If carlsberg did transfer threads.....This would be it!

[bobo the clown]

^^ only Bannan counts from that list, really.

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

^^ only Bannan counts from that list, really.

Why? Did someone else sign the other three?

[Hoboh]

I think the BN are trying to sensationalise nothing here. "I don't now why we've got no money to spend, It’s just a lack of revenue"

Ermm so you do know why?

Everyone knows why. It is very simple, for years we spent more than we earned, subsidised by Eddie. Eddie doesn't want to invest anymore and hence we need to reduce our outgoings to a level commensurate with our incomings. If anyone doesn't know that they must be living on the moon or be a bit thick.

Nobody knows why Eddie isn't investing anymore, but does that matter? No.

Is it possible that going into the start of the season Lennon wasn't aware of how much restrictions there would be on his spending, negotiating contracts etc? I can't help thinking Madine, Heskey and Dobbie were bought more as stop gaps, squad members pending us landing someone like Le Fondre. Now a couple of months in and he's pretty much being told there's nowt left.

If so, I can see him walking before Xmas

He's not hard done by. He's wasted the money he's had on players he won't even play. He said at the start of the season that he knew the financial situation when coming here but that he thought wed surprise people and he targeted the play offs. Since then he's singed several further players.

He's changed his tune only because the results are dire and his signings look poor.

^^^ Exactly!

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Defence should NOT be out issue.

Defence is an issue, but not the main one.

Five teams have conceded more than us - Fulham, QPR, Charlton, Bristol City and Rotherham - and we've kept more clean sheets (four) than eight other teams.

But those four clean sheets have only yielded four points, because we can't hit a barn door with a cow's arse.

Having scored 10 goals in 15 games, it takes us an average of three halves of football per goal.

Our goal return is the lowest in the entire Football League, and we've fired nine blanks - two more than any other team in the division.

Lennon had to get strikers in, with Eidur going and ALF out of our price range. I wonder now whether he regrets not offering (or not being able to offer) Craig Davies an extension, because Madine, Dobbie, Heskey and Ameobi have not (yet?) been successes.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Ameobi isn't a failure yet, either.

[twilight]

I blame Twilight for harassing our Swede so much he went home !![/quote]

I did mention as soon as Mjallby said he was leaving we would have problems at the back and I stand by my quote!! Lennon doesn't seem to know what to do any more, the man gone crazy!

[Hoboh]

Ameobi isn't a failure yet, either.

+1

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

Ameobi isn't a failure yet, either.

True, and you could argue that because Dobbie's only had an hour more than Shola, maybe he's not yet a failure either.

But neither is yet a success.

[bobo the clown]

^^ only Bannan counts from that list, really.

Why? Did someone else sign the other three?

Bannan did at least make an imprint ... if only on a hotel door.

The others weren't even filler were they !

[Dave Sutton's barnet]

^^ only Bannan counts from that list, really.

Why? Did someone else sign the other three?

Bannan did at least make an imprint ... if only on a hotel door.

The others weren't even filler were they !

Indeed not. Coke 3 starts + 1 sub, Twardzik 1 start + 2 subs, Slavchev 0 starts + 1 sub.

[Hoboh]

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Shame we cannot have this guy!

[jmjhb]

Hope we weren't after Brandon Barker, as he just went to Rotherham

[Bijou Bob]

According to Marc Iles on twatter, he has been told the names in confidence. One has been a week in the chasing, but neither will feature tomorrow even if they go through.

[TKIZ!]

He's also indicated that at least one of them is a winger in a reply to another twit

[LeverEnd]

Chungy?

[TonyDomingos]

Chungy?

"Bungy" if Gartside's involved.

Allegedly.

[TANGODANCER]

Chungy?

Hope springs eternal...

[bobo the clown]

Chungy?

"Bungy" if Gartside's involved.

Allegedly.

You can't leave it like that.

More vague 'facts' .... now.

[danardif1]

Defence should NOT be out issue.

Defence is an issue, but not the main one.

Five teams have conceded more than us - Fulham, QPR, Charlton, Bristol City and Rotherham - and we've kept more clean sheets (four) than eight other teams.

But those four clean sheets have only yielded four points, because we can't hit a barn door with a cow's arse.

Having scored 10 goals in 15 games, it takes us an average of three halves of football per goal.

Our goal return is the lowest in the entire Football League, and we've fired nine blanks - two more than any other team in the division.

Lennon had to get strikers in, with Eidur going and ALF out of our price range. I wonder now whether he regrets not offering (or not being able to offer) Craig Davies an extension, because Madine, Dobbie, Heskey and Ameobi have not (yet?) been successes.

From what I remember we seem to hit double figures for shots attempted in most games... and the shots on target figure does fluctuate more but we've had games this season where the ratio of shots to ones on target has been quite high and we STILL can't score. We're getting the shots away but they're either in positions where they're not effective or we just plain miss.

Had a bit of a look...

In 15 league games, we've attempted 181 shots on goal (BBC match report stats), with only 55 (30.4%) of those being on target and only 10 (5.5%) of those being goals. We average 12 shots a game but only 3.66 are on target. That is downright awful, and whether blame can be put on the defence for letting goals in or not we can be sure that the bigger problems are up top, and it's not for a lack of opportunity.

As a comparison I'll do the same for the league leaders Hull and see what we find...

In Hull's 15 league games so far they've attempted more shots than us (215 to our 181), but their percentage of those that are on target is only slightly higher at 34%. However, 10.7% of their total shots are goals compared to our meagre 5.5%. They average 14 shots a game and 4.8 on target, but crucially score 1.5 goals a game as well.

From this we could take the conclusion that whilst we are attempting and getting on target a not dissimilar amount of shots to the league leaders, we lag far behind on converting them. It would take deeper analysis than just these figures to find out why, but to me it looks like we shoot from bad positions and/or we just simply don't take good enough ones when in better positions. The number of headers that Madine has sent wide is testament to this, as well as a number of shots from midfield that have been sent high into the stands...

[TANGODANCER]

We've apparently signed Wolves winger Rajid Van la Para and Liverpool's Portugese starlet Joao Teixierra and they may figure today?