Went Preston on Saturday and been alot recently....Clarke a good aquisition and will do a job, albeit a tad lazy sometimes! From what i see we are strong throughout the pitch but when its not happening up top we have no1 to come off bench and create a spark (sorry but i dont think Elliott will get you promoted)......who would you realistically like to see, will we add another?
You have to admit though that when you see most teams pushing in the final sprint till end of season they add some quality loans or snap up a decent freebie! It seems to me Robins doesnt have a huge amount of faith in Elliott otherwise he'd use him more often and sorry Ball is useless!
I would say we definitely need another. If we have any thoughts about getting to the play offs we need another option up top. No idea who at the moment, but I think that's the area Robins is looking most thoroughly at.
Saturday showed we needed another. We have Clarke and Elliott then it's ROD. 1 of the striker get injured, like Saturday, then we really struggle for back up.
In fact I think Saturday and robins lack of subs (Barton came on in the 90th minute) shows the squad is not as good as people think it is. We have a core of 13-14 then it's pretty average.
Saturday showed we needed another. We have Clarke and Elliott then it's ROD. 1 of the striker get injured, like Saturday, then we really struggle for back up.
In fact I think Saturday and robins lack of subs (Barton came on in the 90th minute) shows the squad is not as good as people think it is. We have a core of 13-14 then it's pretty average.
I Agree chap! We looked awesome in the first half agaisnt preston but couldnt convert the chances , at half time being 1-1 would have been great to take off Fleck, move moussa out to left whing and add another striker, think we'd have gone on to win 3/4 -1!!
Saturday showed we needed another. We have Clarke and Elliott then it's ROD. 1 of the striker get injured, like Saturday, then we really struggle for back up.
In fact I think Saturday and robins lack of subs (Barton came on in the 90th minute) shows the squad is not as good as people think it is. We have a core of 13-14 then it's pretty average.
does anyone know the current situation with Ball? I have no problem with him - and if it was Clarke / Elliott / Ball and ROD then perhaps we would need to look at other areas with more importance above strikers.
However if you take Ball out of that equation and i think we definately need cover. Clarke is a goalscorer but from what Ive seen - and from what Robins has hinted at without saying - is he can go missing in certain games, he doesnt strike me as a 'giving it his all for the team' type of player. So we could see some definate off days from him. another striker would be quite helpful but I think with the situation we are in it needs to be the right striker - ie, one who will actually improve us (that we can afford) not just signing a striker for the sake of it.
No, my point is that lately he has had sheff and Elliot in the squad they are part of this 13-14 core players, so he's options on the bench (2 of Elliott, Moussa and fleck, plus Thomas).
Saturday we were missing sheff and Elliott meaning that Moussa and fleck started and we didn't have any game changing options on the bench.