Quote Originally Posted by jon1959 View Post
Depends what you mean by failure. He has scored over 50 goals in about 200 career appearances and seems to be a useful player at League 1 to Championship level - but his entire career has been interrupted by regular injury breaks, many for long periods. He is either injury prone or very unlucky. Warnock hoped for a change in luck or something and it didn't happen. It must be very frustrating for the player and it is (so far) a wasted wage and squad place for the club.
I don't know about that, Jon. He's only ever scored 2 goals at Championship level (obviously that was 1 before he joined us). He's never actually played in League One. The rest of his goals include 10 in 42 games in League 2 (1 in 4 would be a decent return for a midfielder, not a striker) and the rest come at non-league level (and not all of his goals were scored in league games).

Taking into account his lack of experience of playing at this level, his goalscoring record in the football league (in general) and his poor injury record... Nothing about this signing seemed to be good business at the time.