13-02-2019, 08:38 PM
(13-02-2019, 03:03 PM)NG3 Wrote:(13-02-2019, 02:50 PM)Strawberry Avenger Wrote:(13-02-2019, 02:46 PM)Widdow Wrote: As I think this season is now very difficult to get in top 6, I believe we should start to bed in players now for next season. We don't need to keep relying on the likes of Ben "Ave it" Watson or Murphy up front. Yates shows you can play the youngsters, so lets see who can make the next step up.
That would help us work out what we need and who we can get rid of come the summer.
Decent post, Widdow.
SA. :cool:
I don't think managers have the luxury of being able to write of seasons prematurely.
Yes we should have used Ryan, & possibly others, earlier & yes we should have alternatives in mind for ageing players like Watson & Murphy etc., but these are things we should have been looking at last summer, not at the business end of the season.
It's one of the things I've been going on about for a long time, long term planning with regards to squad management & both recruitment & the integration of players from the academy, & with that in mind, if the play offs become mathematically impossible I'd expect to see the pace of experimentation increase, but for now we still have to balance getting results as well.
Aye.
Perhaps that is where the most recent recruit to backroom staff comes in?
SA.