Quote Originally Posted by Young_Nudger View Post
I heard we more than matched Birmingham no matter how many ???millions they spent.
But we again could not score.
Did we miss Cole and/or McAtee (just asking for a friend).

Of course the team is a mirror of the HC.
That?s always the case.
And that?s why it?s plain to see he?s not good enough.

If Hourihane starts then that?s a signal that we are well and truly f*****.
What?s this obsession with Hourihane ???
He?s done playing FGS.

Where do we find the extra momentum ???
Well I?m glad you asked.

Firstly we replace DC.
I like the fella - but he?s not good enough.
In saying that - he might be good enough if he had a fully rounded squad.
Which he hasn?t.

In the transfer window we replace Cole and McAtee with players that have similar attributes ie proper strikers.
Because currently we haven?t anyone at the club to fill the striker role.
Loans will do for now.

The foundations for an excellent 1st Division team are clearly there.
We are just missing one ***** part of the jigsaw.
It?s incredibly frustrating at the moment.
The saying - spoiled the barrel for a penny worth of tar - very much applies at the moment.
It's not an obsession with Hourihane on my part I'm simply pointing out how the ownership think .

At the end of last season with ST's to sell and a general feeling of apathy they brought back Roberts and Hourihane to play with fans emotions of better days in the past so as to shift ST's and to be fair it probably worked with many who were thinking of not renewing their ST .

I haven't a clue whether Hourihane would be a success or not but what I do know is how the owners see things .

In fact nobody knows who will be a success or not no matter what background they have , you'd have thought Paul Hart would have been a success but clearly wasn't and you'd have questioned the wisdom of appointing Andy Ritchie who was a success with more or less the same squad .

I'll say it one more time , the standard to get out of this league was Daniel Stendel's team and we are way off , now you can dress the current squad up all you want to suit your opinion but there isn't one single player at this club who'd start in Daniel Stendel's team , not one .