Quote Originally Posted by Niall_Quinn View Post
Giroud is quite capable of roughing it out in the PL as he showed in the early part of the season. When he's strong, stands up, takes the initial hit and keeps the ball, makes the simple lay-off and keeps moving he's a good (though still second tier) striker. When he opts to fall over on the first challenge and complain, when he fails to stay on the move to compensate for his lack of pace, when he can't be bothered to stay onside - then it's a problem and blunts our entire game.

If his head is in the wrong place because he let his dick interfere with what is expected of a highly paid striker at a top PL club then there's only one person to blame. It's not about being a snob, it's about all our players giving it 100% in the run in to this title challenge. If we drop below 100% anywhere on the pitch but our opponents don't then we finish 4th. We say we don't want 4th yet again, so therefore we must say we want 100% from all our players or nothing less. The table won't forgive any less at the end of the season.

That performance from Bif yesterday was not even close to being good enough.
Yeah. Agreed.

Though the snob comment was aimed at those who completely disregard his strengths, and what he is capable of. He's doing pretty much as well as Negredo this year, if not better.

Just becuase he doesn't have the "wow" factor, it doesn't mean he's "shit".