spider_ricoh
New Member
Apologies if this has been done already, but it seems seriously concerning that our current squad is very small and will need extra bodies next season.
Conventional wisdom is that you need 2 players for every position. At the moment we have got:
GK: Murphy (if he says - I guess he will), Burge - covered
DF: Clarke, Willis, Phillips, Haynes, Webster, Adams, Seabourne - presuming Christie leaves, we need an extra defender, preferably a solid CB or a competent RB
MF: Baker, Fleck, Thomas, Marshall (presuming he stays and Moussa leaves) - we are clearly seriously understaffed here, even assuming we will get 1-2 academy graduates.
CF: Assuming that Wilson is sold (a reasonable assumption) and the loanees Delfounso and Eccleston leave, we have no senior cover other than Billy Daniels - so we need THREE strikers!
The solution could be that James Bailey is likely to be available to plug one gap in midfield, but we will need several strikers and at least one senior central midfielder and wideman if we are to have any chance of putting out a reasonable squad.
Whether this is realistic remains to be seen!
Conventional wisdom is that you need 2 players for every position. At the moment we have got:
GK: Murphy (if he says - I guess he will), Burge - covered
DF: Clarke, Willis, Phillips, Haynes, Webster, Adams, Seabourne - presuming Christie leaves, we need an extra defender, preferably a solid CB or a competent RB
MF: Baker, Fleck, Thomas, Marshall (presuming he stays and Moussa leaves) - we are clearly seriously understaffed here, even assuming we will get 1-2 academy graduates.
CF: Assuming that Wilson is sold (a reasonable assumption) and the loanees Delfounso and Eccleston leave, we have no senior cover other than Billy Daniels - so we need THREE strikers!
The solution could be that James Bailey is likely to be available to plug one gap in midfield, but we will need several strikers and at least one senior central midfielder and wideman if we are to have any chance of putting out a reasonable squad.
Whether this is realistic remains to be seen!