Just got home from the game, we weren't great...
BUT!
Our focus this summer HAS to be on keeping ahold of our best attacking players.
Look at the players we have allowed to leave this club (at WORST!) easily over the the last few years.
Murray,
Barnes,
Bennett,
Noone,
Crofts V1...
I genuinely believe that we had a better midfield of Dicker, Kishishev, Bennett and Crofts in League 1 than we had out there last night. Yes Ince has been a bright spark and he looked strong again tonight, why he hasn't featured more recently I really cannot fashom... HOWEVER! Over the last few seasons, our summer transfer windows have been dominated by us letting some of our very best attacking players go easily and cheaply, players who without fail went on the prove themselves at a higher level than with us previously. This CANNOT be allowed to continue.
Burke's number ONE priority this transfer window MUST be to hang on to our best attacking talents.
Ulloa, Hoskins, Buckley, March, LuaLua are all more than capable players in this league. Letting even one of them go will see us have to go back to the drawing board yet AGAIN this summer to develop an attacking lineup capable of scaring teams and scoring goals. Rather than yet again trying to full voids left by the absense of others we must, MUST be able to spend a summer making additions to a strong squad, regardless of who is in charge of the squad or who believes they are better than us elsewhere in the team, it is the attack that wins you games and as was painfully obvious tonight, our attacking players are not up to it at the moment, but even so, losing several of them would be even worse, because there is certainly no one in the team to replace them and I CERTAINLY have no belief in Burke or Oscar to replace them more than adequately if they were to leave.
Cardiff came close in the playoffs a number of times before eventually getting there, it is vital we don't try and start over with the squad yet again next season.
BUT!
Our focus this summer HAS to be on keeping ahold of our best attacking players.
Look at the players we have allowed to leave this club (at WORST!) easily over the the last few years.
Murray,
Barnes,
Bennett,
Noone,
Crofts V1...
I genuinely believe that we had a better midfield of Dicker, Kishishev, Bennett and Crofts in League 1 than we had out there last night. Yes Ince has been a bright spark and he looked strong again tonight, why he hasn't featured more recently I really cannot fashom... HOWEVER! Over the last few seasons, our summer transfer windows have been dominated by us letting some of our very best attacking players go easily and cheaply, players who without fail went on the prove themselves at a higher level than with us previously. This CANNOT be allowed to continue.
Burke's number ONE priority this transfer window MUST be to hang on to our best attacking talents.
Ulloa, Hoskins, Buckley, March, LuaLua are all more than capable players in this league. Letting even one of them go will see us have to go back to the drawing board yet AGAIN this summer to develop an attacking lineup capable of scaring teams and scoring goals. Rather than yet again trying to full voids left by the absense of others we must, MUST be able to spend a summer making additions to a strong squad, regardless of who is in charge of the squad or who believes they are better than us elsewhere in the team, it is the attack that wins you games and as was painfully obvious tonight, our attacking players are not up to it at the moment, but even so, losing several of them would be even worse, because there is certainly no one in the team to replace them and I CERTAINLY have no belief in Burke or Oscar to replace them more than adequately if they were to leave.
Cardiff came close in the playoffs a number of times before eventually getting there, it is vital we don't try and start over with the squad yet again next season.
