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Surely that's all the more reason to bring players in, when there are already players in the already diminished two short squad that KH will only play on pain of death. That leaves us even more depleted. An injury crisis could completely scupper our season and leave us in the Championship for another decade or more. We have seen the state of our CB's with more in crutches than fit. He trusted Burgzorg (by virtue of playing him), I'm not banging Burgzorg's drum but he did help see games out and even grabbed us those two points away at West Brom (another struggling side we spluttered against). Moving him out and leaving gaps let alone Gibbo not gifting one of his "presents" in the form of a Striker was both careless and avoidable. Had we been in 16th place and going through the motions then I could understand it but the opportunity is/was far too great. I just hope we don't end up playing Alex Neill again and his Millwall side at Wembley in the Play Off final bemoaning the lack of a recognised Striker due to an injury crisis and you know who scores the winner for Millwall. There will be melt downs on social media like never seen before. We may go on a 10 game winning streak and it all becomes irrelevant but even if that were to happen it was still a gamble which is in itself a mugs game..

If Strelec and Sene get injured again we can't play "nothing" for a few games. As much as the mere thought depresses me but, yes, Iheanacho would be better than nothing but it didn't have to be an Iheanacho. The opportunity in January would have been worth going for it based on our league position to galvanise it. Like it or not but Burgzorg was a part of the squad that has us in 2nd place so he definitely would have been better than nothing. As poor as Burgzorg was it's clear we couldn't find better for whatever reason so why leave us a player short in the run in to what could be the most important season in a decade?

Losing at Coventry and an inability to beat both Oxford and Leicester at home means that we go to St. Andrews having to win. It's not an option if we are serious about automatic promotion. It was in our hands to keep ahead of the pack and even to overtake Coventry but we blew it and now just two weeks later find ourselves having to regroup, lick our wounds and fightback. I'm not sure that a few of KH's first picks have that fight and fire in their belly, consequently he may have to dish out some tough love with his line up come Monday night.

We have two invisible men that can't get into ours 🤷‍♂️

It's maybe the ideal scenario to snap us out of our current malaise. A big fat reality slap across the face might work wonders for us. Prove Sorba Thomas wrong, passing paralysis needs to start yielding results again. There are three or four players, maybe more, whose standards have slipped significantly and in some cases yet to deliver. This is their opportunity, it's in their hands from the Coaches right through the entire playing staff. Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

Need to edit and swap out "today" for "Monday"

I suspect that we let Burgzorg go out on loan because we thought someone was coming in that broke down for whatever reason. Leaving the two spaces might give us the chance of someone out of contract but we know that will likely be someone unfit and without a Club for a good reason. Just hope we don't bring in another Iheanacho type in desperation.

That is entirely reasonable but meantime we have two spaces in our squad. An uninspiring loan or even a Bamford type gamble would have been better than nothing surely 🤷‍♂️

Maybe it's just what we need so we don't over analyse everything and instead just go out to win at all costs 🤷‍♂️

But where's all the Rogers and Latte Lathe money, there must be at least £20m left of that stuffed under Gibson's Mattress? 😁

Wonder is it's a reaction to pressure/stress?

This link is "interesting" in that it describes how EFL TV coverage is directed. It appears these are the people who are constantly cutting to replays when the match is progressing and as a consequence are missing ever increasing chunks of live action due to the indulgence of two individuals. Based upon their work I'd wager that they have never been a sports fan in their entire lives. BroadcastBehind-the-scenes: IMG’s remote production of EFLIMG's Richard Bayliss explains how his team remotely produces upwards of 30 EFL matches each weekend

Sarmiento is a totally different type of Player to Burgzorg. Munroe is just as likely a replacement as Sarmiento is for him in that they play an entirely different game. Sarmiento is maybe one that better fits the ideal KH set up (time will tell) but not one with upper body strength and one that can physically hold his own against big defenders. Personally I'd want both in the squad, neither are prolific however still leaving the massive and obvious gap in the squad. Our front line is very lightweight which in the Championship isn't ideal. I'm not saying Burgzorg was great and we shouldn't have let him go but we should have had an upgrade coming in.

Why leave out Bamford? He is a Striker and allegedly wanted to come back here and is scoring goals? Not saying it had to be Bamford but we didn't sign one and we desperately needed one and he was available.

Agreed, but in the absence of an upgrade arriving (and with spaces available to accommodate one or two) then it was an error.