Is the squad stronger than last season?

[ackworth miller]

Today's departure of Ben Purrington on loan to AFC Wimbledon got me thinking: how does the strength of our squad compare to last season? To me, we have added in defensive areas meaning we have better options than Ihekwe at Centre Back. However, I believe Vyner will have a lot off work to do to prove he is up to the standard of Josh Emmanuel who in my opinion is a great modern full back who will go far. Left back you could say we are weaker having lost Purrington and with no other out and out left backs on the books. At present no Towell and only 2 central mods whereas we had Potter and Towell at the start of last season in addition to what we have now.

The wingers are the same as last season. Strikers: We had Keiffer up until January and then Lavery on loan as well as JCH and our current strikers. Now we have Vassell- league 1 player last season

Therefore, my overall assessment is the squad is no stronger than it was last season, if I am kind I'll say its about the same strength. Should our recruitment so far have been better? We have spent nothing so far have we. Hopefully we will get a permanent CM in and another striker in a permanent deal. Then I would be fairly satisfied but so far I would say we have not really strengthened enough.

[Silly-miller]

Thing is mate when it was the start of the season last year people said Moore was an untried inexperienced player, proctor was a injury prone cast off that we shouldn’t have paid a quid for, rodak was inexperienced clumsy goalie and Palmer was ridiculed for being too young and not good enough as well as other talk.

And here’s the think and I apologise to frog and cam for my language.

It was all a lot of **** talk from people who didn’t want to wait until they saw them play a league game to slag the club off. I won’t name names

Not saying your doing that but how do we know we haven’t improved when we haven’t seen them play 90 mins?
Sorry but I don’t see how anyone can judge a squad before seeing them play a game it makes no sense.

Also like you say ackworth we could still be signing some more players.

[ackworth miller]

Thing is mate when it was the start of the season last year people said Moore was an untried inexperienced player, proctor was a injury prone cast off that we shouldn’t have paid a quid for, rodak was inexperienced clumsy goalie and Palmer was ridiculed for being too young and not good enough as well as other talk.

And here’s the think and I apologise to frog and cam for my language.

It was all a lot of **** talk from people who didn’t want to wait until they saw them play a league game to slag the club off. I won’t name names

Not saying your doing that but how do we know we haven’t improved when we haven’t seen them play 90 mins?
Sorry but I don’t see how anyone can judge a squad before seeing them play a game it makes no sense.

Also like you say ackworth we could still be signing some more players.

Yes I take your point silly you cannot make a full judgement on new players until you have seen them play a few games. Sorry if you misunderstand me, I am definitely not trying to put Warney or the squad down, I really want us to make a success of it this time in the championship. I was simply posing a question. Hopefully a couple more bodies through the door in the right positions. UTM.

[ilikecarling]

Thing is mate when it was the start of the season last year people said Moore was an untried inexperienced player, proctor was a injury prone cast off that we shouldn’t have paid a quid for, rodak was inexperienced clumsy goalie and Palmer was ridiculed for being too young and not good enough as well as other talk.

And here’s the think and I apologise to frog and cam for my language.

It was all a lot of **** talk from people who didn’t want to wait until they saw them play a league game to slag the club off. I won’t name names

Not saying your doing that but how do we know we haven’t improved when we haven’t seen them play 90 mins?
Sorry but I don’t see how anyone can judge a squad before seeing them play a game it makes no sense.

Also like you say ackworth we could still be signing some more players.

And your assessment on proctor is based on what?

League one striker at best.

[Lolmorgan]

I don’t think it’s strong enough for the Championship just yet,we have got to start on the front foot are I can see us playing catch up

[rolymiller]

The thing is we have a lot of young players who are likely to get better anyway with time so it could be their youthfulness will allow them to step up to a higher league if they are good enough. Hopefully our young players will. Suppose its a bit of a gamble but being RUFC this is the best hand we have. If all the young uns were to step up comfortably we could have a very good season. If they don't...

[mikemiller]

The thing is we have a lot of young players who are likely to get better anyway with time so it could be their youthfulness will allow them to step up to a higher league if they are good enough. Hopefully our young players will. Suppose its a bit of a gamble but being RUFC this is the best hand we have. If all the young uns were to step up comfortably we could have a very good season. If they don't...

Starting the season with an away game against a decent team, and we've still go a depleted squad. I hope that we get away with it, but it's not ideal. Going to the match anyway though

[ThryberghMILLER23]

Starting the season with an away game against a decent team, and we've still go a depleted squad. I hope that we get away with it, but it's not ideal. Going to the match anyway though

Why are we a depleted squad ?, we have bids in for cm and would like 1 more striker as far as im aware. Thats not a depleted squad its a nearly complete squad. People need to calm down about the lb situation, Mattock is first choice and Hinds second choice so Purrington has gone out on loan. Its no big deal!!!. We get a couple in this week and all is good, if we dont we can do buisness up to the end of August

[mikemiller]

I take the point that the current squad is not our "final" squad (we hope!). After seeing Mansfield friendly game, more worried about midfield than left back. At least we've got two specialist left backs on the books, and Mattock scored a spectacular goal at Brentford a few seasons ago - let's hope for a repeat from him on Saturday

[millertop]

I think it is but maybe not at LB yet so that’s one up front at Brentford then