(14-04-2019, 11:04 AM)Salvatore Matrecano Wrote: SA, your argument with the players not being good enough falls down because the players WERE good enough early in the season. Playing well as a unit and a tight gameplan they were 5th, Holding theor own against all the tops teams when we played them.
The recruitment in the summer was wasteful and scattergun but somewhere in this bloated squad we have enough talent to mount a top 6 challenge. I am certain we have more talent in our squad than Sheff Utd, I am also certain that Karanka would have got us top 6 if he had stayed.
It isnt working now and we are going backwards and for that reason I am losing patience. But someone desperately needs to come up with a strategy that works and that we see through.
They weren't though. The majority of AK's tenure (21 weeks out of 26) was spent outside the top 6.
Being 5th for one week isn't a top 6 side. The week AK left we were 7th, the 2 weeks before we were 10th.
Having a 6-8 week period when most your players are fit & firing & you spend the odd week in the top 6 is just a good bit of form, not a genuine top 6 squad.
The first 11, when fit, settled & on form is top 6, but few sides see first 11's last all season, here it lasted a few months.
The squad for me is a handful of top 6 players backed with mostly a mid-table support cast. Over a season it's simply not good enough.