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8 goals and 5 assists so far in what I am considering a poor season for him, pretty decent numbers all things considered. Still goes missing too often.

That is a pretty damning statistic really. 22 open play goals in 4 seasons. I think we think he's better than has been because of the lack of other decent striking options in that time and because of one Championship season where most of those goals came (including, to be fair, the all important one). And yet Adams, possibly seen in less favourable light than AA by some people, got 49 in his 5 seasons with us and with more Premier League goals there too (although to be fair, he had more Prem seasons to do it in). I think one of AA's issues was his insistence that he is a striker when he seems more effective playing from wider positions. I also think he would suit the old fashioned 442 paired up top with a bigger striker, a bit like the Beattie/Ormerod partnership. A time will come again where we get a striker that can score goals. When? Who knows, hopefully in the summer with any luck, but I don't mind the sale of AA while the money was there, even if there are doubts over his replacement. I hope he does well at Wolves really but for the way we seem to want to play going forwards, I don't think he fits the system.

He may have ran a lot but to what end? Barring a blue moon, he always pulled up short and did these ridiculous baby steps instead of challenging. Prior to him, we had Ings and Long, so perhaps I am being overly critical because those two ran and created chances weekly. But AA also took bad shots that ruined good runs. He missed easy goals including pks on the reg. Someone else said it straight, "he was the symbol of our demise." I wish him the best, but I am confident that we won't miss his him. Adios! Now wrap Stewart in bubble wrap until the weekend.

I think you’re getting ahead of yourself, even if SR are rubbish. It’s not too hard to remember the clusterfuck of a season we had just LAST season. It truly was horrendous. It’s easier to re-build a squad going up into the Prem, but when we went down with a bloated squad of largely rubbish, there was a massive re-build to be done over what will end up being at least three windows. The huge test for SR will be improving the squad further in the summer without losing our best players, but for now we need to be content that slowly, Eckhert has a slimmed down squad that’s more suited to the way he wants to play to get results.

He’s been a decent servant to the club, but it’s clear that he’d become stale and his time here was over. Good luck with Wolves…you’ll need it!

I for one am celebrating tonight to see the back of Arma!!!

Welcome to Saints with a heavy dose of scepticism thrown in - not your fault - it’s SR’s seeming wish to completely destroy this club in a slow and painful downward spiral. You’re just trying to do a job and find a home for a short period. As Saints fans well give you the benefit of the doubt all the while you bust a gut on matchday. Stroll around and expect abuse. A goal or two early doors will be most welcome and somewhat unexpected.

sorry i disagree,hes hardly picked a leg up for weeks,if stewart had been fit and archer not been a waste of space he would have been dropped weeks ago,didnt seem to affect saturday him not being there.

why are we worried about armstrong leaving hes hasnt shown up for an age,strange he wasnt involved at stoke and we looked ok.Maybe he was disruptive behind the scenes,anyway thank you and goodbye

I had an excellent pasta tonight. I thought that might be of more interest to our dear readers.

When you think about Armstrongs scoring record then it’s 174 appearance with a return of 43 goals. 21 of those were penalties. With him in the team you have to play a different system because of his size. Now look how the team have been in the last few games (ignore Pompey as that was horrific) The target man is the one who brings the rest of the midfield into the game. it’s those midfielders who are the ones we are backing to get the goals. Fellows, Sceinza, Azaz, Jander and Ross himself. Ross we know can’t play the full 90 so this new striker is a like for like to allow us to carry on playing the same way. I think it’s a gamble but so was our new keeper and bloody hell hasn’t he proved many of us wrong after we saw his highlight reel from his previous clubs.

I remember seeing him score on debut, absolutely clinical in a 1-on-1 and thinking, "we're going to be ok after all"........ we weren't. Consistency and decision making clearly the two things preventing him becoming a top flight striker. Obviously lumping long balls to him would never work but nobody would care about his size if he scored even half the sitters he missed. Interesting summer window coming up!

Go on then I'll throw a sliver of positivity in here. From his clips his hold up play looks pretty decent. Jury is out on everything else, as long as he works hard he's already ahead of Downs. But we are clearing low bars.

I wish Adam all the best. He always put a shift in and scored goals. The day out at Wembley was one of the best days ever topped off with his goal to clinch our promotion 😊

Wow. If that was the expectation... that's rough. I don't think selling Arma makes much difference in that regard anyways. Didn't expect much this window, was happy with the goalkeeper change and disappointed with the striker swap, but never had any high hopes.

Let's give him a chance for goodness sake. He had a good spell in the Canadian national team a while back...he has a physical presence and fits that 'big striker target' description which is clearly the new strategy (that being going forward and putting crosses into the box to someone tall enough to head it.

He is another Down from North America.

He played his best football for Arian Heath at Orlando City in a 4-2-3-1 set up and that version of Larin was good. MLS is not as bad as some make it out to be but time has passed and his recent history isn’t great. Arma wanted to leave and to be honest most of the players that have let us down for several seasons can’t go soon enough for me. Time for a total rebuild and culture change!

We are not exactly building to be competitive in the Prem next year are we?

Looks like a clusterfuck. Let’s see how it works out. Cyle Larin Larin He drives a McLaren He’s Canadian He hates the Pompey scum etc etc

Lets all pray that this IS his level. Can't be worse than DD or BBD or CA.....can he?🤷‍♂️😁

Crazy post mate, he might not be super clinical but his game gets goals in this division, Che Adam’s used to miss absolute sitters and people still rate him for some reason to say larin can be no worse then AA is total madness you really think he’s gonna be a 20 goal a season striker . I’m thinking more like a cross between Damion downs and stern John

Brought in on what the club could reinvest of the Ings money, in the last half Gao season. He wasn't coming in as an upgrade, just as what we could afford and the hope his form at Blackburn the season before would continue. Which it didn't and we relied on others to keep us up in his first season. In his second, no one kept us up. When he struggled to score, you could see it knock him and he was often not in the side. He saw himself as a central player, although we often didn't play to accommodate that. Back in the Championship he thrived again. Sure, he's not our target man. But he's more than just being out wide. I think his ability to score from narrow angles after cut backs, really got our season going. That, his determination and work rate lifted the side. We were better with him being mobile, with better players to link up with. He got loads of assists for us too. SR are noted for failures to bring in strikers, chopping and changing systems with each manager, and reducing the quality of the squad. AA has come through all of those four years. While a first 11 may not seem to have a place for him, he's our top scorer for a reason. There was more to him than just goalscoring. It's a shame to see him go. He'd have been well down my list of players I'd like to see leave. As noted, we've probably just handed a good Championship scorer to a rival for next season. As for him, it's a new challenge away from our basket case club. But possibly joining another one, especially if they go down.

Well, at least we won't miss his ability in that direction.