My thoughts on Simms.
I’m not bothered that he hasn’t joined us.
His stats with us look good but I think that the way we play is great for strikers who get lots of chances with our attacking play.
Being supplied by Roberts, Clarke, Amad, Cirkin, Hume and then getting passes from Neil, Onion and Pritchard must be a strikers dream.
I bet Charlie Wyke never beats his last season with us.
I reckon most strikers would thrive on the way we play.
I also think that Amad will struggle to get anywhere near last seasons performance when playing with other teams.
One worry I do have which has been mentioned a few times is that we are currently weaker than last season.
We’ve lost two first teamers in Amad and Gelhart and we have no immediate replacements.
The four bairns we’ve signed are probably a few months (at least) away from being in the first 11 as are Jewi and Lihadji.
I’m assuming we don’t lose any of those mentioned on here (Ross, Clarke, Ballard, Cirkin, Bath for examples)
Goalies are no problem. Patterson will probably be fine all season but if he gets injured I bet we could get some ‘emergency’ goalie in because other teams seem to do it.
The recruitment team are doing great so I’m sure they will at least get a couple of first 11 players in but as we saw last season sometimes things don’t work out as we want them to.
For me, 2 more first choice strikers are essential.
Ross may or may not feature and he must be considered a big injury risk.
Semedi(?) is probably not quite ready yet.
Those who say good strikers will not come to sit on the bench are wrong because if we have four they will all be rotated, rested and played and that’s not accounting for any injuries which will happen.