What we need to do in the short term, to fix the first team

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Short term is to get a goal or two (more than the opposition). The strikers need to get firing.....

 

Ings - 3 goals in 9 games this season

Austin - last scored a league goal in April, and before that it was December 2017.

Long - doing better than Austin, as he has managed 2 league goals this calendar year. But last season at 789 minutes per goal....!!!

Gabbi - doing the same as Long with 2 goals this calendar year. But last season he scored once every 214 minutes

Gallagher - does he exist?

 

 

U23

Afolabi

Barnes

N'Lundulu

Obafemi

 

Barnes and Obafemi seem to know where the back of the net is. So far for the U23 in all comps, Barnes has 6, Obafemi has 5 and Gallagher has 1. Not sure about appearances. If we point blank refuse to look towards U23 and instead persist with 3 strikers who can't buy a goal, then that is madness, as well as asking what the point of the academy is. I don't expect them to start straight off, but surely one of them should be in the match day squad. Obafemi came on last season vs Spurs, probably should have scored, and ran around a bit too keenly. He's got a taste of it. He knows what it is about. Give him and/or Barnes the chance.

 

Genuinely surprised he's scored more than once! Wasnt he on a record 45 games without scoring or something?!

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What we need is passing creativity in the midfield, someone who can place a cross, pass or set piece into the right area.

 

Then what we need is a striker who can get on the end of it.

 

Unfortunately Hughes doesn't rate or recognise Gabbi and JWP, and despite them coming on an instantly making us more threatening vs Newcastle, it will be another month before we see them on the pitch together again