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As you wish, our strikeforce (without Ameobi) is a perfect example. Carroll, Ranger, Lovenkrands, Harewood = championship. Solid, normal, run of the mill championship. Nowt else. Compared with (our closest rivals): Bednar, Moore, Beattie, Wood - WBA Chopra, Bothroyd, Etuhu, Feeney - Cardiff Alves, Emnes, Lita, (is Aliadiere still there?) - Boro I won't deny that our bunch are Championship players but there's only Chopra out of that lot i'd rather have. I said a squad that should be better than the rest in the league, not a Premiership squad. Lita is better than all of our fit forwards tbh.

As you wish, our strikeforce (without Ameobi) is a perfect example. Carroll, Ranger, Lovenkrands, Harewood = championship. Solid, normal, run of the mill championship. Nowt else. To be brutally honest, more than one from that list have looked out of their depth even in this league

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And yet a lot of the people who are complaining about him wanted Shearer appointed...

Early days? It was like that at times last year as well. Colo was the weakest link for the majority of last season tbh. not biting

Harewood's managed a goal with only 2 starts.

It finally seemed to sink it at the start of last season tbf.

It's f***ing brilliant, reminds me of Taylor's early days when it was always somebody else's fault we were s*** at the back.

that, and the fact he's better looking than Kazenga

Lua Lua Guthrie Jonas Nolan Vuckic Ranger looks a little better to be honest, but i'd play R Taylor on the wing before Lua Lua any day of the week.

whereas Carroll's been fucking brilliant all season.

Kevin Nolan in a holding role? Very clever. that's not what he's done at all

The fact that i've pointed out that he's better than that useless pile of shite Carroll doesn't mean i particularly rate him. He's a good championship player who like all of our strikers is not nearly good enough for the premiership.

Khiz is a CB, as shite as he is in that position.

I agree, I just don't understand these idiots that don't want Harewood in the squad when the possible replacements are a lot worse

and leave us with Andy Carroll and Nile Ranger?

How on earth are Doncaster 6/1 for this?

I dont want him in the team either, but with Simpson needed at CB i'd consider letting Geremi sit at RB, allowing R Taylor to play RW

He's comfortable at RB though.

I'm sure you were saying play him rb yesterday. Coloccini is back for this one though. And Geremi will be knackered.

We basically need Hughton to realise a few things that many of us did 3 weeks back. Someone send him an email to help him out a bit.

I'f you'd have told me in June that come Scunthorpe in October the defence would consist of Zurab Kihzanishvilli and Danny Simpson with a central midfield of Smith and Geremi.....

Did you even read my original post? Carroll and Ranger may not be the most prolific scorers of all time, but when they play together and Nolan plays behind them we perform better. Who cares if Carroll or Ranger score, if by playing together they create the space and opportunity to lay it to Nolan? This is exactly the point I was trying to make at the start: making Carroll a scapegoat. And when he's benched next week, and Harewood and Lovenkrands look s*** by playing in an all-new, ill-practiced formation, we'll all be after Harewood and Lovenkrands as being s***. And then Ranger and Nolan the next week. And then we'll all want Carroll back, cause we've blamed everyone else since. These players are not all s***. They need a system to play to their strengths, and it's Hughton's job to recognise that. With the excpetion of the Ipswich game we've looked horrific with Carroll and Ranger up font. And even in the game most agreed that Carroll was poor. Wasn't it earlier someone said Nolan had scored 5 of his 7 goals this season behind Carroll and Ranger. They facilitate the team form that seems to work best. I would take issue with us looking "horrific" with Carroll and Ranger up front, and tbh, Carroll's looked better to me all season than his alternatives. So I don't see who'd replace him, which I wouldn't do anyway given that I think we need to stick to those tactics. I said that Nolan had scored 5 out of 6 with 2 or more strikers on the pitch. I don't see how that relates to Andy Carroll (a striker) getting away with scoring no goals.

I couldn't care less.

I'd question why Vukic isn't getting a look in, given that he seems to have something that nobody else in the squad does.