My only concern at the minute is we need a bit of strength and particularly mobility. The Championship has the physicality of the Premiership now but just lacks the quality.
Key signings for me are a centre mid who can get up and down the pitch quickly and has some physical presence and a third centre defender with pace. Also another striker with some pace but suspect this will come at Christmas if we're struggling. Brooks and Thomas will add something to the mix. Possibly Graham might be in around the first team and Edna and Freeman are pretty mobile. I just feel we need a little bit extra in the team.
In Wilder we trust!
We win a friendly 9-0 and the moaners still appear saying we're lacking this or that.
Life just is not fair.
Its one of those 'nice to haves'. We'd all love to see a tricky winger knock the ball past his man then go direct for goal or whip a cross in. Like Jamie Murphy used to do perhaps? For me, Murphy was the best type of pacey player.
JCR is another type. But look at how he played? 1 in 5 good games? Beat his man 3 times then goes back and beats him again before twatting the ball nowhere near where he intended to.
More pace and trickery would be nice, but i think its more of a luxury at the expense of something else.
Freeman, Duffy, Lafferty, Lavery and Clarke were not slow last season, for what we needed.
Sharp is probably one of the slowest strikers we've had in terms of pace over distance, but his speed of thought and touch is quicker than Lavery's over a few yards. Ched is quick over short distances. I'd rather short sharp passes and the ability to change the pace of the game with the ball, like we had last season than all out pace and no end product.
The other key point is that we don't really play a game where we need raw pace in the attacks. We don't force sides to play a high back line. We attack through 3 strikers (or 2 attacking midfielders and one lone striker) or we use the wingbacks, so we're not playing that deep to start.
Not to say that we don't need pace in the attack, we would always benefit from it, but i think memories of Cheds pace are short. He has some decent pace, perhaps it won't be enough, but then Lavery does have decent pace.
I agree we need some pace in the back 3, but that would be to cover for mistakes or fuck ups.
