You say can’t keep banging that drum but it’s true while we had a fit O’Connell we were highly effective. Teams didnt figure us out. We simply lost a player, failed to adequately replace and weren’t the same. We were like a sparrow with a broken wing. All our play started to come down the right.
The mistake was that summer. I felt we prioritised the wrong targets. We went for Ramsdale because we obsessed over wanting our own keeper and Brewster. In reality we could have loaned a decent keeper for another year and prioritised adding a ball playing left centre back.
Likewise I felt with Lundstram already signalling his intentions we should have pushed him out even if for a low fee and brought in a more committed replacement. We were linked with Grilitch and Camara at the time we signed Berge, maybe another one of those.
So I’d have gone for a LCB and a CM when we went for GK and CF!
If we weren’t adequately replacing O’Connell then we should have gone something like 4-3-2-1 because the whole advantage of 5-3-2 went with JOC.
You're of course entitled to your view and mine won’t change, I just don’t recall while JOC was fit and healthy, thinking this isn’t working anymore, these guys have found a way to stop us. But I do agree it was quite hard to recruit for because of the skills needed but not impossible.
Back to today, it feels like we neither have the maverick players nor a thing either. We need to find one and quick, to make this group click.
