Hopefully Bournemouth suffer from lack of squad harmony, disparity in wages and fail from just generally signing 'ok' players like Kieffer Moore who they clearly have no long term plan for. I'd love QPR to beat them to 2nd obviously, but failing that even Blackburn.
Also we must consider Huddersfield who are keeping in touch. It's 10 Championship games unbeaten now for the Terriers and they are up to fifth, admittedly they've played 2 games more but that's a great run of form.
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Huddersfield started the season well too They are ones im watching out for That’s where games in hand start to count and you see how important 0-0 draws with Swansea could affect your position in the table Boro are also not going away
Huddersfield started the season well too They are ones im watching out for That’s where games in hand start to count and you see how important 0-0 draws with Swansea could affect your position in the table Boro are also not going away
I think Boro are the ones to worry about...if we can sneak a one nil against them like Blackburn did...
yes they got beat recent but they wont be going anywhere fast
think Fulham have smashed this division
and the 2nd auto could be anyone from 6
Blackburn, WBA, QPR, Forest, Boro, Huddersfield
its an old cliche but we have to take one game at a time and try and pick up as many points we can score as many goals as we can and try and not concede as many as we can when Fulham come to our gaff try and defend even more and go with a back 5 with possibly even Kakay coming in for uncle albert LOL in MW i trust so whatever happens happens
its going to the wire but im very happy with the situation of the league table at present
i watched WLS podcast yesterday and like Kevin Gallen im very disapointed we didnt get that extra striker in and just hope and pray that one of the 3 we have starts banging them in for fun even if its my least favorite Lyndon "the neck tatoo" Dykes
who knows i may even cheer the next goal he scores for us because against Reading i really struggled to celebrate wasnt that hard to celebrate when Amos smashed home and i almost exploded when Jimmy headed the 4th.
come on UUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRSsssssssssssssssssss
we needed another striker to finish second place in my opinion we didnt sign one so we probably wont now there must of been an option to loan one from the premier league
we needed another striker to finish second place in my opinion we didnt sign one so we probably wont now there must of been an option to loan one from the premier league
I disagree with this feeling we needed another striker.
We already have one or two of Gray, Austin or Dykes on the bench each week.
If we brought in another striker are you seriously considering not even having Charlie Austin as part of the Match squad for example?
we needed another striker to finish second place in my opinion we didnt sign one so we probably wont now there must of been an option to loan one from the premier league
I disagree with this feeling we needed another striker.
We already have one or two of Gray, Austin or Dykes on the bench each week.
If we brought in another striker are you seriously considering not even having Charlie Austin as part of the Match squad for example?
It was never going to happen.
I'm of the opinion that Gray was never the right choice and should have been returned to Watford and replaced with someone who has a proven goalscoring record in the Championship. Apart from one season at Burnley, Gray's goal scoring record in League football is very poor. IMO signing Dwight Gayle who can't even get on the Newcastle bench or Marcus Fors (went to Hull) who may not be proven but is young, eager and a lot cheaper would have been much more rewarding than Gray.
What adds even more weight to Gray being the wrong choice and a poor striker is the fact that neither Austin or Dykes have been particularly good this season and Gray hasn't been avble to oust either and get a regular first team place. I don't know how many games Gray has started but if we are loaning a so called Premiership striker who is on Premiership wages I want to see a return. Gray is like Tomer Hemed and doesn't add a lot to our team.
Warburton often cites that he only wants to sign players who are better than the ones we currently have available. I'm not sure that Gray is any better than Austin or Dykes and what's the point of him being here if his main contribution is warming the bench because we could get Kelman to do that for a lot less cash.
I'm of the opinion that Gray was never the right choice and should have been returned to Watford and replaced with someone who has a proven goalscoring record in the Championship. Apart from one season at Burnley, Gray's goal scoring record in League football is very poor. IMO signing Dwight Gayle who can't even get on the Newcastle bench or Marcus Fors (went to Hull) who may not be proven but is young, eager and a lot cheaper would have been much more rewarding than Gray.
Yes, I think a lot of fans share this opinion.
I'm pretty sure though that this conversation was had by MW and Les etc and they would have looked at two things...first, despite his form Gray has added some important goals and it appears that he is the "right sort" in terms of his commitment to the team and getting on with everyone. MW values this highly for sure.
Second, taking Dwight Gayle as an example...does he want to come to us on loan? Would he upset the fantastic team spirit we have? I read he's on £37,000 per week...we can't pay that.
Both Gray and Austin can score goals...if either player goes on a run of form we'll be fine...fingers crossed!
I've just checked the BBC website and completely changed my view on our strikers ... Gray 167 minutes per goal Dykes 202 minutes per goal Austin 230 minutes per goal Those aren't bad at all - although we'd probably hoped for better from Charlie. At that rate they'd all have pretty good totals by now if they'd played more games.
its a shame about gray as hes a neat and tidy player who scored some nice goals hes probably our fastest striker too but he blows hot and cold all the time a real handful on his day and hopefully will be when he returns to action
