Bristol City striker Stead keen to forge Baldock partnership

“I think Ryan Taylor should make the switch to centre back, he is not a natural goal scorer but is good in the air, a decent size, reasonably quick and decent footballing ability so he might be better playing at the back. He probably wouldn't want to make the switch but why not ask him to have a few run outs in the reserves in CB position.”

“@piledriver

Understand comments made but for me, if you play one up front, smashing a ball up to him doesn't work. I would much rather have a proven goalscorer up there and we played the ball on the ground, to feet. Al this pumping forward from the back for Stead/Taylor to flick on doesn't work as we have no-one making the off the ball runs without the likes of Baldock in the side.

For me, you have to play Davies. He's never going to get fit and last the 90 mins+ coming off the bench for 10-15 minutes. If Dell doesn't beleive he can last 90, surely he addresses that with the fitness coach?

One up front regardless of being home or away will only work if your midfield get forward and support. Unfortunately, the quality of our midfield doesn't allow for that as they are rarely up with play, making any telling runs or seemingly do not have the nouse to get alongside the striker when the ball is pumped up. All our midfield is capable of is side to side or passing back

Is that tactics from the manager or poor mentality from the players? Probably a bit of both if truth be known.

Danns looks like a player with a brain and and bit of qualitythat could make a difference but chances are, we'll get priced out of a perm. move for the guy.”

“Don't wish to put a dampener on Stead's observations, but we should be more concerned with our shortcomings in defence. A winning team begins by not 'shipping' goals.

Has anyone noticed that, since the season began, all we appear to have done is debate about our best formation - from McInness, Doherty, Lansdown Snr and Jnr and almost every player in the squad! And still they haven't found our Championship winning team! And after 5 months!

Talk about fiddling whilst Rome burns!!”

“@Wurzelm:

Due to fitness issues, I can't see Davies being a regular starter or a 90 minute player.I hope I'm wrong on that.Don't forget Del signed Davies and said on Saturday he's a major part of our plans.He didn't select him because he already had two strikers on the bench because he went with one up top.

With one up top, you need Taylor on the bench in case Stead gets a knock.”

“We need to play two up front to get the best out of the strikers we have.

We are weak in central defence and central midfield yet we have scored more goals than Hull!

Hence my signings would be two CB's and two CM's.

I prefer 3-5-2 and people will say how do you fit AA in?

I'd say we don't need to but he could play in behind two strikers in a free role or be used as an impact player from the bench.He could miss up to six games if he's in the final 23 man Ghana Squad so we could soon find out how much we need him soon enough.

Of course if he's sold we could use the money to strengthen those weak areas providing you trust Del and, in fairness, I could only rate Morris as a poor signing and he was a free with the lowest wage.”

“Players have to be getting frustrated and questioning Dell now.

Take Baldock; scores two against Posh, looked livlely from the first whistle, worked his back side off and gets rewarded by starting on the bench at Millwall. How motivating that must be !

Then you have Davies - absolute quality, best signing for me in the summer by far...yet rarely starts despite (prior to Posh game) being the top scorer.

Keep on saying it, McInnes is out of his depth and I cannot work out what goes on in his head.”

“i listened to stead's interview and i sensed their was some very implict criticism of mcinnes's 'selection policy' re he and baldock. if we're going to put teams under pressure and take the game to them from the off - which we DON'T usually do - then these 2 need to START matches”