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Rodney Harsh · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:07 am Post subject:

I disagree with this this "gutless" charge laid at the door of our new squad.

If we'd have built slowly and solidly like Swansea or Norwich we may see a team pulling together, fighting tooth and nail for each another and for club. Given the route we've chosen to progress (pretty much a one man team last season, requiring a large draft of new faces this) we can expect the players to work hard, as they are doing, and that's about it. This is nothing to do with being mercenary or gutless, it's simply a symptom of a club that's arguably been promoted too quickly and has certainly been unsettled for years.
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Esox Lucius · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 8:10 am Post subject:

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Neil Warnock did what we know he is good at last season - he got us promoted. I think everyone expected him to radically change the squad over the summer as we all thought there were areas which had to be addressed in the team. As we all know, his hands were tied until after the boardroom takeover and he had days instead of months to put things together - before that we were doing desparate free transfers as that was all he was able to do. As a result the job was unfinished and I think the plan was to readdress that in the January transfer window. Unfortunately he was dismissed half way through that and Mark Hughes came in in a similar situation, having to cram weeks of business and negotiation into days. In both cases I felt we have panicked and papered over cracks as a short term qick fix when what we need is a settled long term solution.

Easy enough for me to say, but I can't help feeling that the backroom politics have taken their heavy toll.
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