Alby39 wrote:
I think we're bang average.
We look disjointed, tired, tactically unsure and lacking in quality in attacking areas.
I don't necessarily blame GA - I feel like if he was given a trial month he'd probably have not bothered. I'm obviously half joking, but I believe he's incredibly fucked off at how little we've managed to pull off in terms of recruitment and he'd be right. We, and he, are feeding off scraps on the field.
A thing I knocked MJ for, and whilst I understand whyche said it publicly I disagreed when he said we have a good squad and it needed little improvement. In January, we could've replaced nearly the entire squad and I'd have been happy. 6 months later that still applies. If I woke up in the morning and found out Smith, Robson, Holland, Burns, Devoy, Dennis and Dean all left I'd not be remotely arsed.
That is seven players. And all seven of those at the time of writing seem to be players that'll be in the squad and have offered little to nothing to convince me they're going to change our fortunes.
The early signs in the transfer window screamed to me of improvement. Whilst I don't think an overhaul is clever, as we saw last year, I do believe improvements are necessary on a squad lacking quality and confidence.
I don't know where we'll be in a month but we need bodies, and energetic characters to give us some bite. We haven't got that at all atm.
10th would be optimistic.
Agree 100% with Alby.
Interestingly five of the seven on his list (six if you include Grant) are mid-fielders and yet when I suggested a few weeks ago that we needed to have a clear out to avoid another season of being bullied/outfought in this area I was accused by someone of ruining their pre-season optimism.
GA’s body language in his last two interviews is poor and suggests to me that he too is pretty concerned about the way things are shaping up.
Pre-season form is a notoriously bad indicator of how things will pan out but I have to say it is not looking good just now.
Boy I hope I am wrong on this one.