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"Striker" is a broad term. Are we sure that Archer is a "Pelle" (or Lambert... Or Ings...) type? From what I've seen, he's more of a 'No.10' type striker rather than a 'No.9'...? I still think we need a 'proper' centre forward to complete the set... (Stewart would of course be that man, if he wasn't perpetually "two weeks away"...)

Fair point, although this new fella appears to be a tad more prolific than Mara, looking at his goalscoring stats...

An actual centre-forward too.... blimey...

*lose (welcome to the 52% thicko club... )

I'm sure our crack* medical team are on the case.... *interchangeable word

As you say.... We're "almost there" although I'm still concerned that we might be going into yet another season without a Lambert / Pelle / Ings type striker... i.e. a centre forward whose main attribute is their clinical finishing. Is Archer that man...? I'm yet to be convinced...

Because we should be playing the best players in every position rather than picking teams based on loyalty and/or sentimentality...? If Ugochukwu is better than Smallbone then he starts... surely?

Gav's wrists have never really been too effective either, so he'll fit in well...

Clatter into the buffoons with your bike and add it to the 'small things that are joyful' thread, surely?

#ITKwatch

Looks like a baseball glove to me.... so one assumes we're sigining a keeper from Derby County...?

Have I beaten @Turkish's laughter response world record yet.... 😁

Source? Cheers 👍

You sure that's not Lucy Pinder mucking around on the photocopier at the end of season office party...?

I'm not going to give a definitive opinion on whether or not we should welcome JWP back until we've heard from the oracle on such matters.... calling @Lord Duckhunter to the main board please...

Note to self: add "Freudian auto-corrects" to the 'Things that annoy me' thread...

Shame we couldn't bring him on temporarily each time we get a free-kick in "JWP territory"... something we could import from Amercian Football maybe....?! In all seriousness, his free-kicks can win games or salvage points. The lame free-kicks we had in good positions vs Newcastle being a case in point. Some might say it's a bit of a luxury having a free-kick specialist in your side when he's "pretty average" at everything else... But given our usual 'goal-chances' vs 'goals-scored' ratio, I would say he offers a side like us much more than a team with clinical finishers...

Can't see us winning the prestigious 'Unbeaten Run Trophy' for the second season in succession to be honest...

Needle, my arse

Maybe the plan is to fill our half of the pitch with defensive midfielders so that the ball never gets anywhere near one of our substandard goalkeepers...?

I may be missing something here, but how does "2 assists in 20 games" (and no goals?) give rise to the verb "thrived" and the adjective "impressive"...? 🤔

Yeah, forgot how old he is... Maybe we should sign a much younger centre forward who is less likely to suffer recurring injuries....