| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker 20:05 - Jan 31 with 10550 views | The_Romford_Blue |
My man ITK said there’s literally not a single name being thrown around at all.
Piroe a fortnight ago and Bamford before that but right now.. nobody.
We NEED a new striker. It’s so so painfully obvious hirst is gone at the game. And Azon, as likeable as he is, is still Azon. |  |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:33 - Jan 31 with 2191 views | BABLUE |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:31 - Jan 31 by DarkBrandon |
We did not know |
Oh yes we did |  | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:34 - Jan 31 with 2174 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:18 - Jan 31 by Zx1988 |
How about any of our rivals who've been able to bag a striker target within the last FOUR windows?
I don't think it's unreasonable, when your CEO brags about having regularly-updated lists of replacement players, to expect that the players on said lists are generally realistic and available targets. |
Err Delap?
And in our promotion season, Hirst and Moore did a decent job as I recall. |  |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:36 - Jan 31 with 2144 views | berkstractorboy |
That's a real worry Romford. Today was the cherry on the top, the icing already set that a new striker was needed.
The rest of the squad must be so frustrated with the situation.
"This is what I do" are the worst words he ever uttered ... | | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:41 - Jan 31 with 2083 views | Linners |
If you look at our attacking players, we paid double-digit (or nearly) millions for Phil, Clarke, SS, Egeli, McAteer, Nunez etc and yet the guy at the top of it all is the same guy that we bought to lead the line in League One. I don't blame anyone in particular for that, and I'm sure we're trying to sort something out, but surely if we had a £10m number 9 and one less £10m attacker we'd be sorted? |  | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:44 - Jan 31 with 2052 views | SomethingBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 20:26 - Jan 31 by portmanking |
It's an utter dereliction of duty if we can't upgrade on Hirst. We knew Delap was likely off since last Jan, so why the hell haven't we got someone lined up in 12 months?! If we're so data driven, the dashboard should be spouting out potential candidates all the time. |
I like both Hirst and Azon but it feels essential that we do something. Currently we look like a team that, while absolutely fine most weeks, will find a way not to get promoted. We need the option of a clinical finisher or, at least, someone who the ball can stick to. | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:50 - Jan 31 with 1954 views | BABLUE |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:44 - Jan 31 by SomethingBlue |
I like both Hirst and Azon but it feels essential that we do something. Currently we look like a team that, while absolutely fine most weeks, will find a way not to get promoted. We need the option of a clinical finisher or, at least, someone who the ball can stick to. |
That first chance that Hirst missed was terrible and probably the difference between 1 & 3 points.
We need someone to finish chances like that and to lead the line | | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:50 - Jan 31 with 1949 views | Zx1988 |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:34 - Jan 31 by redrickstuhaart |
Err Delap?
And in our promotion season, Hirst and Moore did a decent job as I recall. |
Delap wasn't the main no 9 target, and we all know it - he was evidently signed with a view to working alongside another more-experienced No9.
He ended up playing a more prominent role owing to the inability to sign the top targets. We spent ages going after that Greek chap AFTER Delap was in the door.
I never said anything about Hirst/Moore, as they sit outside of that four-window period.
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:54 - Jan 31 with 1898 views | BloomBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:50 - Jan 31 by Zx1988 |
Delap wasn't the main no 9 target, and we all know it - he was evidently signed with a view to working alongside another more-experienced No9.
He ended up playing a more prominent role owing to the inability to sign the top targets. We spent ages going after that Greek chap AFTER Delap was in the door.
I never said anything about Hirst/Moore, as they sit outside of that four-window period.
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Delap was purchased as a striker, thats the role he played at Man City |  | | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:57 - Jan 31 with 1872 views | SomethingBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:54 - Jan 31 by BloomBlue |
Delap was purchased as a striker, thats the role he played at Man City |
Yes, it's an utter myth that he was bought as a winger or wide forward – but many seem to have run with it! | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:01 - Jan 31 with 1814 views | BloomBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:57 - Jan 31 by SomethingBlue |
Yes, it's an utter myth that he was bought as a winger or wide forward – but many seem to have run with it! |
Its because that lie about being a winger helps their anti Ashton/KM incapable of buying a striker narrative. | | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:08 - Jan 31 with 1759 views | StNeotsBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:57 - Jan 31 by SomethingBlue |
Yes, it's an utter myth that he was bought as a winger or wide forward – but many seem to have run with it! |
Completely agree but we knew he was leaving from about March of last year and it is still a massive hole that needs filling, the failure to get a replacement in seems a touch reckless. |  | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:10 - Jan 31 with 1728 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:01 - Jan 31 by BloomBlue |
Its because that lie about being a winger helps their anti Ashton/KM incapable of buying a striker narrative. |
I say it because he played wide right for hull then we signed him, then we continued trying to buy broja despite having delap, hirst and al hamadi and KM's preference of hutch in the central 10 role over the right side. I think ideally KM would have had Hutch middle, Delap right ala egeli now, broja uptop |  |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:21 - Jan 31 with 1655 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 21:50 - Jan 31 by Zx1988 |
Delap wasn't the main no 9 target, and we all know it - he was evidently signed with a view to working alongside another more-experienced No9.
He ended up playing a more prominent role owing to the inability to sign the top targets. We spent ages going after that Greek chap AFTER Delap was in the door.
I never said anything about Hirst/Moore, as they sit outside of that four-window period.
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Fotis Ioannidis was our main striker target and we continued to chase him even after the signing of Delap. Delap was definitely signed as a striker but no one expected him to be the revelation that he was. |  |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:23 - Jan 31 with 1629 views | SuffolkPunchFC |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:08 - Jan 31 by StNeotsBlue |
Completely agree but we knew he was leaving from about March of last year and it is still a massive hole that needs filling, the failure to get a replacement in seems a touch reckless. |
This reckless and negligent narrative about failing to buy a new centre forward is becoming somewhat tiresome. Please point out a suitable CF that has moved at our level in the past 6 months that would have been suitable. There really aren’t a lot of options out there - as every club is finding at all levels. | | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:28 - Jan 31 with 1565 views | Zx1988 |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:21 - Jan 31 by GlasgowBlue |
Fotis Ioannidis was our main striker target and we continued to chase him even after the signing of Delap. Delap was definitely signed as a striker but no one expected him to be the revelation that he was. |
Was it that window we pivoted to Broja as well?
After spending £15m on Delap, it's clear we had a further £30m set aside for another striker. | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:30 - Jan 31 with 1544 views | J2BLUE |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:28 - Jan 31 by Zx1988 |
Was it that window we pivoted to Broja as well?
After spending £15m on Delap, it's clear we had a further £30m set aside for another striker. |
Another striker. We got there in the end. |  |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:30 - Jan 31 with 1549 views | tractorshark |
You only had to look at Bamford at Sheff Utd last week to see what we’re missing.
Simms at Cov, Armstrong potentially going to Boro, I’d say we’re well behind them in terms of quality up front.
I think Hirst and Moore scored seven each in our promotion season but our goal tally was boosted by the 3 behind.
With the exception of the left wing, that’s not happening right now.
And teams are defending deep which means we rarely counter attack with pace.
Right now I’d take a striker on loan if that’s the only route but we desperately need someone to stand a chance of the top two. | | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:31 - Jan 31 with 1531 views | FrimleyBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:23 - Jan 31 by SuffolkPunchFC |
This reckless and negligent narrative about failing to buy a new centre forward is becoming somewhat tiresome. Please point out a suitable CF that has moved at our level in the past 6 months that would have been suitable. There really aren’t a lot of options out there - as every club is finding at all levels. |
"Please point out a suitable CF that has moved at our level in the past 6 months that would have been suitable"
forum users aren't paid big money to find and sign these players.
KM, Ashton etc indeed and rightly take the plaudits when things go well, and they will smile when a signing comes off as an excellent piece of business. So they can indeed be critiqued, when as a parachute club you're trying to fight for promotion with two strikers with a combined 30 missed clear cut chances when you sold your main striker in march of last year. | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:37 - Jan 31 with 1483 views | Swansea_Blue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:23 - Jan 31 by SuffolkPunchFC |
This reckless and negligent narrative about failing to buy a new centre forward is becoming somewhat tiresome. Please point out a suitable CF that has moved at our level in the past 6 months that would have been suitable. There really aren’t a lot of options out there - as every club is finding at all levels. |
McBurnie is the obvious one. He was discussed at some length in here in the summer. And Kieffer of course. They are tough to find though. |  |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:39 - Jan 31 with 1462 views | GlasgowBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:28 - Jan 31 by Zx1988 |
Was it that window we pivoted to Broja as well?
After spending £15m on Delap, it's clear we had a further £30m set aside for another striker. |
Indeed. | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:46 - Jan 31 with 1379 views | StNeotsBlue |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:23 - Jan 31 by SuffolkPunchFC |
This reckless and negligent narrative about failing to buy a new centre forward is becoming somewhat tiresome. Please point out a suitable CF that has moved at our level in the past 6 months that would have been suitable. There really aren’t a lot of options out there - as every club is finding at all levels. |
I never mentioned negligent, I'm merely a tw@t on a Internet fans forum, the idea that I can't express an opinion without giving a compelling case as to why we should be signing (insert name of any forward from Europe that none have us have heard of) is ridiculous.
Clearly our current options aren't and haven't been doing the biz for a while, with Jaden injured there isn't many goals in the team other than Jack Clarke. | | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:56 - Jan 31 with 1290 views | Zx1988 |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:30 - Jan 31 by J2BLUE |
Another striker. We got there in the end. |
I'm not saying we're not signing people - it's just abundantly clear that, for whatever reason, we seem to be unable to sign our top targets and, as a result, have been left wanting in the striker department.
Summer 2024 the goal was clearly a £30m first choice (Ionnidis, Broja etc.,) with Delap as the second option.
January 2025 we chased (IIRC) Reiss Nelson and Igor Jesus, and signed neither.
Summer 2025 we tried to get McBurnie in (and potentially Sargent, depending on whether you believe the source), and I refuse to believe that Akpom and Azon (no disrespect to either) were identified as the replacements for Delap.
January 2026 we've tried to sign Bamford, and evidently the powers that be feel that, for the fourth window in succession, we need to sign a quality striker to replace/challenge Hirst.
I'd appreciate the 'everyone else has struggled this window' argument if it was in isolation, but the evidence proves that not to be the case. We've needed a decent striker in all of the last four windows, and ended up not landing one.
I get that we've got until Monday evening but, if your partner has forgotten your last three wedding anniversaries, and still hasn't mentioned it by teatime this time around, I think you're entitled to wonder if they're actually going to get around to mentioning it. | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:57 - Jan 31 with 1289 views | DarkBrandon |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:23 - Jan 31 by SuffolkPunchFC |
This reckless and negligent narrative about failing to buy a new centre forward is becoming somewhat tiresome. Please point out a suitable CF that has moved at our level in the past 6 months that would have been suitable. There really aren’t a lot of options out there - as every club is finding at all levels. |
Azon? |  | | |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 23:02 - Jan 31 with 1235 views | redrickstuhaart |
| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 22:46 - Jan 31 by StNeotsBlue |
I never mentioned negligent, I'm merely a tw@t on a Internet fans forum, the idea that I can't express an opinion without giving a compelling case as to why we should be signing (insert name of any forward from Europe that none have us have heard of) is ridiculous.
Clearly our current options aren't and haven't been doing the biz for a while, with Jaden injured there isn't many goals in the team other than Jack Clarke. |
The idea that people on a forum cant challenge an opinion asserted, which is based on nothing but "feels" is ridiculous. | |
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| Phil please say you’ve heard something re a new striker on 23:04 - Jan 31 with 1208 views | itfc1108 |
I think he might be out of range for us now, with the season he is having for AZ and Ireland, but I would try for Troy Parrott. | | | |
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