12-02-2021, 13:02
I don't think questions should be asked of cc and his tactics, if we want to play the way that this squad has to then it's back to the crisp owl era, the questions have to be asked of pH and devlin, for saying Carlos will be backed and then criminally underbacking him in 2 windows to the extent that I think the only players that have come in that he wants are eiting, pipa and vallejo.
The style of football is fine in the large part, but we needed better suited players on the whole.
I'd say pipa, toffolo, bacuna, obrien and pritch at the start of the season were the players who should have been ideally suited to the style, due to the fast pace, overlapping fullbacks and creation of space. With schindler if it was promotion season, maybe 1st prem season being good enough at cb with a few reservations over sarr.
Of those Pritchard has been the usual, bacuna indifferent, obrien yet to reach pre covid levels, schindler a bit iffy and sarr definitely iffy, whilst we've been surprised by hogg and Koroma.
I'd say that there's possibly a core squad that's good enough, with a few good back ups, but we needed investment, we're not far off. Stay up this season cut the high earners and invest properly and actually back the manager with cold hard cash, not hollow words and we could be onto something.
Schofield is still a back up or in need of a loan
Pipa is a core member without adequate back up
Schindler, sarr, keogh, Stearman, elph, green and Crich. I think one of the oldies stay, sentimentality says schinds, the others go, Crich goes on loan, sarr will be around, so we definitely need another cb that can play the system.
Toffs is a core member and I'm hoping brown is a good enough backup
Hogg and vallejo are fine with high and Austerfield being good back up, we're fine in the dm section
Cm we need someone in there, I like mpanzu at Luton, I reckon we might lose one or both of bacuna and lob so it needs proper strengthening
Wings have the potential with jk and Aarons, but still need depth
Up top we need a new starting striker, ward and Campbell are probably decent back ups, but no way we should be trying to get through a campaign with them 2 as the main men
The style of football is fine in the large part, but we needed better suited players on the whole.
I'd say pipa, toffolo, bacuna, obrien and pritch at the start of the season were the players who should have been ideally suited to the style, due to the fast pace, overlapping fullbacks and creation of space. With schindler if it was promotion season, maybe 1st prem season being good enough at cb with a few reservations over sarr.
Of those Pritchard has been the usual, bacuna indifferent, obrien yet to reach pre covid levels, schindler a bit iffy and sarr definitely iffy, whilst we've been surprised by hogg and Koroma.
I'd say that there's possibly a core squad that's good enough, with a few good back ups, but we needed investment, we're not far off. Stay up this season cut the high earners and invest properly and actually back the manager with cold hard cash, not hollow words and we could be onto something.
Schofield is still a back up or in need of a loan
Pipa is a core member without adequate back up
Schindler, sarr, keogh, Stearman, elph, green and Crich. I think one of the oldies stay, sentimentality says schinds, the others go, Crich goes on loan, sarr will be around, so we definitely need another cb that can play the system.
Toffs is a core member and I'm hoping brown is a good enough backup
Hogg and vallejo are fine with high and Austerfield being good back up, we're fine in the dm section
Cm we need someone in there, I like mpanzu at Luton, I reckon we might lose one or both of bacuna and lob so it needs proper strengthening
Wings have the potential with jk and Aarons, but still need depth
Up top we need a new starting striker, ward and Campbell are probably decent back ups, but no way we should be trying to get through a campaign with them 2 as the main men
Another day, another door, another high, another low