Watching Norwich v Ipswich and it's obvious that our current team is easily good enough to finish around the middle of the Championship. Both of them are rubbish at the back and none of them have a player on the pitch with the standard of Lallana or Fonte.
So, why aren't we walking the league... IMO it's purely down to missed chances this season. Had we not missed sitters we would have beaten Orien, Rochdale and Brighton at home, for starters. 7 more points, we would be up there and looking like walking it.
Right now the only thing threatening our promotion is our failure to convert gilt-edged chances.
Cracking atmosphere on BBC 1 now, for those who may not have realised. Surman playing for Norwich.
We need to get back in the Champ. Trips to Forest, Norwich, Ipswich, Derby, Leeds etc... or ****ing Walsall, Hartlepool, Carlisle, Bournemouth etc...
We won't miss Holmes and we won't miss Richardson so long as Butterfied is fit. We have good strength in depth at CB so doing without Fonte for one game shouldn't be a disaster either. The Lambert injury could work to our favour in the long run if it forces us to find a successful alternative option.
How did Gobern do?
I note Connolly is not in the squad. I think it's a fair opinion that he is arguably, when fit, our best striker but it looks as though he might be paying a visit to the treatment room instead today.