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Not sure you could question effort or leadership even if you can question his quality.
I'm not knocking the lad's effort, but I will disagree about his leadership qualities.
In the games I watched, it was mainly Catts, who was the most vocal, and took on the role of cajoling and demanding more from his colleagues, and giving them a gee up, when it was needed, last season.
 
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Agreed. I'm quite happy, the new lads sound decent, but being honest I can't remember watching any of them (I'd heard of McNulty but couldn't have told you anything other than the fact he's a Scottish striker) so I'd struggle to be overly confident, I'd just say I'm optimistic. In theory bringing Leadbitter, Grigg, a tall decent prospect centre back and a quick winger who had worked with Ross before and done well enough to earn a move to Celtic sounded great, thought we'd kick on and go up, instead we looked pretty poor from the minute Maja left. Just need to see how they get on, not long to wait so no need to rush to judgment, I'll judge the window by about October!
To be honest, we looked pretty poor for a while before Maja left, but his ability to get a goal from nothing kept winning us games. Agree about October, mate
 
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I'd rather wait and see them play before claiming everything has been addressed
No offence but this feels a bit cynical. Ultimately even when super clubs lump mega money on a player to address a need, the player sometimes turns out to be not what was needed or underperforms.

From the owner/managers side we have addressed areas of concern from last season. No guarantee the signings will work out obviously but as it stands our club have done well.
 
No offence but this feels a bit cynical. Ultimately even when super clubs lump mega money on a player to address a need, the player sometimes turns out to be not what was needed or underperforms.

From the owner/managers side we have addressed areas of concern from last season. No guarantee the signings will work out obviously but as it stands our club have done well.
On the face of it we look like we have done the best we can with the resources available.
 
I’m more optimistic than I was a few weeks ago. Looking forward to Saturday, see how Ross lines them all up and where he tries to shoehorn Honeyman into his new system.
 
No offence but this feels a bit cynical. Ultimately even when super clubs lump mega money on a player to address a need, the player sometimes turns out to be not what was needed or underperforms.

From the owner/managers side we have addressed areas of concern from last season. No guarantee the signings will work out obviously but as it stands our club have done well.
I'm not being cynical and I understand your point about targeting certain areas too. We've spent a lot of money on poor players who supposedly improve on areas we were lacking which have got us to where we are. Bardsley, Seb, Catts spring to mind. All were back in when their upgrade turned out to be poor.
 
I'm not being cynical and I understand your point about targeting certain areas too. We've spent a lot of money on poor players who supposedly improve on areas we were lacking which have got us to where we are. Bardsley, Seb, Catts spring to mind. All were back in when their upgrade turned out to be poor.

We've done it for a decade at least.....which makes you wonder why people are so keen to proclaim every single transfer window as good business. You'd think the signing of Grigg for £3m+, a L1 record, in January would highlight that. Essentially it's about balance, tactics and motivation....and we were noticeably lacking on at least two of those criteria last season so I'll wait to see whether Ross has changed his approach before declaring it a success.
 
Window isn’t closed yet obviously but we need serious money spent. The team and manager simply weren’t up to the task last season, I can’t see the improvement in the team needed yet to be honest. Playoffs the best we can hope for at the moment.
 
We've done it for a decade at least.....which makes you wonder why people are so keen to proclaim every single transfer window as good business. You'd think the signing of Grigg for £3m+, a L1 record, in January would highlight that. Essentially it's about balance, tactics and motivation....and we were noticeably lacking on at least two of those criteria last season so I'll wait to see whether Ross has changed his approach before declaring it a success.
He's the only one in the last 2 year I've heard of :lol:
 
I have no idea how the new signings will get on, we all hope the hit the ground running and we get off to a flyer, but not many (if any) have seen enough of them to 100% say they are what we needed.

My biggest concern is we still look to have a lop sided squad and every formation posted has the odd square peg in a round hole or a hope player x will do a job there
 
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