Two great results
With Rojas, Kosta, Payne, Thomas and hopefully a fit Reid, added to this side, it doesn’t look half bad
With Rojas, Kosta, Payne, Thomas and hopefully a fit Reid, added to this side, it doesn’t look half bad
I think the biggest lack of depth is out and out strikers. If Wood gets injured, there isn't much else. DeJong/Collier/Waine? I'd probably take Waine out of those three. Am I missing anyone?
It's still Wood, and then 3 laps of planet Earth.
If you are wanting goals. Kosta scored 8 last season for Sydney (more than I thought after his slow season start). Waine 7 for the Nix. Moses Dyer 6 in Canada (4 pens)!!
Just 5 so far this season Denmark. McCowatt 4.
Champness got 2 last season at the Roar, in 24 games. Collier hasn't netted in 2 years (Sept 2019 in the USL), and de Jong about the same - though he's barely kicked a ball in that time. Rogerson (1 goal at Haka) only has 4 games left to complete his season in Finland.
I'd plump for Kosta or Waine to do a 9 type role in Wood's absence. Hopefully the A League guys can travel to that OFC tourney in March, so Hay can integrate some of them into the AWs. He may even run a large 30 man squad through that 2-3 week tourney of potentially 5 games. Handy if FIFA are paying the tourney invoice?? So bringing in a guy like Wood for the later stages only, keeping Dyche happy as the Clarets fight to avoid the drop.
Arnold ran a large 30 man Socceroos squad for a 4 game AFC qualifying tourney they had a few months back in the UAE.