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Monday 2 January 2017
Down to Earth
Well after a good win over our local rivals, a harsh reality check has been delivered to our Rams!
We have over the last few games discovered that we are still far from promotion material without adding some much needed firepower up front.
Scraping a 1-0 victory over Birmingham City via a Darren Bent penalty followed by a dull goalless draw against Wigan brought back the question, "Where are the goals?"
We are still struggling to find the net despite some heavy investment in the squad. Matej Vydra looks lost as a lone striker and Darren Bent isn't the force of a few years ago!
Up to yesterday, our defence had looked almost unbreachable, but we were forved to wake up and smell the coffee after a dreadful performance at Norwich where we suffered a 3-0 spanking and it could have been more!
There has been activity on the transfer front though the two names linked with us are at this stage looking unlikely to be joining us.
Chris Martin has stated a desire to return from his loan spell from Fulham, but his team manager is understandably reluctant to oblige. His refusal to play for Fulham will hardly make matters any better either.
Henri Lansbury is a target and a very good one too! He would certainly add bite to our attack, however Forest are unlikely to allow their captain and arguably their best player to join us at any price.
Steve McClaren needs to be thinking not just of upgrading our pool of players to mount a challenge for a top six lace this season, but he needs to develop a strategy to add some versatility to the squad.
We saw how the players struggled to adapt to a 4-4-2 formation under Nigel Pearson and it was obvious that Mac would return the team to his favoured 4-3-3, but when teams successfully set up to nullify that attacking formation, a plan b really is a must. How many times over the past few seasons have we struggled when teams have "Parked the bus?"
Also in this transfer window, we need to be looking at some players that evidently are not going to feature in the team. There's a hand ful of players who, in my own opinion, do not have a future at the club. There's players who are simply not good enough!
You could argue that our current starting line up isn't as strong as the one that got to Wembley under McClaren last time.
I am not meaning to sound too negative as we have gone on a long unbeaten run, but there are obvious holes within the team and to make progress they need filling asap.
I was against reappointing Steve McClaren and he has made some good strides in proving the doubters wrong, but there is still a lot to do to win us over totally. In my own opinion promotion is a must to achieve that. Nothing less!
We have over the last few games discovered that we are still far from promotion material without adding some much needed firepower up front.
Scraping a 1-0 victory over Birmingham City via a Darren Bent penalty followed by a dull goalless draw against Wigan brought back the question, "Where are the goals?"
We are still struggling to find the net despite some heavy investment in the squad. Matej Vydra looks lost as a lone striker and Darren Bent isn't the force of a few years ago!
Up to yesterday, our defence had looked almost unbreachable, but we were forved to wake up and smell the coffee after a dreadful performance at Norwich where we suffered a 3-0 spanking and it could have been more!
There has been activity on the transfer front though the two names linked with us are at this stage looking unlikely to be joining us.
Chris Martin has stated a desire to return from his loan spell from Fulham, but his team manager is understandably reluctant to oblige. His refusal to play for Fulham will hardly make matters any better either.
Henri Lansbury is a target and a very good one too! He would certainly add bite to our attack, however Forest are unlikely to allow their captain and arguably their best player to join us at any price.
Steve McClaren needs to be thinking not just of upgrading our pool of players to mount a challenge for a top six lace this season, but he needs to develop a strategy to add some versatility to the squad.
We saw how the players struggled to adapt to a 4-4-2 formation under Nigel Pearson and it was obvious that Mac would return the team to his favoured 4-3-3, but when teams successfully set up to nullify that attacking formation, a plan b really is a must. How many times over the past few seasons have we struggled when teams have "Parked the bus?"
Also in this transfer window, we need to be looking at some players that evidently are not going to feature in the team. There's a hand ful of players who, in my own opinion, do not have a future at the club. There's players who are simply not good enough!
You could argue that our current starting line up isn't as strong as the one that got to Wembley under McClaren last time.
I am not meaning to sound too negative as we have gone on a long unbeaten run, but there are obvious holes within the team and to make progress they need filling asap.
I was against reappointing Steve McClaren and he has made some good strides in proving the doubters wrong, but there is still a lot to do to win us over totally. In my own opinion promotion is a must to achieve that. Nothing less!
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