I find the anti-recruitment narrative bizarre - the key areas of concern (CB and GK) were addressed with proven players who are young enough to get better and have been huge successes.

Jatta has already scored 10 goals this season and been a revelation. We signed two wing backs who got promoted from this league last season who the head coach chooses to play out of position. Abbott is Spurs u23 captain and has been great.

Not every signing will come-off but we?re definitely more hit than miss on that front, certainly over the past few years. The manager isn?t making the most of a very good squad in a poor league - injuries or not there?s absolutely no excuse for not comfortably beating a terrible Newport side today.

Another game where it was difficult to see what the plan was beyond giving a good player the ball and hoping they?d produce a moment of individual quality.

Individual ratings - a lot of ?ok? displays today but nothing outstanding:

Bass - 6
Ness - 7
Platt - 6.5
Macari - 6.5

Tsaroulla - 6.5
Palmer - 6
Abbott - 7
Austin - 6

Brown - 5
McGoldrick - 6
Jatta - 5.5

Gordon - 6
Scott - 5
Cisse - 6.5