' HAVE WE BEEN TOO SLOW TO ACT ? '

Ideally yes but even if we had brought in an extra left back would he have been on the bench last week?
I cant see MM putting a RB, CB and LB on one bench, the injuries were unfortunate, very rarely you have 3 injuries in a game.

As for Maynard I dont think its so easy to replace a 3m pound player with a loan. I agree we need a striker but I would rather us spend the money in January to bring someone in.

Good post, I think it's fair to say most if not all said at the start of the season that we were probably short defensively.
If Malky picked a team with 3 defenders on the bench there would be enough said about the lack of options from the bench. Last week was a freak, yet Malky and the team have got us back to 2nd ( the crowd played a part too ).
Also, after Maynard got injured nobody wanted a striker more than me and nobody was more concerned than me that we had paid good money for Velikonja, yet he couldn't get a sniff.
Again, Malky and the boys have kept us at the top in 2nd without:-
Bellamy
Smith
Mutch
Maynard
Now add Turner, McNaughton, Taylor, I'm sure there's others, yet we still want more, we moan about the debt, we moan about the rebrand (rightfully so, but it's here for now?), we moan we need more players yet are told players will definitely come in January??
Malky has brought in Lappin to plug an apparent hole at left back, I'm not doing cartwheels but he's an emergency loan and nothing more, he gets my full support and so does Malky as it's better than nothing.
Alan Wright? James Chambers? J Lloyd Samuel? Our record is due to change, in the words of Kevin Keegan I would love it, if we're still at the top come January!
Malky you haven't been too slow in my eyes yet??

Best post for a while!!

WE (the fans) moan about Helgusson, moan about the debt, moan about Tan leaving if we dont go up.
moan about Sam not getting his money yet, we will moan if he does, we will moan about Marshall, moan
about 4-5-1, moan about a lightweight defence, moan about Malky being to slow to act, then we moan and
say Frei was a 'panic move'. We moan about the atmosphere, the pricing, the stewarding, the 80's, the 90's.
We moan about not having enough 'up front' (even though we are second highest scorers in the division) we
moan about Whitts playing too deep, moan about moaners.

Malky Mackay, and his players, however... Have NOT moaned about the injury crisis (and believe me its
horrendous)

They have just got their heads down and plodded on.

I sometimes wonder....

Is it not too much to ask, once in a while....

CAN WE NOT ALL JUST GET BEHIND THE MANAGER AND THE TEAM???

Hopefully the funds will be there in Jan for Malky!

Yeah - lets magic up a replacement for a top level championship striker- what's that £15k ~£25k a week.

next magic up 2 defenders - just to cover mind £5K~£10k each a week then tell the kids to fcuk off you have no chance of breaking into the team.

Don't forget we need to bore ourselves silly with concern over our deb.

Interesting to see a Makay supporter,saying he thinks our manager was slow to react,i personally call it dithering,but hey whats in a title,im willing to bet if i or someone else who takes the same view as me, had posted the same comments as Carl,we would have gotten slated....the bottom line is this....we could lose out on getting promotion through Mackays incompetence.time will prove me wright or wrong

angelis49 dont normally agree with your posts, but i think you are spot on with your comment about people who say lets back malky all the way,They are now starting to dither on in Malky we trust or not,In my opinion malky will get us promoted

We are second in the league - What are all your expectations

Clueless......

We are second in the league - What are all your expectations

Clueless......

Yeah we where 2nd in the league with DJ.

We are second in the league - What are all your expectations

Clueless......

Yeah we where 2nd in the league with DJ.

I rest my case.

Malky is so lucky to have supportive fans like ours

I have felt for quite sometime that we needed extra players to almost ensure automatic promotion, (or give us the best possible chance to try and achieve it), my main thoughts have been that we needed at least 2 defenders and particularly at both full back positions. I have said that we should pre-empt the eventualities of losing defenders to injury and suspension but Malky didn't act until the numbers got so low that he simply had too.

When we got the injury to Nicky Maynard, I honestly thought that Malky would go and get a replacement for him, seeing that we spent a lot of money on him to be our star striker. If it is felt that Maynard was necessary for the squad hence the reason we paid nearly £3m for him, we should have brought another striker in, also as it seems obvious that Malky doesn't think Gestede or Velikonja are the answers or simply not ready.

For me Helguson should be a cover, he is a battling, hard working and brave striker but not the target man that the style we play needs.

Is Malky too slow to act or is he not seeing what many fans see and that is the need for more players ?

I expect to have a mixed reaction to my post and to the question posed but it is all about opinions and those are mine.

I know there are a couple of players lined up for January but the fact each game of the season represents just over 2% of the campaign, I think we are taking a huge chance on waiting until the new year when it has been clear for some time we needed more in.

As much as I want to see the youth get a chance, I don't think any of us expected to see Ralls at left back, that was a desperate move which should have been dealt with long before the game on Saturday.

I think you're absolutely spot on. I totally agree with all the points you make. In my opinion, MM's one fault is his apparent indecisiveness particularly in his transfer dealings. Maybe he wants his signings to be perfect, both on and off the pitch.
Hopefully none of our defenders get injured or receive yellow cards today otherwise we'll be in trouble for the Derby game on Tuesday.