Signing a top class striker in January is notoriously difficult. Any team challenging for anything needs them as teams with any fear of relegation ... doesn't leave much, if anything
Needles in haystacks, but you never know
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Signing a top class striker in January is notoriously difficult. Any team challenging for anything needs them as teams with any fear of relegation ... doesn't leave much, if anything
Needles in haystacks, but you never know
saafend_seagull
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Any news on his injury?
We will almost certainly revert to 4-5-1 if he is out for a few weeks.
We will almost certainly revert to 4-5-1 if he is out for a few weeks.
BensGrandad
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The problem is of course is that we have signed 2 prolific Div 1 strikers and both have failed to hit the net consistently
severnside gull
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4-5-1 is an option or perhaps play Murphy inside with Kaz on the left
BensGrandad
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Sign a loan leftback or at the worst Calderon, then play Rosenior wide right, March wide left and Murphy alongside Hemed.
aolstudios
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Yep, needed to be done some time ago but we've been making do. Which'll cost us money
I don't understand this need to change everything:-
IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT.
Hemed and Baldock are missing chances.
Hemed and Baldock are also creating chances.
Sure it would seem that neither are going to be prolific.
If the club has any desire to not be in this division next year it needs to have shopped well in readiness for 01.01.16.
But between now and then, it's clear the team is plenty good enough to be in contention.
IF IT AIN'T BROKE DON'T FIX IT.
Hemed and Baldock are missing chances.
Hemed and Baldock are also creating chances.
Sure it would seem that neither are going to be prolific.
If the club has any desire to not be in this division next year it needs to have shopped well in readiness for 01.01.16.
But between now and then, it's clear the team is plenty good enough to be in contention.
BensGrandad
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Unless we make some changes our good start could blow up in our face with the lack of goals.
If 'we' made changes 'our' good start could blow up in 'our' faces.
Bold Seagull
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Yay, someone said something sensible!
How many loan strikers have we had since we arrived in the Championship? How many came in and were prolific and had an immediate impact...
Hemed and Baldock are struggling for goals, but they are contributing. We gotta get behind them and hope they start notching, got to be proud of everyone in this squad so far this season.
Lets be patient see what January brings.
BensGrandad
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That is why we have an experienced manager. To stand and do nothing assuming all will be ok will prove costly and I am sure that is not what TB wants. We need somebody to put pressure on Hemed and Baldocks automatic spot.
Yes, quite agree. Its not wholesale changes that are required just a bit of tinkering IMO, the purchase of 1 forward should do it and hopefully see us march on. I think we can get away with Rosenoir at LB indefinitely, he is that good.
We are talking about the same team aren't we.
I'm writing about Brighton and Hove Albion.
They are currently joint top.
Are unbeaten all season.
Have just underlined a fantastic away week, with 3 points at home.
A team playing the best attacking football in the AMEX era.
While also being defensively sound.
All from a small squad, which is expensive by club standard, is a very much poor man's team in comparison.
We've done brill. But somehow I think TB will see we are in such a great position, he'll gamble with spend...especially up front...although agreed our two are the biz albeit a little short of goals
Bold Seagull
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I don't know whether you missed BG's earlier post, but he is suggesting we urgently need 2 loan signings before the loan window shuts in about 2 weeks time, striker and a left back. Obviously that is not the 1 forward 'purchase' you are referring to in January - which I'd be surprised if anyone disagreed with.
1066familyman
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Yay, someone said something sensible!
How many loan strikers have we had since we arrived in the Championship? How many came in and were prolific and had an immediate impact...
Hemed and Baldock are struggling for goals, but they are contributing. We gotta get behind them and hope they start notching, got to be proud of everyone in this squad so far this season.
Lets be patient see what January brings.
I agree about being patient and seeing what January brings.
As I said on another thread, to summarise, any loan signing now, just to add quality rather than see us through injuries, could prove to be more disruptive than it's worth. We have fantastic team spirit and togetherness at the moment and it's doing us more than just alright.
BensGrandad
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A team that is dropping too many points through draws. Yes they were 2 good away draws but to get promoted we need more wins. More wins need more goals, more goals need existing players to score more goals if not bring in somebody who can. Finding him is the problem but efforts must be made to do so.
Had we not built a lead when the players like Hemed were scoring we would be lower in the league and out of automatic promotion possibility. So just a little tinkering not wholesale changes.
Had we not built a lead when the players like Hemed were scoring we would be lower in the league and out of automatic promotion possibility. So just a little tinkering not wholesale changes.
You make an excellent point there BG, probably worth emailing PB and CH so they are aware - get them to stop the recruitment team playing golf and cards all day.
I've said before, the squad currently has up front:-
1 x 90 minute player.
1 x 60 minute player.
1 x 20 minute player, once a week.
1 x 10 minute player occasionally.
Those running the club and the recruitment will have known that wasn't good enough.
If 'the' player isn't at the club before the third round of the FA Cup (sponsored by Emirates) then serious questions need to be asked.
The fact that the team has organised it's way to the position it's in is a minor miracle.
But that and all the millions Tony spent and committed to in the Summer will be for nothing without a goal scorer.
It's this need to change players and formations from a situation that is currently working, I can't get my head around.