A bit of a stinging indictment of the last regime no forward planning Venus as director of football letting many players run down contracts while the manager at the time advised staff to leave instead of ensuring that they stayed to help the club.

He has had a bit of a tough time of things over the last few years.

I'd take surridge as our final signing of the window

Mola can play cm plus after how morton and Wharton played last night we have 5 for two spots plus garrett possibly edun.

If we can't get replacements in then I'm afraid we just have to reject any offers. Two forwards minimum before we sign off on any sale

Gonna cost them then

Hirst

Well it has to stick with him better than it has with the void we have had up top the last few games surely

I happen to think that a powerful target man in the middle is exactly what we need hopefully he will be able to hold the ball up and bring players into the game at the right end of the pitch. Davies at forest last year and villa before that has 8 goals in around 100 games but most would have been over the moon to get him a target man can be good and useful with out being prolific

We are not spending 5m on him jesus If we spend 5m on him it's because he's deemed worth it there fore he will have a track record at this level

We are not we are loaning him if he's not worth 5m we won't pay it

The option price is 5m we know it and si di they so they must not see it as prohibitive or they would not have bothered inserting it in the deal

Not seen Hirst play but if he's a target man who can help pin there center backs in and compete for crosses then it will be an improvement on what I saw yesterday.

That's very true but he got both calls wrong inside 30 seconds which kinda summed up his whole day there was one on Dolan after he just came on got behind them and was taken out both ref and linesman did nothing

Tbf was a nailed on pen for us followed up by a def red for them the ref gets both wrong

Need a striker big time

It's harder to get the foreign signings in now they have to meet the wp threshold and the still have to apply for a permit with our vacuum at the top lasting so long domestic was probably seen as the way to go this window at least.

I'd imagine the sense lies in the fact the players brought in will be on less a week than it would have cost us to extend the contracts of those who have left which gets us closer to the 90% mark that we have to meet while agents fees and transfer fees can be covered in the losses made by the owners we still have to be trying too hit that 90% mark.

It would help if he had someone to play off he's thrown in as a false 9 as bigger better players are allowed to hide out wide up top

We need a striker for all the talk of cbs we currently don't play with anyone in the middle up top.

Can we not try shifting gally and diaz centrally and putting morton it to cm to help out in there and Try to control games

They wanted it more we probably had more possession but we're slow knocking it around at the back anytime we went forward we gave it away. We should probably have had a pen at 1-0 but tbh we did not deserve anything from that it was utterly woeful

Pressed to death easy doors never recovered

Pathetic tonight

I would have been more than happy for nyambe to stay but he's been adequately replaced I hope he gets a run an does well but he's gone and been replaced.