| we still feel a bit short up front to me 14:40 - Jul 28 with 3184 views | GeoffSentence |
given how injury prone George Hirst is. Ali Al Hamadi is OK coming on as a finisher during games but I wouldn't want to rely on him as a starter for any length of time if Hirst was injured.
Szmodics and Broadhead could fill in up front, but given Hirst's injury record I'd definitely want another proper forward to share the burden with George Hirst.
This is your cue to tell me not to worry and we are sniffing round striker x. |  |
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| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 19:24 - Jul 28 with 617 views | Wallingford_Boy |
| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 16:29 - Jul 28 by Herbivore |
Because he doesn't have any of the attributes that a number 9 in our system needs. |
Goal machine.
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| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 19:53 - Jul 28 with 525 views | BlueBoots |
| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 18:43 - Jul 28 by Pique |
We tried that once. Against Newcastle. Didn't go well. |
"Against Newcastle"...your middle sentence is the key one here...we're not going to be coming up against any teams with the quality of Newcastle in the league this season... |  |
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| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 19:58 - Jul 28 with 491 views | Swansea_Blue |
We are light up top, but we have been ever since KM came in. Last season having to rely on Delap while Hirst was out. Season before having to make do with Chappers in December and then urgently had to loan Kieffer Moore in Jan. It’s the one area where we’ve consistently not had 2 very good players covering the one position. I don’t know why. Harder to find strikers maybe? It’s a single role, so doesn’t want good players getting frustrated as backup just in case of injuries? God knows, but it seems to be a pattern. [Post edited 28 Jul 21:26]
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| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 22:41 - Jul 28 with 303 views | Blue_Moses |
| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 15:04 - Jul 28 by blueoutlook |
He isn’t that type of striker that we are looking for. We need another guy like Hirst who can hold the ball up. Is big and strong and can bring others into play. That’s not Sammys game. He needs to feed off Hirst and whoever we bring in. |
He's not a striker |  | | |
| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 22:54 - Jul 28 with 266 views | mellowblue |
| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 22:41 - Jul 28 by Blue_Moses |
He's not a striker |
of course he is a striker, just not in the mould of a big centre forward. More the 2nd striker who feeds off the number 9 and feeds off the space created by the big number 9 keeping the central defenders busy. He is more effective as second striker than as a 10. Which is why first half against Aberdeeen was so promising. | | | |
| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 06:00 - Jul 29 with 164 views | WeWereZombies |
| we still feel a bit short up front to me on 19:58 - Jul 28 by Swansea_Blue |
We are light up top, but we have been ever since KM came in. Last season having to rely on Delap while Hirst was out. Season before having to make do with Chappers in December and then urgently had to loan Kieffer Moore in Jan. It’s the one area where we’ve consistently not had 2 very good players covering the one position. I don’t know why. Harder to find strikers maybe? It’s a single role, so doesn’t want good players getting frustrated as backup just in case of injuries? God knows, but it seems to be a pattern. [Post edited 28 Jul 21:26]
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Town, and almost every other team in the top two leagues, are struggling to find strikers because there are so few really effective ones about. And every team is concentrated on finding ways to stop those effective strikers from scoring. I think that is the main reason we went with 'flat track bully' Delap last season, he was a bit of an unknown to most other teams, young so not on many people's radar, and we hoped we could rely on a gameplan that gave us nine outfield players absorbing what the other team threw at us whilst finding Delap once in a while and leaving him to do the rest - that second part worked.
Maybe we need the same again but as back up and competition for Hirst, but not at such a high level as Delap so as we can get them without the bells and whistles that Man City and the agent, inevitably, stuck on. Perhaps a Premier League loanee with less expectations than Evan Ferguson, but better effectiveness than Dane Scarlett. [Post edited 29 Jul 6:08]
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