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Some good points well made but we football fans tend to always expect the worst case scenarios 🙂

Still he won't be needing to save supermarket coupons on £78k a week 🙂 and must have a fair chunk of money invested and making a healthy return.

I agree but my slight issue is how we work him into the team on a regular basis. It's a chicken and egg situation in that he needs games but is not really showing anything to suggest he'll make the team better in any position. I assume he was signed to start plenty of games or to come on from the bench and make a difference.

Yeah, I have him on speed dial 🙂

Agree but it's the only available market until January. Guess we're stuck with what we've got but I agree with others that we should have brought in a striker in Larin's mould as cover. Maybe Mubama, if we adapt our style, can provide that cover but it seems too much of a gamble with what is at stake. Maybe Princewill Whateverhisnameis is considered good enough to make the step up. Unfortunately there are no cup games to try him out so he needs to be chucked in the deep end from the bench for 30 minutes in a game where we have victory already secured to see if he sinks or swims.

How about free agent Marcus Forss. A 27 year old Finnish international centre forward with plenty of experience of playing in England. His career has been a bit stop start due to injuries which is probably why he finds himself without a club. Might be worth a gamble as support for Larin.

Mubama needs to be judged on minutes on the pitch. In the league he has played around 80 minutes and scored one goal which is a decent return. He's being given the last 20 minutes in games and it must be quite hard to make an immediate impact which he more or less has to do. We don't really know how he'll perform when starting league games and also it's tricky to get used to his team mates and vice versa in short bursts. Far too early to judge him for me.

It's a game we should expect to win. Work as hard as them from the start and our superior skills should be enough for a victory.

Agree. We need to get him latching on to cute passes from Azaz like he did against Stoke. He's not a target man but if we hit it into the channels or down the wings accurately he'll probably have more chance of holding the ball up in those situations than a big lump to him from the back.

But, unfortunately, not with his hands.

I don't think money was saved. It was more likely used to ease the debts. I doubt we're sitting on a pot of money from the summer sales. January signings will probably be loans.

Purely on last night's showing 'pot, kettle, black' springs to mind. Don't think those three can be pointing fingers because they all gave the ball away regularly.

Nah, we'd be on -1 with the 4 points deduction.

Ah, didn't realise that.

Joe Hugill from Kilmarnock would be worth a punt. Young 6'2 centre forward who would cost peanuts.