Squad upheaveal

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Brian Fantana

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Oct 8, 2006

7,248

In the field

• Apr 14, 2015

• #1

Of the 18 man squad that we had for THAT night against Palace in 2013, only Greer, Calderon and Lua Lua are still at the club. Are we suffering a bit of a delayed hangover this season from having such a large number of departures, or are our current issues solely based on the failure to match the quality of new arrivals with those players who have left?

 

Last edited: Apr 14, 2015

Tubby-McFat-Fuc

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May 2, 2013

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Brighton

• Apr 14, 2015

• #2

Lets hope from our current 18 man squad for tonights game, only 6 or 7 of them are in the squad come the beginning of August, maybe including just one of the above.

 

Lethargic

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Oct 11, 2006

3,463

Horsham

• Apr 14, 2015

• #3

Partically, I think we are suffering a bit of delayed hangover for a number of reasons and the latest transfer debacle has compounded the problem. Had we managed susequent transfer windows better we would not have reached such an obvious point of melt down maybe just a season or 2 of midtable nothingness not the dramatic fall from grace. You can also throw into the mix Gus's reliance on established players which meant our youngsters did not get the playing time maybe they should have so they were not able to fully step up to the plate when they finally did get the chance which added to the problem.

All in all since then it has been one prolongered clusterf**k!

 

Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster

Jul 5, 2003

72,015

• Apr 14, 2015

• #4

Boils down to terrible recruitment in a number of transfer windows compounded by procrastination on signings like Ward and not having the squad together until a month into the season this year. Employing Hyypia was a gamble that went seriously wrong but that is just one of those things.

 

KZNSeagull

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Nov 26, 2007

19,814

Wolsingham, County Durham

• Apr 14, 2015

• #5

Yes. Continuity in management and the squad is essential. That is why we were successful when first promoted and subsequently, not so much afterwards.
I view this summer as the start of a rebuild - keep CH and the core of the squad together, add some quality and build from there - perhaps not highly successful next season (although hopefully so), but certainly the next.
And stopping squad rotation would help too.

 

GT49er

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Feb 1, 2009

46,740

Gloucester

• Apr 14, 2015

• #6

A turnover of players is pretty much inevitable. Trouble is, we've replaced good players with mediocre, and of the players we've kept, some of the older ones have got noticeably older legs than they had a couple of years ago, and younger ones haven't all quite developed on in the way we'd have hoped.