If Crooks is out longish term, what do we do?

How would should we fill his boots?

  • Trust in Archer, Forss and Hoppe to fill the CF role

  • Sign another CF

  • Recall Josh Coburn


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BoroMart

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So Crooks looked like he had done his groin or possibly had a recurrence of his hernia problem. Could be a longish spell out, what do we do?
 
I’m not so sure as he walked off ok so I don’t think it’s that bad he was clearly battered though.

I opted to recall josh if he’d out as it would be a starting place or a bench spot so he would play.
 
So Crooks looked like he had done his groin or possibly had a recurrence of his hernia problem. Could be a longish spell out, what do we do?
7 Dan Barlaser - Rotherham
10 Cameron Archer - Aston Villa - Loan
11 Joe Gelhardt - Leeds - Loan
12 Charlie Cresswell - Leeds
24 Ardon Jashari - Luzern

Steffen/Roberts

Smith/Dijksteel/Gitau
Fry/Lenihan
McNair/Cresswell
Giles/Bola/Bilongo

Forss/Jones
Howson/Barlaser
Hackney/Jashari
McGree/Willis

Akpom/Watmore
Archer/Gelhardt


Charlie Cresswell is an interesting link from bigrig, I could see a long term partnership with Dael Fry being looked at with McNair seemingly out of favour/looking for a move. A permenant signing of a defender leaves a loan space for a striker which is always more cost effective this time of year.

Dan Barlaser would be a permanent addition supposed to the loan of Alex Mowett, Ardon Jashari is a very capable long term partner to Hayden Hackney imo.

With Muniz supposedly off to Valladolid and Hoppe loaned out, we do look light up top..
a longish term injury to Crooks would lend itself to a short term loan of another striker.
 
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I see that trust what we got is very popular. I do think that Crooks is rather growing into the role. Early on, I didn't think he was very effective, despite scoring. He just looked like a passenger until he scored.

He seems to be contributing quite a bit more to general attacking play now too.
 
If Crooks is out, we have a decent dilemma with either replacing him like for like with Archer, or moving Forss back to CF and putting Archer wide right (think he played there at some point for Preston last season?). Think we are covered without having to sign someone or recall Coburn.
 
Think we will be alright, even if he is out long-term.

Archer, Forss and Watmore are all good options for us and there's still always that chance that Jones will come good again, meaning we can play Forss up front.
 
Archer hasn’t even got on the pitch yet. Realistically he is there to replace Crooks at CF. We don’t want to recall Josh while he is doing so well
 
Crooks gives us the physicality and height that we lack against some teams. I was surprised he was put up front but I actually think he’s led the line really well. If he’s out injured then revert to Forrs and Akpom up top with Archer, Jones or Hoppe out wide.
 
I want to see Hoppe given more of a chance. There's been a few times he's got on and looked tidy with a lot of energy to burn. We've spent money on the lad so lets give him the chance to come good like Forss before spending even more.
You think?

He looked totally lost to me and like a bull in a china shop, not scared of putting his foot in, but looked like he really lacked high-quality coaching. Hard to tell from limited minutes mind, maybe he was just excited.

Coburn looks a much more rounded player to me, with more potential, but they both need more time and full games.
 
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