I would think with these three games off it gives the club ample extra time to get in some experienced pro’s but the silence is deafening!
Anyone heard anything?
I wouldn’t have expected any movement for the 7 days after the postponement ad I think everybody stayed away from the club.
I would hope that we get two new experienced players through the door this coming week to allow us to try and push up the table to ease some fears.
However, with the new lockdown I would think the EFL may start to look at whether leagues one and two can continue. They can’t furlough players for November and most clubs have said end Nov is when the money runs out. Let’s face it without a vaccine we’ll be doing the same in February
I think that’s probably right. Hard to see any signings with all the uncertainty, we have 30+ players and signing any more who might never get on the pitch looks unlikely IMO.
Forgot that our players were furloughed in the first lockdown Ironawe. Hope Swanny furloughs them again and forces the Efl’s hand, or any other chairman for that matter.
More experience? If or when we start back, with a 1-442 (as everyone on here thinks it’s the only shape to play) and we start with
Howard
Clarke, Onariase, McGahey, Brown
Gilliead, Beestin, Taylor, Eisa
McAtee Olomola
Which if you are as good as your last game is harsh on some of the inexperienced players who played against Exeter.
The above team is full of experience with a couple of younger players. Please tell me where more experience is needed?
Got to say I agree with Eandmee, possibly another Cm needed to thicken the squad? But Beestin has hardly had a sniff and has 50 apps under his belt with Donny and Taylor still yet to come out his shell after a ‘wonder’ year with Port Vale.
With additions of Howard and Brown we finally have more experience at the back and if/when Clarke returns that’s another massively experienced player (with quality). Flying Dutchman still yet to return. Call me a happy clapper but after recent (last 2 games) I feel the worst could be over. UTI
it is baffling, we need new players, we should not have gone through close season with the Chairman picking players for the club. This is why we are in the predicament we are in whereby we need some experience down the spine to have a chance of remaining in the football league. We don’t need more players we just needed the right players picked by the right type of person in the first place. Ex players coming out saying the same tells the real story.
Sure, I understand in normal circumstances that fans would want more players but we have a squad of 30+ and we are currently not playing games in front of fans and we’re unlikely to do so for the rest of the season I would have thought.
I do question the mental health of some people on this forum, who in my opinion lack any kind of commonsense.
Beestin has played one game, albeit a very good one. Taylor’s best performance was alongside Beestin, that was the best game he’s had.
Very early on to be saying we don’t need another CM which I find absolutely ridiculous. Other than those two, who are both unknown quantities, who is there to step in if either of those two either get found out or become injured ?
Vincent’s out until January time. Spence is a defensive midfielder and then we have Hornshaw, who again is a defensive midfielder, and another unknown quantity…who’s been doing a terrible job at RB. Which is no real fault of his own.
How can we not need another CM ?. I’m bemused at the people who say we don’t need one. Throw into the mix we have Eisa who’s picked up a bad injury, which means we have Hippolyte who’s been shocking since he’s got here and Dales who’s clearly not rated.
A few would even say we need a striker as well in all fairness. Jarvis seemingly would struggle to finish his dinner. Loft’s a donkey. Turan is another unknown quantity. Olomola still isn’t deemed fit enough and McAtee has been substandard so far. Big Kevs won’t be fit enough till next month.
We definitely need a players in. Before people keep saying “o, well we have so many players on the books” you’re right we do. The squads so unbalanced and we’re still in dire need of experience which is the fault of one man and one man only.
I keep saying this, stemming back a few season…until Swann stops fecking about signing players when he has no clue what and who we need, this will keep happening.
Put it this way, Swann better move himself and a get a few players because if he doesn’t he’d have let down Cox. Swann was the one who said we were looking to get a few more in.
” We don’t need more players we just needed the right players picked by the right type of person in the first place.”
Spot on, out of the 30+ we have there are probably 7 or 8 that won’t figure in the match day squad unless we’re devastated by injury or Covid. Also some of those that make the squad will just be there to make up the numbers with little hope of getting on the pitch. A harsh assessment? Maybe but a genuine opinion nonetheless.
Spot on, out of the 30+ we have there are probably 7 or 8 that won’t figure in the match day squad unless we’re devastated by injury or Covid. Also some of those that make the squad will just be there to make up the numbers with little hope of getting on the pitch. A harsh assessment? Maybe but a genuine opinion nonetheless.
And non more than you WG you can’t even except facts,so doubt if you have any common sense.
Except what facts ?. You mean the stupid transfer committee yet again putting their foot in it, signing a stupidly unbalanced, inexperienced squad ?
It’s the sheer stupidity by those at the top which means me now have to rabble around in the free transfer bin because who ever it was who signed the players did an absolutely terrible job of it.
When I mean terrible, I mean TERRIBLE.
Don’t come at me with rubbish like that, you should aim that towards Swannster.
It was you who said scunny under Wilcox was unsuccessful,and we needed help from an other team on the last game of the season to win promotion which was obviously not factual.
We limped over the line by losing at Exeter. But that was after a world record run of 28 games unbeaten start to Wilcox’s managerial reign, a lot of the footy wasn’t pretty but common sense should tell you it is hardly underwhelming, we only lost 5 league games that season,so if anybody’s mental health should be questioned I would look in the mirror.
The mental health was tested that season by the 11 games we dropped points in injury time by sitting back late in games though we probably had the strongest squad in the division.
Simple fact. Started a critical season without the necessary spine for a team largely based on youngsters.
That problem can only be addressed by the addition of a tough, intelligent leader in the middle of the park.
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