"Sorry Steve, with Chops out you're the one we're relying on for goals"

The pressures of the promotion chase is clearly getting to the players, as this picture of Steve Thompson shows. Thompson is one of those strikers that everyone refers to as "hard-working" except when they are called "bustling". What this means is that they run around a lot ineffectually, scoring very few goals for someone in their position. Alan Lee used to hold this role for Cardiff but has since moved on to Ipswich where he has somehow transformed himself into that other rare breed of forwards - a goal scorer.

To be fair to Thommo (or "The Thommohawk" as he likes to be known as - stop laughing at the back there) he really DOES work very hard, and unlike Lee wins a lot of balls in the air, which he even manages to head in the right direction. And if the alternatives are Byrne, Campbell or Redan then Thompson it has to be. Not sure about Green though, he looks a pretty good prospect - running fast, winning balls in the air, taking players on and all that stuff. I'm sure someone at Cardiff will soon knock all that out of him - or we'll sell him. As for our other two forgotten forwards, Ferretti and Glombard, clearly DJ has decided they are a waste of space. Glombard I saw at Norwich and he was hopeless, but I have never seen Ferretti play. Rumours have it that DJ thinks he is a bit of a wuss. Despite all these forwards, the story is that DJ is trying to sign Feaney from Luton, who is another "hard-working striker" in the mold of Thompson. Has any team ever had so many strikers that were not good enough to play?