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BBC reporting 'four or five serious bids' for Sheffield Weds. We'd sink like a led zeppelin without V***** though. 🙃

Up against it with this one,every game a cup final now in our position. Would take the draw but need the three.. 1-1.

100% agree sir, a great summary and you've nailed all the main points for me. I'd add that I'm still not sure about this overloading on the right wing tactic. Not having a great striker would be helped if we had more bodies in the middle.

I know Scotchrover and share your pain.

I didnt say it was only reason crowd was down did I? But its only like yourself blaming crowd being down to 12.30 kick off cos kids are playing football on Saturday morning. Oh wait but its ok cos it yourself mentioning it.

He is playing well at Doncaster and I did mention when Hyam was off about recalling O'Riordan. We can either recall him or sign another centre back in January. Happy with either option. Back to this crap about Ismael. I have given my opinion more than once yet you constantly continue this crap game after game, week after week. If you dont like my answer that's your problem RF99. Maybe Stop asking the same question when I specifically told you more than once I will posted my opinion on Ismael post Derby game and whether we should stick or twist during that international break

The crowds have been terrible because its half term is a new one.

Main reason being we’ve sold fewer STs to start with, thousands of the Holders we have left aren’t bothering and we are selling fewer walk-ons due to poor results and expensive pricing… ergo it leads to the depressing sight that was the Blackburn End on Saturday (a lower tier of which, by the way, that had been pretty full for a good number of years pre this season).

No sorry. Just sent a pm to had.e.nuff as he’s a relative of Harry Healless

I should be in there, but I refuse to set foot inside Ewood until they’re gone. I won’t be the only one like that either. #NAPMuntilVenkysGo

Some will be down to results, some down to people going on Holiday given its half term for alot of Parents with children. Some other reasons.

He was back in training last week. Personally I wouldn't start him given we have 3 games in 7 days

A few positives on reflection... 1) Toth is very very good. 2) Really liked the look of Montgomery. A bit confused why we havent used him more tbh. Has the energy the team needs and a bit of quality. We are flogging Tronstad and TGH senseless, so very welcome to have someone who looks like they can play a part (unlike Tavares or Baradji) 3) Henrickson is physically imposing, and I can see him giving us legs and restoring the press in the final third of games. This is a big issue due to how we fatigued. He and Montgomery made a big difference to our energy levels. 4) I know they have had their cards marked by many, but De Neve and then Hedges coming on both look like they will generate a lot of opportunities down the left. Alebiouso we know will do that down the right. Also De Neve and Alebiouso have real recovery pace, which massively helps our 3 quite slow cbs. Both can catch wingers 5 yards behind them. That said a few major areas of concern 1) Strikers are really blunt. Ive no issue with Ohashi whose work rate is stunning and makes some great runs. But his partner needs to offer more whoever it is. Glad Andri got a goal and hope he kicks on. But as it stands I dont think we have a striker on our books who any defender would really worry about. 2) Because our threat and finishing up top is so poor we commit more and more players forward to get a goal and leave ourselves very exposed. We were lucky Armstrong couldn't finish as we would have been dead and buried at 2-0 imo. 3) Defensively we look like we have loads of individual errors in us. Eustace ironed that out of us, but its come back massively. I guess losing Baath and Hyam has had a big impact. Individually I like Miller, Wharton, McCloughlin - all physical, committed, can come out of defence into midfield reasonably well. But as a unit its hard to imagine them not making three or four mistakes a game between them. And to compound that they lack the pace to recover from mistakes. Ultimately if we had one genuinely good striker at this level we would be in a much better position imo as we wouldnt commit so much forward. But we dont...

Recall for O'Riordan would be Suhail's solution I'm sure

He was meant to be back in training now, so he should be (barring a relapse)

Matchday 12 Summarised Read the full article on the front page and let us know your thoughts.

The kind that doesnt need all 6 of their fingers.

You know the full list? Be grateful of a pm also

Im specifically telling you that I am not writing him off. He wasnt close to the first team before he went out, hes getting experience as a younger player at a lower league club, might be good for the future, not the answer to essentially replace Hyam now. Even you were fuming when Hyam was sold without replacement, now you are advocating O'Riordan as his replacement. Talk about standards. You clearly have a far greater opinion of the squad Gestede has built compared to everyone else. Yet, dont seem to think that Ismael needs to go for underachieving.

You know what the reasons are, there must have been around 2 thousand season ticket holders swerving the last 2 games and its never been that sparse before. The last 2 league games have looked like league cup games inside the ground.

sounds like it to me well given we loss Brittain, Hyam and Batth did you expect it to be the same as last season, cos O'Riordan has been good for Doncaster so why not recall him and use our own player I think we short by one and having 5 centre backs is right amount of players. I think signing a right wing back would be area I would be looking at as more important than signing another centre back signing what imbalanced? YES!

Signed by Bristol rovers and started their 1st game after straight away. They then lost their 3rd game 4-0 or so in a row and his lb got sent off. Some return!

No, I am clearly not writing him off. Our defence is massively worse than it was last season, obviously with the losses in the summer especially flogging Hyam without replacing him. Merely recalling someone who was nowhere near the first team from a loan in League 1 will not rectify those defensive issues. I think we are 2 short, especially if we play a back 5. We need proper Championship quality defenders. We are struggling to keep clean sheets with our current sub par, IMO imbalanced back line. Do you think the current squad is of a quality that should be higher than 21st?

Sent you a pm

Quite the reverse in fact.