Balham Green is right yet again.
Let's bring this thread back yet again... Sorry but i'm annoyed to be proven right. Deary deary me... the loan market is fine to add flourish but when it's to make up a team it's an accident waiting to happen.
I'm going to do a comparison to last season's squad to really make it simple for posters. I'm not sure why there are 116 threads not only on pasoti but on twitter as to why we are in a bit of a pickle, and of course the consensus is Foster to blame (laughable assumption), and that we aren't playing attacking football anymore
Comical stuff. Even my 7 year old girls understand the basics...
Keepers:
We are
+1 better... with Hazard
Defenders:
Pleggy / Gibson are better than Wilson / Lonwijk. Not by a million miles but anyway...
So let's give it a
+1 compared to last season (including Phillips)
Wing Backs:
Sorinola / Sousa
Probably better than Conor Grant and Gillesphey
So let's give our wing backs
+1 (although both of those ex players were versatile, plus we tend to play Mumba and Miller anyway, both players from last season. BUT i'll give that position a +1 anyway. I'm very generous.
Central Midfield
mmmmm we have Forshaw for lets say Butcher.... just about a +1 otherwise who is the Matete replacement.... mmmm so that's back to a
zero for midfield. Not improved AT ALL! Deary me.
Attacking Midfielders:
We had Azaz last season.... Callum Wright League 1 was a far better player than C.Wright champ but let's not complicate things.... Devine let's say is Azaz replacement, perhaps the only player we can blame on Foster. What about Mayor's replacement? Nothing. Never seen him apart from Cundle under Schuey perhaps?
So overall we are now
-2 for this position
Strikers:
Nothing new in this department for over a year and a half... apart from the fact that Ennis and Cosgrove aren't with us anymore.
So that's -2. Let's add Bundu in there, even though he isn't a striker at all. So back to
-1
So taking into account the final points (and i've been very generous to this season's squad...) we are on
ZERO DIFFERENCE. So basically the same standard to last season. Deary deary me. Basic rule of any season. Improve the squad, and if we are promoted especially to a league that is far far better then we need to improve the team dramatically. Bearing in mind whilst we somehow achieved over 100 points last campaign we weren't exceptional by any means. I actually think that's counted agaisnt us. Fans thinking we could just turn up in this league and easily achieve results.
So the overall result is that IF people want to blame anyone it's certainly not foster. The squad isn't any better than last season.