16 Mar 2016 23:26:23
Stokesy finally came good for Hibs tonight, my opinion is that he is better than Scepovic, Ciftci, Cole or Kazim-Richards who were signed to replace him .
16 Mar 2016 23:35:53
Playing well in one game although good to see, doesn't mean he has turned an angle.
16 Mar 2016 23:44:32
Playing well 1 game in every 10 is exactly why he's not at Celtic.
17 Mar 2016 01:01:46
Playing well in 1 game in 10 is still better than the rest lol.
17 Mar 2016 01:11:33
Good point Rayman. That said if take scep over Cole ckr and nadir every day of the week.
17 Mar 2016 07:55:36
Scepovic is a strange one tbh. He scored most of the time when he played but it seems his heart just wasn't in it at all after his move to Levante fell through. Ciftci, I feel has something about him but only ever shows it in glimpses ie his goal this week was great but he always tries his best. If you could get that attitude to rub off on Scepovic then we'd have a serious player on our hands but I can't see it, he'll be off in the summer.
17 Mar 2016 10:44:02
Kevbhoy . scepovic scored 4 in 19 for us and now 4 in 19 for Getafe . the guy is below average and that's being kind . apart from Griffiths and hooper stokes is better than all the other strikers signed or loaned since himself . stokes is ok at spl level as back up nothing more . but still better than scepovic ckr cole.
17 Mar 2016 11:14:15
That's an unfair statistic DRB because a lot of the time he was coming on for 10 minutes and not really getting the chance to get into the game.
17 Mar 2016 12:10:43
As well as which, until last night Stokes had 2 in 11 (approx) for Hibs - which is not only on its way to 4 in 19, it's statistically worse. Even including last nights goals, if he has the same type of form he showed after scoring two on the bounce for Hibs, you're looking at 4 in 24.
Stats and all that 😀.
17 Mar 2016 13:15:35
Have any of you watched him play for hibs? I've been watching the games to keep an eye on henderson and though he has been well. I haven't seen anything from stokes that makes me want him back in the team.
17 Mar 2016 13:34:42
Agreed. He's actually made JC worse.
17 Mar 2016 14:46:23
If it's about stats he's 1 goal in every 3 games at hibs which is what stokes usually is as a striker and there are many players who would love to have those stats (Cole Richards scepovic ) and he hadn't played for 6 months so wasn't match sharp. Asfor making Cummings worse was he ever that good? It is 2nd division after all.
17 Mar 2016 15:22:52
Kevbhoy maybe so . but it's the same at every club he's been at . he's had one good season with 23 goals then signed with us nowits back to his norm of low scoring . he's 26 had 12 clubs and as I said one good season . the boy is an average player pp I never mentioned stokes stats just the fact imo he's better than the other duffers we've brought in . on stats his average with us is one in 2.5 career one in 2.6 . scepovic is one in every 3 career. so take one of these👊 ☺✌.
17 Mar 2016 16:49:22
Stats aside as a footballer I think he has ability and has scored some great goals but he has to be at his very best before I'd start him. I think his best is behind him now though. He even looks like he has lost a yard when he wasn't the quickest to start with. Comparing him with what we have/ had is p*ssing in the wind. It's been that bad striker wise for years that we are debating the best of a bad bunch! Broken record but the lack of quality is astounding.
17 Mar 2016 19:08:37
At least there is one thing agreeable, all our strikers apart from Leigh Grifgiths are considered to be pure S&£&e.
17 Mar 2016 21:41:02
At a big ambitious club like Celtic a player can't have the luxury of nine games and not showing an interest and then scoring a goal or two in the next . The pressure at Celtic is to get results in every match . L G is an example of the striker we want and we have done well to have him, and more important to have him in the right frame of mind to score or create in nearly every match .
Believe it or not we have fans who think we should have better than L G .
Leigh, compared to the rest of our first team players is brilliant, if we look at many of the top teams in EPL, brought together by spending hundreds of millions, not many of them have strikers scoring as regularly as LG.
17 Mar 2016 21:56:56
Old Bhoy bang on the money, thought Stokes was a decent player but his lack of interest in games was shocking. LG has came in, got hs head down and has been one of two star performers this season. Probably explains the difference between the two (Griffiths and Stokes) , Stokes had bags of talent and spent time at Arsenal probably coasted through his development years. Griffiths has worked hard since starting out, learned he was a bit off the pace and Wolves and strived to improve whilst Stokes just continued his coasting.
18 Mar 2016 01:07:10
The attitude and belief in manager is as important as natural ability .
18 Mar 2016 08:55:44
Gary Hooper was very often guilty of disappearing for 2/ 3 weeks at a time but he go away with it because he would follow it up with 6 or 7 goals in just a few games afterwards. I much prefer Griffiths scoring more regularly because without that we'd have been in trouble this season.