Oscar Gobern

Nope, he's crap

I have to say I think Gobern is a decent player and has potential to do well and in reality £275K isnt that much given his age. Miller is the one I am not so sure about, I would rather see Gobern and Robinson or Johnson in midfield, some solidity to stop our defence always being exposed by balls through the middle.

How old is Gobern?

Saints wanted to keep him....

Oh, but he's crap by all accounts

I don't think it's balls through them middle that is hurting us, it's high balls from the wing into our 6 yard box.

I keep saying, we expect Ward and roberts to double up as midfield defensive players as well as supporting a lone attacker...this has proved time and again to be a flawed tactic, they can't be in three places at the same time.

LC should forget using wingers as strikers/wingers/defensive midfielders..and go to 4 proper midfield players and 2 proper strikers.

We've got plenty of out and out midfield players now, so why keep employing this tactic which continues to prove it doesn't work. We are neither attack minded nor defensively secure.

LC is stuck in a blooming time warp and needs to move on, the further away the better in my opinion !!

I will admit to not seeing every game live this season jacko but what I saw seemed to be that our midfield would leave gaping holes behind it and they knew McCoombe and Clarke didnt have the pace so either lump it over and chase or knock it through.

I must admit I find it infuriating how often we get caught out trying a full back overlap, Roberts sometimes being culprit for wayward passes. Hunt has pace and is dangerous but if he is going to run past and attack then someone has to cover for him and that doesnt happen.

Gobern is not worth that much money right now, but depending on his development he might be in the future. As with all youngsters we've paid for potential, but I am 100% certain that none of Clark, Hoyle or Clibbens expected the fee to be anywhere near that amount. In fact had they known the price at the time, I don't think he'd be a Town player now.

I do like the player Cas, but got to agree that I didn't think Hoyle would have paid that for him

They even said at the time that part of the attractiveness was the relative cheapness of a player they thought had "bags of potential". I have to assume that when playing 4-4-2 both Johnson and Robinson will be above him in the pecking order, while Miller looks popular with the gaffer and Arfield has looked decent too. We've basically paid just under half a million for a squad player, which in all honesty does not reflect good value for money.

Credit Hoyle and co for taking a punt on him thinking they'd get him on the cheap, but it just hasn't worked out like that and now he has a lot to prove, in my opinion.

Time for him to step up big time! He can start this on Saturday if he likes

I want Johnson to be started at some point, hopefully on Saturday he might get his chance and allow Anton to push further forward, then Oscar can be recalled for the Sheff U game where we will obviously revert to 4-5-1.