Clubs such as Nottingham Forest can afford to go out and get players that can hit the ground running at Championship level While Barnsley can only afford to bring in players that have potential to play in the Championship. That is to say players that need to lift their fitness and become aware of how quick the Championship game is. Players such as McCourt, Jennings and M'Voto. Plus it seems Nyatanga has come to the club not fully fit. COG dosent really count in this because he was here already so has fitted in straight away. Which only leaves Ramage and Pollitt of the new players that are ready to fit straight into the first team. I maybe grasping at straws here but I cannot understand why we had such a good end to last season and since then we have brought more players in - and yet we are back to the same old same old position of being near the bottom of the league at the start of the season
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar The bigger the wage bill the more successful the team.
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar I think it may be because we've spent as much as we have. Isn't this our worst start in the last 3 seasons?
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar My theory. Attendances below 14,000, perennial strugglers/yoyo teams.
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar Tough fixture list. I'll be honest, when I saw the fixture list for the first 8 games, I fully expected us being in the bottom three.
No I dont think so We have basically the same squad of players that since Jan would have been a playoff side Improved it with the additions of Nyatanga, Pederrson, Ramage, possibly Jennings I think most would agree we have a better squad than the one we finished last season with For some reason we just havent been performing as well as we were last season Not sure if its tactics, the fact that the new players havent really settled in or just a lack of the drive we had to avoid relegation. Clear that the fundamental problem is defence though 3 goals per game conceded - but on paper our defence is much stronger than last season. Hope its sorted soon
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar We've scored 8 goals in 6 games. Only 9 teams have scored more. Blackpool at the top have scored just 1 more and QPR in second have scored 1 less. And that's even more impressive considering we've been under the cosh for long periods of some games. The problem is so obviously the defence, although on paper I thought we had (barring injuries) some decent defenders. If (big if) we can sort the defence, we'll be OK with this squad.
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar And in fairness Flitcroft hasn't been able to field his first choice defence yet because of injury and suspension. We need to get Cranie and Nyatanga on the pitch and give them time to gel. BUT we also need to stop being so direct for periods of games. We're a poor team when we start pinging the ball at O'Grady's head and it is a waste of his ability. We will also let in less goals when we retain the ball by getting it in to O'Grady's feet.
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar I believe this is known as the 'Andy Gray' syndrome.
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar It is very much so known as that. Luckily people aren't blaming Chris O'Grady for it like they did Andy Gray
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar Chris O'Grady is Andy Gray but 6 years younger. That's all.
Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer... Seems like McCourt is this years Mido, strange how he hasn't played at all yet despite not actually being injured. If we could regularly get back to having crowds of over 15000 though we'd be a much different club as it opens up opportunities for so much more potential finance, not just the extra ticket revenue.
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar Whilst we are conceding way too many, I don't think its all down to defence (Weird as it sounds, so bear with me). To me, it lays very much in midfield. We no longer press, harry and close teams down the way we did (Believe it was mentioned in the Chronicle that this would be our new tactic????) This, our start, I put down squarely to tactics/formations, Square Pegs/Round Holes etc. They are *****. Basics, Stop pissing about when in posession, select a formation to fit the Players or players to fit the formation (Natural Positions), press the opponents more (especially from midfield), and more importantly, when someone on our team has posession, ensure that someone (or some 2 or 3) are in the box to bleeding aim for. I still believe we have the players that are more than capable of mid table, but I also put the weird start down to flicker (And I really didn't think I would end up saying that after the way we finished last season)...
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar We have a tough start with the fixture list, will get better after next two weeks
Re: Can the poor start to the season be put down to lack of money in the transfer mar Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't we got Watford, Leicester, QPR, Reading, Boro and Wednesday over the next month or so? Dunt get any easier until November I think, where we've got Donny, Millwall, Brum etc.