Thorne Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 It's great that he wants to prove himself but in the capacity as being an understudy to a 20 goals plus a season striker he only has the last third of games to prove himself, and show he's capable, I've not seen that at all from him, he's been aimless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazram80 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Martin will play about 50 games this season and score about 30 goals. Do we need a striker? No That is not the op question though no one is talking about replacing martin think we all agree that if martin plays 50 games there will be no need but say for example against Huddersfield martin breaks his leg or cruciate ligaments tear then who are we going to use??? Leon best ha, we might as well have sammon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derbados Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 think we missed a huge opportunity not signing Glen Murray, couldnt believe it when he went to Reading we messed up big time there Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-JW- Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 I think if something happens to Martin we'll sign someone like James Wilson on loan from Man U. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archram Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 They were so quick to bring Butland in when Grant was injured, I'd think it's reasonable to assume they have a plan ready for implementation should there be a problem with Martin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CornwallRam Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 If Martin gets injured whilst the loan or permanent windows are open we should be OK. No decent player will come to be an understudy, but that changes when there's a starting place on offer. The Butland signing shows that the club are capable of sorting quality loans out quickly. The problem is after the loan window closes - I'm not sure about December, but I know that the spring loan window closes with about seven games to go - that is a lot of points we could lose without Martin or a decent deputy. How annoying if we missed out on promotion because of that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statham512 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Would of been great to have Bamford back. He scored some very important goals last season either tap ins and few out of nothing. Just don't see who else we have this year that could do that, especially as ward like most small quick players pulls his hamstring if he so much as farts in the wrong direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorne Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Want to see some permanent signings in January. We can only have 5 loan players in the starting 11. But technically no limit for the squad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Altidore on loan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorne Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Can we get a pinned player suggestion thread for January n the transfer section please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
valleyram Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Johnny Russell played as a striker in Scotland and very good he was at it , he is better through the middle as out wide Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statham512 Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Would like to see shotton permanent and another option up front pref someone with champ experience who's got a liking for sticking the ball in the net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorne Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Johnny Russell played as a striker in Scotland and very good he was at it , he is better through the middle as out wide If we play Russell as back up striker then we're short a winger. Russell is our only consistent (and he's not even been that consistent himself) winger. Wouldn't be comfortable with only Dawkins and Ibe left while Ward is out injured. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Surprised anyone still sees Best as an option to be fair. The only other option is Thomas right now. I think we can expect some chatter regarding a striker very very soon; Chris Evans and his group must be looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Altidore on loan. If we bring him in it will be the beginning of the end. He's rubbish. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sexydadbod Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 If need be we can play russell up there. He used to play there for dundee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmericanRam Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 If we bring him in it will be the beginning of the end. He's rubbish. I know pal. Just wanted to see how many no Americans posts there would be. Seriously though I hope he gets his form back on the club level. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posh Ram Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 We need a player in the mould of Martin - a creative striker who can play with his back to goal and by himself up front. Best can't do that, and so a Martin injury would be absolutely devastating for us. We'd have to abandon our current style to accommodate Best who, let's face it, is not very good. But it'd be very difficult to find a player in Martin's mould. Overseas perhaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorne Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Hector Villalba Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RamNut Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 Best just needs to sort his ***** out. We've all seen he's a decent enough player over the years. He's never been a donkey just not quite all that either. He's had some good spells in his career. Dunno what's wrong with him. I hated it when we signed him cus I always thought he was a cnut. Never a bad player Never thought I'd defend him either!! Don't you know a waste of space when you see it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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