Solent Knight
Vital Squad Member
To be up there challenging in any division usually requires splashing out.It was more sleep repeat. Seen today's type performances so many time this season, a lack of creativity added to a lack of any real goal threat. Today was another day of prolonging the agony. If by some miracle we make the playoffs, its going to be a hard watch.
Think BG is going to have to spend and hope the recruitment is waaaaaaay better in attacking areas than it has been.
Going forward into next season i wouldn't be in any hurry to keep any of our attacking players. None of Williams, Lapslie or Mahoney have delivered anywhere near what we'd need to get out of this division and in the striking area I'd only be looking to keep Andrews of the current lot.
If we're going seriously challenge next season we're going to have to not only up our chances created by also taken.
Do I have faith we'll recruit what's needed? In a word, no, judging by what we've recruited so far in attacking areas. Hopefully SC will get to choose who he wants as what we've recruited so far, which has presumably been other people choices have been way off what we need.
IMO to turn us into challengers is going to require a big spend.
The start of the season we talked the talk but didnt really walk the walk.
Several of the players we brought in wer'e good enough to keep us up last season and mission was accomplished but they wer'nt good enough to take us up. Unfortunately I also have little faith our recruitment team will deliver again and unsure if our chairman is prepared to put his money where his mouth is. Thats not to sound like a dig at the chairman by the way as I'm sure he's well aware you have to spend if you seriously have ambitions.