Brunt - A player who looked really promising toward the end of last season and should have been given more game time. Still nowhere near up to the ability of a fit Reuben, at best as good as an injured Reuben
Jervis - You've missed him out? Clearly the star of our pre season. Is yet to play a competitive game for us, he may well come good but there's neither the evidence to suggest that nor would it be feasible for him to run our attack.
Harvey - Promising youngster. So what?
Rooney - Promising youngster. Again, so what? We're talking about replacing our best player here.
Smalley - Where is your evidence to suggest he's awful? He's barely played, and when he's started, he's looked alright, which you've previously admitted. You can't fully judge a player until he's had a run. Fans always need a player to make fun of, at every club. We're not looking for "not awful" or just "alright", again we're talking about replacing the best player we have and you think adequate cover only needs to be "alright".
Wylde - While not an out and out forward, he'll certainly take the pressure off. Pressure off what? We're down to just an unproven Jervis, an injured Smalley and Brunt as an at best back-up player now, that's a hell of a lot of pressure to put on a midfielder.
It just seems to me that (as evidenced on this thread and others), if you don't think Reuben is the messiah, you must think he's a poor player. I think Reuben is a really good striker to have at this level, I've repeatedly said that, I just don't think he merits the godlike, world class status he's given by some, if he was that amazing, he would have been sold to a higher club.
It's not that if you don't think Reuben is the messiah that you think he's a poor player. It's a case of if you don't think Reuben is the messiah then you don't have a clue what you're on about. He is our one and only proven attacking option, last season he single handedly ran our attack when he was fit, when the pressure fell on others during his injury we collapsed. You can't just replace that, Adams has added well attacking wise to take some of the pressure off Reuben but without him we are still far far weaker, without him we have nothing up top, without him we are rolling the dice with Jervis with only youth players and average squad players to fall back on if he flops.
Reid will stay anyway so all of this is a bit redundant.
