Transfer News Transfer window 2020/21

So many times Mous has been a get out jail free card for our defense under KR, whether that be as a central defender or holding midfielder. His loss early this season I think has been a big one. I think loosing Dickie was not fatal, nor even loosing Gorrin, but without Mous to fill the gap adding an experienced head to the defense we are struggling. Given his Mous's age and that he is moving into coaching maybe this is something we could have foreseen and should have prepared for. On the other hand the defensive injuries have been rather unlucky.

For me if we only sign one more player this window it needs to be a player with experience who can play either in central defense or holding midfielder.
 
Millman said:
So many times Mous has been a get out jail free card for our defense under KR, whether that be as a central defender or holding midfielder. His loss early this season I think has been a big one. I think loosing Dickie was not fatal, nor even loosing Gorrin, but without Mous to fill the gap adding an experienced head to the defense we are struggling. Given his Mous's age and that he is moving into coaching maybe this is something we could have foreseen and should have prepared for. On the other hand the defensive injuries have been rather unlucky.

For me if we only sign one more player this window it needs to be a player with experience who can play either in central defense or holding midfielder.
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Personally I think the loss of Gorrin has been fatal in our lack of points so far. He was instrumental to everything we did last season and it’s noticeable currently that we do not have a specialist in his position when he’s not there.

I do echo your comment about the importance of Mous though as he has played very well in both holding midfield and at the back in the last couple of years.
 
I think it is the combination of Mous, Gorrin and Ruffels all being out together that has hindered us, as that has exposed a number of our understudies at the same time, particulaly as Long has been pulled away from RB to help shore things up. Take any one out of these three and we would cover it with no problem, we could probably cope in many games with two missing, but it is all three - meaning that Clare, Atkinson and Kelly all HAVE to play - that has been the issue. Again, individually they could be supported as they find their feet, but with so much of the support network missing, they have all had to go in together without the guidance required.

It is not often I call for experience over youth in these situations, but this is one of those rare occasions
 
mooro said:
I think it is the combination of Mous, Gorrin and Ruffels all being out together that has hindered us, as that has exposed a number of our understudies at the same time, particulaly as Long has been pulled away from RB to help shore things up. Take any one out of these three and we would cover it with no problem, we could probably cope in many games with two missing, but it is all three - meaning that Clare, Atkinson and Kelly all HAVE to play - that has been the issue. Again, individually they could be supported as they find their feet, but with so much of the support network missing, they have all had to go in together without the guidance required.

It is not often I call for experience over youth in these situations, but this is one of those rare occasions
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It's like the start of the season a while back when Eastwood was injured and the Derby guy came in. He was OK but the whole defence seemed jittery, and we only started playing well when Eastwood came back.
 
Ox in the Box said:
Personally I think the loss of Gorrin has been fatal in our lack of points so far. He was instrumental to everything we did last season and it’s noticeable currently that we do not have a specialist in his position when he’s not there.

I do echo your comment about the importance of Mous though as he has played very well in both holding midfield and at the back in the last couple of years.
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Gorrin multitasking. Defensive midfielder and yellow card specialist
 
No, he's obviously, and without any shadow of a doubt, NOT right on this occasion.

First, we don't "all" know where this is going on this occasion (not to mention most other occasions). Second, skip implies that KR isn't going to try any longer to bring anyone else in. Of course, all best-laid plans might come to nothing (so much depends on such a large number of factors) and so it might well be that "We'll go with what we've got" but not, I'd guess, through want of effort. We can "all" just as easily see from "a mile off" that he'll be working right up the deadline trying to bring in the best possible player.
 
mooro said:
But won't he count as the average wage in terms of the rules?
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That was my thoughts too. I'd guess this comes down to how many over aged players they can have in their squad or cost cutting in general.
 
mooro said:
But won't he count as the average wage in terms of the rules?
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He had already been transfer listed as they couldn't fit him into the squad of Over 21s.
Nothing's changed so they've had to get rid.
 
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