The Bad – Squad size
I’m not worried about the squad depth right now, but last season proves that going into the last 19 games or so without adequate cover can be a big problem. We ended up going 4-3-3 last season, I’m not sure the manager wanted to, but injuries and a lack of incoming striker more or less dictated it.
On some occasions it worked. The win at Coventry showcased all of our players strengths, but I can’t help feeling Matt Green suffered because of playing a wider role in a front three. He bagged 17 last season, but if he’d played regularly in a 4-4-2 to the end of the season I think he would have got 20. I don’t think we would have gone up though.
I trust our recruitment team to get it right, but I won’t lie and say there’s not a small part of me that thinks the squad size is a little concerning. I suspect one more will come in before next Thursday, but then a glut of loans to happen as Danny patches up the rest of the squad with ‘what if’ players, rather than ‘wow’ players.
What is interesting is that the budget for our squad right now probably matches that of someone with nigh on 30 players signed on. That’s why we’re top, because we’ve got quality over quantity and because we manage their workloads and injury worries professionally too.
If the quality of the Imps squad is as good as you say, and it is!, then Bury can get Scott Wharton or surround our ground with spies in the bushes….it won’t make any difference!
Exactly. It is one thing knowing what is going to happen, it is another thing stopping it. They will know set pieces from watching games.
Also quite like Lineker on Brexit ?
Top quality is Scott and if he plays against us will severely test our elite centre halves. Sad to see him go but The Cowley’s are no fools. They know his skill set as well as his vulnerable pieces.
I bet they are supplying the team “the” specific information about his few weaknesses.
Thanks for the brilliant way you word your articles never fails to make me chuckle
I’ve read a comment that Scott should have played against Yeovil, in which case he wouldn’t now be a Bury but I suspect he was probably already effectively out of the door before the team bus left Lincoln on Monday. Danny would have known he was on his way some time ago and was powerless, probably, to do anything about it. if his parent club wanted him elsewhere and the loan deal permitted it then it was always going to happen.
Tad unfair on KA dont think we had the cash to offer more than short time contracts, As we all know he did a superb job with nothing!
I appreciate it was a cash thing, that’s my point. That’s how the club has progressed. Anyone reading that as a slur on KA doesn’t know me that well.