Mayor Goldie Wilson
Well-known member
I'm now firmly starting to believe we won't make the play offs, and if that is the case then I'm not sure he should be here at the start of next season. Its just all a bit 'meh' at the moment, and has been for most of this season. At least last season we went on a couple of long winning/unbeaten runs, and had the distraction of a fabulous cup run which resulted in the Chelsea home game which will live long in the memory.
As for our squad building, I agree it is laughable. Our defenders are nowhere near good enough when you take a step back and look at it objectively:
Ayling - had barely played in a long time when we signed him
Dijksteel - clubs down the bottom end of the division were sniffing about him last month
van den Berg - fair enough he has potential but he has looked way off it all season
Fry - he's played for us for the best part of a decade and never had a sniff of a bigger club looking at him
Edmundson - we signed him from a Premier League club granted, but his last run of regular football was in league 1
Clarke - has just been sold to a team in the bottom 3
Giles - couldn't get a game for a team in a relegation battle (having said that, last nigh the looked miles ahead of any other left back we've had since he left first time)
Borges - average at best and will no doubt quietly sneak off back to Europe inside the next 12 months
Engel - mental strength of a wet paper bag (and also seems to have vanished off the face of the earth)
And lets not mention Smith, Lenihan and Bangura.
To not bring in at least a first time right back and centre back last month is absolutely scandalous. Ironically the type of player we need at centre back is Lenihan. An organiser who will drag people along with him.
As for our squad building, I agree it is laughable. Our defenders are nowhere near good enough when you take a step back and look at it objectively:
Ayling - had barely played in a long time when we signed him
Dijksteel - clubs down the bottom end of the division were sniffing about him last month
van den Berg - fair enough he has potential but he has looked way off it all season
Fry - he's played for us for the best part of a decade and never had a sniff of a bigger club looking at him
Edmundson - we signed him from a Premier League club granted, but his last run of regular football was in league 1
Clarke - has just been sold to a team in the bottom 3
Giles - couldn't get a game for a team in a relegation battle (having said that, last nigh the looked miles ahead of any other left back we've had since he left first time)
Borges - average at best and will no doubt quietly sneak off back to Europe inside the next 12 months
Engel - mental strength of a wet paper bag (and also seems to have vanished off the face of the earth)
And lets not mention Smith, Lenihan and Bangura.
To not bring in at least a first time right back and centre back last month is absolutely scandalous. Ironically the type of player we need at centre back is Lenihan. An organiser who will drag people along with him.