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It was plain to see that if we had gone into the season with the squad of youngsters we had early in preseason we would have been doomed before we even had kicked a ball.
The players we added will bring experience and still have something to offer especially guiding the young players in their first full season of professional football, can’t see us threatening the top places but hopefully we can get in and around the lower play of spots.
The National league is still a good standard with very experienced players in there, it will be a scrap at times with the likes of dorking, Woking and Maidenhead being difficult places to go, but then you have lots of ex league clubs in Wrexham,Oldham,Chesterfield,Notts County and York city.
York will be an interesting one, they will have big support and are on a roll from last season and will be playing in a brand new stadium so look forward to going there! All in all it’s is going to be a roller coaster of a season.
To play devil’s advocate, you could look at things like this:
– Young, inexperienced keeper, probably a downgrade on Watson of last season
– Boyce released by a club which finished just above relegation positions
– Butterfield the star signing not played much regular football in several seasons.
– A strike force with no track record to speak of at this level.
– Key midfield positions to be occupied by Hallam, Beestin & Feeney, all of whom have question marks over them.It’s definitely better than the position we were in at the end of May but I’m not sure yet that there is enough there to get us much higher than 18th. I hope you’re right though!
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Got to say what I have seen of Dewhurst he is as good as if not better then Rory, he definitely commands his area better the Rory, The fitness of some players is still a big question mark especially Hallam.
I remember Klopp saying about Sturridge in his early time at Liverpool “that there are injuries that stop you plying and there are injuries that stop your Brain thinking you can play with injuries” wether this is the case with Jordan don’t know but he has to surely make a decision soon on his career.
If he can’t be available to play more then half the games this season there has to be a big question make about his football career has there is no way someone will give him a contract even at semi pro level.
When The Prawn leaves the positivity begins.
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I don’t know where you get that Dewhurst is a downgrade from Watson from. Only worry for is if he picks up an injury and young Foster is left as back up.
Lot less experienced, don’t think he’s played at this level before, still quite young. He might be better, he might be worse, we shall see.
Ferrite you’re without doubt one of the most pessimistic, negative fans on this forum…we went through this last week. Can’t you for once just try and be a little more positive with your out look ?
Do you know what “playing devil’s advocate” means?
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Has Watson managed to get fixed up yet? We were told there would be loads of clubs queueing for his signature by some on here!
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Topics: 100Has Watson managed to get fixed up yet?
Having a quick trawl of the interweb it looks like the only player we released to get fixed up was Jarvis who’s gone to Torquay. Think I’d actually prefer him over Nuttall which says a lot!
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From Nuttall’s Wiki:-
“Premier League 2
After arriving on trial in July, Nuttall went on to contribute 14 goals in 15 appearances and gained two assists. It was after ten goals in seven games midway through October for the development squad that Nuttall was promoted into the first team, before dropping back down into the development squad towards the end of January 2018. On 12 May Nuttall was one of seven players nominated for Premier League 2 Player of the Season. Also, despite his 13 appearances in the Blackburn first team, Nuttall finished as the Premier League 2’s second-top goalscorer with 14 goals, behind Lukas Nmecha’s 15 strikes.”Shows what he might do at our new level maybe?
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I doubt Ronaldo would have scored more than 3 or 4 playing for the teams we put out last season.
Can you imagine the size of his tantrum after yet another cross disappeared behind the goal, on the way to the 7th defeat in a row? I reckon you could power the whole town on a sulk that size.
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