Bristol City boss Sean O'Driscoll not ruling out loan signing before Thursday's deadline
Bristol City head coach Sean O’Driscoll has not ruled out using the emergency loan window to bolster his injury-hit attack.
But he will have to move quickly if he is to beat Thursday’s deadline for short-term signings.
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Bristol City head coach Sean O'Driscoll says he must tick all the boxes before making loan signings.
Football League clubs have until 5pm on Thursday to make loan signings, after which the window will be closed for business until the summer break.
O’Driscoll’s attacking options have been severely restricted by injuries to Ryan Taylor and Jon Stead.
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Taylor is yet to return to full contact training after fracturing his collar bone in January, while Stead could miss the remainder of the npower Championship season after being diagnosed with a torn groin muscle.
That leaves City with just two recognised strikers in Sam Baldock and Steven Davies for the final eight matches of the campaign.
Attacking midfielder Paul Anderson also sustained an injury in Saturday’s 2-1 defeat at Wolves and City’s squad is being stretched to its limits at a crucial stage of the campaign.
Money is an issue for a club £41m in debt, but O’Driscoll says he will try and add to his squad if the right player is available at the right price.
“There is always potential (for loan signings),” confirmed O’Driscoll.
“I keep saying that they have to be available, we have to be able to afford them and they have to be better than what we’ve already got.
“If we can tick those three boxes, then we will do it.
“But trying to tick those three boxes is difficult at this stage of the season.”
O’Driscoll has ruled out any possibility of recalling teenage striker Wes Burns to bolster his depleted ranks.
City’s Wales under-21 international joined Forest Green Rovers on loan last week and will spend a month with the Blue Square Premier outfit.
O’Driscoll said: “Wes will stay there for the entire month. We have to look at the bigger picture and he is 20th man and lacking in experience.
“He is doing really well at Forest Green and I have one eye on what I have to do this season and one eye on what I have to do the following season.”
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by TOTEENDTONY
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 11:38PM
“Odriscoll cant bring in any new players as word is lansdown watching the pullis situation!!”
by TOTEENDTONY
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 11:37PM
“Odriscoll wont be allowed to bring in any new players as word is lansdown watching the pullis situation!!”
by THEIRONS
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 5:36PM
“Brennus - Not meaning to be pedantic but the U.W.E. is not within the City of Bristol so you will no longer be playing in Bristol. Getting things built on land overseen by S.G.C.C. is a cakewalk compared to such a development that lies within the City of Bristol .”
by fahfah
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 3:38PM
“@neesh
"it takes more than a successful team to achieve things"
Are you off your head - without a successful team you have nothing except an almost empty stadium where ever it is.”
by Brennus
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 1:56PM
“It doesn't make a blind bit of difference whether Rovers play at the Mem or at UWE.
They're both part of Bristol, regardless of what the arbitrary boundaries say. Do people say 'I live in filton, Bristol' or 'Filton, South Glos'. Only a pedant who deny this.
Nobody gives a toss about South Glos because it's a made up place.
Man Utd play in Trafford, not Manchester, but they're still Manchester Utd.”
by BCFCfinker
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 1:09PM
“@Burgeyv111
Very entertaining, keep it up.
1.Are you NOT bottom of the table - yes, we're bottom and yes we're above Rovers
2.Are you NOT millions of pounds in debt - yes and no, however I don't expect you to understand that answer.
3.Are you NOT going to be playing at Ashton Gate for next foreseeable future - been talking to mystic meg again?
4.Are you NOT going to comply with the financial fair play regulations should you go down (likely) - there is doubt in your mind here as it seems that you admit we might indeed stay up.
5.Are you NOT going to need to move on a lot of the players currently employed at BS3 to reduce wages to comply with the above - you're obviously in two minds here, am I surprised?
6.Are you NOT getting lower and lower attendances - I'm glad you are following the only, soon to be, club in Bristol so closely. On a comparison of numbers, just what are the Rovers attendance figures again.
You did forget the important question: 'Are you NOT above Rovers in the table'
Obviously, writing on City boards is part of your anger therapy and the use of the word 'NOT' isn't necessary, it makes you sound like a confused person.
BTW, obviously BRFC were originally named the Black Arabs. Will a change in geography mean that another name change is due soon? Is it South Gloucestershire Rovers or UWE Rovers?”
by piledriver
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 12:49PM
“@manchestergas:
I'm sure SL doesn't lie in bed at night worrying what you or any other Gashead thinks.
He will deal with the debt and, unlike the Pompey's of this world, it is to an "owner", not institutions.”
by harryreg_uk
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 8:35AM
“@manchestergas - I was only going on what my mates have told me, the point I was trying to make is, why the hell do you show our goals conceded WHILE you're playing? don't know of a another club that does that
if you concentrated on your own team more, you may not have struggled like you have for years, many rovers fans I know seem happy as long as City lose!”
by manchestergas
Wednesday, March 20 2013, 1:25AM
“harryreg_uk - You are incorrect. gas do not announce scores over the tannoy. They SOMETIMES put them up on the awful, tiny 'scoreboards' we have, andwhich most pople can't even see. On saturday they did indeed put 'Wolves 2 City 1' on it, but certainly it is not always and is never over the tannoy.
Everyone - re SL's 'personal' debt to the club. I have no problem with this but I genuinely do not understand why he won;t just sort it out from an accounting / legal point of view. He co-founded a multi-lillion pound business so presumablty knows all about this, and knows may experts in the field. Why does he still allow for uncertainty? Why not just legally write it off or convert it to shares. Until he does that people WILL ask questions and will wind you up about it.”
by piledriver
Tuesday, March 19 2013, 7:18PM
“@by THEIRONS:
Bristol City do have debt and only £35m is "friendly" (SL)The rest is in the form of an overdraft and a football league loan (int free) amounting to about £6m.Previously, SL has swapped debt for equity hence his controlling interest and, unless he can find a partner willing to invest/waste what he has, the only debt solution would be same again.
It is beyond reasonable argument that we have been poorly run and spent way, way beyond our means.That applies to Chelsea, Man City and many others, the only difference being that they are succesful with wealthy owners and we are largely unsuccesful.We are far from the only club that applies to.
By any realistic measure (Attendance, ST's, Ground Capacity) we are the largest club in the WEST/SW.That being said, only 1% of the WEST/SW population regularly attends professional football so that's no achievement in itself.”