[madsteve]

Antonio's problem for us was his injuries & SG's style of play. He is good player, no doubt about it but admittedly he is playing in a very, very good team that play more to his strengths whereas under SG, he likes his wingers to cut in more and track back and forth in a 4,4,2. At forest he is employed as a left sided forward in a front 3 which suits him better. From what I seen of Drenthe in his half hour cameo I think he'll terrorise a lot of defences, just hope his decision making is as good as his trickery. Would perhaps like to eventually see him on one flank and Hope on the other.

Regarding May, I think he'll come good, the Championship is a big leap from the Scottish Premiership and will take a few more games to find his feet but the signs are there that he'll start bagging plenty of goals. SG signed May as he wanted a partner for Nuhiu for his preferred 4,4,2...and that's fine by me, but I wish we had the right personel in CM still that are adaptable to the system, Semedo and Coke are not the answer and Hutch and Lee when they come back will have the same problems, we have 4 CM's that are best adapted to a 3 man system and not a 2 man system. SG apparently still wants a stirker...why??? We have Nuhiu, May, Madine and Lavery (when he's fit again) already, it's a CAM we need to supply them through the middle and at present we don't have that, we could have Falcao and I'll bet he would struggle for gaols if there isn't enough or any service through the middle.

Our big problem is lack of goals.

If you take the Boro match (where we played brilliantly) out, we have scored two goals in five league matches courtesy of a wonder goal from Coke & a free kick from Maguire.

It would take the pressure off May if other players scored a few. Nuhui will never be prolific & pretty much only scores from set pieces because he doesn't get in the box quickly enough. Maguire scores from free kicks & penalties. Maghoma, Hutchinson, Lee, Coke & Semedo don't score many & our defenders rarely score.

While our solid defence means this isn't a major issue, we are on the edge. If we start scoring & keep our defence tight, we move upwards but if the defence slips up & we struggle to score then we drop towards the relegation zone.