Signings tomorrow

Quoted from Swansea_Mariner

Isn't Rose a McAlister type?

Don't see it. Rose gets up & down the pitch, McAllister sits in front of the back 4 - I think Berrett has been playing the McAllister role & has been getting better but it doesn't look natural to him.

In his interview for Ifollow  Rose said himself that sitting in front of the back four was a new position for him and he was relaying on Clarke and Collins to help him through it. So Slade has instructed him to play that way, even if it's not his natural position.

Biggest problem is at the moment no one wants to take the excrement of us, prbably due to being on good wages for excrement players though, Hursty left some right tripe.  Was it done on purpose?

Bit like fergy left Man U, he new the time to get out cos the team was gash.

We don't really have a squad of 29 though do we? You're including Keeble, Sawyer and Akheem Rose in that number and they're not ready for the first team.

From what I can see we've got a squad of 25, with Osborne, Asante and McAllister all long term absentees. Clements currently unavailable too. It's not big by any stretch.

Slade said preseason he wanted like 21-22 with a few youngsters on the fringe so we are above that already.   Plus these young lads aren't here for free they all draw a wage even if it's just full time minimum wage.

Apparently a few things are bubbling away at the moment...

Quoted from Jarmo.Is.God

Apparently a few things are bubbling away at the moment...

Yes, Fentys a*se at the thought of having to cough up more dosh.

Didn't man u  win the league in fergies last season ? . Hardly gash

Well, whichever way you look at it - injured players or not - we must have a huge wage bill.

Since you-know-who left, we've just been chucking new players into an already large squad, which has stripped it from any identity it once had.

Gone are the stalwarts. Once again the revolving door is operating at maximum speed. I could probably handle another season finishing 14th if we had a regular XI to get behind, but we've made so many new signings and seen so many debuts in the last 10 months that I feel increasingly numb about a lot of things.

Quoted from RichMariner

Well, whichever way you look at it - injured players or not - we must have a huge wage bill.

Since you-know-who left, we've just been chucking new players into an already large squad, which has stripped it from any identity it once had.

Gone are the stalwarts. Once again the revolving door is operating at maximum speed. I could probably handle another season finishing 14th if we had a regular XI to get behind, but we've made so many new signings and seen so many debuts in the last 10 months that I feel increasingly numb about a lot of things.

It's hardly as if PH kept the squad together! He tore it apart and we only had 5 left from the promotion winning squad. Of the players that remained, three have gone back to non-league. So to some extent we've had to do sign a lot of players and I really don't buy the above opinion that this has occurred since PH left and he is unaccountable. He deserves a large portion of the blame. Look at the squad that PH left:
- Macca and Henderson in goal (not too bad)
- Mills, Davies, Collins, Pearson, Gowling, Boyce, Jones, Andrew in defence. 5/8 of those have left with only 1 moving upwards deservedly and the others now playing in non-league so what does that tell you?
- Bolarinwa, Browne, Berrett, Chambers, Summerfield, Comley, Vose, McAllister, Disley in midfield. So four are left but two  (Berrett and Summerfield) are not good enough and one is a crock unfortunately. Comley wasn't good enough. Disley is now in the Conference North and was too old to be a mainstay. Chambers is in the Conference North. Browne it didn't work out. And Vose doesn't even have a club! So we're left with 1 fit and useful midfielder from the squad PH put together.
- Up front we had Bogle, Vernon, Tuton and Jackson. Vernon was unfit at the start of the season. Tuton was useless and Jackson showed glimpses of promise but didn't do enough. We had a squad that solely relied on Bogle and he was always going to go either in January or this summer. Which would have left us with a squad that would have not scored any goals in a month of Sundays.

PH was a decent manager and he's doing a really good job so far this season with Shrewsbury. However, the squad he left us with was pants and would have been in deep trouble had we not had Bogle on form (also remember he didn't start Bogle for the first three games for some unknown reason). We needed to bring players in but the main problem has been not getting rid of some of those who are probably biggish earners (Berrett and Summerfield) and some of the signings brought in haven't been inspiring either (Kelly, Clarke and Dixon).