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Striker situation

chunksafc said:
Then the first page of this thread and throughout it jumping on someone dari g to mention we didn't look great up front today.

Even now, there are the "we know" comments etc, how can you discuss the game properly if the striker situation is off limits
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It's not that it's "off limits", it's just that it's been done to death. We know we're short up front. We know that Speakman and KLD tried (and ultimately failed) to get a good striker in, but at least they didn't get a sh*t one in, instead. We know that there's nothing we can do about it so there's very little point in covering the same ground, ad nauseum, when we fail to win. We lost and drew games with strikers on the pitch too, don't forget.

If people had an original take on it: no problem, but they really don't.

Here's a different take:- I'm reading that Gelhardt can't hold up the ball. I still don't know because that's simply not the way we're playing at the minute.

At times today, Roberts had four men on him: that means three of our forwards/midfielders probably nobody on them but we didn't utilise that at all today. I think that's more of an issue than having no strikers. I love our intricate passing moves down the right but if they're running up blind alleys, all too often and not looking for an early out ball, we're going to run into trouble against decent footballing sides like city were, this afternoon and ultimately, we did.
 

Realist said:
What about Diallo upfront and start playing Lihadji on the right? I was impressed with Lihadji when he came on last game, seems like a good player who can improve with game time.
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No reason to drop Roberts. If we are talking about dropping any of the 3 behind the striker then it should be Amad tbh. He's bringing the least by far
 
Mowgli said:
No reason to drop Roberts. If we are talking about dropping any of the 3 behind the striker then it should be Amad tbh. He's bringing the least by far
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Amad can play upfront though can't he? I'd rather he be up there if Joffy can't improve over next few games. Amad has played well, not played as well as he could have though recently.
 
Realist said:
Amad can play upfront though can't he? I'd rather he be up there if Joffy can't improve over next few games. Amad has played well, not played as well as he could have though recently.
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I think we need to stick with gelhardt. To have any hope then he needs to come good.
 
Mowgli said:
Going to end up costing us the playoffs like.

Amad is well and truly off the pace atm and Gelhardt can't hold it up. The ball keeps coming back and back because we can't get out.

Gutting
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Think there’s a good player in gelhardt somewhere with the right players behind him. Would like to see pritch starting again to see if they link up.
 
Dodgy said:
It's not that it's "off limits", it's just that it's been done to death. We know we're short up front. We know that Speakman and KLD tried (and ultimately failed) to get a good striker in, but at least they didn't get a sh*t one in, instead. We know that there's nothing we can do about it so there's very little point in covering the same ground, ad nauseum, when we fail to win. We lost and drew games with strikers on the pitch too, don't forget.

If people had an original take on it: no problem, but they really don't.

Here's a different take:- I'm reading that Gelhardt can't hold up the ball. I still don't know because that's simply not the way we're playing at the minute.

At times today, Roberts had four men on him: that means three of our forwards/midfielders probably nobody on them but we didn't utilise that at all today. I think that's more of an issue than having no strikers. I love our intricate passing moves down the right but if they're running up blind alleys, all too often and not looking for an early out ball, we're going to run into trouble against decent footballing sides like city were, this afternoon and ultimately, we did.
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As you and @Billericay Dichio seem to want to prove that people, myself included are going on Ad nauseam about the striker situation despite me offering formations, reasons why etc without reverting to the obvious I will take my leave from this conversation and in future win, lose or draw offer opinions on every other position on the pitch apart from forwards
 
PitYacker said:
If we’d have had a decent fit striker or two all season we’d be top two by now. Today we would have been out of site with a half decent striker on the pitch.

Yes we are still playing the best football I’ve seen us play for years but anyone thinking not having a striker is not affecting us is deluded.
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Spot on and Welcome back.
 
Mowgli said:
I think we need to stick with gelhardt. To have any hope then he needs to come good.
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Well I hope he does, would love him to come good but has to come a point where it is time to change it around and put him on the bench. Have to try to find a way to score goals if he doesn't improve, we so miss the striker to hold the ball up like Stewart does.
 
chunksafc said:
As you and @Billericay Dichio seem to want to prove that people, myself included are going on Ad nauseam about the striker situation despite me offering formations, reasons why etc without reverting to the obvious I will take my leave from this conversation and in future win, lose or draw offer opinions on every other position on the pitch apart from forwards
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Again, as I said earlier, this isn't really aimed at you. You're not the one blaming incompetence for not bringing in any strikers. Your past was just the most pertinent of the people who answered me.
 
Dodgy said:
It's not that it's "off limits", it's just that it's been done to death. We know we're short up front. We know that Speakman and KLD tried (and ultimately failed) to get a good striker in, but at least they didn't get a sh*t one in, instead. We know that there's nothing we can do about it so there's very little point in covering the same ground, ad nauseum, when we fail to win. We lost and drew games with strikers on the pitch too, don't forget.

If people had an original take on it: no problem, but they really don't.

Here's a different take:- I'm reading that Gelhardt can't hold up the ball. I still don't know because that's simply not the way we're playing at the minute.

At times today, Roberts had four men on him: that means three of our forwards/midfielders probably nobody on them but we didn't utilise that at all today. I think that's more of an issue than having no strikers. I love our intricate passing moves down the right but if they're running up blind alleys, all too often and not looking for an early out ball, we're going to run into trouble against decent footballing sides like city were, this afternoon and ultimately, we did.
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Spot on
 
Calpricorn said:
Some absolute divs on here like.

Do people actually reckon Speakman was sat on his arse purposefully not wanting to sign a striker?

We lost Stewart to a freak injury. Simms to that moron Lampard who recalled him and then got sacked. If we panicked and just signed anyone who didn’t fit our system or financial budget, how would we even know they would turn out good? f***ing get over it and stop starting this thread every time we don’t win. You’re anonymous when we do win because you’ve got nowt to whinge about.
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Wrong .. i said it at deadline day and will say it tilll the end of the seqson rregardless of whether we win or lose.
Speakman had plenty time to sign a striker . No excuse.
Man united lost Erikson the night before deadline day and signed a replacenrnt
 
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