Ins and Outs - another view

If ya wanna feel gloomy - the squad was too small last season. We've brought nine senior players in, and shipped ten out. So it's still probably too small.

But looked at in more detail - things do look cheerier.

Of the nine we've brought in, something like 6 (Marshall, Strihavka, Russell, Otsemobor, Cureton, Brellier) are likely to be first-teamers, give or take. The other three (Smith, Murray, Gilks) are probably back-up (and maybe not Smith...).

Whereas of the outs - only four were anywhere near the first team (Etuhu, Safri, Hughes, Earnshaw). (And one of them was Hughes...)

The other six, (Henderson, Thorne, Louis-Jean, McVeigh, Gallacher, Jarvis) weren't even back-up, frankly. Just dead weight and practise for Reynolds.

Add Chadwick and Brown to the mix, and we *ought* to have a better squad than last year. Particularly if Cureton can go anywhere near replacing Earnie's goals.

I'm revising up my guess for where we'll finish, on the basis of all this....

Posted By: Tricky Hawes, Aug 24, 14:16:02