We all said we needed a new defence…

I’ve heard it all.

 

A bit risky....

 

McAtee?

 

It's pretty negligent to be fair. Let's hope this loan comes off that was intimated last night.

 

Was just about to say, it’s midfield I’m more concerned about than up front.

We saw last week that we are an illness or injury away from being woeful in that area at any given time, and with Styles gone as well, we are desperately short of cover for Connell, Kane and Phillips.

 

Kane is only a "maybe" for this weekend.

 

I'm a bit lost... Who makes money from pretending that?

 

because I’m talking about the need for a striker in addition to Cole.
There are two spots to fill.
We can put a tick next to one spot : Cole
Can we put a tick next to the other? McAtee possibly

Do we need another striker if we want automatic promotion? I would say yes, certainly.

look at Bolton in contrast.

 

Probably because Man City had loads of options when Haaland got injured.

 

How many strikers do they have?

 

don’t see your point they produce goals from all areas

 

The answer is 10 (in the league). 16 goals for Cole and 10 goals for the 3 players who have been rotated in the second striking position to partner Cole. That's a potent attack.

 

Glad you saw the glaring error, I thought we had sent McAtee back in the middle of the night then.

 

Yep if you include mcatee, who has played in a mix of midfield / striker

between the others they have scored 4 goals. It is not good enough for automatic promotion which should have been our aim.

 

We've scored 52 goals, only one team has scored more. No matter which way you look at stats we don't need anything else up front.

 

Rock and hard place with the strikers, right now we can probably manage with our current ones BUT the problem is Football is also about planning and there is every possibility that come the Summer the current first choices won’t be here.

 

Do you think Watters has played well? If you do then I’d politely say it’s you who hasn’t got a clue about football and if you don’t then your post makes no sense as we are now 1 injury away from Watters playing a hell of a lot of minutes now we havnt strengthened the strike force and Jalo is out

 

Ah yeah I'd be buzzing. His haul of 8 goals over the last 90 odd games over the last 4 or 5 years will really boost our attack.

 

We should now in theory be better at set pieces in both boxes & have more pace that enables us to play higher up the pitch & hopefully means Williams can go back to RWB.

My only concern is depth in central midfield but at the end of the day the budget only stretches so far.

If any of the first 3 do get injured there’s Russell, hopefully Benson & Wolfe fit soon, a possible new loanee if it goes through & then there’s Mcatee who can take Phillips role & even O’Keeffe if we’re that desperate who did a solid job in that role at Oxford.

The main aim always had to be strengthening at centre back. It was the obvious weakness.

 

And 26 league goals coming from the midfield and defence. We have goals all over the pitch - like good teams should have.