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December 4, 2021, 2:00pm

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Let's not beat about the bush ,PH inherited a ' bag of sh*t ' squad due to the previous manager and regime. The club , administradly, structurally and playing squad wise was in a total mess. During the summer PH made wholesale changes and brought in a virtually completely new 1st team squad. Some of those new players will have been 'educated gambles ' and the whole thing was ' work in progress '. Add to this a new Board and Chairman with a philosophy of reconnecting with the fans and dragging the administration of the club into the 21st century. Bearing all this in mind I am amazed he has produced a team that currently sits in the higher reaches of the play-offs . Everything he and the Board are doing is building a squad and club for the future. Ideally we want promotion back into the league this season and with the right additions and tweaks I think this is possible. Being realistic though , this is a big ask. Not many clubs have done this at the first attempt but it has been done. Like a previous poster I would rather do this with an existing squad capable of holding their own in League 2 as opposed to making wholesale changes once promotion was achieved. The loan players ,like Hunt and Towler , have really helped us thus far but a dependency on loan players in key areas sits uneasy with me. They can be recalled by their parent clubs and we are faced then with the need to find a replacement as good as if not better. IMO this season is one of stabilisation and squad building with the added bonus that if we get promoted as well then great.


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