Building a squad for the Premiership

[arab1970]

It's a worry, but maybe for a different thread?

your right, leave it till gameweek 4 next season hahaha

[NOSCOTCAPS]

McMann - solid player and been good servant but I think championship is his level.
Mochrie - mistake to let go, he’s still young and didn’t get that much game time in comparison
Meekison - ditto and hampered by injury
Glass - probably attitude and lack of pace but then so did people like Charlie Adam and Harkins, but despite the fact that they were DWs both had great ability to turn games. Glass in my opinion has that ability.
Cudjoe - I like although a bit lightweight but there is good ability there.

I’ll be annoyed if any of the above are being punted to make future offers for Tilson and Grieve, just have a bad feeling!

[arab1970]

McMann - solid player and been good servant but I think championship is his level.
Mochrie - mistake to let go, he’s still young and didn’t get that much game time in comparison
Meekison - ditto and hampered by injury
Glass - probably attitude and lack of pace but then so did people like Charlie Adam and Harkins, but despite the fact that they were DWs both had great ability to turn games. Glass in my opinion has that ability.
Cudjoe - I like although a bit lightweight but there is good ability there.

I’ll be annoyed if any of the above are being punted to make future offers for Tilson and Grieve, just have a bad feeling!

Crazy to think Mochrie was at Man city and Liverpool for trials as a teanager, potential is there if he can realise it, some dont.

Meekison and Glass good technical players and wee cudjoe is always fun to watch

[tHeArAb]

Not a single player in that list that I'm bothered about. McMann is a shock, but only as I thought the manager liked him. The rest haven't done anywhere near enough to show they are good enough for the Championship, never mind the Prem.

[DBDU]

Not a single player in that list that I'm bothered about. McMann is a shock, but only as I thought the manager liked him. The rest haven't done anywhere near enough to show they are good enough for the Championship, never mind the Prem.

Totally agree as harsh as that sounds .

The reality is there ought to be quite a few more following this lot out the door or we will struggle big time .

If anyone truly believes we can go in to next season with pretty much any of that side its delusional .

At best most , except for perhaps Literally only 1 or 2 exceptions, would be no more than squad players unless we are planing on battling relegation from the get-go .

As I say that may come across as harsh on the back of the high of winning the title but it is IMO an accurate assessment .

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[TerryTheTerror]

I don't agree that only 1 or 2 of the players would be able to step up. More of them already have good Premiership experience.

[Chick A Saw]

Totally agree as harsh as that sounds .

The reality is there ought to be quite a few more following this lot out the door or we will struggle big time .

If anyone truly believes we can go in to next season with pretty much any of that side its delusional .

At best most , except for perhaps Literally only 1 or 2 exceptions, would be no more than squad players unless we are planing on battling relegation from the get-go .

As I say that may come across as harsh on the back of the high of winning the title but it is IMO an accurate assessment .

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Trying no to shoot the messenger here, but to add to the conversation.

Someone made a very good point here somewhere that it would be rather foolhardy to just offload this seasons squad and head north with a brand new team. I believe that theory has been proved on more than one occasion. At this minute, we are not that far off doing just that.

To blunt shedkas comment a tad, are we expecting season 1 consolidation, then season 2 back in Europe like last time? I said at the last promotion that survival season 1, consolidation season 2, then maybe push for top 6 season 3 is what we should be aiming for, and because of what happened next, i stand by that 3 or 4 season requirement.

I will keep saying that i hope Mark Ogren has learned from the mistakes made if he stays around, but if change of ownership is to come, then i hope we head into the future with our eyes open!

[cybershed]

It's clear to all though, that this season's squad are nowhere good enough to be anything other than relegation fodder in the Premier League.

It's a tough old league the SPL. I think the Dees have only managed 10 league wins all season and yet they managed top six! Next year, the sheep and the Hibs will surely put up a challenge for the top six.

IMO we need 7 to 8 players incoming in terms of squad. That will still be a very lean squad in terms of the SPL.

Out of the 8 incoming, I expect 4 or 5 'starting 11' standard.

BTW, that maybe not even be enough. Obviously we need a new GK and understudy. There's 2 salaries knocked off the outfield budget already.

Better make that 7-8 incoming excluding the 2 GKs!

[Yeats 62]

Hopefully the management team are doing what they did very well this season, and are going for a horses for courses type oh thing.

I had my doubts at times this season about a few things, yet , here we are, can't really argue, credit due etc...

Now...hopefully a wee bit better pot to dip in to. Season tickets sales (not sure if they count) better sponsors maybe? TV rights etc. Might allow us to punch above our current weight, to stabalise the ship, for Europe, the season after...

Seemingly, it can happen...

[JamesMcClean]

Further to today’s announcement of course is that we as yet still don’t know what is happening with the Brentford/Brighton thing, particularly now that we’ve achieved the primary goal. Perhaps today is a prelude to bigger and better things on the horizon potentially?