Last season, Lewis Dunk and Connor Goldson scored 14 goals between them for their respective clubs. Can we afford to ignore this goalscoring potential?
Lots of figures have been bandied about re Dunk's likely earnings at BHA and what Fulham have been offering. If he was on £7-£8k ( basic ) per week here and Fulham, allegedly, were offering anything from x2 to x3 his basic salary then he would be with them now. A complete no-brainer.
I suspect...
1) Forest...decimated by injuries to most of their more influential players ( Reid, Assombolonga, Cohen etc )...get them back....pressing for top 6.
2) Fulham..when defence sorted and possible new striker......top half....very good approach play 2nd half v us....outside play-off bet.
3)...
To do well in the Championship, you need strikers who are going to get you 15-20 goals.
Ipswich.....Murphy/McGoldrick/Sears/Pittman. ( Estimate....total.....45-50...could be more )
Brighton....Hemed/Baldock/O'Grady/Zamora ( Estimate....total.....22-25...could be less )
...which is the whole purpose of five day cricket at the highest level....a test between bat and ball. Both sides attempting to show some control over play. Tight field placings. Batsmen having to work for runs and bowlers having to work for wickets. Technical ability to the fore. Good judgement...
Sums up the series for me. Two sub-standard sides not showing much quality at this level. The Aussies have battered us on two decent wickets and we have relied on three specially prepared tracks to win three tests.
The bare facts are that they have the better bowlers on decent wickets and Broad...
Pretty much sums it up for me.
Watched Solly do all those things at Fulham and got more and more frustrated with him. Left me questioning whether, ultimately, he won't be good enough as he lacks that fundamental essential to all top players.....the ability to stay calm and composed and do the...
In all seriousness ( heavy sarcasm aside ) we have not allowed Rea to go out on loan this week ( ideal opportunity for him at Div2 level ).....so the club are clearly not sure what is happening with Dunk. At the moment ( a la Lawro ) they can't say that he is definitely staying.
Ranji, Duleep, CB Fry,Gilligan,Tate, Bartlett, Cox, Suttle, Oakman, Dexter, Parks, Snow, Greig, Barclay, Mendis, Javed, Parker, Imran, Le Roux, Mushtaq, Goodwin.....not forgetting....3 x Parks, 2 x Langridges, 2 x Busses and 2 x Wells.......our boys are taking a helluva beating!!!
An emphatic no!
In fact, they are finished as any sort of threat. They will just sink to be a tiny minority party, devoid of any ' protest vote ' attraction. Jumping into bed with the Tories was always going to end badly and Clegg knew he was damned if he did and damned if he didn't.
They have...
Many years ago, the wife and I visited a local fete/flower show. The stage in the village hall was acting as a temporary creche and a number of families left their little ones there while they wandered around. ( Including us ) We only stayed about 45 mins and checked on our youngest at least a...