For me, our window has been based on a longer term vision, rather than a Day One view, which has an inbuilt gamble that the short-term can be managed while the new additions bed in.
If you take as the start point our experienced, successful "back six" from last season - Eastwood, Long, Ruffles, Dickie, Moore, Gorrin..
With Dickie leaving, then Mousinho replaces him to maintain that solid foundation. - Eastwood, long, Ruffles, Mousinho, Moore, Gorrin.
Our plan has been to then recruit/promote players (Stevens, Atkinson, Clare, Kelly, Jones, Lofthouse, Elechi) with the aim of slowly integrating them into the system gradually within this solid core foundation, with just one or two at a time alongside the more experienced heads to guide them along.
So, introduce Atkinson from the start instead of Mous, but keep the old guy involved so that RA can come in and out where necessary.
Put Long in at RB at first and for games where our defence will be under pressure, and introduce Clare in games where the FB can afford to be more on the front foot and/or when Mous is in for Atkinson, so he can learn more about playing at fullback etc
Similarly, have Gorrin in there, but look to find an alternative for less defence heavy games at first (Kelly in the first instance, but others maybe), but also develop someone into the terrier side of things, rather than the quarterback side.
Same with introducing Stevens in goal, with cup games etc, so that he is ready if needed to replace Eastwood.
Take the time to find the right back up to Ruffles in the market, and bring him in to the side later on in the same way to give Ruffs a break.
Then once these guys are up to speed, then maybe even look to introduce Jones, Lofthouse, Elechi or whoever, on occasion as well
The problem has come with losing three out of that core six within the first two games, means that we are having to use three of the newbies at once, and one of the others in a different position, and in a game on Saturday that was always going to be a high pressure one defensively.
So while it is tempting to write off these players, and decry our recruitment team, etc, etc, I think it is important not to forget how key the three defensive players that are missing are to our core lineup - and what the chances were of losing all of them this early on in the season - before we start aiming too much flak at the defensive six we had to put out on Saturday.
Of course it hasnt been wonderful thus far, but getting Ruffs and Gorrin back in will help enormously to restore some balance and robustness, and once we they have steadied the ship, then we can revert to bedding in the others, so that when we have players missing later in the season, we are not as exposed as we are right now.
(Saying that, with the potential LT absence of Mous, then yes another solid experienced head that can step straight in at the back, is now certainly desirable, even if it wasn't necessarily in the original blueprint).