KopTalk.com Forums Football Liverpool FC Forum The truth about Andy Carroll

His cross was absolutely sublime. But if you player cammed him I think you'd change your mind quickly re his build up. He is keeping the ball better, but nearly always passing it back to deep midfield or even defence. He doesn't yet have the speed of thought to continue a break etc. Also his touch is much better but still he miss controls it and needs a second touch 40 percent of the time, again messing up the attack.

As for whoever said about poor coaching etc, seems like a desperate attempt to shift blame. If your a no.9 you should be getting in front of ur man to attack crosses, Carroll is never there, maybe once a game, the rest he's on his heels waiting for something to hit him on the head.

Moving away from the criticism, he has improved vastly, certainly worth continuing in the team as he gives us a bit of a plan b sometimes, but he certainly wouldn't be playing in any of the sides above us as a first teamer. He would be plan B off the bench. And yes I include newcastle in that. If we wanna be a big boy in english football again, carroll has to improve by about 5 times, or we need a new no.9 and carroll has to be our plan B.

im not desperate to shift blame, i just wanted to acknowledge where he has developed. i still think we need a more prolific striker.

as for the coaching thing, i see a lack of confidence in all our attacking players in front of goal, not just andy. some poor technique aswell.

Man I was excited reading this title, I thought you were ganna share some bad arse secret about Andy. Disappointed...

How many quality crosses are put into the box where Carroll can use his height, movement and aeriel ability to score goals?????..... none
At least deliver a decent cross for Carroll to give him a 50/50 chance of getting his head to it.

Regards to coaches at the club, I wud like to see a top top foreign coach come in the summer.
I wud like to see fowler come in as our striker coach and bring in Barnes as our crossing coach.

And molby to coach Adam, hendo, spearing how to play simple passes, quick and to the players feet.

Lol, a great player doesn't necessarily make a great coach, y'know? Have your ever had a teacher in school/college who clearly knows his/her stuff, but can't teach for sh*t?

Horses for courses bar, heard that phrase b4 lad.

Put Carroll in a team with 2 quality natural wingers , who can cross and watch him.score 20+ goals a season

You have just blatantly lied. You've said no quality crosses have gone into the box. That is just total utter bullsh!t. If you'd said he doesn't get the service often enough, then you'd have a point. But there have been good deliveries into the box on more than enough occasions for his goal record to be substantially better. But he's always in the wrong place and can't be bothered to get in front of the man marking him.

I agree he has received a lot of criticism with us but thats because of the 35 million pound transfer fee. Personally id love to see him excel with us and im sure next season he can only get better hes only young aswel.

THe truth about Any Carroll is he's slow, wanders around far to much, never where he's supposed to be, creats very little, he has this anoying habbit of complainig and moaning at his team for not putting the ball on his feet and he's lazy...C'mon lads you can't polish a turd!!

And i forgot to say, £10 on Torres to out score him by the end of the season!!