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For those worried about our performance today could we have had a better, more considerate opponent than Crawley? We were gifted 4 clear goal scorinv opportunities in the first 20 minutes! Pyke was offered a 1 on 1 with the keeper, something you would normally consider a goal scorer to lick his lips and make the goal his prey for. Instead Pyke looked exactly like the out of position rabbit in the headlights he is and the chance was blown along with all of the others.
We should have gone in at least 3 up probably 4, yet instead we are vulnerable to the  comeback. We are so mentally weak or have dreadful in game management, or both, it's appaling.

How anyone can look at those first 20 minutes and  say Pyke should be anywhere near an EFL first team strike squad just baffles me. so out of place its untrue.

Also, Pyke had his best move in afirst team shirt today when  he was wide, went past someone and manged to get a difficult cross in.

He isn't a natural goal scorer9, more a wide player, as he played before

Quoted from Kris2

Most people seem happier when we are losing because they get to moan.  

Some fans you never see or hear from when things are going well and as soon as it isn't they are salivating at the thought of being able to whinge. Boring second half where it looked like we gave up after their first fluke goal started a comeback where they dominated the remainder of the first half. In the second they didn't look particularly like finishing the game off we just didn't really try either and they managed to get a last gasp winner from Orsi, who I was never particularly convinced by but looked much better than Pyke today. I'm confused how Pyke, who has played much of his career as a winger and wing-back was handed the #9 shirt and paraded as a striker. His skills are clearly not in finishing at all as he missed two easy looking chances and one half chance. Had he finished the easy ones you'd look at the half chance like "yeah, that happens" but he never looked like scoring even once.

It's amazing how injuries can throw all the plans at the wall and we seem to get at least a couple long term from pre season, Hurst still doesn't look like he knows what his best team is. There was much fanfare for Glennon signing but perhaps all of this could have been predicted if we wasn't stuck on him producing his form on loan in a terrible side that barely scraped staying up. His woeful performances at Barrow and the fact Burnley released him would be a sign of what is to come. The sad thing is I don't think Amos is that much better either so we are kind of stuck.

What was that you were saying about people moaning?

as disappointed and despondent as most. I’m also a little worried about our consistent inability to hold onto a lead! But let’s have faith in Paul eh lads, he deserves it after what he’s done for the club, IMHO.

I don’t agree with this ‘little old Crawley, we should be beating them etc’… they’re clearly well drilled and organised and have beaten some big teams this season. Now quite the relegation fodder many predicted they would be!

Hopefully with Wilson getting back fit he can have an impact going forward. I read that we signed him on the back of lots of strong data regarding him helping create the most chances in the team last season, utilising his pace, which we also badly need. Maybe Wilson is the key to opening our tactical attack. We badly miss Rose too!

The future doesn’t look good for Waterfall at Town Hall it’s Hurst preferring to shuffle the link rather than slot him in, in place of Maher.

Could be worse - just look down the 180!

It’s been a long time since I left BP as annoyed as I did yesterday. We were poor all over but the worst of the bunch were the back four and Pyke.

Why we saw Efete and Glennon back I have no idea. Waterfall has had two solid seasons and all of a sudden he’s not in the frame to replace one of our first choice pairing? Mullarkey-Rodgers-Waterfall-Amos should have been the defence.

As for Pyke, talk about wasted opportunity. He’s dropped a division and so far played a bench role until today. I think it’s a lazy criticism to say players don’t care etc but today Pyke looked like he wasn’t bothered one bit. I hope that is the last we see of him up front on his own. The minimum we expect as fans is someone to show a bit of effort and run about a bit.

3 points lost and completely avoidable.

Quoted from AncientExiledMariner

The debate of Orsi vs Pyke is fair, but we don't know what the wage demands are etc. I still feel come the end of the season, the Orsi decision will be justified. Obviously he scores against us, but that doesn't mean he'll be consistent for a season.
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I’d happily bet you any amount of money that Orsi will score more goals this season than Pyke. I wasn’t Orsi’s biggest fan but he gave Rodgers a difficult afternoon and scored a goal. Pyke looked like a 26 year old “striker” who is still yet to reach double digits of goals. I can forgive the odd miss (although that one on one when played in by their defender was about as easy as you get) but he doesn’t even get in to the goal scoring positions and shows no anticipation, desire or even knowledge of where to be in order to score. How the hell have we ended up with him with as our number 9?! All four of the strikers/forwards we had in the play off final are streets ahead of him and he sums up what a horrible job Hurst has done with recruiting strikers in the last three windows.

There's always the January transfer window to come.

Quoted from cannylad65

There's always the January transfer window to come.

Time to start the thread

I will go first I think we need a striker who scores goals.

Quoted from HerveJosse

Time to start the thread

I will go first I think we need a striker who scores goals.

Somebody to create something for him to score from wouldn't go amiss either.