fbm
Blue tinted optimist⭐
... where the squad and performances have changed so dramatically?
Early doors - we have a team rather than a squad and are relying on the youngsters coming through like Jack Bridge and Harry Kyprianou to make up the numbers. Nothing on the bench to improve the side. An ageing gladiator like Adam Barrett now looking his age and struggling. The team conceding goals for fun with a goal difference in the minus and one of the highest in the division.
Enter Anton Ferdinand and (a fit-ish) Nile Ranger.
All of a sudden the team stops conceding so many and starts playing well, turning away defeats into draws and Roots Hall becomes a fortress again.
Then some injuries, suspensions and whilst the team is good on the pitch, we go through a "We've got nothing on the bench" period again.
Enter the transfer window and all of a sudden we not only have a great team but a great squad, with new players who would have been shoe-ins in September (had we had them) not even near the match day squad!
This has a great feeling as we enter the final third... even with some bad luck we still have a decent side and am confident we can stay around the play offs and even push for second place.
COYB!
Early doors - we have a team rather than a squad and are relying on the youngsters coming through like Jack Bridge and Harry Kyprianou to make up the numbers. Nothing on the bench to improve the side. An ageing gladiator like Adam Barrett now looking his age and struggling. The team conceding goals for fun with a goal difference in the minus and one of the highest in the division.
Enter Anton Ferdinand and (a fit-ish) Nile Ranger.
All of a sudden the team stops conceding so many and starts playing well, turning away defeats into draws and Roots Hall becomes a fortress again.
Then some injuries, suspensions and whilst the team is good on the pitch, we go through a "We've got nothing on the bench" period again.
Enter the transfer window and all of a sudden we not only have a great team but a great squad, with new players who would have been shoe-ins in September (had we had them) not even near the match day squad!
This has a great feeling as we enter the final third... even with some bad luck we still have a decent side and am confident we can stay around the play offs and even push for second place.
COYB!