EPL Team of the Year 2009 - Forwards

The Volt

Last poll guys. Who'll provide the firepower for the team of the year?

Xavi6

Marcheda and Wellbeck.

Just you wait and see.

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

Okay to get this one out of the way.
Torres. Struggling a bit with injury at the moment but goal against Villa just shows what a deadly striker he is. A shoe in really along with Drogba. No need really to look beyond those two.
btw Marcheda hasnt really done much since that wonder goal last year.

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Berbatov

Xavi6 wrote: »

Marcheda and Wellbeck.

Just you wait and see.

at least spell their names right ffs

Xavi6

Headshot wrote: »

at least spell their names right ffs

Sorry, I'm only up to speed on United regulars

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

Headshot wrote: »

at least spell their names right ffs

Yes Marcheda may be good in a few seasons time but really dont see the point considering him at this stage. For me Drogba is probably the best striker out there at the moment with Torres in second.

ROCKMAN

Berbatov

Because for some strange reason I cannot see Torres and Drogba working as well as a pair as Torres and Rooney or Drogba and Rooney
and the fact that the last two have better current/season form and would gel better IMO .Hard choice .
I voted for Rooney and Drogba



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Berbatov

Xavi6 wrote: »

Sorry, I'm only up to speed on United regulars

Welbeck has been a regular in the past few games now, so your post goes out the window

nice try all the same thou

LuckyLloyd

Berbatov

Best end products are from Drogba and Rooney:

Drogba: 18 games 14 goals 5 assists
Rooney: 19 games 14 goals 2 assists

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Defoe: 18 games 14 goals 1 assist falls just short statistically and is harder to build a team around

Torres: 15 games 12 goals 1 assist loses out due to injury problems - but it is also important to note the assists tally from a very similar player like Drogba (of course assists is a team stat to an extent, but it remains noteworthy)

Bent: 20 games 13 goals 1 assist has produced less with the most games of the top scorers and has arguably the weakest all round game

Saha: 17 games 10 goals 1 assist has done very well, but is off the top tier

Carlos Tevez: 18 games 9 goals 5 assists is very productive, but off the extraordinary strikerates of the top forwards. Excellent all round game

Anelka: 16 games 5 goals 3 assists I will also mention because his all round game has struck me as excellent the few times I have watched him over 90 minutes

Bellamy: 16 games 6 goals 6 assists is an extraordinary asset to his side, provides exceptional movement and links the play extremely well but falls short of the top tier on this list due to a reduced end product. Cracking player however.

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For silly reasons, Drogba and Rooney will not win this poll. But they have provided the biggest contributions of any strikers active in the Premiership thus far this season.

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Best end products are from Drogba and Rooney:

Drogba: 18 games 14 goals 5 assists
Rooney: 19 games 14 goals 2 assists

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Defoe: 18 games 14 goals 1 assist falls just short statistically and is harder to build a team around

Torres: 15 games 12 goals 1 assist loses out due to injury problems - but it is also important to note the assists tally from a very similar player like Drogba (of course assists is a team stat to an extent, but it remains noteworthy)

Bent: 20 games 13 goals 1 assist has produced less with the most games of the top scorers and has arguably the weakest all round game

Saha: 17 games 10 goals 1 assist has done very well, but is off the top tier

Carlos Tevez: 18 games 9 goals 5 assists is very productive, but off the extraordinary strikerates of the top forwards. Excellent all round game

Anelka: 16 games 5 goals 3 assists I will also mention because his all round game has struck me as excellent the few times I have watched him over 90 minutes

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For silly reasons, Drogba and Rooney will not win this poll. But they have provided the biggest contributions of any strikers active in the Premiership thus far this season.

Rooney not at his best this year. Gave a very silly goal away game before last. Would always be Torres and Drogba. I think United are strong in other sectors particulary in midfield but not up front.

Peyton Manning

Rooney

What the hell does Nicolas Anelka have to do to please people? Far and away the best striker in the league this year...

Diabhal Beag

Crouch

I went for Defoe and Anelka. Both have had a good year.

Bandit12

Bellamy

Torres and Drogba by a country mile. Anyone who voted otherwise is just being silly.

LuckyLloyd

Berbatov

Archimedes wrote: »

What the hell does Nicolas Anelka have to do to please people? Far and away the best striker in the league this year...

Is this vote the season so far or the calendar year 2009?

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

Archimedes wrote: »

What the hell does Nicolas Anelka have to do to please people? Far and away the best striker in the league this year...

Behave will you. A good back up for Drogba but thats all.

greendom

Bellamy

bayviewclose wrote: »

Behave will you. A good back up for Drogba but thats all.

That'as an unusual way of looking at it. OK he's not quite up to Drogba's standard but very few are. On his form of the last couple of seasons Anelka would walk into any premiership side.

Eire-Dearg

Bellamy

Archimedes wrote: »

What the hell does Nicolas Anelka have to do to please people? Far and away the best striker in the league this year...

He's had a fantastic 2010 so far.

Mitch Connor

Berbatov

bayviewclose wrote: »

Rooney not at his best this year. Gave a very silly goal away game before last. Would always be Torres and Drogba. I think United are strong in other sectors particulary in midfield but not up front.

Amazing that he has managed to score more goals than any other striker in the PL in 09, while not at his best. Some player.

ROCKMAN

Berbatov

Looks like Torres and Drogba will run away with this and maybe LuckyLloyd was/will be right "silly reasons" Just cannot see them working that well together ,
But the OP is looking for EPL pairing now that can be taken 2 ways

1 An actual pairing
or
2 Pic AND Mix ,

Like the rest of ye when i was voting I took the pic and mix option (Rooney and Drogba just could see them working together and their styles of play suiting each other.)
However if I was to pick an Actual pair in the League

Hmmmm give me a min.......

Right Taken the whole year........

For me has to be Drogba and Anelka


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Mitch Connor

Berbatov

Bandit12 wrote: »

Torres and Drogba by a country mile. Anyone who voted otherwise is just being silly.

Yeah - would be silly to vote for the forward with the most goals in 2009 - just silly. such silliness. :rolleyes:

LuckyLloyd

Berbatov

Fernando Torres: 21 goals 4 assists
Wayne Rooney: 22 goals 5 assists
Didier Drogba: 18 goals 9 assists
Nicolas Anelka: 10 goals 5 assists

Anelka is a good player lads, and I think he provides a lot to link an attack outside the box. But I'm afraid the raw hard numbers tell the story.

Moreover, this rubbish about Rooney having an 'off year' or whatever is simply untrue. The man is beasting it like he always has. Just destroys people year in, year out (and most pertinently to this discussion - this year).

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Carlos Tevez: 12 goals 7 assists
Darren Bent: 18 goals 2 assists
Jermain Defoe: 17 goals 2 assists
Craig Bellamy: 10 goals 6 assists

None of these players (while all very positive contributers) should receive votes for the calendar year 2009 (or any recent period tbh). Given the fact that Tevez was out of favour for the first half of 2009, the numbers he has achieved are rather impressive. I would take him over Anelka to be honest.

rossie1977

Berbatov

went for rooney and torres, two best strikers in england atm, drogba just behind them but he has been brilliant too, those 3 are head and shoulders above everyone else

LuckyLloyd

Berbatov

bayviewclose wrote: »

Rooney not at his best this year. Gave a very silly goal away game before last. Would always be Torres and Drogba. I think United are strong in other sectors particulary in midfield but not up front.

This type of nonsense always makes me very sad.

Pepe LeFrits

Hadn't planned on voting for him anyway due to the formation but Arshavin hasn't been included for nomination in any position at all. 14 goals and 16 assists since joining Arsenal in January. Bit of an omission.

Fuhrer

Berbatov

bayviewclose wrote: »

Rooney not at his best this year. Gave a very silly goal away game before last. Would always be Torres and Drogba. I think United are strong in other sectors particulary in midfield but not up front.

Thats true


I mean, all hes had is his best goal return of his entire career at this stage of the season.

Unearthly

Berbatov

I went for Rooney and Drogba

PHB

Berbatov

Rooney hasnt' been at his best. Yet he still rocks out in goals and assists. And the thing about him is, that's not even the most important part of his game. Torres has been injuried lots this year and thats why I'd say he should be left out, as Drogba has been pretty special at times.

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

Fuhrer wrote: »

Thats true


I mean, all hes had is his best goal return of his entire career at this stage of the season.

yep

rossie1977

Berbatov

PHB wrote: »

Torres has been injuried lots this year and thats why I'd say he should be left out, as Drogba has been pretty special at times.

fabregas missed 4+ months of 2009 and essien 3 months but alot of people picked them in the midfield poll

leninbenjamin

Drogba

Van Persie should be getting a lot more votes than he has. 7 goals and 7 assist in 11 league appearances this season, and finished top in the assists chart in the league last season, along with a healthy 20 goals to his name in all competitions. Not to be sniffed at.

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

This type of nonsense always makes me very sad.

Another kleenex moment sponsored by..

Supermanscat

Other

I picked Cheryl Cole, the roide.

5starpool

Bellamy

I went for Torres and Drigba, although leaving Rooney out would be a very hard thing to do as well, as he is a fantastic player, easily uniteds best over the last year.

However, if each striker played every game this season I think Torres would definitely get the most goals, and Drogba is such a nightmare to play against and contributes so much to the attack.

Horribly tough decision.

LuckyLloyd

Berbatov

leninbenjamin wrote: »

Van Persie should be getting a lot more votes than he has. 7 goals and 7 assist in 11 league appearances this season, and finished top in the assists chart in the league last season, along with a healthy 20 goals to his name in all competitions. Not to be sniffed at.

Meh, he's an excellent player. He just isn't as good as the top three players, who happen to be some of the very best players in their position in the world. No shame in being behind Torres / Drogba / Rooney!!

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

should have kept me mouth shut. An upsurge in the votes for Rooney!

Fuhrer

Berbatov

5starpool wrote: »

However, if each striker played every game this season I think Torres would definitely get the most goals,

Him being injury prone would detract from being one of the best forwards though

Mgoraf

Bellamy

Torres and Drogba.

curry-muff

Berbatov

Bandit12 wrote: »

Torres and Drogba by a country mile. Anyone who voted otherwise is just being silly.

Oh really, becuase voting for the striker to score the most goals in 2009 is pretty silly isnt it. Rooney and Torres for me.

Spiritoftheseventies

Bellamy

curry-muff wrote: »

Oh really, becuase voting for the striker to score the most goals in 2009 is pretty silly isnt it. Rooney and Torres for me.

Rooney is a terrific athlete to be fair. maybe we could play a 4-3-3 formation with Drogba the target man for Rooney and torres.

Liam O

Berbatov

Carlton Cole and Bobby Zamora by a country mile, anyone who votes otherwise is really stupid. :rolleyes:

No seriously, Rooney and Drogba have been the best in 2009 Torres has been injured too much to be considered up there with the relatively injury free pairing that has the best return and would compliment each other very well imo. Torres is a great player and may take it if we were voting on the best striker but not in 2009.

Kev_ps3

Berbatov

Rooney and Drogba for me.

monkey9

Torres on his own. He doesn't need anyone else. The best striker in the world, bar none!

Y2J_MUFC

Berbatov

bayviewclose wrote: »

Rooney not at his best this year. Gave a very silly goal away game before last.

Got selective myopia? Gave a silly goal away, but scored another one and made two others.

No doubt for me: Rooney and Drogba.

Rooney scored more in the calendar year than anyone else as pointed out. Drogba is immense.

OPENROAD

Saha

monkey9 wrote: »

Torres on his own. He doesn't need anyone else. The best striker in the world, bar none!

He is a top class striker, but the best in the world? Not even the best in the Premiership.

Boggles

D. Bent

Rooney by a country mile.

Drogba then Torres.

redzerdrog

Bellamy

if you think rooney is a country mile better than both drogba and torres you really do have a screw loose

Mgoraf

Bellamy

Rooney isn't even top 3 imo.

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Berbatov

I went for Torres with Rooney playing behind him.

PHB

Berbatov

LuckyLloyd wrote: »

Meh, he's an excellent player. He just isn't as good as the top three players, who happen to be some of the very best players in their position in the world. No shame in being behind Torres / Drogba / Rooney!!

IMO, Van Persie when fit is actually the best striker in the premiership bar none. I think he's an utterly outstanding player, who has all you need to play in an attacking technical side like Arsenal or United. If he was able to stay fit, I think he'd be the best buy United could make. But he can't, do I wouldn't put him there.

Mr.Nice Guy

Berbatov

I went for Drogba and Rooney though if he had stayed fit I would have gone for Van Persie over Rooney. With better fitness he would be in that top tier.

mayordenis

Bellamy

Drogba and Torres - as they are the best and have played the best in over the last 12 months.