we need a goalscorer

we need a goalscorer

tbh i'm at the moment more frustrated with our poor discipline..how stupid was Siggy? so as Manny last week?

If Manny was on the park tonight we would have won the game...trust me.

Yeah pretty much.

We need a goal scorer.  Discipline is a problem but if we had a goal scorer this match would have been won by half time

Yep. Oh and Rigters just scored from outside the area for gcu if that helps

It was world clarsh, too. 

Even Kristian Rees is scoring goals

Almost got a second one as well.

And Jobe.

Even D-Mac has looked liked something akin to a professional footballer this season.

Reminded me of our first seson .  Play all the football  then loose

If we can't score we can't defend. Can't expect our defence to soak the pressure up every week as games tick by with nothing happening up the other end. What is our actual plan? Hope for miracle goals from Greenacre every week? Without a danger man up front we just seem to lack any penetration, we get good service out wide, but then we just end up knocking in crosses and hoping our midget strikers can get on the end of one.

The only other striker we'l be seeing this season will be in the form of an ASB Prem player in as injury cover ...

Disurbingly. This.

From 442 forum on the GC vs Jets match...."Rigters...what a phenominal talent, it was a real coup finding him". You didn't find him you twats, the Nix did(and Mehmet) then we handed them over.FFS!!!!

One of those straw-clutching questions I know, but how far away is Ifill from a return? At least the man knows how to put the ball in the net.

I read hes looking at this Friday

Gotta get down on Friday.

doesnt look like we are signing anyone.... ricki's final comments were "we're going to have to get on with what we have."

http://www.foxsports.com.au/football/039we-need-to-put-chances-away039/video-e6frf423-1226180829570?sectionvertical=football

Who?

Does every other side other than Brisbane need a goal scorer? They all seem to have scored as many goals as we have.

I think the frustration is after two games where we should have won and with stats listing chances vs completion people feel we should be second to Brisbane, not where we are.

Particularly galling when you have to watch smug c**ts lke Archie and co. Dance around.

It would be awesome to have one.

But I don't think the need is as great as is being made out.

as soon as lia is back, Brown should be demoted to at least the bench.

If Ricki can't see this, he needs to be sacked. Every week we play with 10; yesterday we finished with nine.

Existing players to step up and suddenly score enough goals to make top 6...I dont think so.  Maybe if 1-0 becomes the norm but that aint going to happen either.

Can someone please remind me: do the Nix have their full quota of foreign players, meaning any new squad member would have to be Australasian?

Why? Hes one of only a few so far whos looked like scoring, and has scored, this season. Far more potent in front of goal than Lia ever has or ever will be. And this is fact.

I'm just wondering, given we won't sign any new striker...

Sack Welnix. Those clowns won't spring for a goalscorer.

Welnix are too focused on the marketing, they want to market the player to sell memberships etc etc, but surely from a football perspective, a new striker than can win games for us would pull higher crowds, and help our run to the playoffs immensly, and therefore sell memberships indrectly next year. Sack Welnix.

Seriously. Wasn't this what people like T_X and myself were saying all along - that the financial solvency of new owners was only part of the puzzle, the other part being having Clue One about how to run a football team? To put it in terms Gareth Morgan might understand: you don't run a succesful, solvent business by refusing a budget for staff who can get the job done.

Pulling the European striker contracts might well be the original sin which dooms the Welnix tenure, and we'll have to wait for Peter Jackson to decide he wants a football team.

No decent striker = no playoffs for us this season.

To be fair, after what had transpired in the last 6-8 months, this was always going to be a transitional season regardless of who was running the club.

And also to be fair, we are playing pretty well, much better than I thought we would, and if we can back this up with some shrewd recruitment next year, we could be a force to be reckoned with next season.

Or we could of course rush out and buy a lemon like kewell. I think it is good that something of a conservative approach is being taken. New Owners barely have their feet under the table. I am happy enough that we have a long term future at this point. We are creating plenty of chances and while disappointing we are not scoring I would be a lot more worried if the chances were not being created. We also do have Ifill to come back into the mix over the next couple of weeks

I really think we should do OK with our current squad, yes, even without an additional striker we can make the playoffs, as long as: