Hoop Blah Maneki Neko No strikers. No defensive midfielders. No full back cover. Too many loans, too many running contract down, selling our 2 leading goal scorers, and a team full of mentally weak, physically weak, and totally inconsistent no.10s and wingers.
About covers it
Vydra, Rakels, Kermorgant, Cox - not too bad as we're effectively playing 1 up front.
Norwood, Quinn, Tshibola, Fernadez & Williams can all play in the deeper roles in the system we're playing. They were good enough when we looked so good back in September. We've also just bought another defensive midfielder in Evans too.
Inconsistent and mentally weak may well be true. The contract situation with too many players and the uncertainty around the club are, IMO, probably pretty big factors and are more a symptom of the bigger issue that seems to be hovering over the club. They're something the manager needs to handle with players (a difficult task) and it isn't evidence that the squad doesn't have enough quality within it, more the opposite if you ask me.
I kinda believe they should be good enough tbf. But to say that a mentally shot decent striker,an old player whos not played for most of the season, A player from Latvia who weve seen 20 mins of, and Cox (lol) is not too bad is just wrong.
Theyre clearly not good enough right now.
Do I believe that once rakels and Kermorgant get up to speed, along with vydra getting over being dumped after taking Watford up, and it will look very decent.
But those arent descriptions of those players NOW.
I agree Norwood can play the Qback role very well, but that isnt a defensive midfielder. Same goes for Williams, Fernandez etc.
Our defence is too leaky to do away with that cover Imo.
Tish is gr8 but also injured, and very young and inexperienced.
Quinn is gr8 and agree he could play cdm. But hes not a cdm now/yet.
Its imbalanced and patchy Imo.
Though there is quality there.
I agree, theyre good enough to be much higher, but for the last year they look exactly as good as their league position.
Its understandable though, with the mess the club has been for a while, the multiple managers, the huge player turnaround in the summer, and loss of our two best goal scorers in January.
Despite all this ive seen improvement in results, performance, Attitude and application, as well as signs of life from players id almost given up on.its just very slow progress, due to the above.
I think the players and manager are good enough to get this squad playing, and will do when rakels and Kermorgant are up to speed.
