Grendel
Well-Known Member
Some decisions have to be made and they need to be the right ones.
Today was a major disappointment. Yes the focus will be on the referee and two or three decisions that were made wrongly. However, they gloss over some issues and concerns. Sheffield looked a team devoid of all positivity. The manager looked almost thorn-like in his cliche ridden interview. This was a team who looked beaten before they walked on the pitch.
The January window will prove pivitol to the whole season.
The club needs a new experienced goalkeeper. It is the one position that we seem to have neglected. It's one area where opposition teams have stronger players. Rcc is a fine prospect but to expect him to cope with the increasing pressure as the Golden Fleece of a top 6 place draws near is too much. Burge, to use a popular phrase, is not even on the radar. The budget should have been utilised to get a keeper in the first place. Spending on Johnson, Tudgay and fortune has not worked.
Stokes will not last the whole season. He cannot play every game. Pressley was ultimately undone as he never addressed Haynes. If stokes hadn't arrived last season we'd have gone down. We need a back up - and Haynes as with Burge will not deliver.
A new centre half is clearly needed.
The obsession with cole is disturbing. A player signed on a month loan who isn't for the month is odd. If he's in and around the squad you get the need to play him. However he looks insipid for large periods.
Tudgay and fortune seem just to be periphery players. Kent looks wasteful and frustrating.
Mowbray is the best thing to happen to the club for a long time but is not infallible. He has had teams at the top of a league at January and failed to get to the play offs.
Given the precarious position of the club off the field we have to be in the top 6 this season.
The decisions in January will decide this.
They have to be right.
It may be a two year project but year two needs to be how to survive in the championship.
Today was a major disappointment. Yes the focus will be on the referee and two or three decisions that were made wrongly. However, they gloss over some issues and concerns. Sheffield looked a team devoid of all positivity. The manager looked almost thorn-like in his cliche ridden interview. This was a team who looked beaten before they walked on the pitch.
The January window will prove pivitol to the whole season.
The club needs a new experienced goalkeeper. It is the one position that we seem to have neglected. It's one area where opposition teams have stronger players. Rcc is a fine prospect but to expect him to cope with the increasing pressure as the Golden Fleece of a top 6 place draws near is too much. Burge, to use a popular phrase, is not even on the radar. The budget should have been utilised to get a keeper in the first place. Spending on Johnson, Tudgay and fortune has not worked.
Stokes will not last the whole season. He cannot play every game. Pressley was ultimately undone as he never addressed Haynes. If stokes hadn't arrived last season we'd have gone down. We need a back up - and Haynes as with Burge will not deliver.
A new centre half is clearly needed.
The obsession with cole is disturbing. A player signed on a month loan who isn't for the month is odd. If he's in and around the squad you get the need to play him. However he looks insipid for large periods.
Tudgay and fortune seem just to be periphery players. Kent looks wasteful and frustrating.
Mowbray is the best thing to happen to the club for a long time but is not infallible. He has had teams at the top of a league at January and failed to get to the play offs.
Given the precarious position of the club off the field we have to be in the top 6 this season.
The decisions in January will decide this.
They have to be right.
It may be a two year project but year two needs to be how to survive in the championship.