Terry Gornell woe as striker search goes on
Shrewsbury Town were today assessing the injury to frontman Terry Gornell – as the search for a new striker continues.
Gornell jarred his knee after 30 minutes of Saturday’s 1-0 defeat at Doncaster and was today undergoing further examination from the club’s medical staff.
He is a major doubt for tomorrow’s home Johnstone’s Paint Trophy second round tie with Crewe, but boss Graham Turner is hoping the striker will not face too long on the sidelines.
“The fact he came off so early in the game, it looks fairly serious,” said the Town manager.
“But it is hoped initially it is only going to be two or three weeks.”
With Gornell joining loan frontman Sam Winnall on the sidelines, Town’s striking options have been depleted
The only fit recognised forwards are Marvin Morgan and young duo Ryan Doble and Tom Bradshaw, while Paul Parry and Mark Wright have played in the second striker role during parts of games in recent weeks.
But Turner – whose side haven’t found the net in the last three games – has revealed the search for fresh blood has been on-going.
“It has never changed,” he added. “We are aware of what we need and we've attempted to do something about it.
“It hasn’t worked out as well as we would have liked but that persistence and optimism of bringing somebody in hasn’t changed.
“There was a young player who we thought would do a very good job for us but, after several weeks of being told he would be let out, he has finished up playing for a Championship club.
“From last season we are looking at far better quality players and, in some cases, probably setting our sights a little bit too high and they are finishing up in the Championship.”
Turner has again emphasised that financial backing would be forthcoming for deals.
“We all realise that we need strengthening,” he added.
“If the right player was available at the right price there would be money available, I don’t think there’s a doubt about that, and to bring a player in wages wise wouldn’t be a problem.”
Comments for: "Terry Gornell woe as striker search goes on "
Charlies Boy
It's not just about strikers, they also need good service and Town are lacking in both departments. The current situation was totally predictable before the season started and it was not addressed. It's even more frustrating because Town are losing winnable games through lack of goals. Even at this early stage of the season most supporters will now settle for mere survival in this divison.
steve Oxfordshire
Wouldn't we all love a prolific goalscorer, and yes i'm sure it's hard to find a goalscorer of the calibre that Turner and all of us are looking for, but for Turner to accept that the format of are current line up is satisfactory and that we're doing as much as we can and that performances are fine and that we've been so unlucky in quite a few of our games isn't acceptable.
There are tactical decision making errors that i believe are happening within the chosen match day line ups that are just not being highlighted at all by anyone....we need to make some radical changes to the choice of players that we have currently in a couple of key positions to get more flow up front where the problem lies and not wait until that magical new goalscorer arrives.
We have Connor Goldson who sits out almost all of the matches when he should be brought on instead of Grandison in the same position and instead of wasting Grandison he should be up front alongside Morgan, we should also have another strike partner too from our current ranks, making three up front as is often the case in some of the heavier hitters in this division, namely Tranmere......That player could easily be Parry for the time being. We have 8 midfielders in the squad to choose from and Parry can more than be covered for by anyone of those eight.
For goodness sake Turner think out of the box a little and play a bigger front line from our current ranks.....you once said that Grandison can and has played in a striker role before, make him one for a while while the search for a better one goes on....what the heck have we got to loose at the moment three games without a goal...just tiresome and unimaginative.