So you think we'll lose are first 5 games and everyone else's challenging for the top will win the first 5 games?
Listen to the pod casts again and ljs interviews they both mentioned the need to get players in early. All coaches agree. Fergie generally did this and reaped benefits
Not having any full backs or a centre half to play with Doyle and another striker. It all mounts up. It may be 15 we miss out on it may be less but we can't afford to give anyone a head start.
and frankly if we lose our first 5 games it’s because we need an entire new team. Not having the last remaining players aren’t going to turn a winning side into a losing one for five consecutive games. I agree we risk losing points. But we don’t risk losing 15 of them
winchester and Dyce at full back, with Wright and Doyle at centre back, and Stewart up front, on the opening day, isn’t ideal. But it’s by no means turning our team from a winning one to a losing one five times out of five.
How many times does that happen. Also we had a strong leader in Keane. LJ has many positives but he's not Keane like.
People forget we live in the easily deeply offended era, people like to whine and complain robustly about the most trivial agenda. Take your average supermarket shelf stacker, not many days pass where irate Joe public is giving him a proper tongue lashing for the most random trivial thing. Twits like to tweet important people, nobody is more important than the tweeter. Sorry to say, but society is fcuked. Have we signed any fullbacks yet BTW ?
Key. Vital. Important do rlyou want be to quote word for word. Your being perdantic. Point is they both waved players in by now and they aren't.
We'll soon see but it's that type of patching up that cist us last season. How anyone can think playing that is ok is beyond me.
Got to agree with you totally on this. If we are still playing Winchester for example at right back from September until the start of the January transfer window then we have something to be seriously concerned about but until the transfer window closes we just have to be patient
Last season Oxford and Blackpool were in the bottom half after 5 games both finished in the playoffs and 1 went up Are first season, Luton started poor won the league, Charlton started poor went up it happens nearly every season
No I'm not. If you're quoting the manager/club you should be accurate otherwise what you post is worthless.
I really don’t know how we are going to compete against the footballing juggernauts in this division... Jesus Christ. I know we’re a couple of first team players short but people are going on like we’ll be cut adrift at the foot of the table if we don’t sign a left back before the season starts.
So you'd happily be bottom half or worse after 5 games which I'd what I'm saying could happen. It's not just one game it's 5! We need to get into winning mentality and stay there. Anyone content nit to win is by extension a loser. That's the mentality I loved from Keane.
I think it’s fair that most managers would want all players in for pre season. but not having them in doesn’t mean disaster. disaster is signing the wrong players, giving them 2 year deals then spending the next 3 windows not being able to sign the right ones until you’ve got the wrong ones off your books There’s no way Speakman or Johnson are happy with our business or comfortable with where we are. But it’s a darn sight better than an alternative reality where we have filled our squad up with future deadwood
