7 hours ago, Nippy Naylor said:

I can't see a clean sheet our defence has more holes in it than a cheese greater.

 

7 hours ago, valiant_593 said:

Was thinking more recently with the likes of miller and angus (I’m for this signing by the way) exactly where I think we should be looking for players 

 

19 minutes ago, valiant_593 said:

Don’t think he was good enough personally. Ok off the bench looked off it for anything more. As MBE said I expect him to be off to league 2 on loan 

 

To be honest I think Thomas looked lively against reading first home game of the season, pace to burn and put himself about , just wasn't crosbys cup of tea , tho  

19 hours ago, PV1993 said:

Agree: he is so so important to how we play. It’s no surprise that we’re now starting to score more goals, and how good we were at the start of the season.

 

what we need now is a back up for him. Someone who we can rotate or bring on so we can manage Wilson’s fitness and not struggle when or if he goes off. There must be a young lad with good pedigree in the England youth set up who can do this? Someone we can take on loan like Alfie or Ollie

Yeah , could do with a couple of young hungry strikers coming in and perhaps offloading Loft to a non league side .

With Thomas going back, surely we'll be bringing in a Premiership (ideally) / Championship striker!

The front end of the team looks OK to me. I'm up for a clever signing. But surely we have to be able to defend better. It's the key to climbing into the top half. This is a multi facetted problem and the backroom team need to analyse it and recruit a player to help solve it if possible. 

16 minutes ago, Warren said:

The front end of the team looks OK to me. I'm up for a clever signing. But surely we have to be able to defend better. It's the key to climbing into the top half. This is a multi facetted problem and the backroom team need to analyse it and recruit a player to help solve it if possible. 

A Peter Swan type defender , but I still think we need 2 more striker's thru the door cos don't think loft is a great back up option.

Quote from AC's press interview - “We’ve been looking and talking to people. There’s areas where we need to get better."

Previously, after the Charlton game, he talked mainly about defensive deficiences - so I wouldn't be surprised to see defenders coming in, or defensively minded players.

5 hours ago, Doha said:

Surprised that the fee for Lewis wasn't much higher. Good keeper.

2nd worst keeper in L2 based on saves % this season.

Seems his form has dipped after a move to Barnsley fell through. Lewis admitted he was "mentally affected" by this in the summer.

6th best in L2 last season for same metrics.

39 minutes ago, Warren said:

The front end of the team looks OK to me. I'm up for a clever signing. But surely we have to be able to defend better. It's the key to climbing into the top half. This is a multi facetted problem and the backroom team need to analyse it and recruit a player to help solve it if possible. 

Totally agree about a decent CB but not sure 3 (4 with Deipepa) up top is enough. Would like another to compliment the attacking options as well as giving us enough cover up front.

Who do we have on loan now? Just Balmer, Devine and Weir? Or have I forgotten someone?

2 minutes ago, philmpv said:

Who do we have on loan now? Just Balmer, Devine and Weir? Or have I forgotten someone?

Balmer is a waste of snapping, imo 

Edited January 11, 20242 yr by Nippy Naylor

Uche, Wilson and Loft as the only strikers  will not be the plan I’m sure. I always saw Thomas as a 10, but we have 3 decent ones and that’s with Devine dropping back to fill the Blaster role, so he’d be 4th choice. Meanwhile we are short of out and out strikers who can do the business consistently. I reckon we’ll be signing someone to finally lead the attack, and then have Uche off the bench to harass tired defenders into the ground.

Edited January 11, 20242 yr by 1

Another forward to replace Thomas for certain. Can’t  rely on Dipepea to come on for Will after 65-70 mins.

Disappointing. Good player. 

Re Thomas, he is a good player and should have been played more.

7 hours ago, Tony Rodriguez said:

Brexit might prevent this.

As might the scale of the scouting network required?