The expectations of our 9 signings are overblown imo. I like who we’ve signed and I’m excited for the season ahead but when you look at the other squads we’ll be up against, it’s going to be tough.
I ask Lifers to be objective. Look at who Watford have signed:
We’re asking which of our 9 will start. Imagine that we also had Watford’s nine. How many of our nine would start and how many of their nine?
Can you honestly be sure that Oloafe and Kelman are better than Kjerrumgaard or Semedo, for example?
Would you prefer Burke or Abankwah?
These are just two or three examples, but there are nine comparisons to be made.
Then you have their players from last season against ours? Do we really think ours are better?
And please don’t give me all this adjusting to English football bullshit. What is English football now anyway because it isn’t kick and run, fash the bash type stuff. If it were so good, how comes our international team still wins f-all and our top teams have mostly overseas players.
We have a manager who can make a good team from our squad, and finally a club that’s well run, that’s true and I’m very pleased. However, the same is true of the other clubs (except Sheffield Wednesday).
So really, get real, look at the opposition players too and be objective.
It will be interesting to see it play out. I hope that we give these teams problems and are successful but we have signed mostly English division 3 players and they’re simply up against players with experience at a higher level. I know you may argue that some of our players also have such experience but they all, except Rankin Costello, then went down to our division 3, whereas as many of the oppositions’ players didn’t.
Well put. It's what I have been trying to say or insinuate for a couple of months now. A stark awakening against Watford, and we sneak a win maybe by October.
I don’t think that’s a balanced take on the Championship, no doubt it’s a big step up but we have our own strengths and have improved the squad across the pitch, with a focus on adding much needed attacking options.
It’s not like going up to the PL, all three promoted clubs stayed up last season.
But it does rebalance the lack of objectivity, which was my point of agreement with jimmymelrose. If we're estimating our chances then any estimates are more useful as a range, with least optimistic among them, and that's where I am.
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