I presumed the thread was a joke. The club is a shambles. It took a month to replace Allardyce. The new manager is a polar opposite from the previous one, yet we only have 4 pre-season friendlies to try and completely change the style of the team. Now we manage just two permanent signings in the window - an unproven Dutch youngster and a player who was great for us last season but is nowhere near being able to play for us.

We have failed to score in 7 of our last 8 PL games yet failed to bring in another striker, and even more bizarrely, Anderson, who was the striker on the bench last week, is allowed to go on loan to Swindon. So we now have Benteke and Lapado (and of course Wickham if he is ever fit again).

See this is the kind of immature stuff we see all the time. We had a choice of Harry Kane or Wilbraham and nothing in between. Either a pant wetter or red and blue spectacle wearer.

1 striker is what pub sides do. Excuse it all you like. It's amateur and very risky. How did 1 left back go?

Not exactly sure what was immature about my post, care to embellish? Was it because I implied your response wasn't mature? Maybe you should have just gone with "your mum" or "I know you are but what am I"

But i'll answer anyway because I'm a masochist - I would say our other options are not Wilbrahim, they are better just not to Benteke standard. We tried to sign other options but they didn't happen and as supporters we aren't privy as to why, when they didn't happen we took the view of going with what we had rather than signing the next Marange. Like it or not, it isn't one striker, we have options, albeit not great ones and Wickham will be back from injury eventually.

Oh and for the record, just because I'm not a glass half empty doomsayer, doesn't mean I have red and blue glasses on, i'm an absolute realist who prefers to support his club. I never said that you were a pant wetter and actually agree that some of your points are valid, our opinions on the impact and possible solutions just differ

A striker who moves about would be a plus! How come other sides manage to sign strikers? Burnley, who we face next week, have 5 now, all of acceptable standard. We have one - and he has only managed to score in one of his last eight games. We were shocking at the end of last season (apart from the Hull game) and with Sakho still a long way from being fit I don't hold much hope of getting much from the next two games and we know what follows them.

Not exactly sure what was immature about my post, care to embellish? Was it because I implied your response wasn't mature? Maybe you should have just gone with "your mum" or "I know you are but what am I"

But i'll answer anyway because I'm a masochist - I would say our other options are not Wilbrahim, they are better just not to Benteke standard. We tried to sign other options but they didn't happen and as supporters we aren't privy as to why, when they didn't happen we took the view of going with what we had rather than signing the next Marange. Like it or not, it isn't one striker, we have options, albeit not great ones and Wickham will be back from injury eventually.

Oh and for the record, just because I'm not a glass half empty doomsayer, doesn't mean I have red and blue glasses on, i'm an absolute realist who prefers to support his club. I never said that you were a pant wetter and actually agree that some of your points are valid, our opinions on the impact and possible solutions just differ