Centre Halves

[steve@dcfd]

We have the lost the best centre halve we had in ORiordon he's gone back to Blackburn and been playing.
We need at least one more with experience of league 1 or top end league 2 at least. He must have pace and be a good defender hopefully with good height. We don't need a U21 player with no league experience. Have the club got the funds to achieve this even if it is a loan fee and paying wages.
Grehan has not broken in to the league team regularly he needs more time. McGrath has not step up consistently to league 1 level. Pearson has experience but lacks pace.
Faulkner appears to be going back to Harrogate when fit. Flint is at Gateshead and won't be available for league games.

[Alan Southstand]

We’re supposed to be looking at a 22 year old centre back at Everton? According to someone on X.

[old lad]

Experience at league 1 of top end league 2. Quite right. So Faulkner and Flint shouldn’t come into it, for this season

[ncRover]

If we’ve got the experience of Clark in goal and Pearson in defence, I would argue that some pace at centre half is more important than lots of experience?

[Usher wide.]

If we’ve got the experience of Clark in goal and Pearson in defence, I would argue that some pace at centre half is more important than lots of experience?

Would agree with that.

However, pace AND awareness to go alongside in order that we have someone who can carry the ball (like O’Riordan did) out of defence & into the midfield area in order for the attacking players to take up positions higher up the pitch.

That sort of defender in January will be difficult to come by.

We can only hope Grant has that sort on his radar.

[Alan Southstand]

COR was our best cb, so why would we NOT replace him with someone just as good?

No brainer.

[In the box]

Why do we keep moving forward in some departments and in complete revers in others . We now have two loan keepers and only one contract a junior . No loan centre backs after not replacing Olowu who was contracted . We now have too many strikers and it was the lack of them that put in our current position when the defence was fine . Recruitment clearly on top of things … not !!

[Rovers91]

Bring another centre back in and put them alongside Bailey and bring a proper footballing midfielder in to play alongside Gotts.

[roversdude]

Just looked at my calendar and it’s 12th January

[redarmi66]

Why do we keep moving forward in some departments and in complete revers in others . We now have two loan keepers and only one contract a junior . No loan centre backs after not replacing Olowu who was contracted . We now have too many strikers and it was the lack of them that put in our current position when the defence was fine . Recruitment clearly on top of things … not !!

Replaced Olowu with 2 contracted and 1 loan at the end of the season. The loan was recalled. So i guess we will be bringing in another CH ( ideally 2) before the end if the window. Grehan can go on loan for me and McGrath needs taking out of the first team. Really Happy with the front 2 brought in. Keeper cover sorted quickly. So im not so sure what your problem is right now. I would get it if the window closed and we had not addressed the CH issue.

[steve@dcfd]

With 4 games before the window closes in the league I'm not suggesting there is a problem but we will after out score Wimbledon, Wigan, Leyton Orient and Bradford

God forbid if we conceded more goals than Fleetwood tomorrow

[selby]

  We need at least three wins from them four games to not be potentially stranded and a big ask to get out of trouble.