Ronaldo

Carroll's only real strength is that he can be effective in a long ball system imo. Play the ball on the deck and he's fairly obsolete.

With a proper RW in front of him he'll be fine.

Is that your 'educated' opinion? Not really, it's the opinion of those who've seen us piss away point after point against teams with sunday league defences. Take away the injured Shola, and our remaining 3 strikers have 9 league goals between them.

It should have been pretty obvious that I meant a new striker.

Kadar was terrible at RB on wednesday, looked Ok at LB though.

Two of those aren't up to it at this level yet in terms of goals, one is injured far too often and the other is fairly inconsistent. We need another and until we get one, this window hasn't been the complete success lots would like to depict it as. Btw, had Derry not scored that ridiculous OG on Wednesday, we probably wouldn't have won that game and the mood on here would be significantly different.

As insightful as ever.

Kadar ahead of Taylor?

A great window? We're on the 29th of January approaching a big game away to a promotional rival and we're still without a striker.

Bacon sandwiches for David Craig again.

And you're playing the worst LW i've ever seen at the club (and our best fit striker) on the LW.

I don't really think either are goal threats, but Carroll must have started 4 times more games than Ranger. I think it's pretty obvious which one has the potential to be a number 9 for us, he should be getting the nod out of the two of them.

a central midfielder? That isn't really a priority till we go up. 2 out of Barton, Guthrie, Nolan and Smith should see us right till the end of this season. As long as it isn't the latter two starting together.

With Jose & Taylor getting knackerd meant CH took his eye off getting in a striker. Did Boyd ever join Villa? That's hardly an excuse, those two have only been ruled out in the last week or so.

How many goals have got this season because of aerial flick ons from Carroll? We lost the ball about 30 times against Palace by playing the long ball to the lad and him heading it to absolutely nowhere.

We still don't have the player we've needed since Jan 1st.

I'm quite confused as to why people would pick Carroll ahead of Ranger. Not that i don't cringe at the ridiculous hype for Ranger but he's comfortably a better footballer than Carroll.

Will Ashley be beaten by DW?

Wait for it.

Horrendusly bad footballer. Comfortably better than anyone we have in midfield.

Fulham have a neutral seating area, of course they're a nothing club.

Ronnie and Reggie Kray.

Kilgallon's a premiership failure though, so we shouldn't have paid £2m for him.

With him and one size coming in, doesn't sound like we have much faith in Kadar.

You'd probably prefer that to a win, but it wont happen.