Grumpy_Lion

This is pretty spot on. Going forward we ideally want to be playing a more possession based style but as you said, right now we just don't have the players. Under SG we've gotten much better results when we soak up pressure and counter. Deciding to drop buendia for the Brighton game was actually quite interesting, SG clearly decided we needed less of the ball and a quicker attack going forward. So essentially Buendia being too good at holding the ball forced SG to drop him out the side. I can't remember the last time a player was dropped for being too good at something , it's a nice problem to have.

it looked like a pen to me

That could be an interesting idea, i'd like to see that one followed up a bit more

I guess the question was, who do we not want playing up front :-)

You're right of course. My previous comments were all assuming we have the cash and can balance it but you make a good point. I think everyone would love to keep buying new and better players but that's not how things work. Being realistic I would be happyish with what we got but I do think we will struggle to score the goals we need to make a promotion push with our current lot.

I agree, he wasn't awful in that match he just had a few bad spells during the game. The weather made the ball really quick and I think he struggled with that BUT I am still pleased we have him at the club and I think he will be a really useful player for us this season.

Maybe Samba is the key :-D

Maybe, personally I'd like to buy someone but a loan could be one option. I'm of course assuming we have the money to afford someone else :-)

He looks like he has potential. We don't have many players who are willing to run past a few opponents, so i'm all for a player like this. It will be interesting to see him play against some of championship level players now.

I agree. I don't dislike him at all, I just feel he isn't quite good enough. I'd love him to do well but I don't have high hopes. He reminds me of the lad you'd play football with at school, who was never good enough to make the team but would run around like mad trying to impress at training :-)

I think he might have played left back for us at some point last season, for some reason I remember him playing there before when we had injuries. I could be wrong.

If Mccormack is moving on and Kodja still out for a while I think we are quite in need of a striker. Look back at last season without Kodja, we really struggled to score goals. If Bruce thinks our young strikers are good enough, then we could look to them, if not then I do think we need to buy. Personally i'd like to see 3 main strikers, Kodja Hogan and someone new with Gabby as a fourth choice. We know how hard the championship is, you need at least 3/4 good stikers especially with the amount of games you play each week and injuries which occur from this.

We don't create or score enough goals, that's been our problem since the start of last season. Before today the defense didn't worry me at all :-)

I personally think it's going to be a long old season :-) but I wouldn't judge our chances for the season on this game. We have mostly a second string side out in quite a wet pitch.

I agree. The weather isn't helping but that's not really an excuse. Onomah is looking ok, the only player who really wants to dribble at them with the ball. I really wish we had someone who could feed Hogan in, otherwise he does very little. I've seen quite a bit of Bjarnason now and he really doesn't cut it for me, quite a poor player unfortunately. Samba just can't handle the skiddy service and anything on the ground has been a nightmare for him.