The Doctor":s1g1jyi9 said:xmastree":s1g1jyi9 said:Contrast this with Lowe's "consolidation". Nearing the end of this season of "consolidation", Argyle actually own only 2 defenders with any experience, one of whom is old, injury-prone and currently moonlighting (badly) in the commentary box. Both Sawyer and Aimson are out of contract at the end of the season, so we have no defenders whatsoever signed up for next season. The rest of the defence is made up by a gang of loanees, boys expected to do men's jobs who IMHO have taken some unfair stick. Lowe had a chance to perhaps consolidate and start to rebuild the defence in January, but he declined to replace the departing experience of Canavan and Wootton, opting instead for more callow loanees, including a LB bereft of defensive nous.
This is spot on. I find the fact that we will have to completely rebuild the defence during the summer really hard to understand. The only thing I can think is that one or more of the loan players is already lined up to join again but even if that is true there is still a huge job to be done to create any kind of defence for next season, let alone one that is better than this seasonās (which it certainly needs to be as this one has one of the worst records for conceding goals in the whole division).
Yep absolutely you can be as delighted with the manager as you like but for me he has failed defensively this season. He needs a complete rebuild at the back, some of the defending has been shocking to say the least.