Game 17: Norwich City 1 Queens Park Rangers 0 (25.11.23)

Can't wait for the window. Assuming there's money for a striker then. We are down by the middle of January if Marty doesn't get some goals out of this squad. We know Dykes is shit. We know Armstrong is limited. We think Kelman is shit, but we don't yet know that definitively. Play him for five games. We've nothing to lose.

We were never going to get a new coach come in a drop the highest all time goalscorer in our current squad without watching him 'in the flesh' a handful of times.

If he doesn't drop him after a couple of more games it speaks volumes about his opinion on other options we currently have.

We could have Haaland and make him look like a donkey. It's not just that Dykes is limited.

a combination of chair, willock, richards, smyth and kolli would be better than playing that useless cabertosser up top. heck, its not even a case of being better its just that they can't do any worse and we'd at least see them being more involved than dykes.

i don't care what anyone says or the stats they provide, dykes is the worst striker in our history. he's a passenger to the point he may as well be booking a ryanair flight every game. he contributes NOTHING, he doesn't ever make an impact nor does he work the defenders or free up space for others. he's useless! ashley barnes did more in one game today than dykes has done all season.

i've always said that i wouldn't care about dykes' goal involvement if he actually impacted games. firmino for example only had two seasons where he scored 13+ goals a season across 8 years at liverpool but he goes down as an all time great for their side because he lead the line for them. he freed up space by drawing defenders to him and just being a nuasaince for the opposition.
dykes is just fucking WOEFUL and brings nothing to the side.

Crazy that every manager has played Dykes he must be like Messi in training. Yesterday he fell over trying to stop running out on touch line and I just laughed.

Hoping there will be strikers from abroad we have never heard of but that Marti has played against who might do us a job.

In all my time following Rangers this is probably the worst period ever for quality of strikers it’s gone beyond a famine.

This is reassuring to read but poses questions how do we fix it before Jan window. Have to ensure the gap to Huddersfield when window opens has not stretched

Even in 95/96 you had goals in the team and we even scored more than 12th place Middlesbrough. Dichio, Gallen AND Hately had proven records and the issue was the latter was used incorrectly and the defence was crap.

However, we can't over rely on Marti's knowledge of Scandinavian football as post Brexit we would have no chance of getting a work permit for a hidden gem so, on this occasion, we are more than likely forced to use the domestic market.

We are fucked.

Bang on. But its up to him to find a different solution in the final third, and it needs to be very different in terms of personnel, set up and approach to what he's done hitherto. 

Ah, missed that Sparks 👍

This. Not a huge fan of Field tbh. If he's a shield it's a pretty small one. More importantly he offers no attacking threat whatsoever. Never.

I think Dykes and Field are world class. We must keep hold of them!

and the other problem is just as serious. Very little creativity. Aohara & Bonner should both be starting behind Willock Kolli Chair.

This is the point that some are missing. A new striker is very unlikely to Inspire the likes of Coleback, Dozell, Field (and on the evidence of this season) Willock to hit defence splitting passes. There is a lot of coaching required to get more creativity out of this midfield