Does Our Club Have Any Real Direction?

so reading between your lines , you have already written Phenix off.

it's that easy to spot.

 

Re: so reading between your lines , you have already written Phenix off.

No Dragon, I "misunderstood"!

 

Re: so reading between your lines , you have already written Phenix off.

Just replying at greater length, DT, I certainly haven't written Phenix off. I very much hope he becomes an asset to us. My OP recognised that we have had some notable successes with this type of signing. However, given that Ben told us that things were tight ("we have gone from being a £10M business to being a £5M business") I just wonder that we are addressing this type of deal when our needs urgently lay elsewhere. In deference to the much misunderstood one, I also note that signing MP doesn't preclude us from going after what we really need - although there is no current evidence that we are any way close to addressing the holding midfielder/defender who can defend deficit. The suggestion that we would be rushing into such a signing is arrant nonsense, given that we have had that problem for 2+ seasons.

As regards the "good going forward" argument, our GD is -2. Even to my frequently misunderstanding logic that suggests that there is more to work on defensively than offensively. As the misunderstanding hordes often say, "this is a results business".

I hope we confound expectations tomorrow and beat Bristol. But put simply, that will not happen unless we defend a little better. Given that their goal tally is 50% in excess of ours, there is no way we will beat them in a shoot-out.