We're close to the striker!!!

Ascend have you not got the idea of this board yet,people only want to hear what they want to believe,shatter their bubble and it puts them in a spin

I'm mixed on Hooper, I think his record looks better then his previous clubs have suggested. He's also done it in the league above.

That said, it would be naive to totally ignore the comments as they are pretty scathing. Would be nice to see us get another on board.

We have a tradition of strikers hitting form while playing for us in the last few seasons.

Cardwell, Asante and A New Striker can all have a share of that this year and the fans will be happy.

Good to see an early set piece goal from a central defender - have been missing these in the last 2 seasons with decidedly poor deliveries !!

We have a tradition of strikers hitting form while playing for us in the last few seasons.

Cardwell, Asante and A New Striker can all have a share of that this year and the fans will be happy.

Good to see an early set piece goal from a central defender - have been missing these in the last 2 seasons with decidedly poor deliveries !!

I really wish we would try to re-sign Amond. I think he is exactly the type we lack - a poacher, smaller and nippier than our other strikers, proven in L2, and surely the perfect foil for Vernon, and, likely to thrive on playing with Jones and on the service of  Dembele and Kelly. I think he'd score 20 goals this season in our team. I bet he'd jump at the chance to come back to L2 and to us having been cut loose by Hurst.

Going back for someone is not normally something I'm in favour of. Don't suppose we will.

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I really wish we would try to re-sign Amond. I think he is exactly the type we lack - a poacher, smaller and nippier than our other strikers, proven in L2, and surely the perfect foil for Vernon, and, likely to thrive on playing with Jones and on the service of  Dembele and Kelly. I think he'd score 20 goals this season in our team. I bet he'd jump at the chance to come back to L2 and to us having been cut loose by Hurst.

Going back for someone is not normally something I'm in favour of. Don't suppose we will.

I get what your saying Chaos and in the summer I would have favoured signing him to, but after seeing the way Slade is trying to set us up, I'm not sure he'd fit in. I think it's clear that he favours a sort of 4411 with Jones behind a main striker but I don't see Amond being able to play that solo striking role, I think you need someone with some physicality about them and that isn't his game.

If you bring Podge in, it means paying a decent fee and therefore he'd have to be the main man up front, and that might be at the cost of a Jones or a Dembele to play him with another out and out striker and I'm not sure that's a positive move.

Slade looking for a lennell john lewis type of player. Tall, physical and athletic with pace and a target man.
These type of players may not get you more than 15 goals a season but when we have a 3 pronged attack (kelly, dembele, jones) linking up with and advancing behind can make for a formidable attacking force, especially on the counter attack.

Hopper or Miller (if it is him on trial also) seems to to fit perfectly in this mould, though Vernon is doing ok here at the moment.

Amond scored well, but mainly against the poorer teams - I believe he could struggle back at this level as well as not being a fan favourite for moving on !

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Amond scored well, but mainly against the poorer teams - I believe he could struggle back at this level as well as not being a fan favourite for moving on !

I agree with the first part of that.  But not the second.
Purely because I don't really know what went on behind the scenes when he left. . But he certainly showed respect to our fans when he came here with the Hangers.

Agree with the above thoughts, Amond can finish, but needs setting up.  Our default set up seems to rely on a lone front man fighting for the ball and holding it up long enough for support to arrive.
Vernon is doing his best, and doing well enough  in my opinion that we don't need a panic signing with Asante nearing match fitness too.

If a younger, stronger, faster version of him is available for a reasonable outlay then fine, but that's not easy to find.

If Slade can pick up someone with the talent at a sensible cost who he thinks he can keep on the straight and narrow then give it a go perhaps?