Grimes

[monmouth]

He’s been outstanding the last few weeks the best he’s ever played IMO but surely it’s obvious that someone has clearly said to him that “you occasionally need to pass the ball forwards.”

He's played well - credit where it's due. When will he realise that the 'captain' is not just 'the player that wears the armband?'

I'm not sure that's altogether fair at the moment. For the last few games he's been well in the ref's face and inone of the games (WBA or Watford) just before the second half he gathered the team around them and was giving them a good talking to, pointed and wagging fingers an' all. Maybe he's picking it up in all areas.

 

[Dr. Winston]

A run of injuries will test us to the limit as not sure our strength in depth is as good as any of us would like it to be

That's probably true for most sides in the division. We've already gone for spells without Joe Allen & Jamie Paterson, two important players who would arguably be in the team if fit and available and not missed either. There doesn't seem to be one particular person who we are dependent upon either, which helps.

I thought the bench we had yesterday only really lacked a striker. Be interesting to see if we recall Whittaker in Jan if he keeps going like he is.

 

[Jak365]

Grimes, along with the senior players is the catalyst for change to this new winning brand. He's finally unleashed himself, stopped listening to Martinball nonsense and has driven us onwards and upwards.

His winning ways inculcated by proper winning managers like Potter and Cooper is now coming to the fore, leading from the front as proper captains do.

 

[JackSomething]

Not sure I can disagree much with that

There certainly isnt a stand out side at the moment - the true test of most sides in this division is whether they have injuries and if they do how they cope with them

A run of injuries will test us to the limit as not sure our strength in depth is as good as any of us would like it to be

Agreed Phil.
When you think that our backup options are mostly academy products with little to no first team exposure outside of our first choice 18-20 players then any concentrated run of injuries to any particular position could be very destabilising indeed (you only need to look at Sunderland who have lost both their first choice strikers to injury for an example of this).

Pfft, we have Cullen if that happens to us...