Most of Hartlepool's squad dropped down a division and they've struggled all season. We need a mixture of current EFL players and very good National League players ........... otherwise we are going to struggle. It really is no use having players who are looking down, who assume the Vanarama will be an easy ride ......... and find they can't hack it. You have to have players who are on the up. Our young players should be on the up, Whitmore will be up for a battle, Ugwu knows what it is about, for a Rowley or a German everything should be new and exciting.
If we go down with a team full of ex-League Two players we'll need a manager who is an exceptionally good motivator. Does that sound like Jack? Maybe it sounds like John Sheridan who just won the Joey Barton prize for saving Fleetwood from relegation?
I've been studying this for two years at least and League Two players who are willing to drop down are going mostly to lack the attitude and the spine to get back up. Players who are good, who may have been rejected at 17, and want to go up the ladder and prove themselves are what we need. The sort of player would be Mitch Brundle, rejected at Bristol, at 24 captain at Dover, their rock in midfield, would love the chance to prove himself an EFL player. Pair him with Ady Pinnock from Dover too and already our midfield would begin to look as though it might be able to handle itself in either the Vanarama or League Two.
"What we need Dev is players who are good enough for the National League who will also be good enough for L2." By the way Matt that is exactly what I said. BUT players being given free transfers at the end of the League Two season are specifically being told they WEREN'T good enough for League Two. So how can signing more than perhaps one wrongly-released player be a good thing?
We have to recognise we are a Vanarama Team, not an EFL team and aim to win the league we are in.
If we go down with a team full of ex-League Two players we'll need a manager who is an exceptionally good motivator. Does that sound like Jack? Maybe it sounds like John Sheridan who just won the Joey Barton prize for saving Fleetwood from relegation?
I've been studying this for two years at least and League Two players who are willing to drop down are going mostly to lack the attitude and the spine to get back up. Players who are good, who may have been rejected at 17, and want to go up the ladder and prove themselves are what we need. The sort of player would be Mitch Brundle, rejected at Bristol, at 24 captain at Dover, their rock in midfield, would love the chance to prove himself an EFL player. Pair him with Ady Pinnock from Dover too and already our midfield would begin to look as though it might be able to handle itself in either the Vanarama or League Two.
"What we need Dev is players who are good enough for the National League who will also be good enough for L2." By the way Matt that is exactly what I said. BUT players being given free transfers at the end of the League Two season are specifically being told they WEREN'T good enough for League Two. So how can signing more than perhaps one wrongly-released player be a good thing?
We have to recognise we are a Vanarama Team, not an EFL team and aim to win the league we are in.