Originally Posted by
Young_Nudger
Yep - I?m gunna miss this one - darn London until end of next week.
But to be honest - I?m not that bothered.
It might be a reprieve from living through another episode of WTH did I just see.
We had our differences on here last season.
Shads et al was blaming recruitment for the poor form - whilst I was blaming the HC, Collins.
This season I?m blaming partly the recruitment and also the HC.
What we are witnessing IMO is dreadful.
Basically, as far as what I?ve seen so far this season, we have a set of players that are generally better than owt else in this league.
Unfortunately we haven?t got a HC that is able to get these players working as a unit.
Its not the paint drying bored to death football of last season - but it?s still a long way from being attractive exciting football.
On top of that - recruitment FAILED to fill the gaps left by Cole and McAtee.
We brought in Dunn and Humphrys that should be good additions - but these are not strikers - they are players that create opportunities - they arn?t out and out strikers.
So then recruitment.
Like Shads says - we don?t want to hear players being slagged off because of where they have come from.
If Barnsley hadn?t got a history of identifying rough diamonds and selling them on for big money then there maybe an argument there.
But that is not the case.
However - something has gone wrong with recruitment in the last couple of seasons eg Collins, Clarke, lack of strikers this season etc - and this coincided with James leaving recruitment.
I honestly believe we have gone backwards in the last two seasons.
The club needs a total reset.
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