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We have now lost to Birmingham City, Reading and Wolves who will no doubt decide the automatic promotion places. We may have been unlucky against Birmingham on the opening day but the defeats against Reading and Wolves have been emphatic. There is talk about bad luck and decisions going against us but you make your own luck in this game. The first goal was always going to be crucial against Wolves and they got it.

Football is all about putting the ball in the back of the net and Wolves are clinical in that respect. In comparison, we seem to rely too heavily on James Beattie to get the goals and it is time we rectified that. Billy Sharp is fine as a replacement if Beattie is ever injured or suspended but does not seem to be the ideal partner.

Darius Henderson is more physical and not your typical goal scoring centre forward so might be a better foil. He was unlucky to get injured when he did so now he is fit let him have a run otherwise he will be yet another expensive substitute to add to the list.

Wolves are a great example of what can be achieved with modest signings. There are plenty of players that will improve the team who need not cost the earth. As for scoring goals if you have a pair of strikers who both score regularly you are more than half way there. We have seen this is in the past with Deane and Agana and that brought two successive promotions.

Blackwell has had money to spend and it is starting to look like he has not made the best use of it. We still lack pace and width in the team and the opposition know it. Playing forwards like Stokes and Webber in wide positions does not solve the problem. If Blackwell cannot get Cotterill to start firing and reproduce the form he showed whilst on loan last season then he should be looking to cut his losses and move the player on.

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