04 Feb 2015 16:25:22
I've been told of a mate who is a villa fan that we are going in for jack grealish who plays on the wing wolves also interested in him on loan


1.) 09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015 09:09:51
I have never been convinced that May can do the business. I have lost track the one on ones that he has failed to convert, what a waist of money.
Yet again another scuff, hitting the ball with the inside of his foot, with the goalkeeper on the deck. He will never make the grade in the Championship, regarding the Premier league in his wildest dreams, so get him out at the end of the year.
In my view we are building the team for a decent run in this league. We need a proven striker from the Championship, or above.
As much as I respect Gray, if he fails to address this he is a gonner at some point


2.) 09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015 15:33:18
A "waist" of money. stockbroker belt?


3.) 09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015 17:53:23
I think he needs time I have lost count of the number of players that have come good after hillsborough because they weren't given time, I think he needs loaning out maybe but not selling, when Fergie was at Man Utd how many players did he sign that come good in there, second season.


4.) 09 Feb 2015
09 Feb 2015 18:10:06
Your bang on mate I've said it for ages. Gray is no good at finding strikers and Stevie May for all his hard work is out of his depth in this league. We really do need a genuine goal scorer or we're going nowhere.


5.) 10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 05:51:03
To be fair we have gone somewhere.
From struggling at the bottom all season to a comfortable mid table.
Having said that May is IMO out of his depth.


6.) 10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 08:32:59
Brighton Yowl
Whats your view on this thread. Do you think
May is out of his depth, and a waste ( Ofsted Corrected) of money, or does the rump of the problem lie in other areas.


7.) 10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 09:15:11
IMO, the fact that May keeps missing his opportunities can only be blamed on himself.
We don't have a great deal of flair going forwards but it's nobody else's fault that he couldn't score in a crack den.


8.) 10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 10:20:02
Goalscorer required ASAP. Come back Paul Warhurst all is forgiven.


9.) 10 Feb 2015
10 Feb 2015 11:48:41
other areas Brighton there is no creativity and when the strikers get a chance they snatch at it becuase subconciously they know it MAY be a long time befor another comes along. Just look at last saturday and excellent well crafted ball up to MAY from Deilhna (err) and he hits the post one on one


10.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 00:27:41
Sorry folks but SG when he meets the new owners this week it could be is only meeting with them, because is record at present is a sacking, because he is a good man but not a winner


11.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 05:53:33
I like Gray and it is far too early to be talking of his dismissal, but I must admit there are beginning to be concerns.


12.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 07:50:55
Let me remind you all of the question I posted a couple of weeks ago which was will SG still be at the helm next season. Currently 3 agree 14 disagree. Looks like the gap might be closing.


13.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 09:59:05
We should act now. Brian Laudrup is available at the moment and look what he did with Swansea. Gray's a decent bloke but he's took us as far as he's capable of. Our home record is laughable and his ability to find a goalscorer is inept.


14.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 11:43:03
All I would add is SG has greatly improved the team and performances over past year with little or nothing to spend.
May was best we could do with what he could raise - and only by selling an asset!
May does have promise and will improve, hopefully with us!
If SG had £10mill+ to spend on a striker it would be easier to find one that scores regularly perhaps, but budget strikers rarely join a club and start scoring 30goals a season.
He has now been given some support in market and he has bought some "low-value" players who will improve us when they bed in to the squad.
Finally checkout Laudrups record at Swansea, it was so good he got sacked not long after signing a new contract, and in any case he's headed for QPR.
If and when we do decide to replace SG I hope it is with a manager with more ability than him, and not one with a bigger name or reputation - remember Dave Jones?


15.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 13:49:34
Darren Bent would have been an obvious choice although at the time I am sure that money would have been a big factor. Let's be honest the season is all but written off, we are 9 points about the drop zone and 13 of the play off spot I am more worried about the 9 point gap than I am hopeful of the 13 point gap


16.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 13:59:43
We are starting to become unrealistic again Laudrup etc It is a manager who will get us out of this league. Then we will have to sack him and replace with the likes of well certainly not Laudrup to compete in the top flight. My question to you all is would you hand over millions to invest in the team this summer to Stu ????


17.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 14:36:02
Good Morning Howler
Being like yourself a true blue, as much as I would like Stevie May to do well, he does not have it on what we have seen to date. Not the pace, the heading ability, positional play in the box, goal poaching, but more importantly he is incapable of scoring from outside the box with a clean shot at pace and accuracy. I noted this in an earlier post, for this reason alone he will probably not make the grade. I have never seen a striker scuff so many shots, he somehow fails to make clean contact with the ball, keep an eye on it. Every striker worth his salt historically has been prolific at his age. Unless you can name the few exceptions.
As for the manager he had a common goal with every one connected with the club, that was avoid the drop. Can he now be productive enough to bring together a team challenging the leaders, which is capable of playing in the premiership with the addition of half a dozen new faces, we will have to see. Can he find two strikers capable of20-25 goals per season. That's what it will take or he is a gonner. Buying and loaning players who have yet to play in the big boys league may be SGs final throw I fear, and very risky. The new owners have I think witnessed one winning game, they will not allow that to continue much longer. Apology to the spelling police, and the Ofsted inspector.


18.) 11 Feb 2015
11 Feb 2015 17:30:09
Hi South
My only concern is that within just a couple of weeks of the takeover, there are already rumblings of demands for big money signings, and big name managers !
We Owls as much as anybody should appreciate that there are no short cuts to lasting success !
Spending and sackings, followed by more spending and sackings will only lead us back to where we were.
MM has steadied the ship and set us up to progress, it will happen if we do it the right way, sensibly.
Spending and sackings, followed by more spending and sackings lead nowhere.
I generally agree with yours and others assessments of our players, but they are all much better than what we had just 18months ago, and if we improve as much in next 12 to 18months we will probably be where we all want to be - I suggest?


19.) 12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015 00:49:07
With Mays goal ratio, surely it's worth throwing Bus into the mix instead.
Nothing to lose and plenty to gain.


20.) 12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015 15:10:42
Time for the quartet of may mattock Maguire maghoma to move on none good enough for championship sg got to look at his signings kean 1 goal from pen after0 goals for qpr and Wigan worse than may sg watch out are new manager in sooner rather than. later


21.) 12 Feb 2015
12 Feb 2015 21:27:26
David Hirst got 6 goals in his first season from 21 apperances. Some of you guys would have had him thrown out of the club as a waste of money for stats like that. Give the guy a chance, his form is a bit rubbish at the moment but jumping on his back and screaming for him to be pushed out of the club won't help. Give him a loan to help him regain his confidence, he scored one goal everyone and a half games before and you don't loose that ability overnight but you can use your confidence that quick.


22.) 13 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 08:41:18
I take it you saw Hirsty when he first came, and younger, in a better class of football. Compairing him and Stevie May is the stuff of nightmares.
Regarding stats, just look at pace, shooting ability, heading ability, strength, shooting power he is not on the same planet, Stevie May needs six opportunities to score one goal. Hirsty needed a sniff and it was in the back of the net.


23.) 13 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 09:38:56
In his first season Hirst wasn't that good and was taking a couple of chances before every goal. A little like May now, he was feeling the pressure of moving to a big club, added to the fact that initially the fans weren't that happy with him for some of his comments before we signed him. Anyway looking beyond that I don't think our forwards are the problem. Having been to a few games this season the service to our forwards has deteriorated rapidly from the start of the season. If I was going to spend lots of money on the team the first place I would look would be midfield and especially the wide areas. With better service I think our forwards will score more goals, someone above said that because our service is so terrible the strikers are snatching at half chances as they don't know when the next chance will come. I've said before that given our midfield I don't think Shearer, Henry and Costa would score many goals. Anyway not much chance to change things around now, the sort of players we need won't be available in the loan window. Get behind the lads we do have in the squad and quit abusing them and maybe they may surprise you.


24.) 13 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 11:03:44
I do get behind the lads on match day, but you will at some point have to decide the difference between a silk purse and a sows ear.
When Hirsty arrived its what he said before hand that got under the collar of the fans, but that soon changed make no mistake.

Please don't confuse abuse with reality, that is dangerous territory.
He himself will have to provide the proof he can make the grade, if he continues to miss the eight yard target as often as he presently does, he's on his way. We no longer are looking to stay up, new owners, new targets, top notch finishers, that's the order of the day, he does not have those qualities, but he's had plenty of chances to put that right, and will get plenty more. The thought of spending 4 mil on two midfield wizards to provide chance after chance for him is frankly hilarious. Any striker worth his salt at his age has been prolific. This is not Scotland you don't have all day, in acres of space. I would however be the first to eat my words if he goes on a run, don't forget this if he can't do it for us, he is preventing the team moving forward, one extra goal per game in this league is the difference between mid table and promotion. That's not abusing people that's dealing with reality.


25.) 13 Feb 2015
13 Feb 2015 14:39:51
I always try to be positive and don't abuse players. Well not our own.
My comments about May are painful to make, but IMO he simply isn't good enough and Iv watched him play enough this season to pass that judgment.
I still thinks it's a lack of ability to make the correct decission quickly, as his passing, runs off the ball and finishing just don't cut it at this level.


26.) 15 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 12:20:16
This is one of those times where I think we will have to agree to disagree. Different people see things in different ways and I see a player with some potential who has massively lost his confidence but you see it differently and that's human nature. If it was my choice I would pull him out of the team and give some of our other strikers a chance and then get him a loan to a lower league club for a month or so to try and get him his confidence and goal touch back. His goal record I mentioned above doesn't just disappear overnight, and the Scottish leagues are not as terrible as some people say, the way some people talk not just on this site but others too you would think my local sunday league team would stuff Scottish clubs when in fact their lower leagues are very competitive.


27.) 15 Feb 2015
15 Feb 2015 12:56:28
Intake Juniors or Stradbroke strikers would beat them.


28.) 16 Feb 2015
16 Feb 2015 03:44:19
its good we can agree to disagree, as appose to slagging matches which used to regularly occur on here.
:)