AucklandRover
05-02-2017, 08:51 PM
Just for interest, I have set out our current options (without considering other very promising Under-18s):
GK: Steele/Raya/Fisher
RB: Nyambe/Henley/Lowe/Travis
CB: Greer/Hoban/Mulgrew/Ward/Lenihan/Brown/Wharton/Travis/Platt/Magloire **
LB: Williams/Hendrie/Lowe/Askew/Doyle
RM/RW: Feeney/Mahoney/Bennett/Thomson
DM: Lowe/Lenihan/Mulgrew/Akpan
Up-and-Down CM: Evans/Guthrie/Mulgrew/Akpan
Creative/Attacking CM: Tomlinson/Hardcastle/Rankin-Costello/Grayson
LM/LW: Conway/Bennett/Mahoney
CF: Graham/Gallagher/Emnes/Stokes/Joao/Mansell/Howarth
** Do we really need to sign another?
For this purpose, I have only included those with first-team squad numbers. Where a player is capable of playing in more than one position, I have included him twice.
It is a puzzle to me that we have signed another striker, and that we were looking to bring in an extra centre-half!
All of our creative midfielders, centrally, are youngsters, although I suppose Guthrie and Mulgrew could be included, at a push.
The future looks quite promising, but I find it hard to believe that we did not bring in an experienced creative player, even if it was only on loan or a one-year contract. That would surely have enhanced our survival prospects more than a dodgy, Celtic-reject centre-back!
EDIT: Actually, looking through that list again, it strikes me that we perhaps have too many versatile utility players, and not enough people who COMMAND a particular position.
Did you see that Scott Wharton was awarded "man-of-the-match" on his debut for Cambridge United?
GK: Steele/Raya/Fisher
RB: Nyambe/Henley/Lowe/Travis
CB: Greer/Hoban/Mulgrew/Ward/Lenihan/Brown/Wharton/Travis/Platt/Magloire **
LB: Williams/Hendrie/Lowe/Askew/Doyle
RM/RW: Feeney/Mahoney/Bennett/Thomson
DM: Lowe/Lenihan/Mulgrew/Akpan
Up-and-Down CM: Evans/Guthrie/Mulgrew/Akpan
Creative/Attacking CM: Tomlinson/Hardcastle/Rankin-Costello/Grayson
LM/LW: Conway/Bennett/Mahoney
CF: Graham/Gallagher/Emnes/Stokes/Joao/Mansell/Howarth
** Do we really need to sign another?
For this purpose, I have only included those with first-team squad numbers. Where a player is capable of playing in more than one position, I have included him twice.
It is a puzzle to me that we have signed another striker, and that we were looking to bring in an extra centre-half!
All of our creative midfielders, centrally, are youngsters, although I suppose Guthrie and Mulgrew could be included, at a push.
The future looks quite promising, but I find it hard to believe that we did not bring in an experienced creative player, even if it was only on loan or a one-year contract. That would surely have enhanced our survival prospects more than a dodgy, Celtic-reject centre-back!
EDIT: Actually, looking through that list again, it strikes me that we perhaps have too many versatile utility players, and not enough people who COMMAND a particular position.
Did you see that Scott Wharton was awarded "man-of-the-match" on his debut for Cambridge United?