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I've been looking at some stats and Rooney's 1st SPL season was 10 starts, 20 subs and 5 goals. It wasn't till Rooney was back in the 1st division that his confidence really grew setting himself up for a successful year back in the SPL and earning himself a move to a Championship club. Even in his most successful season with us, he scored 16 goals from 80 shots so at a ratio of 16/80. 1 in every 5 attempts went in. Theres not much to compare Tade with yet but going by the Rooney stats hes only 2 goals short of Rooney's 1st season tally already and seeing as it took Rooney 5 attempts to score each goal in what you would call a good season then I think Tade can afford to relax into his game a bit more in front of goal. Looking in to it a bit deeper a lot of those goals were from the penalty spot so really its taken Rooney about 10 attempts to score 1 goal in open play. So when Tade is in the box and giving the goalie the eyes, I hope he thinks about Mr 1 in 10 before pulling the trigger. If you had to sit a test, theres 0% pressure if the pass mark is 10 %

I have read a lot of posts this week that makes reference to the "Andrew Shinnie haters". I don't believe such a thing exists, however until Saturday v St Mirren I had yet to be impressed by him. I was at Tannadice where he was one of several players that were very poor. He did not recieve abuse from the fans, but people were shouting their opinions which weren't particularly positive, (not only about him). The problem was that Andrew Shinnie's mother turned and confronted a group of fans, which led to a bit of an ongoing **** take. Relax Andrew, every player is only as good as his last game and after your performance on sat if you produce more of the same you're laughing! :)

I think given that we are persisisting with 2 battering rams up front id say we are getting as good as we can have. In all my years as an Inverness fan i have never seen a striker as hard working as Tade, the amount of effort and endeavour he puts in is unreal and for that he will always be one of my first on my team selection, he reminds a little bit on Dirk Kuyt. Yes he misses chances but the fact is on paper he is our top scorer and has probably been one of our most consistent performers in the last month or so. It is unfair to compare him to Adam Rooney imo, Rooney has a proven track record and had no real previous before he came here. We knew Tade wasnt renound for goals. Foran is under immense pressure and to an extent is struggling to cope imo. Himself, Rosscoe and i suppose Hogg are the only real experience outfield players that we have now, Foran also has the weight of captaincy on his shoulders and has been battling through the pain barrier in recent weeks with more than one injury, people have criticised him for giving little in recent performance but in my opinion he is simply being run ragged, he needs a break, at the end of the day he is 31 and hasnr got the energy he once posessed, i think once our squad is fitter and contains more options a rest from action may not be the worst idea for Mr Foran.

And just how often have you seen MacKay play to come to the conclusion that you would far rather see him playing upfront with Tade than Foran? I accept that Foran has missed some glorious chances this season and in that sense he's a bit like Tade. Both work hard in their different ways but Foran has the vision Tade lacks. He plays some great through balls, attacks the ball very well at the back post and lays off good balls to others - such as for our first goal on Saturday. It's a bit of a dilemma for Terry. On the one hand you feel you can't leave either Tade or Foran out but on the other you can't afford to play them both. To my mind Foran should be playing deeper but I don't know who you would leave out - particularly when Hayes and Doran are fit again. But we do need to score more goals and can't rely on the midfield to chip in all the time. I would be inclined to give Sutherland the guarantee of a few games to see if he can exploit the chaos Tade causes. I would also like to see MacKay get a chance - he could come on as a late sub for either Tade or Sutherland and if the Tade / Sutherland combination does not produce goals then he could replace Sutherland for a run. Another option is to play Sutherland in the lone striker role because he strikes me as more of a Rooney type player who can hold up the ball and bring in the supporting midfied players - he also seems to be sharper in front of goal than Tade. Tade sure scares the hell out defenders but seems to lack the awareness to bring in others and therefore unless we can find a way to exploit the very considerable attributes he has, I fear he may be the one who has to be left out of the side. I am confident that either Tade will start scoring more or he will enable someone else to. We are not far from being a very effective attacking force and it won't be long before things click and I really hope Tade is a part of that. Nobody deserves success more than him.

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Well done David Proctor coming back after a nasty head knock at Parkhead to put on a no nonsense display against the Buddies. He has taken some stick this season but has stuck with it and showed tremendous versatility on Saturday, pairing up with Rossco. He did very well after a quiet start and by the end of the game our whole defence was well on top of the situation with Proc very much prominent. He also found time to set up one or two attacks with good distribution from the back and broke up the darting runs of Hasselbaink effectively. Steven Thompson was a handful with his large frame but we eventually overcame that so well he was replaced. Near the end when Paisley were pushing to salvage the game he stood firm and that's all we can ask from him. So, after a tough few weeks, well done Proc.

In summary, defenders fear Tade, but keepers don't!

Neither player will ever be a patch on Dennis Wyness.

Like some other posters, I really fail to see why there is so much unrelenting negativity against some of the players. Sure Tade had 3 bad misses yesyerday, and on another day this could have come back to haunt us but id didn't. What some people have to remember is that to score goals, you have to be in the correct positions and make the correct runs. Tade is doin this brilliantly but his finishing is letting him down and needs to get worked on pronto. Disappointing to see some of the commenst from some posters who just listened to the game on the radio yesterday. This was possibly out best home performance to date and some really good football was played in all areas yesterday. St. Mirren were supposedly the form team going into yesterdays game and supposedly playing a really attractive type of football. Well yesterday, there was onlt one team playing exciting football and it wasn't St. Mirren. If the score had been 5-1 yesterday, it would not have been an injustice and the same could have been said for the Hearts match. I don't think I have seen the team create so many chances as they have done this season and someone is going to be on the end of a good thrashing from us very soon. Finally, a word about Andrew Shinnie yesterday. I admit to not being terribly impressed in previous games I have seen him play but yesterday he was tremendous and showed a great deal of skill in both linking play and getting forward. Yet after the Dundee Utd game, he was getting real abuse from fans over his performance. All this tells me is that some fans need to take a look at themselves before resorting to shouting abuse at our players and appreciate how difficult it can be to plat football at time. It is a team game and the singling out of individuals at times, by sections of our support, is dreadful ans so counter productive.

Tade is a great player and with his work rate he reminds of what a great job Grame Bayne did for us. He works his ass off and always gets himself in great positions so imo if butcher finds someone to join him up front who can finish the chances that Tade creates, i.e a rooney or a dargo, then we'll start banging them in. We are playing great footie but just haven't been getting the results so folk can moan but I am really looking forward to seeing what this team can achieve once everyone settles!

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