But it’s not just the home-growns it’s any young player joining the club.
Look at the loans from “bigger” clubs. For every Ivan Toney there’s a George Thomas, an Ike Ugbo, a Stephen Humphrys and a George Miller. They more often than not start off looking the part then go backwards as the season progresses.
And don’t get me started on Clayton Lewis, Dom Vose, Johnny Margetts, Yasin Ben El Mhanni and Andrew Crofts.
We have signed players and been told they are going to be the dog’s bollocks, but more often than not they end up being completely bollocks!
What’s happened to the club that used to turn raw talent like Andy Keogh, Billy Sharp and Gary Hooper into class acts?
Seriously worried about the whole setup at the moment.
We need Swann because without him we wouldn’t be established in the Championship playing exciting attacking football in our brand new all-seater stadium!
Agree we should put our hands in our pockets, but I’m not sure that they should be described as “lovely” and “looks really good”.
Poppy badges & brooches in various guises have become more like a fashion accessory of late. The direct opposite of what they were first designed for – to remember the futility and suffering of a whole generation. The old paper poppy was unassuming and fragile like life itself.
However, anything that gets folk to contribute to the appeal has to be a good thing. Just don’t wear it all year like some people I know!
Full back definitely. CM not so sure as we’ve got Vincent, Taylor, Spence, Hallam, Beestin, Pugh and arguably McAttee. Plus Gilliead is being used there and isn’t CM Hornshaw’s preferred slot?
What we are lacking in that area is experience and leadership.
Some of our squad must have stiff necks from looking across at the technical area so often.
If anything signing Taylor has muddied the waters…signing him has just further complicated things.
Definitely!
Loan in Taylor OR Vincent. To bring in both seems crazy given our paucity in the FB position. Junior Brown would have been a decent addition. Dunno why we haven’t gone for him.
A squad of 25 with two players for each position plus a couple of utility types and an experienced leader on the pitch.
Or are we hoarding players away for the winter months?
If you’re playing with wingers “tucked in” then you need good full backs/wing backs.
We have no good full backs (apart from the one with a sick note) and Swann has neatly avoided bringing any in in the transfer window.
We’ve brought in another midfielder to add the the ones we not only have, but have forgotten about. We’ve also gone from having two strikers to having seven on the books.
Well done to finding two decent centre backs, but not so well done for going into a new season with no experienced full backs and a goalie who has one good game in five.
So we once again have an unbalanced squad. Colclough looking like the new Adam Hamill. Eisa benched in favour of Hippolyte. A full treatment room. These are not new scenarios. They seem to be all too familiar to us long suffering fans.
