Ade the green":3t8tgiwd said:HC Green":3t8tgiwd said:Mark Pedlar":3t8tgiwd said:HC Green":3t8tgiwd said:So of the starting 11 on Saturday how many would you have dropped, how many of the 7 on the bench wouldn’t you have had?
We need a midfielder. In my view of what I've seen so far from Ness and Sarcevic they are not quite the players we need. DA sort of agrees as he brought in Diagouraga although I will take the point that Diagouraga's arrival and departure coincide with Ness's availability (or lack of it). The autumn showed us that our only option to replace Taylor was Jervis (although Grant was never tried there) and he was definitely a second rate option.
Therefore, IMHO, we need 2 players in (although a second midfielder may also be a requirement). From Saturday's squad I wouldn't have started Ness or Sarcevic. That replaced player would drop to the bench and I'd have left Wylde out. The Taylor option would have started on the bench. So the bench would have been: spare 'keeper (Letheren), full back (Miller), centre back (Songo'o), centre midfielder (Ness), attacking midfielders/shape changers (Ainsworth, Jervis), forward (a n other).
As a counter HC take three players out of the starting line-up from Saturday at random and deny that the revised line up with our current squad is significantly inferior. Lack of squad depth is our problem.
I would play Jervis, Ainsworth and Songo’o.
You are implying that we need to bring in more bench warmers, so is there any need to rush signings, just wait until the right person(s) becomes available and if they don’t that is unfortunate but there is enough cover in the squad plus the likes of Battle, Rooney, Sangster and Law that could be used.
Oh that’s okay then. We can go the rest of the season with only 1 striker, no replacement for Toumani and rely on our youth team to keep us in League 1.
Problem solved, well done.
Exactly we have a very good squad and some excellent youngsters coming through, I could have added Jephcott and Craske to the list.
I suggest people watch the U18 matches or a SWPL game just to see how good they are. Some of the U16s who sometimes play in these games are just as good if not better.