Quote Originally Posted by robinrover View Post
In a word no
Leutweller looks ok but is he better than Raya based on the 2 matches so far no.
Wharton got sent off in 30 minutes shame i had high hopes for him he might need to wait months now for a chance.
Hart looked ok but any better than Williams?again its a no
Gladwin looks a bit of a mistake so far looked excellent against Coventry back in the league cup has failed to show any promise since.
Harper looking alot better than he did against S****horpe more to do with the fact he is in position now worth a place on the bench.
Nuttall only player to seriously be asking questions of the first team I would play him in the next league game but at whose expense?
Nuttall will come in now. Although he is not a direct replacement for Chapman, he will come on for him. Sadly (and I am shocked this hasnt been a topic?????) he is out for 3 months. Antonson will move out to his favoured left hand side, where he is effective. As a central striker he isn't. Personally i'd play Nuttall up front with Samuel. And see if they can form a partnership. Its clear Nuttall is the ONLY instinctive goal scoring striker we have. Also Harper needs games. If he doesnt play, we wont ever find out how good (or not) he is. My fear at times with Mowbray is his 'air on the side of caution' attitude. Now we lose Chapman for 3 months, I look back at all those games he only played the last 30 mins, and think he was woefully under-used. Now he is out, we no longer have that extra class. So we need to replace that with goals. Nuttall.
The person who is coming more and more into the fore is Dack. He is our main man. I think he will end up getting around the 20 goals mark, but crucially with him, he assists aswell.
The one main positive from the week is, we are now out of that waste of time Cup. We are sat in the play offs, we have never really got going at any point this season. Yet we will be 2 games behind everyone after weekend. We really dont want any distractions from now on. Now we need to start to try put together a run. Which without Chapman, is a huge task.