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I have read alot of transfer rumors, requests and pleas for transfers but surely the targets need to address the reason why? (sorry for the long read)
People have said - "we need a striker", others have said "we need a center back" and others have said " we are a one man team, we need another Adel"
The point of this post is not put names forward or to start rumors but to ask, what is the reason behind why we need "Jan transfers"? i am no analysis so if the point below are not 100%
Reason one "we need a striker" but do we?
We are the second highest scorers behind Leeds and joint second with Watford on 42. Cardiff who have Boothroyd, Bellend and Whittingham only have 38. Adel is joint 5th with 11 goals and Mackie is 11th with 9 and with Leeds the only teams with 2 inside the top 20. We are do not tops the shooting charts, either in number of shots or shots on target which means overall we have a very good converstion rate.
Lets say we get a new striker what part of the team is going to suffer, who do we drop and what impact would this have to the rest of the team - Mackie we will lose his enthuisam, his never say die attitude which has brough many a goal this season, we drop Smith we lose his wing play, his goals and his work ethic, we drop HH or Hulse and lose that phyiscal presenace, so is this a critical part that needs tweeking.
Reason 2 "we need a Center Back" but do we?
We have conceeded less goals than anyone else in this division and apart from Hull and CP less than everyone else has conceeded at Home on its own. We have had more clean sheets than anyone else with only Swansea coming close with 11. We have only conceeded 3 once this season and only conceeded 2 on 3 occasions (i dont count PV as it was a second string and the mickie mouse cup). Not conceeding many has meant we have been always been with a chance of a result regardless of how bad we have played, this to me is KEY why we went so long unbeaten. People say we are slow at the center backs and I agree, but i dont think its out achillies heel, as Blackpool were never quick (Evatt being one of the slowest CB i have ever seen) and they are holding there own in the premiership. We win most headers, and so far no Center Forward has dominated us to such an extent that it has cost us points.
People say CC should come back, well I personnely think he past it, and in the premiership showed he not good enough at that level. Buying him would mean replacing him if we got promoted. Another person mentioned Shittu - well sorry from what i ahve seen he has lost it, like CC not good enough for the premiership and too me not even better than Fitz Hall, dont get me wrong he is and always will be a hero of mine, i just think he not the same player that left.
Reason 3 "we are a one man team"This is difficult to argue against, but when you have one of the most talent players in England at this moment in time and most probably even in the top 10 in the world, then yes he is going to dominate. If you back in time most great teams have a "Adel" (Man Utd had Ronaldo, Becks, Cantona - Liverpool Daglish, Torres, Gerald - Chelsea Drogba, QPR Bowles, Marsh, Wegalie) but they need the platform, and that were i disagree as without Derry, Faurlin, Mackie he would not have the orchestra to conduct. With Buzz getting fit, Smith crosses and HH / Hulse / Angie phyiscal preseance we have a plan B unlike our competitors we can pla direct. This showed in the 1st part when like at Derby we can back from 2 down, at CP it wasnt fancy foorwork or football that got these goals but direct football.
So with these thoughts i go back to the original question "do we need to buy and if so why?"
I think we do need to buy but not for the reasons above and i dont know who. I think we need to buy to:
"Start to build for next year" - we need to buy players that can step up so next year we dont need to get so many new faces. This we hopefuly help us stay there any allow us to build for years of the good times instead of playing yo-yo.
"Also I think we need to freshen up" - Fresh faces adds addtional feel good, new ideas, freshness, engery to prevent us from tiring as we come to the final straight. These sigings wont be so much on "talent" or were they fit in, but more of personality like Mackie, Derry and Hill.
Sorry for the long post, but if we are going to bring personnel in, i think we need to identify why, and what we need instead of taking just the easy solutions as this could prove to be very costly if we do - just my thoughts?
People have said - "we need a striker", others have said "we need a center back" and others have said " we are a one man team, we need another Adel"
The point of this post is not put names forward or to start rumors but to ask, what is the reason behind why we need "Jan transfers"? i am no analysis so if the point below are not 100%
Reason one "we need a striker" but do we?
We are the second highest scorers behind Leeds and joint second with Watford on 42. Cardiff who have Boothroyd, Bellend and Whittingham only have 38. Adel is joint 5th with 11 goals and Mackie is 11th with 9 and with Leeds the only teams with 2 inside the top 20. We are do not tops the shooting charts, either in number of shots or shots on target which means overall we have a very good converstion rate.
Lets say we get a new striker what part of the team is going to suffer, who do we drop and what impact would this have to the rest of the team - Mackie we will lose his enthuisam, his never say die attitude which has brough many a goal this season, we drop Smith we lose his wing play, his goals and his work ethic, we drop HH or Hulse and lose that phyiscal presenace, so is this a critical part that needs tweeking.
Reason 2 "we need a Center Back" but do we?
We have conceeded less goals than anyone else in this division and apart from Hull and CP less than everyone else has conceeded at Home on its own. We have had more clean sheets than anyone else with only Swansea coming close with 11. We have only conceeded 3 once this season and only conceeded 2 on 3 occasions (i dont count PV as it was a second string and the mickie mouse cup). Not conceeding many has meant we have been always been with a chance of a result regardless of how bad we have played, this to me is KEY why we went so long unbeaten. People say we are slow at the center backs and I agree, but i dont think its out achillies heel, as Blackpool were never quick (Evatt being one of the slowest CB i have ever seen) and they are holding there own in the premiership. We win most headers, and so far no Center Forward has dominated us to such an extent that it has cost us points.
People say CC should come back, well I personnely think he past it, and in the premiership showed he not good enough at that level. Buying him would mean replacing him if we got promoted. Another person mentioned Shittu - well sorry from what i ahve seen he has lost it, like CC not good enough for the premiership and too me not even better than Fitz Hall, dont get me wrong he is and always will be a hero of mine, i just think he not the same player that left.
Reason 3 "we are a one man team"This is difficult to argue against, but when you have one of the most talent players in England at this moment in time and most probably even in the top 10 in the world, then yes he is going to dominate. If you back in time most great teams have a "Adel" (Man Utd had Ronaldo, Becks, Cantona - Liverpool Daglish, Torres, Gerald - Chelsea Drogba, QPR Bowles, Marsh, Wegalie) but they need the platform, and that were i disagree as without Derry, Faurlin, Mackie he would not have the orchestra to conduct. With Buzz getting fit, Smith crosses and HH / Hulse / Angie phyiscal preseance we have a plan B unlike our competitors we can pla direct. This showed in the 1st part when like at Derby we can back from 2 down, at CP it wasnt fancy foorwork or football that got these goals but direct football.
So with these thoughts i go back to the original question "do we need to buy and if so why?"
I think we do need to buy but not for the reasons above and i dont know who. I think we need to buy to:
"Start to build for next year" - we need to buy players that can step up so next year we dont need to get so many new faces. This we hopefuly help us stay there any allow us to build for years of the good times instead of playing yo-yo.
"Also I think we need to freshen up" - Fresh faces adds addtional feel good, new ideas, freshness, engery to prevent us from tiring as we come to the final straight. These sigings wont be so much on "talent" or were they fit in, but more of personality like Mackie, Derry and Hill.
Sorry for the long post, but if we are going to bring personnel in, i think we need to identify why, and what we need instead of taking just the easy solutions as this could prove to be very costly if we do - just my thoughts?
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