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It's not so much then number of strikers at the club as the number who expect to at least make the bench. 

The sensible thing to do last Saturday would have been to stand down one of the strikers for Hanson or Elsnik. But hard from a man management point of view. 

I would have dropped Bent - least likely to have any future at the club beyond this season.

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23 minutes ago, europia said:

Expect Blackman and Bent to go in January if they can find clubs willing to take on their wages.

Nobody will pay what they're currently on. The only way we will move them is on loan with us still paying a percentage of their wage.

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We have the leagues largest but most wasteful group of strikers. Anya is okay and vydra is a question mark. The rest are all very poor and/or far too inconsistent. It's truly a sad situation that there are so many and yet none good enough to hold their spot. Then you have Abraham at Bristol City ... you only need one dynamic lethal one to make a difference.

i also noticed the imbalance on the bench last game. Not good. 

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1 minute ago, Ninos said:

We have the leagues largest but most wasteful group of strikers. Anya is okay and vydra is a question mark. The rest are all very poor and/or far too inconsistent. It's truly a sad situation that there are so many and yet none good enough to hold their spot. Then you have Abraham at Bristol City ... you only need one dynamic lethal one to make a difference.

i also noticed the imbalance on the bench last game. Not good. 

If only we had a striker that had scored an average of 20 goals over the last few years hey....

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3 hours ago, cannable said:

All those options and I'd still trim it down to just Martin, Russell, Vydra, Anya and Ince… one short for me.

We need a link-up winger still. Dawks ?

Dawks was a very good servant for the club.

Unsure on why people never rated him. 

Been doing very well in the MLS. 

Who would you bring in if you were looking for that sort of player?

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56 minutes ago, RamsPolls said:

Dawks was a very good servant for the club.

Unsure on why people never rated him. 

Been doing very well in the MLS. 

Who would you bring in if you were looking for that sort of player?

Not a clue! Can't really think of a realistic one! Wouldn't be surprised if our recruitment team can't either!

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I'm not all that impressed with Radio Derby's commentators but when I heard them saying in the last few minutes " Hughes is going off" and "We're changing to 442" I thought it was a valiant attempt to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

Why change a formula for the end of a match when we are one goal to the good?

Any experienced Rams fan knows that is a sure fire way to drop two points at least.

And we,of course, did!

It would help if we had any strikers who did what they are paid to do.

Or am I missing summat as usual?

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9 hours ago, rynny said:

If only we had a striker that had scored an average of 20 goals over the last few years hey....

Have a like...

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18 hours ago, brady1993 said:

I'm not sure that's entirely comparable. We are arguably in the same situation as when Martin got injured because whilst we have plenty of bodies none of them are effective link up players. And regarding Thorne we were just plain unlucky to have all three specialist DMs get injured.

 

Maybe it not just bad luck ,, could it be that the way we play puts so much pressure on our defensive midfielder that they are physically under far more stress than the rest and are having to jump into far more 50/ 50 balls ,, may be way off but it's a thought ,, maybe even with the holding midfielder in front of back four we still need to be working on keeping better shape and still have a bit more steel in there ,,, is our defensive mid ( Thorne ) having to win the midfield battle single handedly whilst the other two are virtually forwards?

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On the point above I would really look at setting us up 4/2/3 /1 , seems a lot of teams do this ,, with injuries I would look at

.                                                         Carson

.           Christie.   Keough.                                Shackell. Lowe

.                         Thorne.                           Hanson/ Johnson?

                        Hughes.            Ince.             Anya

.                                                Vydra

 

for me better balanced  side with steel at the back , creativity and pace , then when you look at the bench we could put out as cover or to change things up mid game ,,,, for me it's the way forward ,if we learn to play that shape in training then it's far easier to drop a defensive midfielder in with a partner beside him than to put someone in to do the vital Thorne role when it's not their position 

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