Brown is best as a winger not a striker, he is 6 in the assist table playing in a poor team, he got alot of assists last season which helped us fill the gap left from flogging potts. If he was better at finishing he wouldnt be here playing for us.
Seriously not in Liddell’s league as a striker imo. ( may still develop) John Hendrie said he was probably the best finisher at the club during his time with us. Great finisher. Would have played a lot more games if it wasn’t for the fact he was more of a squad player during our bid for promotion.
As others have said I think he's far better wide right feeding Woodrow and Chaplin. I think that because of a terrible summer transfer window (get ****** Mr Conway) and an almost negligent failure to rectify it in january we have had to play a lot of players out of position. Mowatt should be much further forward but he's being wasted in front of the defence because we haven't signed anyone to play there (dougall obviously **** in struber's pillow case). Woodrow should be up front but because we didn't sign anyone even remotely resembling a footballer in midfield he's having to play there and he's frankly had an awful season by his standards. Brown is better out wide but because we signed Schmidt it means brown is having to play central. A scattergun approach to attacking players based on stats instead of actual on field ability has cost us massively this season both on the pitch and financially too
We didn't lose any midfielders from last season and signed Wilks who everyone was raving about when he was at Donny. Theoretically we could still play Brown wide, Dougall (or Halme) sitting and Mowatt further forward with Chaplin & Woodrow up front but this manager chooses not to.
He's scored 14 times. In the Championship. 9 of those from the deeper position. For a side in the bottom three practically all season. Just two short of his league total from last season. 34 goals overall in 71 games for us. He's never had anything like this kind of output before coming to Oakwell.
No but I think if he was played in a position where he was given more if the ball in front of goal it would be off the scale.
He got six in 14 when played up front under Daniel, then Adam. He got nine in 19 playing in the deeper role under Gerhard. He's played back up front the last two games, hasn't scored. So based on all that, I'd say there's very little difference in his output, wherever he's playing. Even last season a level lower, he was continually dropping deep for the ball. He's a great link-up player, good control and can score all manner of goals. Look at that one against Peterborough last term for example, and the myriad he's scored from range this season. I'd genuinely understand this reference if indeed we'd seen him moved from up top and into the deeper position, and he'd stopped scoring. But he's not. He's just as prolific as he was further up, but, and this is the kicker - our form as a team with him up front saw us go 17 games without a win. Since he was moved deeper, the team have been miles better. As stated before, we'd be 13th if only Struber's games counted.
