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Blue tinted optimist⭐🦐
...how we now all feel so upbeat when less than a week ago we were ready to hang ourselves.
Tilly and Brush were being hauled over the coals for not signing Worley and Saah (or hardly anyone for that matter) and I actually think people thought we'd start at the back on Saturday with youth teamers.
We now have serious competition for pretty much all places.
Keepers - Mildenhall, Joyce
Right backs - Sankofa, Francis, White
Centre Backs - Barrett, Heath, Mvoto, Francis
Left backs - Herd, Barrett, White (ok he's only a loan so there may be room to improve here)
Left Midfield - Moussa, Betsy, Scannell (although none of these are really long term solutions so room to improve here too)
Centre midfield - McCormack, Grant, Moussa, JFC, Grant, Sawyer, O'Keefe
Right midfield - Betsy, Grant, Sawyer, Scannell, Laurent, Walker
Strikers - Barnard, Revell, Freedman, Laurent, Scannell, Walker, Calver
Thats not a bad squad at all - very similar to the one that finished the season with a few more players back from injury.
Will we all now learn that T&B actually know best and when they pass up signing someone it may not be the nailed on disaster that everyone perceives. For instance, let's say we had taken on the early triallists (as most people wanted) we now wouldn't have Mvoto, who is probably the most exciting of the new lads because
1) He is French
2) He has played with Dorian <oo er> in the French U19 team
3) He didn't come from Colchester
4) He has played 41 times for PSG
5) He is tall
6) He looks like a cross between Micah Richards and Frank Bruno
7) He came from Sunderland who paid £300K for him
and all this despite the fact that none of us had ever sen him play and the only ones who had heard of him only did so through a computer game. Notwithstanding this, you just know that as Tilly says he is good at heading, the first time he heads the ball clear there will be warm applause round the Hall and he will get the MOM award v Huddersfield.
This is the reason we are fans and not football managers.
Tilly and Brush were being hauled over the coals for not signing Worley and Saah (or hardly anyone for that matter) and I actually think people thought we'd start at the back on Saturday with youth teamers.
We now have serious competition for pretty much all places.
Keepers - Mildenhall, Joyce
Right backs - Sankofa, Francis, White
Centre Backs - Barrett, Heath, Mvoto, Francis
Left backs - Herd, Barrett, White (ok he's only a loan so there may be room to improve here)
Left Midfield - Moussa, Betsy, Scannell (although none of these are really long term solutions so room to improve here too)
Centre midfield - McCormack, Grant, Moussa, JFC, Grant, Sawyer, O'Keefe
Right midfield - Betsy, Grant, Sawyer, Scannell, Laurent, Walker
Strikers - Barnard, Revell, Freedman, Laurent, Scannell, Walker, Calver
Thats not a bad squad at all - very similar to the one that finished the season with a few more players back from injury.
Will we all now learn that T&B actually know best and when they pass up signing someone it may not be the nailed on disaster that everyone perceives. For instance, let's say we had taken on the early triallists (as most people wanted) we now wouldn't have Mvoto, who is probably the most exciting of the new lads because
1) He is French
2) He has played with Dorian <oo er> in the French U19 team
3) He didn't come from Colchester
4) He has played 41 times for PSG
5) He is tall
6) He looks like a cross between Micah Richards and Frank Bruno
7) He came from Sunderland who paid £300K for him
and all this despite the fact that none of us had ever sen him play and the only ones who had heard of him only did so through a computer game. Notwithstanding this, you just know that as Tilly says he is good at heading, the first time he heads the ball clear there will be warm applause round the Hall and he will get the MOM award v Huddersfield.
This is the reason we are fans and not football managers.
