carpetfitter Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 5 hours ago, Wrangodog said: I think you can argue that all the January signings, Ajer, Woodman, and Sammon, kept us up. Fair dos. Agree. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piffer Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 Whats the point of signing Power not to play every week. We needed a dominant CM to build the team around. The youth policy is an easy get out. If they are there for the CM positions why are Chris Burke and Rory McKenzie playing. Probably because the kids aren't quite ready. If they're not ready then the squad is short of players. Weve signed Higgins, Broadfoot and Greer for CB. We already had Scott Boyd on the books. We also have Dicker and Wilson who can provide cover there. That's six players in the first team squad to fill two spots in a starting 11. Why are we still going looking for additional cover. If it's Ajer he wants why sign the other three and not just wait for your number one target. He's done a lot of his business backwards IMO. He's built a squad when he should have sorted out key roles within the team before padding out the squad. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carpetfitter Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 1 hour ago, piffer said: Whats the point of signing Power not to play every week. We needed a dominant CM to build the team around. The youth policy is an easy get out. If they are there for the CM positions why are Chris Burke and Rory McKenzie playing. Probably because the kids aren't quite ready. If they're not ready then the squad is short of players. Weve signed Higgins, Broadfoot and Greer for CB. We already had Scott Boyd on the books. We also have Dicker and Wilson who can provide cover there. That's six players in the first team squad to fill two spots in a starting 11. Why are we still going looking for additional cover. If it's Ajer he wants why sign the other three and not just wait for your number one target. He's done a lot of his business backwards IMO. He's built a squad when he should have sorted out key roles within the team before padding out the squad. Agree 100%. One additional thought stimulated by your post piffer. Over the past few years by different managers at various times it has been a default to criticise young players for the team's shortcomings yet as much if not more of the blame has lain with older players. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WWWWnnnnnn! Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 Won 8 out of 40 home games. 18 out of 70 matches. Lee won 4 out of 16. We need drastic changes to improve the players we have on the training pitch for fitness and attitude or I sadly see us fighting relegation again. If players don't improve they need to be dropped and youngsters given their chance. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harrogate Peter Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 At least the youngsters can run about ......... we have far too many immobile players and everyone knows who they are. Their condition (and we've had a more than a few fatties in recent years) and the number of injuries we've had over the last 4 or 5 years have to be an indictment of the training regime, successive managers and the individuals themselves. A professional footballers body is his toolkit and anyone who can't subscribe to that should be punted, or better yet, never recruited in the first place!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piffer Posted August 18, 2017 Report Share Posted August 18, 2017 2 hours ago, carpetfitter said: Agree 100%. One additional thought stimulated by your post piffer. Over the past few years by different managers at various times it has been a default to criticise young players for the team's shortcomings yet as much if not more of the blame has lain with older players. Spot on. AJ and Locke especially were quick to criticise but it was the young guys who bailed them out. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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