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Fully agree Rod. As you, I and others have said before .......... The January policy will be dependant on how many we can 'ship out'. That said ........ The shipping out itself is an obstacle. Realistically, I can only see five out, and perhaps four in, at most. Providing those 'four' are quality, in key positions ..... we should be OK. We wait.

 

if we're being realistic - i think we need a centre back, a central midfielder, a winger and a striker.

if we push the boat out a bit, another centre back, and maybe a left back.

 

I think a solid centre back and a centre forward would change this team.
Players are working together now and showing that there is a bit of quality there, we are working together finally.
Yes it would be great to go out and find a fast winger and a solid midfielder but I think we can work with what we have if we can find the right players for defence and attack.

 

That's one of the reasons I'm saying a centreback and a centre forward are what we need. We already have players who can fill the other roles and it's not like we have a Man City budget.

 

I agree with most views on where we need to strengthen but I'm also wary of who might leave,especially the quality we have on loan.

 

He was horrendous last night. Slipped over several times and lost the ball in midfield and let them break countless times. Missed a pen, not that you can really hold that against him, but he looked last night like a player whose legs have gone.

 

Not convinced over any of our defenders at the moment to be honest. O'Connor is captain and we seemingly missed him at Luton, so he must offer something, but he's still not as a strong as Kilgallon for me. Being realistic, I think he will stay in the side as we can't replace too many in one window.

Chicksen and NKP just aren't good enough and the sooner they move on the better. Caddis puts in a solid shift and I agree he's the best of our freebie recruits. He isn't the fastest though and we ideally need a CB with a bit of pace to cover for him at times.

Now we have started to create and score goals again a new LB and CB have to be the priorities. Then a target man option (as we don't know if Miller's recent upturn in form is just a flash in the pan), then a winger with some pace to give us a new option and then, if we can (though I doubt it) another CB. Five players might be asking too much. I'd give Caddis a deal until the end of the season on the proviso we inject some new pace in at CB.

 

We need leaders.
We need players with balls.
We need players with experience who don’t panic at the first sight of defeat.
We need players who are up for a bloody tough scrap and understand the importance of this club getting out of this current league position.

If they can play:
CB
LB
Winger
Target man
Then they’ll do for me!

 

I will give Hopkin his due, he is pretty much straight up as to how many he wants in(i think in the t&a he said 3,maybe 4).
Quality in all areas is what is required.

 

Physicality down the middle centre half and forward and pace down the wing is just what is needed

 

We don't know how influenced Hopkin is with the improvement but I think we should get rid of players not putting in a proper shift and recruit 4-6 new players.If we don't bring in enough quality options before end of Jan and our form drops again we would be in trouble.

We can't risk it.

 

I think we'll need more than that,we all know where we need to strengthen and the numbers don't equate to 2/3 players.

 

Good point.I think longer term planning needs to be done in the summer window.The Jan window is always more difficult to get the right players in and you usually finish up with 2/3rd choices.That's a temp fix.

So shore up the defences,hope we can keep our decent loan players and crack on until summer and have complete revamp.

 

I wonder if we will bring players in on loan with a view to some of these individuals signing if we retain Div1 status with their contribution.

 

• Listened back to James Mason on radio Leeds last night and he stated there were some issues financially behind the scenes that needed sorting out. Not sure if anyone else heard that.

I suppose we have to temper our expectations.

 

We're limited on number of loans allowed so any better ones in means letting some go first.

 

Agree