Subject: Who's better?

as a striker?

PLAYER A

adequate stamina, tragic keeper
formidable pace, poor defender
tragic technique, solid playmaker
average passing, very good striker

OR

PLAYER B

adequate stamina, tragic keeper
tragic pace, average defender
very good technique, solid playmaker
hopeless passing, solid striker

FORM and everything else being equal.

Go for technique, or pace?

Just a friendly match, so no biggie, but curious as to what people think?

I imagine people would go for A. like myself, but what if player A looked like this?

adequate stamina, tragic keeper
very good pace, poor defender
tragic technique, solid playmaker
average passing, solid striker

A or B. (B is the same as above)

Give them a half each :)

yep considering their stamina.

But Id prefer A) no technique will be frustrating as he spills the ball often. But he will be able to run for the ball.
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Give them a half each :)

The "other" guy has to play as a mid ;p

lol

I'd play B up front then.

Seconded

Yeah, was thinking that.....but now I've decided I really want to see which one is the better striker, so playing 3 strikers now and playing them both up front for the full 90.

:)

Time to see if CA works in sokker. (With a bunch of lemons up front.....oooh, in defence too......ah feck, my entire B squad sucks)

I'd go for B because he has better defending, and pace to go with it. Although you yon't really need tech to steal the ball from defenders, but you do with pace.
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B has no pace :P

i'd personally sell em both and buy a new guy with both pace and tech ;P

I know. Both strikers are dire really though. I think I'd take a hit on the striker skill and use a midfielder with pace and tech and something like average striker than use either of them.
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i'd personally sell em both and buy a new guy with both pace and tech ;P

You told me to train Bayne in pace and sell at the end of the season when I asked you after I pulled him ;p

I'm going to sell them both once I switch from pace training, but I'm sure I'm increasing their sale value at the moment.

My last 3 decent youths have been strikers, all with high stamina, and either with non existant technique or pace; very frustrating.

oh? :P

erm.. in that case, i'd stick by him if you are doing your pace training, as it doesn't really cost anything extra slipping in an extra trainee ;)

just that if you actually wanted to use him as a proper striker as he is now, then you are wasting your time ;)

I know that! :D

To everyone.

For future reference, despite Player A (high pace) getting a higher rating, the player with higher technique seemed to perform better.

Whenever A got the ball he lost it (Anybody could tackle him).

Player B, although slow, could still dribble through people and pick up the occasional free kick.

Technique every time! :)

until he gets knobbled by a bad foul (as they can all catch him up and get in those dirty tackles from behind) :P

also it depends who you're playing against...

don't think very good tech with no pace would get through many players in the prem...
actually bar the keeper and 1 winger, my whole first team have at least solid defense

Well yeah, I was going to add that it of course depended who you were playing against, but figured I didn't need to :)