed Hammer. I would be surprised if Baldock starts at all in the Premiership. With Cole, Vaz Te and Nicky Maynard in front of him at the moment come the end of the summer he might be a fifth or sixth choice striker.

Would love to see him at the Palace. Good luck in the Prem. David Gold as a decent bloke as we found out when we went to interview him.

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But he has just released John Carew! Surely the tallest, most monstery looking striker around?!

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I think you'd be looking at closer to £2m - roughly what we spent on him. One of the reasons why I think a loan rather than a sale would be better all round. I don't want to see him leave, even on loan, but if he needs to go somewhere else to bang in a few to get his confidence up, before coming back to us so we get the benefit, it's a short-term loss we may have to take.

He started like a house on fire, scoring 5 goals in 5 starts in October/November. He didn't score again after that, totalling 5 goals in 10 starts and 12 sub appearances. Struggled for fitness and form after a hamstring injury curtailed his bright start and seeing a penalty saved with the score at 0-0 in the FA Cup 3rd round at Hillsborough seemed to hit his confidence as we lost that game 1-0 in the last minute. Struggled for starts after the signings of Maynard and Vaz Te later that month.

Freddie Sears looked fantastic for us in the youth and reserve teams, scoring 25 goals in 24 games one year, but just couldn't adapt to first-team football. Such a shame as we had real high hopes for him, especially when he came off the bench to score the winner against Blackburn on his debut in March 2008.

I think Baldock is a much better all-round player than Freddie myself - he does remind me more of Tony Cottee in his movement and finishing, the boy lives to put the ball in the net. He was most promising for us in a 4-4-2 with John Carew and ended up stuck on the flanks later in the season in a 4-3-3 formation, which was a total waste of his considerable talents (not that I'm one of the minority - and it is a minority - of supporters who is critical of Allardyce).

Which is EXACTLY how we'd treat him so it seems a pointless player to pursue. We wouldn't play him through the middle ans there's no way DF will play 4-4-2

For f*cks sake Murray!!

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