S-Clarke

Have thought for a while we need another RM, and the striker position is a no brainer. Totally agree with you on the need for pace. We need to have that to change it around every now and then, and having someone playing on the shoulder feeding off Lambo could be a stunning partnership. Holmes will probably leave once we get in our new wide player, Jaidi is out injured and retiring at the end of the season. He'll stay here and become a coach IMO. Forecast - no comment, bored with him. I think Dicko is injured, but he won't get near this team anymore.

Fox has the better technique and agility, but apart from that there isn't a great deal between them. A good tussle between those 2.

Flatters to deceive is how I'd describe him.

Makes total sense, the 2 positions that we most needed to strengthen. SDR just hasn't done it for me, or NA by the sounds of it. Blow the bank and get Adomah and Maynard

Good read that, thanks.

Agree with every word of that. Exactly how I see the situation.

Just think, this time a year ago we'd been beaten at home by Brentford 2-0. We didn't look anything like a promotion team and quite a few had already written the season off. A year on, and we're top of the league above. Staggering progress in 2011.

A fantastic set of results for us today really. Frustrating we couldn't win to regain our 5pt lead.

Yes, you're right.

a young academy kid......or.................................................forecast.

I heard he was injured again, didn't know how long though. We need a striker full stop. Spend big bucks and bring in the leagues best striker...(ok, 2nd best as we've already got the best!!!). and then get another on loan. Feel sorry for Barnard, cause he's not been able to make an impact at this level for us.

Calf injury IIRC.

It's a great run, so pleased we managed to keep at least that intact!!

What a truly bizarre thread, containing the predictably bizarre posters.

I remember in our play off season, he refused to play in the 2nd leg and was a bundle or nerves - which is why Davis replaced him. That came from Malcolm Webster.

He will be a good keeper at a club where he's playing regular. That will not be here, and his time is now up for me. His opportunities have been few and far between, but when he's given a chance he makes horrendous errors. Remember the goal he concerned earlier in this season in the carling cup...? Move him on and get an experienced backup. I wouldn't trust him at all after today.

Disappointing to lose the winning record, but it was going to come eventually. I thought we should have been a couple up in the first half, we created some brilliant chances and when Rickie was through I thought 2 for sure....good save though to be fair. After the break we didn't look the same team, and that mistake by bart was just horrendous. I'm frustrated for him, he waits so long for his chances yet he's always dodgy. He's an incredibly nervous keeper and I think his time is up with us. He'll be a cracking keeper at a club where he's playing regular, but he's used too few and far between here to gain any sort of confidence. He looked like he was made of jelly all match, and you felt that if they hit a shot like that he'd do something like that. We didn't work their keeper enough in the 2nd half, alot of possession but very little punch or energy in the final third - that's where we miss Chappers drive. The 3 midfielders we had in there are all pretty much the same type of player, safe, sideways, backwards....no real penetration from the middle, and that's where we struggled. SDR just flatters to deceive for me, never really does anything other than turn around in circles and make the wrong decisions. We never gave up though, and that's what a run we've been on gives you....great cross to Lambo and he's scored so many from that position this season - you knew it was in as soon as the ball came to his head. Our performances have been dipping slowly, as to be expected, but with our performances away from home being as they are it was eventually going to hang over on our home form. Next week is the perfect opportunity to put that right...

wow, davis is injured....never thought i'd see the day! He's been an ever present for years now, so that's a shock. Hope Bart is up to it.

What a pointless thread.

Didn't realise that re: Shelvey. That's a huge boost.

It sounded like that in the 2nd half, seemed like the constant changes made us totally lose our way.

urrrrgh, no one is complaining about that! It's amazing. But the only reason we're top is because of our home form, if we step off it at home for a few games we'll fall down the league because our away form is relegation form. That's all it's about. Not hard to understand.

christ, what a non-draw that is!

Cardiff have just taken the lead against Brum......

they're being torn apart, this could be double figures.