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  • That's not strictly true - he's hit the target a fair bit this season.. he's just not had the rub of the green. Because he's not been scoring he's started to do what Rooney does - drift and/or come to the ball, which means he gets fewer chances and the story rolls on.

  • Without getting hung up whether his shots hit the keeper, the post, row z or his team-mates arse the important bit is they aren't hitting the back of the net. The point I'm making is that I cannot see any difference in the way he is being played or the way opponents are playing him or anything else that would make me think anything other than; last season he got all the luck, this season he's getting none of it. It looks, as the dwarf statto put it, like regression to the mean, if you know what I mean (sorry to be mean Damo). Of course only time will tell where the mean actually lies.

  • That's pretty much what I was getting at here:

    Kane isn't a bad player, and he's not a brilliant player - he's a good player who had an exceptional season. He'll probably bang in 10-15 goals this season.

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