Turns to Stone wrote:Injuries screwed Curbs. But then he did sign injury-prone players.
Not that it needs to be discussed now on this thread though. What I would say is that we were woefully short of a decent striker on the bench on Sunday and that's what screwed us.
Bringing Carlton on should have been a sensible substitution, unfortunately he's just not up to it anymore and it left us very short.
You can't go into a Premier League season with only 4 strikers at the best of times. We have 4, one of them has had a lot of injury issues over the last few years and one of whom hasn't looked good enough for a few years now.
Strongly disagree.
So the gapping hole left in midfield, shuffling a pack that didnt need changing, dropping the rear guard by 20 yards,complete loss of shape, inviting pressure onto us and somehow the problem a striker on the bench? We were 2 - nothing up, the offensive side of the game would of appeared to of kept its end of the bargin.
As for Cole - Dont remember him missing a header during the short time he was on .... same applies for Southampton away.
We ended up with no forwards and Sakho playing right wing towards the end of the game.
Straight swap for Nolan would of pluged the gap, keeping Valencia on until the last few minutes would have been sensible. If it aint broke dont fix it.
How the hell can you keep 5 strikers happy? especially considering the times we play one up front.
We had 4 strikers at the start of the season plus, Zarrate, Lee and Vaz Te.
Off the top of my head .... Spurs have 3 strikers, Liverpool have 3 with a makeshift 4th, Swansea have 2 .. maybe 3 they use.