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Just looking at the league table and realised we have lost fewer games than Rotherham and Charlton who sit 4th and 5th respectively. Clearly we have drawn too many games this season, however, do you thing we have a strong enough base for at least the play offs next season, is it that easy to turn draws into wins? Or do we need to strengthen in many areas?Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Quote from: hamiltonrover on April 20, 2018, 07:31:48 pmJust looking at the league table and realised we have lost fewer games than Rotherham and Charlton who sit 4th and 5th respectively. Clearly we have drawn too many games this season, however, do you thing we have a strong enough base for at least the play offs next season, is it that easy to turn draws into wins? Or do we need to strengthen in many areas?Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI think we need to strengthen in 5 areas; right back, left back, centre back, midfield, and striker.
Blair -noHoughton noKiwomya noMay noBeestin noWe’ll Stay League 1 for a long time with this lot .
Would not disagree with much of that, aside from Blair as a right back which is clearly not credible at upper League One level and aside from Marquis, the strike force. The other three have scored a total of 20 goals in 138 games, mostly not in League One - or as comparison, an average of less than 7 goals between them on a 46 game season. Not enough.
Logically, we are 36 points off being top of the table. That's not far from a point a game we need to improve. That's about how far off we are.
Quote from: scawsby steve on April 20, 2018, 07:54:33 pmQuote from: hamiltonrover on April 20, 2018, 07:31:48 pmJust looking at the league table and realised we have lost fewer games than Rotherham and Charlton who sit 4th and 5th respectively. Clearly we have drawn too many games this season, however, do you thing we have a strong enough base for at least the play offs next season, is it that easy to turn draws into wins? Or do we need to strengthen in many areas?Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI think we need to strengthen in 5 areas; right back, left back, centre back, midfield, and striker.So pretty much everywhere!! I think we need cover at both full backs, Mason at right and Andrew at left would be my choice, I think CB is ok if Frenchy stays, midfield needs some pace.Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I think we’ve proven In the second half of the season that we’re not far off at all from being a play off contender next season. I think our strongest 11 is very good for this level Mason and Blair right back Andrew and Rowe left back Wright, Butler, Baudry, Anderson? Centre halves Houghton? McCullough, copps, Rowe, whitemanMarquis, kiwomya, may, beestin. I’d say the defence is ok and we need a midfielder and a striker, a nasty midfielder and a striker to compliment marquis
Quote from: hamiltonrover on April 20, 2018, 10:02:00 pmQuote from: scawsby steve on April 20, 2018, 07:54:33 pmQuote from: hamiltonrover on April 20, 2018, 07:31:48 pmJust looking at the league table and realised we have lost fewer games than Rotherham and Charlton who sit 4th and 5th respectively. Clearly we have drawn too many games this season, however, do you thing we have a strong enough base for at least the play offs next season, is it that easy to turn draws into wins? Or do we need to strengthen in many areas?Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkI think we need to strengthen in 5 areas; right back, left back, centre back, midfield, and striker.So pretty much everywhere!! I think we need cover at both full backs, Mason at right and Andrew at left would be my choice, I think CB is ok if Frenchy stays, midfield needs some pace.Sent from my iPhone using TapatalkHamilton, having just 3 centre backs this season cost us big time when they all got injured, and Fergie said that he wants 2 players for each position; seeing as every modern team has 2 centre backs, that would obviously mean increasing it to 4. As I've said in other posts, my 4 would be Baudry, Butler, Wright, and Anderson.
Steve, Only as cover, if say mason or Andrew got a one match ban or a niggling injury I’d be happy for Blair or Rowe to cover for a game or two. But if they got a long term injury then I agree we’d need a replacement. I’m not sure we have the budget to have 4 full backs who are all top end league one standard.
Quote from: Chris Black come back on April 20, 2018, 10:54:23 pmWould not disagree with much of that, aside from Blair as a right back which is clearly not credible at upper League One level and aside from Marquis, the strike force. The other three have scored a total of 20 goals in 138 games, mostly not in League One - or as comparison, an average of less than 7 goals between them on a 46 game season. Not enough.Or, to look at it another way, those are three inexperienced players who between them have scored 17 goals in their first 66 league starts. If we had a player come up through the ranks who scored 17 in 66 starts in his first 2 or 3 seasons, we’d be chuffed to bits with him and think there was something to work on. Perspective? John Marquis scored 20 in his first 67 league starts