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Looks like Birmingham (2 points above us) are spending big this Jan obviously pushing for playoffs and promotion. Just signed the Alaves winger Vicente we were linked with in the summer for about £8mil, with some other decent signings, all from top flight clubs and pretty regular players from what I can see, including the top scorer in Sweden and another La Liga player. Obviously they're being bankrolled by their American owners, but aren't too bothered about net spend, whilst we're probably scratching about on the 2 out 1 in method and trying to find the next bargain... Lets see what happens over the next few days.

To put into perspective on the Armstrong situation, Oliver McBurnie has scored the same amount of goals as Armstrong, in ten games less. McBurnie!! It's embarrassing that we'd now probably quite like someone like him in our team.

New tune 🎵 "Kids and Grown Ups love him so, please someone buy Aribo"🎵

Can Tonda turn it around? As others have said, on paper the squad is more than good enough to be top 4 come the end of the season, but rubbish tactics, bizarre substitutions, a squad that feels like it's infested with a few rotten apples and with seemingly little strong leadership needs a big kick to get them firing. This comes from strong management, and a respect for the hierarchy, which I'd say we're currently lacking. Maybe a strong athletic (and reliable) striker signing would galvanise the squad (it certainly wouldnt hurt the fanbase), but really need the squad as a whole to be all pulling in the same direction and wanting to do well for a manager who they respect.

Which player are you referring to? Flynn Downes isn't too young, and arguably on form is good enough for a top end Championship team (although that's quite rare these days), but Damion Downs was a young and fairly untested player who proved not to be good enough (currently). Agreed that we're missing that powerful core spine of the team though - strong centre forward and defensive midfielder (see Wanyama!).

Good luck for tonight. That stadium looks worse than the Silverlake!

I work with a Charlton fan who told me he'd been poor recently (as have the whole team), so they signed someone permanently to replace him and happily sent back.

with some terrible players, but a squad who overall have the ability to be doing far better than they are if they were managed properly and the best players picked in their correct positions.

Dont think Jelert is one for the future - already played at a much higher level than us. Don't know why he hasn't played more, would say he's one of our better players.

What happened to Sesay? Seems to have completely disappeared but looked like he had good potential. The sooner we get Charles back and can ditch Downes (hopefully forever) the better. Big attitude problem and not actually very good.

Why does Jelert not play? Always looked pretty decent. Why does Manning always play?

... if continually played out of position, put in the wrong formation and generally not kill off games.

Signing another right back? Sounds like Derrick Abu not made any impact / not likely to play much then?

If we could get our money back to invest in a decent tall more powerful striker I'd do it. He's scored good goals in the Championship, but suspicious that he is kind of one of the "mates club" which are stinking out the place. Saw a link to that. Has it happened? Seemed he was doing fairly well on loan albeit at a lower level. Would be interesting to know if we get any fee for him.

Hopefully plays better than Ronnie did this season if he's called upon!