Exactly, the team rarely plays as a team because the nucleus of players are never togetherMany on here will state that all league 1 clubs work on a squad of free transfers loans and short-term contracts, a comparison of our squad yesterday v the equivalent fixture last season just over 12 months ago
Of the outfield players in the team and the squad just 4 (Lameiras tudgay Kelly Evans & Haynes ) were involved in both games (either starting or on subs bench) Chesterfield had 7 outfield players involved in both.
A constant churn of players ensures instability puts massive risk on the summer recruitment which when you get it wrong like we did it can be devastating, rather than changing just a few players we regularly overhaul our squad.
Another side-not to squad churn no player is ever here long enough to become a fan's favourite / hero.
pretty fair sum up but i blame the owners for the strategy
Agree totally that this is behind our current situation. The lack of squad continuity breeds a I wont be herequired long mentality. Couple that with a distinct lack of ambition from the senior management, sending a message that no one cares. Fans can't really identify with the team with such a high turnover, when promising youngsters are sold before they have even established themselves in our first team.It's basically down to a cycle of player sales, loanies and contracts running out (players leaving on a free).
Now you can blame that either on the owners and a ever decreasing player budget and a strategy based on selling a key player every year to balance the books.
Or managers/club recruitment who's transfer strategy has failed.
Or players asking for more money than they're worth.
Or a mixture of all of the above.
We get a yearly cycle of players leaving, who are either replaced by players of not the same quality or by loans who have no affinity with the club.
This cycle gradually leaves a squad with little depth or quality, a sequence that leads to poor club form and one that leads eventually to manager changes.
Which further complicates things as the inherited (even depleted) playing squad doesn't fit the philosophy of the new manager and further disruption happens.
Unfortunately for us the time when our transfer policy was buying the best young players in league 1 (Westwood, Fox, Dan etc) coincided with one of crappest managers (Coleman) and the policy of selling our best young players, coincided with one of our better managers (Mowbray ).
To be successful we need a mixture of decent transfer policy and a decent manager to take advantage of it!
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You can blame the owners for the strategy, but you have to blame TM and MV for this summer's abomination of a squad build.
You can blame the owners for the strategy, but you have to blame TM and MV for this summer's abomination of a squad build.
Well Russell Slade got Beavon and Clarke in easily and quickly enough.otis m8 did they have a choice as most players would avoid us like the plague
You can blame the owners for the strategy, but you have to blame TM and MV for this summer's abomination of a squad build.
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