Presumably he means we have a decent starting XI in the house already, plus a handful of decent backups, and we are looking to add to and improve upon this base with the signings we are working on.....
.... sounds fair enough to me
It's what's needed. We've signed a team that finished 8th last year. It's a good team but miles from being one that will finish top two. If the shopping list is five players, they need to be here soon.
I'm worried that we've finished our business with forwards barring an additional winger. That leaves us with the following and their ages - Taylor (32), Baldock (33), Bodin (30), Henry (33) and Browne (24). There are huge limitations to this.
Firstly, succession planning will have to kick in very quickly to freshen that forward line up. Get promoted and I think you're replacing two to three, maybe even four of those, in the Championship.
Secondly, in 2004-05 we started the season with Bradbury and Mooney up front. Good on paper, but way too slow as a frontline. It was only when Diaz introduced Craig Davies into the mix did we start picking up results again after the uselessness of Rix. I can see a similar scenario happening here with our play getting bogged down by players who have lost that half yard of pace. Sure, Taylor and Baldock don't rely on it like a Michael Owen-style player, but you need a bit of zip up top. None of those players have it.
I'll wait and see to what KR brings in but with each passing day, my expectation for the coming campaign is dropping. Not that we've missed out on anyone in particular, just that expecting a different result with the same team, all one year older seems like a very odd recipe for promotion.
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