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So why do you think they aren't scoring, Golfie?golfaddick said:
So that's 3 strikers that have not been pulling up trees.
And don't get me started on WHY they're not scoring....🤬1 -
Honestly, folks must get off on being negative about their football team. Stuns me.
NJ knows what he's doing - the journey he's already taken us on in under 2 years is nothing short of miracle work.
If he wants Dykes, let's get him Dykes.31 -
Can’t keep up with all this stuff, don’t anyone sleep occasionally…😂4
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We also need a sticky with players that we are allowed to praise, obviously that will change match by match.eastterrace6168 said:Can’t keep up with all this stuff, don’t anyone sleep occasionally…0 -
golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.
Alfie Mays stats this season....in League 1.
Lyle Taylor never had better goalscoring numbers until he joined us so Dykes may end up here and go on a run. We are a direct team who do well from set pieces whereas Birmingham are a possession based team with no need for a player of Dykes profile.11 -
Firstly I will agree with Golfie, that it's someone with a nose for goal that we need, based on the fact that if we lose Charlie Kelman again, we will struggle, sadly I don't see that happening in a January transfer window, proven goalscorers are not usually available, unless they are running down their contract. On the Dykes rumour, I can't see Birmingham letting him out on loan and they would want a fee depending on the remainder of his contract. Is there a reason to get him? Probably, based on Miles's injury record, Olaofe is not the same type of player and still hasn't made it impossible to leave out, Miles has been a regular starter and has featured in 21 matches this season, since the injury to Kelman, he hasn't been out of the side, lose Leaburn and we have a problem for sure and perhaps Nathan Jones is confident in the timing of Goddens return to cover Kelman. I think we also need cover on the left side and cover for Lloyd Jones and Reece Burke, the return of Ramsay and Edwards will help but I would recall Zach Mitchell, on the basis that he is closer to the first eleven here than he ever will be at Hiberian.
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Davies feels reasonably close to the chop at Birmingham. Wonder if that impacts any negotiations… they may want to keep options in the building.
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I have great sympathy with this Golfie. I’d certainly prefer to sign someone with a proven track record but don’t we need to accept that the way Jones sets up his teams it’s all about work rate, press and aggression rather than playing to the strengths of an individual. His ethos is that breaking up play high up the pitch will create chances for whoever is closest. Finding a striker that fits into that system with the addition of goals is going to take £7 million plus at least at Championship level and even then I don’t think there’s a guarantee. In my humble opinion I’d like to see that big punt happen in the summer because who we have now and are likely to get in this window will still leave us short of quality up front next season. I hope that the theory that once we get in a LWB the goals will come is correct but until we start scoring more goals I think the possibility of relegation is always likely to be hanging over us. It certainly is right now.golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.5 -
Absolutely agree - but when we had injuries you really struggle to play a 3 5 2 without proper wingbacks and we could all see that our wingers are not and never will be makeshift wingbacks. Many of us on here are not against 3 5 2 as a system, but no proper wingbacks through injuries means you surely have to adapt in the short term which Jones obviously refused to do and we suffered the consequences?NabySarr said:
Jones was signed from Cambridge where he was playing well in a back 3 too. Our whole defence has been signed because of how they’ve played in a back 3 at previous clubs. Only one that wasn’t is Ramsay but he’s been converted by us and now looks best in that roleCrispywood said:
Lloyd Jones has come out in an interview he’s playing the best football of his career which is in a 3. Bell and Burkes biggest achievements winning promotion and playing prem football in a 3. Ramsay far better as a RCB in a 3 compared to RB/RWB based on what we’ve seen from his time here. 433 suits 2 players in this squad which is Apter and TC and if one of them is having a bad game or gets injured you have no one else who can effectively play there. I can’t understand why fans think if you’re not playing a back 4 you’re not playing rightGisappointed said:
Because we are playing 3-5-2 with no wing-backs and an injured RB playing RWB. Apter hasn't played for ten games, never played RCB before us and also is left footed. The asymmetric 5-3-2 which NJ fell upon went out the window when Edwards got injured early doors.NabySarr said:
Ridiculous post. Since Jones came in with his 3-5-2 we’ve gone from 19th in league 1 to 19th in the championship. Apter was clearly brought in to replace Small in the hybrid role he played last season, TC is a great fit for the hybrid LW/ST role we used last season and at the start of this season.Gisappointed said:If Dykes happens then NJ has his head above the parapet. Few strikers score goals because he plays 3-5-2 with no wing backs who can cross, and he is potentially bringing in a non-goalscoring forward.
Why did he buy Apter, a winger if he wanted 3-5-2? And TC? Bell is the only decent left footed defender so it should be four at the back. But we go with square pegs in round holes, and wonder why we lose.You talk about square pegs in round holes, all of our defenders have played the best football of their careers in a back 3 setup, which is why we recruited them, so why would you put them in a 4?
With only one decent left footed defender it is obvious to play four at the back.
Apter and Campbell are wingers, why not play them there? We have a 6'6" striker who barely receives a cross.
I dont agree all our defenders have excelled as a back three, Bell and Jones are 30ish, probably played mostly in a four and Ramsay was a full-back before us.
I can’t understand the calls to change to a formation with wingers. Yes it probably made sense when we had our injury problems last month, but changing our whole system to get the best out of Apter and TC is just not worth doing. I like them both but neither are good enough players for it to be worth doing. They just wouldn’t score and create enough goals for it to be worth sacrificing the extra goals we’d concede at the other end
We will recruit in this window, like we have the past few, for the 3-5-2 system that has got us from the depths of league 1 to where we are now
3 5 2 stands or falls on having decent proper wingbacks.
Just ask Rueben Amorim who is just as stubborm as Nathan Jones.2 -
That is because it’s on Facebook and not Twitter. Just a random poster, not reliable.Callumcafc said:Search “Ashley Barnes” on Twitter and nothing comes up linking him with a move anywhere 🤷♂️ just some fantasy PL chat0 -
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Surely it’s better to have a weak left side with 3 capable CB’s than a weak middle of defence because the CB’s don’t have the pace or game style to cover as much space across the middle? If you play a back 4 Jones doesn’t push forward to win as many aerial duels and you invite more pressure. There’s positives and negatives to each formation and NJ has to work out which has the least downsideCharltonManor1966 said:
Absolutely agree - but when we had injuries you really struggle to play a 3 5 2 without proper wingbacks and we could all see that our wingers are not and never will be makeshift wingbacks. Many of us on here are not against 3 5 2 as a system, but no proper wingbacks through injuries means you surely have to adapt in the short term which Jones obviously refused to do and we suffered the consequences?NabySarr said:
Jones was signed from Cambridge where he was playing well in a back 3 too. Our whole defence has been signed because of how they’ve played in a back 3 at previous clubs. Only one that wasn’t is Ramsay but he’s been converted by us and now looks best in that roleCrispywood said:
Lloyd Jones has come out in an interview he’s playing the best football of his career which is in a 3. Bell and Burkes biggest achievements winning promotion and playing prem football in a 3. Ramsay far better as a RCB in a 3 compared to RB/RWB based on what we’ve seen from his time here. 433 suits 2 players in this squad which is Apter and TC and if one of them is having a bad game or gets injured you have no one else who can effectively play there. I can’t understand why fans think if you’re not playing a back 4 you’re not playing rightGisappointed said:
Because we are playing 3-5-2 with no wing-backs and an injured RB playing RWB. Apter hasn't played for ten games, never played RCB before us and also is left footed. The asymmetric 5-3-2 which NJ fell upon went out the window when Edwards got injured early doors.NabySarr said:
Ridiculous post. Since Jones came in with his 3-5-2 we’ve gone from 19th in league 1 to 19th in the championship. Apter was clearly brought in to replace Small in the hybrid role he played last season, TC is a great fit for the hybrid LW/ST role we used last season and at the start of this season.Gisappointed said:If Dykes happens then NJ has his head above the parapet. Few strikers score goals because he plays 3-5-2 with no wing backs who can cross, and he is potentially bringing in a non-goalscoring forward.
Why did he buy Apter, a winger if he wanted 3-5-2? And TC? Bell is the only decent left footed defender so it should be four at the back. But we go with square pegs in round holes, and wonder why we lose.You talk about square pegs in round holes, all of our defenders have played the best football of their careers in a back 3 setup, which is why we recruited them, so why would you put them in a 4?
With only one decent left footed defender it is obvious to play four at the back.
Apter and Campbell are wingers, why not play them there? We have a 6'6" striker who barely receives a cross.
I dont agree all our defenders have excelled as a back three, Bell and Jones are 30ish, probably played mostly in a four and Ramsay was a full-back before us.
I can’t understand the calls to change to a formation with wingers. Yes it probably made sense when we had our injury problems last month, but changing our whole system to get the best out of Apter and TC is just not worth doing. I like them both but neither are good enough players for it to be worth doing. They just wouldn’t score and create enough goals for it to be worth sacrificing the extra goals we’d concede at the other end
We will recruit in this window, like we have the past few, for the 3-5-2 system that has got us from the depths of league 1 to where we are now
3 5 2 stands or falls on having decent proper wingbacks.
Just ask Rueben Amorim who is just as stubborm as Nathan Jones.1 -
If only life was as simple as you want it to be. Ask yourself why no manager thinks Alfie May is good enough to play in the Championship? Look at Millwall, they broke their transfer record paying £5m for Coburn in the summer - return to date; 1 goal. Birmingham paid £10m for striker Kyogo - return to date: 1 goal. So my question to you is who would you sign in our situation?golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.14 -
I agree that we might have been better with a 4 but i don’t think that’s fair on Jones at all. Some games we only had 3 defenders available and in others we switched formations (including to a back 4) probably too much during our bad run. He was the opposite of stubborn. The truth was that because of our injuries and the opposition we were facing, it was impossible to set up what we had available to get results. Jones tried to adapt, we probably played 3 different formations in some games but nothing was working because of the personnel we had available just wasn’t good enoughCharltonManor1966 said:
Absolutely agree - but when we had injuries you really struggle to play a 3 5 2 without proper wingbacks and we could all see that our wingers are not and never will be makeshift wingbacks. Many of us on here are not against 3 5 2 as a system, but no proper wingbacks through injuries means you surely have to adapt in the short term which Jones obviously refused to do and we suffered the consequences?NabySarr said:
Jones was signed from Cambridge where he was playing well in a back 3 too. Our whole defence has been signed because of how they’ve played in a back 3 at previous clubs. Only one that wasn’t is Ramsay but he’s been converted by us and now looks best in that roleCrispywood said:
Lloyd Jones has come out in an interview he’s playing the best football of his career which is in a 3. Bell and Burkes biggest achievements winning promotion and playing prem football in a 3. Ramsay far better as a RCB in a 3 compared to RB/RWB based on what we’ve seen from his time here. 433 suits 2 players in this squad which is Apter and TC and if one of them is having a bad game or gets injured you have no one else who can effectively play there. I can’t understand why fans think if you’re not playing a back 4 you’re not playing rightGisappointed said:
Because we are playing 3-5-2 with no wing-backs and an injured RB playing RWB. Apter hasn't played for ten games, never played RCB before us and also is left footed. The asymmetric 5-3-2 which NJ fell upon went out the window when Edwards got injured early doors.NabySarr said:
Ridiculous post. Since Jones came in with his 3-5-2 we’ve gone from 19th in league 1 to 19th in the championship. Apter was clearly brought in to replace Small in the hybrid role he played last season, TC is a great fit for the hybrid LW/ST role we used last season and at the start of this season.Gisappointed said:If Dykes happens then NJ has his head above the parapet. Few strikers score goals because he plays 3-5-2 with no wing backs who can cross, and he is potentially bringing in a non-goalscoring forward.
Why did he buy Apter, a winger if he wanted 3-5-2? And TC? Bell is the only decent left footed defender so it should be four at the back. But we go with square pegs in round holes, and wonder why we lose.You talk about square pegs in round holes, all of our defenders have played the best football of their careers in a back 3 setup, which is why we recruited them, so why would you put them in a 4?
With only one decent left footed defender it is obvious to play four at the back.
Apter and Campbell are wingers, why not play them there? We have a 6'6" striker who barely receives a cross.
I dont agree all our defenders have excelled as a back three, Bell and Jones are 30ish, probably played mostly in a four and Ramsay was a full-back before us.
I can’t understand the calls to change to a formation with wingers. Yes it probably made sense when we had our injury problems last month, but changing our whole system to get the best out of Apter and TC is just not worth doing. I like them both but neither are good enough players for it to be worth doing. They just wouldn’t score and create enough goals for it to be worth sacrificing the extra goals we’d concede at the other end
We will recruit in this window, like we have the past few, for the 3-5-2 system that has got us from the depths of league 1 to where we are now
3 5 2 stands or falls on having decent proper wingbacks.
Just ask Rueben Amorim who is just as stubborm as Nathan Jones.0 -
You still haven’t answered my question, where do we sign this mythical goal scorer from?golfaddick said:
Yes, maybe this month it's impossible, but not so last June, July & August.NabySarr said:
Surely there aren’t still people that think we were wrong to sell May? Have you been in a coma the last year and missed what happened since?golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.Would love your suggestions on where we find this goal scorer? Just banging on every transfer window like a broken record about it like it’s easy for us to just pluck a championship goal scorer out of nowhere. It’s basically impossible for us to sign a guaranteed championship goalscorer at the moment
Oh wait, we did buy two then. Tanto & Kelman. 3 goals in how many minutes of playing time ?
Maybe if we bought better then we wouldn't be having this conversation. But then we were having the same conversation last season when we bought Ahadme. And where is he now ?
So that's 3 strikers that have not been pulling up trees.
And don't get me started on WHY they're not scoring....🤬Where we are now we can sign players from 3 main areas. League 1, PL U21 loans or championship players not getting a game. We’ve already signed the best goalscorer from that group of players available to us with Kelman in the summer. What do you suggest we should have done instead? Even in the summer there’s no way we could have brought in a proven championship goalscorer0 -
Never can I. Ramsay on the other handAmos on the wing said:Can’t see Ramsey signing a new contract with us.7 -
Would hope we are being slightly more ambitious and looking further afield, at the very least the European market, has to be some talent there.🤷🏻♂️NabySarr said:
You still haven’t answered my question, where do we sign this mythical goal scorer from?golfaddick said:
Yes, maybe this month it's impossible, but not so last June, July & August.NabySarr said:
Surely there aren’t still people that think we were wrong to sell May? Have you been in a coma the last year and missed what happened since?golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.Would love your suggestions on where we find this goal scorer? Just banging on every transfer window like a broken record about it like it’s easy for us to just pluck a championship goal scorer out of nowhere. It’s basically impossible for us to sign a guaranteed championship goalscorer at the moment
Oh wait, we did buy two then. Tanto & Kelman. 3 goals in how many minutes of playing time ?
Maybe if we bought better then we wouldn't be having this conversation. But then we were having the same conversation last season when we bought Ahadme. And where is he now ?
So that's 3 strikers that have not been pulling up trees.
And don't get me started on WHY they're not scoring....🤬Where we are now we can sign players from 3 main areas. League 1, PL U21 loans or championship players not getting a game. We’ve already signed the best goalscorer from that group of players available to us with Kelman in the summer. What do you suggest we should have done instead? Even in the summer there’s no way we could have brought in a proven championship goalscorer1 -
I’m sure we will broaden our horizons in future, but signing players from Europe is not that easy to do well. It’s a big risk as the championship is a lot more physical and intense so players might not adapt well initially. That’s why as a newly promoted team we signed domestic players because we know they can cope with the demands of a 46 game EFL season, there’s less riskSword65pf said:
Would hope we are being slightly more ambitious and looking further afield, at the very least the European market, has to be some talent there.🤷🏻♂️NabySarr said:
You still haven’t answered my question, where do we sign this mythical goal scorer from?golfaddick said:
Yes, maybe this month it's impossible, but not so last June, July & August.NabySarr said:
Surely there aren’t still people that think we were wrong to sell May? Have you been in a coma the last year and missed what happened since?golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.Would love your suggestions on where we find this goal scorer? Just banging on every transfer window like a broken record about it like it’s easy for us to just pluck a championship goal scorer out of nowhere. It’s basically impossible for us to sign a guaranteed championship goalscorer at the moment
Oh wait, we did buy two then. Tanto & Kelman. 3 goals in how many minutes of playing time ?
Maybe if we bought better then we wouldn't be having this conversation. But then we were having the same conversation last season when we bought Ahadme. And where is he now ?
So that's 3 strikers that have not been pulling up trees.
And don't get me started on WHY they're not scoring....🤬Where we are now we can sign players from 3 main areas. League 1, PL U21 loans or championship players not getting a game. We’ve already signed the best goalscorer from that group of players available to us with Kelman in the summer. What do you suggest we should have done instead? Even in the summer there’s no way we could have brought in a proven championship goalscorer
This month I doubt we will be looking abroad, as I said it can take a while for an overseas player to adapt and as it’s now January we don’t really have the luxury of that time. In the summer I think we might start to explore those markets if we stay up, but it was the correct decision to not take those risks this season as in our position we really couldn’t afford to make those gambles1 -
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But that’s where the scouting network should pay dividends, not all foreign players will be soft.NabySarr said:
I’m sure we will broaden our horizons in future, but signing players from Europe is not that easy to do well. It’s a big risk as the championship is a lot more physical and intense so players might not adapt well initially. That’s why as a newly promoted team we signed domestic players because we know they can cope with the demands of a 46 game EFL season, there’s less riskSword65pf said:
Would hope we are being slightly more ambitious and looking further afield, at the very least the European market, has to be some talent there.🤷🏻♂️NabySarr said:
You still haven’t answered my question, where do we sign this mythical goal scorer from?golfaddick said:
Yes, maybe this month it's impossible, but not so last June, July & August.NabySarr said:
Surely there aren’t still people that think we were wrong to sell May? Have you been in a coma the last year and missed what happened since?golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.Would love your suggestions on where we find this goal scorer? Just banging on every transfer window like a broken record about it like it’s easy for us to just pluck a championship goal scorer out of nowhere. It’s basically impossible for us to sign a guaranteed championship goalscorer at the moment
Oh wait, we did buy two then. Tanto & Kelman. 3 goals in how many minutes of playing time ?
Maybe if we bought better then we wouldn't be having this conversation. But then we were having the same conversation last season when we bought Ahadme. And where is he now ?
So that's 3 strikers that have not been pulling up trees.
And don't get me started on WHY they're not scoring....🤬Where we are now we can sign players from 3 main areas. League 1, PL U21 loans or championship players not getting a game. We’ve already signed the best goalscorer from that group of players available to us with Kelman in the summer. What do you suggest we should have done instead? Even in the summer there’s no way we could have brought in a proven championship goalscorer
This month I doubt we will be looking abroad, as I said it can take a while for an overseas player to adapt and as it’s now January we don’t really have the luxury of that time. In the summer I think we might start to explore those markets if we stay up, but it was the correct decision to not take those risks this season as in our position we really couldn’t afford to make those gambles0 -
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We took those risks anyway with the strikers we did sign in the summer hoping they'd get upto speed being from league one,kelman is starting to which is a bonus but it's took him time ,injury permitted of course.I agree most signings are a gamble In that respect though from abroad etc but it could have played out the same or better and it's not like our forwards have been firing in 5-10 goals regardless.NabySarr said:
I’m sure we will broaden our horizons in future, but signing players from Europe is not that easy to do well. It’s a big risk as the championship is a lot more physical and intense so players might not adapt well initially. That’s why as a newly promoted team we signed domestic players because we know they can cope with the demands of a 46 game EFL season, there’s less riskSword65pf said:
Would hope we are being slightly more ambitious and looking further afield, at the very least the European market, has to be some talent there.🤷🏻♂️NabySarr said:
You still haven’t answered my question, where do we sign this mythical goal scorer from?golfaddick said:
Yes, maybe this month it's impossible, but not so last June, July & August.NabySarr said:
Surely there aren’t still people that think we were wrong to sell May? Have you been in a coma the last year and missed what happened since?golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.Would love your suggestions on where we find this goal scorer? Just banging on every transfer window like a broken record about it like it’s easy for us to just pluck a championship goal scorer out of nowhere. It’s basically impossible for us to sign a guaranteed championship goalscorer at the moment
Oh wait, we did buy two then. Tanto & Kelman. 3 goals in how many minutes of playing time ?
Maybe if we bought better then we wouldn't be having this conversation. But then we were having the same conversation last season when we bought Ahadme. And where is he now ?
So that's 3 strikers that have not been pulling up trees.
And don't get me started on WHY they're not scoring....🤬Where we are now we can sign players from 3 main areas. League 1, PL U21 loans or championship players not getting a game. We’ve already signed the best goalscorer from that group of players available to us with Kelman in the summer. What do you suggest we should have done instead? Even in the summer there’s no way we could have brought in a proven championship goalscorer
This month I doubt we will be looking abroad, as I said it can take a while for an overseas player to adapt and as it’s now January we don’t really have the luxury of that time. In the summer I think we might start to explore those markets if we stay up, but it was the correct decision to not take those risks this season as in our position we really couldn’t afford to make those gambles1 -
It's probably unrealistic, but if we are talking strikers ready to bag goals, I would try and test Plymouths resolve for Lorent Tolaj.
Watched him on telly a few times and he looks like exactly what we are missing up front, has similar stats to Leaburn for target/hold up play. Slightly worse in the air but much superior on the ground in terms of dribbling and winning the ball on the deck.
He can really finish as well, some of his goals are quality and he has a great left foot.
Not sure how much he would cost, and he is League 1, but looks like the kind of player to step up, only 24 as well.9 -
It’s not that simple though, you can’t just think oh let’s start signing players from abroad and do it well. It takes time and money to set up what you need to do it well.Steven81 said:
We took those risks anyway with the strikers we did sign in the summer hoping they'd get upto speed being from league one,kelman is starting to which is a bonus but it's took him time ,injury permitted of course.I agree most signings are a gamble In that respect though from abroad etc but it could have played out the same or better and it's not like our forwards have been firing in 5-10 goals regardless.NabySarr said:
I’m sure we will broaden our horizons in future, but signing players from Europe is not that easy to do well. It’s a big risk as the championship is a lot more physical and intense so players might not adapt well initially. That’s why as a newly promoted team we signed domestic players because we know they can cope with the demands of a 46 game EFL season, there’s less riskSword65pf said:
Would hope we are being slightly more ambitious and looking further afield, at the very least the European market, has to be some talent there.🤷🏻♂️NabySarr said:
You still haven’t answered my question, where do we sign this mythical goal scorer from?golfaddick said:
Yes, maybe this month it's impossible, but not so last June, July & August.NabySarr said:
Surely there aren’t still people that think we were wrong to sell May? Have you been in a coma the last year and missed what happened since?golfaddick said:
Great......so another non goal scoring striker. He can join the long list that includes Leaburn, Kelman, Tanto & TC. What's that....5 between them all season.ShootersHillGuru said:We currently lack a “presence” up front. Dykes would offer that and I think could manufacture openings for Kelman and Knibbs. He won’t score loads of goals but could with a fair wind be the ingredient we’ve been missing. Would hope for much better in the summer if that’s the way Jones wants to play it. Someone with Dykes attributes who can score ten goals a season would be my hope.
For fucking once can we sign a bone fida goal scorer. Oh I forgot, we had one 2 season's ago but sold him because he didn't run about enough.Would love your suggestions on where we find this goal scorer? Just banging on every transfer window like a broken record about it like it’s easy for us to just pluck a championship goal scorer out of nowhere. It’s basically impossible for us to sign a guaranteed championship goalscorer at the moment
Oh wait, we did buy two then. Tanto & Kelman. 3 goals in how many minutes of playing time ?
Maybe if we bought better then we wouldn't be having this conversation. But then we were having the same conversation last season when we bought Ahadme. And where is he now ?
So that's 3 strikers that have not been pulling up trees.
And don't get me started on WHY they're not scoring....🤬Where we are now we can sign players from 3 main areas. League 1, PL U21 loans or championship players not getting a game. We’ve already signed the best goalscorer from that group of players available to us with Kelman in the summer. What do you suggest we should have done instead? Even in the summer there’s no way we could have brought in a proven championship goalscorer
This month I doubt we will be looking abroad, as I said it can take a while for an overseas player to adapt and as it’s now January we don’t really have the luxury of that time. In the summer I think we might start to explore those markets if we stay up, but it was the correct decision to not take those risks this season as in our position we really couldn’t afford to make those gamblesIpswich have a lot more money than us, got to the premier league, and still decided to only sign domestic players because they got promoted ahead of schedule and said they weren’t ready with what they were setting up for overseas recruitment. I’m sure we are taking similar steps to set up a network and knowledge of different markets now that we are in the championship, but going into them this summer would have probably been going in blind.Some European leagues only play 34 league games in a season, and at a lower intensity than the championship. We play one of the most intense styles in the league, it’s really not going to be easy to find players that fit, and it’s going to take those players longer to adapt to the championship. We couldn’t afford to take those kind of risks but once we’ve established ourselves I’m sure we will2 -
Ryan Hardie for me. Awkward intelligent player who seems to have confidence on the pitch. Makes things happen. Doing bugger all at Wrexham currently.4
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He’s carrying an injury at the minute I believe.Mortimerwasgod said:Ryan Hardie for me. Awkward intelligent player who seems to have confidence on the pitch. Makes things happen. Doing bugger all at Wrexham currently.0 -
I think this would be a good signing. I’d expect him to move to the championship in the summer if not this monthBraziliance said:It's probably unrealistic, but if we are talking strikers ready to bag goals, I would try and test Plymouths resolve for Lorent Tolaj.
Watched him on telly a few times and he looks like exactly what we are missing up front, has similar stats to Leaburn for target/hold up play. Slightly worse in the air but much superior on the ground in terms of dribbling and winning the ball on the deck.
He can really finish as well, some of his goals are quality and he has a great left foot.
Not sure how much he would cost, and he is League 1, but looks like the kind of player to step up, only 24 as well.
I don’t think he’d be a big improvement on what we have now. But would be similar in that he’s a player that is good enough to contribute now and we probably think we could develop him into a good championship striker. I’d be surprised if he isn’t a player we are looking at, though might be one for the summer1 -
He’s probably the only proven championship goalscorer that would be available to us this month. Problem is he’s injured at the moment, and has only played 6 games this season so would take some time to get up to speed. You could be looking at late February/early March before he’s actually up to speed so doesn’t feel like there’s much point in signing himMortimerwasgod said:Ryan Hardie for me. Awkward intelligent player who seems to have confidence on the pitch. Makes things happen. Doing bugger all at Wrexham currently.0 -
A great left foot you say? Has he ever played LWB? 😉Braziliance said:It's probably unrealistic, but if we are talking strikers ready to bag goals, I would try and test Plymouths resolve for Lorent Tolaj.
Watched him on telly a few times and he looks like exactly what we are missing up front, has similar stats to Leaburn for target/hold up play. Slightly worse in the air but much superior on the ground in terms of dribbling and winning the ball on the deck.
He can really finish as well, some of his goals are quality and he has a great left foot.
Not sure how much he would cost, and he is League 1, but looks like the kind of player to step up, only 24 as well.10 -
