Chris Wood (Nottingham Forest | England)

not even in the starting line up in the French 3rd div - can't see it

Wood scored a tap in against QPR this morning in a 1-1 draw at Elland Road.

Benji van den Broek?

Albert Riera - he should be a no-brainer for Hudson.

Needs to be a "kiwi" first.

As far as FIFA is concerned, he is eligible for the AWs under FIFA Statutes (lived here for at least 5 years). NZ will grant him citizenship under the 'talented sportsman' clause. He doesn't have to meet the normal residency clauses for NZ Citizenship if the AWs want to call him up. The Nix should be reminding NZ Football of this as it would obviously benefit them for him to become a Kiwi.

Its in the works isnt it

The fact that Ernie is talking about it says that its pretty close to done. He doesn't generally speculate.

watched the match last night against Burnley. Was pretty unimpressed with Leeds. Very route one stuff most of it aimless. How Wood is supposed to score goals with the service he gets is beyond me. I think the top 4 A League sides would more than compete with the mid to lower level Championship sides. Wood was struggling to do anything with the ball he got, most of it aerial. 

Leeds are already looking to next year... much like us!

"Normally with the two chances (from Wood), they are bread and butter to him and he would have put them in the net," Steve Evans said. "The net was three quarters empty and you'd normally expect to put them in."

- UK Sunday Telegraph

Classic English football stereotyping of a player. "Wood is big and tall we need to play him one out up front and hoof it to him". Wood works better as a poacher and with another striker next to him his stats suggest this much at least.

i think the net is always about 3/4's empty..?

Steve Evans wont be helping - I hate Leeds but that club deserves a better manager than him and owner for that matter

Think he's well out of the picture - only options I think are Clayton Lewis - whose light on experience, not that that seems to bother Hudson or Reira if that's sorted. Still think it'll be WeeMac

Leeds beat Birmingham away 2-1.   According to Soccerway an assist from Wood who played the full 90 minutes.

http://au.soccerway.com/matches/2016/04/12/england/championship/birmingham-city-fc/leeds-united-afc/2044349/?ICID=PL_MS_13

“For the second goal, Woody won the header – I don’t think he lost a header all night. He won everything. "

2 goals this morning, in a 3-2 win for Leeds.

the drought is over

All right,good boy,get in!!

Epitomizes how much more comfortable he is with the ball at his feet. Second goal way more assured.

man after watching the extend highlights of this game i cant help but think about how close some of the better teams in the a-league are to the championship. Ive always thought that a-league sides would be a solid league 1 sides, but i think the likes of Brisbane, the reds and Melb B could compete.

Anyway, off topic i know. Well done to woodsy. how nuts did the croud go when he got the 2nd!!

I don't think they could over a season though. Top A league sides have a couple of very good players, then struggle a bit for depth. So over the course of a championship season, A league teams would likely get found out.

One off games are definitely winnable though. 

Difference is that A-League clubs have a salary club and comparatively smaller squads.

Exactly. It's not a like-for-like comparison. What it does mean though is that at the top of the A League the quality of the football being played wouldn't look out of place in the Championship

Difference is not more then two players in each A league side would earn a starting position in a Championship side. Or else that's where they would be right now

Pretty true the money in the champ is crazy lots of players paid more than they are worth kind of like the oil leagues but better obviously.

I wonder how much Woods is on, Leeds paid $6 million for him. Is there some sort of ratio of player wages to transfer fee which is close to the mark in most cases? But it's not unheard of for players in the Championship to earn a couple of million easily, and probably one or two earn as much as an entire CCM squad.

Had a good last few games for a Leeds team that has struggled this season.

Opens scoring v Hull on 30' with a 12 yard volley.

And had a penalty saved in a 2-2 draw.

Looked like it was a very good save by the keeper for his pen

The best A league sides would not finish in the top half.

Another dumb comment. Theres no salary cap in the championship. If a league didnt you would see better players at the top clubs

Not better players than the Champo though. Stop trying to see something in the A-League that isn't there.

I never mentioned a salary cap. It was a question that A league sides would do well.

I think your answer was dumb. Obviously you know nothing about English professional football.

Lol leggy. Several players who played both say its on par.

Most football players are monumentally stupid though, so it is safe to say the several players who said that probably struggle to dress themselves in the morning.

The A-League will never be close to the level of the Championship, and that includes all facets of both leagues.

Name them