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Lack of striker.......



wellquickwoody

wellquickwoody

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Aug 10, 2007
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Ulloa out sick.... OK fine......shit happens

Barnes..... Marmite.......but never gonna be a 15 goal man......and has been sold

MacKail Smith.......still out injured

Hoskins.........still out injured

Rodriguez....not being played as a striker

Lingaard......too much for a youngster?

Has somebody missed something? Oscar, Nathan, David Burke.......even Barber and our Tone?

Fans have been calling for another quality striker to complement Ulloa, the club seem to have fudged the issue, either no ambition, or lack of targets, or an unwillingness for a financial gamble.

Whatever it is, our lack of ability to score has left our season finished with 8 games left to play.
 








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Napper

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Jul 9, 2003
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Barnes sale with no replacement was a shocker and is haunting us . Most teams have 4 strikers . Frustrating for sure .
 


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Centurion

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Sep 2, 2012
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You would have thought Hoskins could make the bench based on dev squad performances and fact we only had 6 on bench
 




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GingerBeerMan

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Dec 29, 2011
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No ambition? I think 2.5M for Ulloa, 1M for buckley, 750k for Hoskins and 2.5M for CMS, as well as a loan signing from Manchester United is fairly ambitious. Perhaps Garcia wants a season with the team to assess what kind of striker he wants, and will buy in the summer.
 


wellquickwoody

wellquickwoody

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GingerBeerMan said:
No ambition? I think 2.5M for Ulloa, 1M for buckley, 750k for Hoskins and 2.5M for CMS, as well as a loan signing from Manchester United is fairly ambitious. Perhaps Garcia wants a season with the team to assess what kind of striker he wants, and will buy in the summer.
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If so, he has taken a massive gamble. The BIGGEST crowds in the Championship, the highest match day spend by supporters in and around the stadium, leads to expectations. I think fans have waited until now to begin to criticise, next season will not be so pretty. We could see ourselves doing the 'sacking in November' scenario, not good, but neither can we sustain falling crowds.
 


Ernest

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wellquickwoody said:
If so, he has taken a massive gamble. The BIGGEST crowds in the Championship, the highest match day spend by supporters in and around the stadium, leads to expectations. I think fans have waited until now to begin to criticise, next season will not be so pretty. We could see ourselves doing the 'sacking in November' scenario, not good, but neither can we sustain falling crowds.
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The chairman added to the expectation by saying preseason that he expected the team to finish in the Top 6 and there was an enhanced player budget, where has this enhanced budget gone because it hasn't gone on better players ?
 






Luke93

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I blame FFP. We can't afford more strikers. Next year we'll be fine as our options come back.
 














Not Andy Naylor

Not Andy Naylor

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Ernest said:
The chairman added to the expectation by saying preseason that he expected the team to finish in the Top 6 and there was an enhanced player budget, where has this enhanced budget gone because it hasn't gone on better players ?
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Absolutely - it has gone on worse players, specifically loan strikers who have added nothing to the squad (or have not been given the chance to add anything in Lita's case) and a player in Stephens who added mediocrity to a department of the squad where we have quality. In contrast, look at Bournemouth, who gave a striker a new contract and signed another proven goalscorer in Yann Kermorgant. Not Forest, or Leicester - Bournemouth.
 




Ali_rrr

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Feb 4, 2011
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I think the main problem is that we can't afford another striker. We sold Barnes, but we'd hoped that Mackail-Smith and Hoskins would be back by Februrary. Ulloa hasn't been great this season, but he's scored goals, and in fairness, that's all you can ask from him. But he definitely hasn't been as good at linking up play as he did last season for one reason or another. Add that to the fact we've signed Lita and Obika on loan 2 absolutely useless players who wouldn't have been let go by their parent clubs if they were any good.
 


Ernest

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Not Andy Naylor said:
Absolutely - it has gone on worse players, specifically loan strikers who have added nothing to the squad (or have not been given the chance to add anything in Lita's case) and a player in Stephens who added mediocrity to a department of the squad where we have quality. In contrast, look at Bournemouth, who gave a striker a new contract and signed another proven goalscorer in Yann Kermorgant. Not Forest, or Leicester - Bournemouth.
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Agustien, another midfielder on a good whack who has contributed ZERO this season
 




Not Andy Naylor

Not Andy Naylor

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Ernest said:
Agustien, another midfielder on a good whack who has contributed ZERO this season
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Blimey, I'd forgotten all about him. Never really given a chance, especially after Crofts' injury. Looks a better bet to make things happen than Stephens.
 




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