1. A manager who doesn’t know the club and it’s importance to the town.
2. Lazy 30 something wage-thieves who only come here to top up their pension. These are the same players who keep our exciting young talent out of the match day squad.
3. Fans who get on the players’ backs or who berate the manager from the terraces.
Well, guess what? Done of this applies to the current season. So who will the scapegoat be this time?
Of the top of my head, the ten we signed in the transfer window: –
Cordner
Onariase
Spence
Hippolyte
Vincent
Taylor
Loft
Jarvis
Mooney
Turan
So that’s roughly 2x CB. 4x MF. 4x ST. More importantly 0x GK & 0x FB.
Did we need four more midfielders and four more strikers? Surely a broader range of acquisitions would have been more logical?
Only a couple of those signed were over 23 so in effect all we have is a big U23 squad, with little depth of experience.
Can we send back the loans? Let’s face it Cordner’s bottle looks to have gone, Vincent has been fairly ineffective and Taylor is being played too deep.
Did we need Hippolyte when we had Green and Dales here already? Did we need Loft, Jarvis and Turan?
So yes, Brown is a welcome addition, but it’s still just papering over the cracks of a particularly odd transfer window.
“Exciting young players”, “they’ve been on our radar for a while”, “attacking football”. Neil has my full backing”.
Swann has always talked a good game, but has never backed up his rhetoric.
A lot of similarities with the way the government are handling things. Plenty of catchphrases, and reassuring promises, but in reality to little, too late. Taking no notice of those in the know and not giving a shit about joe public.
