Its an intresting topic. Depends on systems and style of play as well. A player coming from a team that is about say for example moving the ball directly and quickly forward will struggle with a team that has a patient passing approach. Players play in teams and it takes awhile for them to adjust as they can be so used to playing a set way in another side. I feel that Jennings and Fleck may take time to adjust but Kilbane i thought should have hit the ground running. Again the work done in training is vital to easing players in.
My own club is an example of this. Three years ago we got essentially an entire new team and we finished 7th out of 14 in the divsion we play in. Howver the followwing season we exactly the same players as we did not have one new addition we finished 2nd and got promoted. We were more comfortable with each other and adapted to what our manager wanted us too do. That is the case with any club and any players, yes some players will adapt sooner but in general every team will take awhile of playing together to gel.
be patient with the new lads and be optimistic that come january we will still be in touch and then we should start to see huge improvments in performances. At the moment results are key not performance and if we can big up wins and draws without playing a solid 90 mins that will come.
good post, it is not just the number of players introduced. It is the players themselves.
Wood and Malaga for example have quickly formed a partnership. When Edge and Malaga played together in friendles it was obvious for all to see that they would take longer to gel.
It is also the amount of time they get to play together. Yeovil for example have half the squad size of us. I am guessing in their friendlies a lot of them would have got a bit more playing time together.
To be honest it is a bit of a recognised fact of footballing life that new players in a team take time to settle.
Some dont, look at Robbie Keane. Others do, the man utd goalie. Gary macalister at cov, took a bit of time.
Personally I don't care about other teams, we have an away draw, I will take them all day long. We also have a home draw against one of the better teams in the division.
We will get better as our players bed in. No question mark in my mind.
It has to happen, the likes of Barton reading codey's runs, Malaga understanding when Clarke and hussey are likely to make a move.
Fleck having confidence that Jennings can cover him etc....
All these things take time. Is that really that impossible to comprehend.
