Quote Originally Posted by Wardy View Post
" I think our squad this season was a mid table Prem team". What are you basing this on ?
Have to agree with Wardy, i don't think we were good enough to survive the prem if we'd been there with this squad.

There was a good deal of panic at times in several games this season when we were overrun on the break, despite the fantastic attacking play that got us promoted.

Quite a few teams were able to soak up that constant attacking, because either we weren't 'tricky' enough to unpick their very solid defending, or we missed a hatful of chances.

So IMO there are three areas to work on to be a premier league quality team that doesn't get picked off like Norwich did: better quality defending (starting in midfield and through the defensive zone), at least one striker with a much better strike ratio to chances, and more consistent quality on the ball in the advanced attacking areas (to replace Costa/Bamford/Harrison when he's not 'on it'). This latter one was fine for the championship, but these players don't seem to have the quality to unlock very good PL level defences - as someone else pointed out, even Pablo struggled a bit at that at Swansea in the PL.