Striker needed asap

I think the general feeling from yesterday's game would back up this view. What is interesting is the club have spent over £1 million since new year on transfers and these ' big ' loan signings don't come cheap

But you feel we still lack pace up front . Maybe Brown could be loaned out. The board have given Taylor a very good budget this season . Maybe they are hoping the quality of Thomas and Promise out wide will deliver a more direct approach to Martin & sotiriou?.

Agree Yatton but we broke two record signings this year in conteh and Promise. According to papers we paid around £800_900k for both. Surely you can get a pacey striker in lower leagues for this sort of money £200-400k ?

I think Promise will be the 15+ goal man as a genuine target No.9.

What's missing then is who provides 10+ alongside or behind him.

I still feel that a marque signing should have been a striker with a 15-20 goal per season record. This is what changes a team from being average to special and it doesnt matter how many promising players you have in midfield if you don't have enough players who score goals. I was hoping for a Devante Cole or a Will Evans, Sam Smith or similar to replace Collins. A reasonably experienced player signed permanently rather than a loaned player.
The problem with getting a loan player is that if they do well you cant either sign them or make money out of them and if they are awful then they are a wasted spot in the squad.
A winger is also another requirement. Two signings this week could define the season though I have to say the squad overall does look pretty good and the performances in the last two games at least give me hope.

Been our problem for many seasons now.
Promise is very raw, we need a proven striker.
Would not surprise me we will be saying the same in the January window.

Just a thought: given his age and that he can't play in the first game (or two?) maybe Martin is just on a different training schedule rather than having some sort of fitness problem.

I can’t see us buying another striker now. Taylor’s been given the budget and has spent on what he feels is best. I agree with others though, the striker position has been the issue for some time, cost tisdale his job, Garner, Barton amongst many other things off the field. Let’s hope Taylor isn’t another victim of it. I liked the look of shaw I must admit and hope we keep him and not loan him out.

At the start of last season we started off with one NO 9, Marquis who had scored 11 goals the previous season , this season we have according to Matt Taylor three players that can play in that position and between them at this level last season they got over 32 goals, so I think we do have the players to get the goals but they need time to gel, and unfortunately two Martin and Sotiriou have missed pre- season with injuries. I agree that a fourth striker maybe required perhaps on loan , but i think we also need to be patient and see how we fair when all three are fit.
We certainly have allot of quality forwards in our side and I am looking forward to watching them, when they are all fit, I Suspect the 9 and 10 slots will be shared between Sotiriou, Martin and Omachere .

Could get 2 or 3 options abroad of a similar or better quality for the reported £500k we spent on Omochere. I maintain that to get the best value for money and marginal gains on our competitors we will need to expand our scouting operations further afield and not fish in the same limited pond.