Match Day Thread Norwich vs QPR

Kakay could have been one of the three in a 3-5-2!
3-5-2 is my favourite line-up, btw.

 

I quite like it too.

 

I must stop letting the heart rule and allow commonsense to lead when writing my weekly predictions.

We were never going to win until we get some strikers. Simple.

 

I beginning to think that too.

 

Can we get Charlie back from Swindon Town, he at least knows where the goal is and is probably more mobile than Dykes.

 

Nine games till window opens including Cardiff on New Year's Day. Currently 6 points adrift, the gap could be insurmountable by then, 20 matches we'd need to show play-off form to save our skins. Really, whoever was responsible for not bringing in a striker has f*cked our season completely...

 

We’ve spunked money on some real dross over the last few years. Getting Austin back on silly money, Washington, Bonne, Dykes, Hemed and before that Polter and Sylla were sometimes ok but usually not. Since we first bought Austin we’ve not really had a striker good enough. They’re hard to come by but you see Gyokeres being bought for a song and being bought by a club we could have easily competed with

 

The big question is will the board put up money to get a decent striker or will we have to sell to buy? Not optimistic on previous form...

 

No proven striker is coming here with relegation odds-on. Our best hope is taking a punt on someone Cifuentes knows and even then it’s probably sell to buy. Someone might be dumb enough to give goodish money for Dykes or Field but the only player commanding a serious fee is Chair and then we’re ****ed anyway.

 

Mobile? He could barely move when he came back last time.

 

He came on as an 89th minute sub for Swindon yesterday so he’ll want games though. Maybe Marc Nygaard is free.

 

My lad got his autograph in Harrogate last week when Swindon were playing, even that looks knackered

 

Compared to what we have?

At least he can get into goal-scoring positions. I'm not suggesting Charlie is the absolute answer to our goal drought, there has got to be a young striker in our club who knows how to score and has half a brain to get on the end of chances, isn't there?

 

What Austin has is what good strikers don't lose - a natural instinct for being in the right position at the right time. What he no longer has is the mobility to get there. Neither Dykes nor Armstrong has that natural striker's instinct, though. Apparently Kelman bangs the goals in in training, so maybe he can step up, but any striker playing in our current side would suffer from the isolation and lack of service.

 

Armstrong started for Ireland U21's against Italy last week. He made 1 superbly, scored one and came close to a 2nd. From reports his pace and strength caused the Italian defence a lot of trouble. He also I think started against Norway and scored. Why the fakk isnt he "a starting striker?" He went into the Norwich game in form exactly as that, full of self confidence and has to sit most of the game on the Bench. Our coaching staff need to be looking at how he did in these Internationals and try and create similar situations for Armstrong with us, mainly I reckon some space on the flanks he can run into. Nobody else looks likely to score, we need to be focusing on getting the very best out of the one guy who is.

 

Because playing kids isn’t real life adult football where he’s mostly been found out. I like the guy but he’s just potential right now and a serious club would have loaned him out rather than relying on him.

 

I dont see too many alternatives right now to making the best use of Armstrong, playing him like those Ireland U20's. We've got to use him, nobody else in our strike force is coming close to scoring. He ain't no "kid" either.

 

I’d put the majority of that dross down to SLF who stole a living from our club for years.