Challenges For next season

[Derbymiller]

well we have totally rebuilt our squad this summer and on paper the gaffer has brought in good solid players across the team, a mixture of youth and experience. 11 new players is a lot and a new coach with new ways of working and styles, exciting for us as fans. Credit needs to go to the board for continuing to back one of Rotherhams most successful managers and a guy that brings a little bit of showbiz to the NYS.
We must recognise though that all this change brings a whole set of new challenges to Mr Evans, how to get this new squad to become a team and to do it from day 1 of the season.
Our recent success has been the result of a core group of players that buy into the Rotherham way, hard work and never die attitude, now most of them have gone and we should wish them all good luck even if they do have a little bit of back chat in interviews.
Having a team of 11 talented individuals won't lead to a mid-table finish, only when they become a team, play for each other, close teams down

[uttis]

Great post

[pip_y]

The fans pay their money so they have a 'right' allegedly to complain/moan/winge/swear when things go wrong. But the OP is right with all the changes there has to be a time for the team to gel. How many were criticising the fact that Morgan and Pringle couldn't be tempted to stay and that we weren't offering enough to make them stay. Why let Arni go. We have to realise that this is still a business that has to live within the Financial Fair Play rules too.

I am impressed with how the management have gone about their transfer trading this summer. Little if nothing has been said about targets. It seems like the lesson has been learnt from the Stevie May saga. Established players and at least 3 young good players too with Thorpe Ward and Rawson. I don't think we will be biting our fingernails come Easter 2016.