why still no loan striker signings ?

[Blues Rock DJ]

If you keyboard warriors had bothered to read a comment made by Gus earlier in the emergency loan period and indeed had the ability to remember that far back then you would have known and presumably understood that Gus had said that "As the loan period is for 90 days only, then to get a loan STRIKER early into the loan window would disqualify them from playing the busy Xmas / new year fixtures as their loan would have expired by then !!!
SIMPLE MATHEMATICS !!!
YAWN !!!!!!!

alright smartarse.....................also remember Gus saying at the pre-season fans forum how he saw it as a priority to get a 'striker with prescence' in to help CMS out......

 

[terryberry1]

Connor Wickham anyone? In the U21 squad and not regularly playing.......

I have mentioned CW a few times on here. He is exactly the type of striker we need. The Championship is his level

 

[Mutts Nuts]

Totally agree. Barnes, Dobbie and Toby are great alongside a main leading the line striker but it seems to me when CMS is unavailable we are are seriously lacking in that type of out and out striker.

If we are relying om McSmudger to score consistantly at this level then i think we are in trouble

 

[fleet]

If we had had Bruno fit we would have beaten Ipswich - better defending and they wouldn't have scored and we certainly would have won by some distance with slightly better defending and a bit more creativity. I also think CMS would have scored from Buckley's pull backs from the goal line, but without him there was no one there to tap in.

Not sure the result against B'ham would have been much different as they defended so well.

The issue for me is that the key players don't seem to be possible to replace with the squad we have - maybe the new guys will settle in and make it happen. Certainly Orlandi seems to be getting better every game. But just now we struggle when the first team are out.

 

[paul pring]

sounds like we missed having a striker again today,thats 3 games in a row=9pts but we only managed 2pts :-(

 

[BensGrandad]

Somebody on the radio phone in suggested that we should have gone after Beckford. When asked for his view Warren Aspinall said that is ok if you want to pay £40k a week wages for a striker but he didn't think that he was worth it.

 

[Hyperion]

We've got 3 strikers so why should we waste money getting a loan player in unless he's better than we've already got. If there is a player who's better than we've already got, then he won't be a free agent at the moment.

Who said free agent? LOAN.

Iwelumo or Nugent type of player is what we need.

We only have ONE CF but clearly need more strength up front

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

why still no loan striker signings ?surely the last 2 games highlights how lightweight we are up front

The reason is that every week we go without a striker on x k per week wages, it's x thousand into the sign Zamora in January fund. We are basically 'saving up'

 

[Icy Gull]

The reason is that every week we go without a striker on x k per week wages, it's x thousand into the sign Zamora in January fund. We are basically 'saving up'

Oh how I wish that was true

 

[saafend_seagull]

Paper says Connor Wickham is available on loan...

 

[paul pring]

The reason is that every week we go without a striker on x k per week wages, it's x thousand into the sign Zamora in January fund. We are basically 'saving up'

yes please

 

[Thunder Bolt]

Who said free agent? LOAN.

Iwelumo or Nugent type of player is what we need.

We only have ONE CF but clearly need more strength up front

So that sort of player would be available for loan would they? If they were that sort of player, they'd be playing in their own side week in and week out.

 

[Hyperion]

So that sort of player would be available for loan would they? If they were that sort of player, they'd be playing in their own side week in and week out.

Yes it's always as simple as that isn't it. Bobby Zamora, was he playing week in week out for Bristol Rovers when we signed him on loan?

 

[GoldWithFalmer]

Yes it's always as simple as that isn't it. Bobby Zamora, was he playing week in week out for Bristol Rovers when we signed him on loan?

Agree-

No he was not,they had some very good forwards at the time,Bobby was well down the pecking order.
We need to keep looking,they are out there-like you say.

 

[Albion4Ev3R]

I'm not saying this is the awnser but has anyone given a thought to Will Hoskins??, He knows how we play because he's been with us for 2 years (admitadly injured most of it), any loan signing wouldn't be able to fit in like Will Hoskins would, unless he came from a team that played the same style of football I.e Swansea. I have a feeling that Will Hoskins has a lot to give he's played 2 games in 2 years and he's scored 2 goals, so maybe everyone should give him a chance before we start looking for a Loanee striker.

 

[somerset]

But we have Barnes..... surely we don't need anyone else?!?!

 

[OSRGull]

I'm not saying this is the awnser but has anyone given a thought to Will Hoskins??, He knows how we play because he's been with us for 2 years (admitadly injured most of it), any loan signing wouldn't be able to fit in like Will Hoskins would, unless he came from a team that played the same style of football I.e Swansea. I have a feeling that Will Hoskins has a lot to give he's played 2 games in 2 years and he's scored 2 goals, so maybe everyone should give him a chance before we start looking for a Loanee striker.

He's scored one I could've sworn?

 

[BensGrandad]

How far off being ready is Hoskins? Will Gus give him a chance or send him out loan immediately he is ready?

 

[ewe2]

Hoskins must be worth a chance"when fit " ,I am just not sure he wants to be 2nd choice,and that's up to him .

 

[Albion4Ev3R]

He's scored one I could've sworn?

Weather it's one or two I thought it was 2 could be wrong my point is 2 in 2 games shows he has a capability to score goals, just been unlucky with the hip then the broken foot Ect.