Strikers lack of choice

[Salsa Party Animal]

As we are very short of strikers

Emile Heskey - fit and in form but get injured easily.

Gaby Agbonlahor - Still recovering from his operation not been right this season.

John Carew - unfit and uninterested

Andrea Weimann - he is out injury due to Rapid Vienna

Nathan Delfouneso - Probably not rated by club management

And we can't play with 4-4-2 due to lack of options.

Have we got any more strikers in the reserve team waiting for their chance. Such as James Collins II ? I haven't watched or monitor reserve team football this season or last.

I think if we sell John Carew, and sell/loan Nathan out to lower level, we will need three new strikers this January. 

Lack of spending on strikers from O'Neill era is bitting us hard.

[The Charmer]

Nathan Delfouneso - Probably not rated by club management

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Do you think this is the case?

I very much hoped that The Fonz was part of our future and would be hugely disappointed to think that we are looking at shades of the Moore brothers re-visited.

[Salsa Party Animal]

Well we are not using him much. But again I don't know what management think of Nathan. If he is any good we would use him upfront last night.

[Reality]

There has been lots of talk that his attitude isn't too good. Quite similar with the Moores when you think about it.

[garyshawsknee]

As we are very short of strikers

And we can't play with 4-4-2 due to lack of options.

 With Petrov and Delph injured,Sidwell hopeless and Ireland slowly finding his feet, we'll have trouble playing 4-5-1 soon!

[Pete3206]

I don't think Carew is uninterested and as for the talk about Fonz, where has that come from?

[The Charmer]

If it is an attitude problem then that would be even more annoying.

It's one thing not cutting-it as far as ability is concerned, quite another if it hasn't dawned on him just how fortunate he is to be in the First Team squad at Villa Park. With the current state of striking affairs, any youngster with half a brain would be sweating blood to make the new manager notice him  -  For all the right reasons.

[Countryside Villain]

We lack proven options, but you can't prove yourself without the chance.  Given our current crop of injuries/suspensions/lack of form I'd have though last night was the ideal chance to give somebody like Delfouneso the chance.  Perhaps 4-4-2 with him and Heskey might have seen us wrap the game up in normal time.

[SashasGrandad]

I hope Gérard got the message last night that playing 6 midfielders doesn't work.

If he looks on Pravda it does show which of the players are supposed to be strikers.

[adrenachrome]

GH reasoned that Burnley were a footballing side and so we should be able to play through them, which should have been the case. Once he saw that was not going to happen, he brought on Heskey.

We need another striker, no doubt.

[dave.woodhall]

If there is a problem with Delfouneso, Sid's worked with him long enough to know all about him.

[adrenachrome]

Reading between the lines, and when all is said and done what else can we do, GH puts a lot more store on what happens on the training pitch, where Nathan seems not to excel, resulting not so long ago in a contretemps with fisticuffs between Nigel RC and Mon, if I am not mistaken.

[richard moore]

There has been lots of talk that his attitude isn't too good. Quite similar with the Moores when you think about it.

If I'm being really honest, he has always looked to me as if he might have a similar attitude...

[richard moore]

I don't think Carew is uninterested and as for the talk about Fonz, where has that come from?

I agree. I think Carew 'doesn't give a s**t' would be more accurate...

[Bosco81]

When the old manager left players out for no reason he was rightly criticised, when the new manager does it is because of the players perceived bad attitude, sounds a bit like the emperors new clothes.