Just imagine...

[puppet]

…all the way back to Dave Powell..

Gosh that is one of my earliest memories too!

 

[puppet]

He's only managed over 1000 professional games. He's still learning the ropes.

TBF he does need to learn how to hone his abilities to choose a decent striker or at least one who he can get the best out of playing his way...

 

[Badger Blade]

There were clearly opportunities there to recruit astutely while spending little on fees.

Without a formation change:
Dunne would have fixed right back
Darling would have replaced Anel
Mee would have improved on Robbo
Riedewald has already shown as an option to fill the Souza gap.
Ings would have looked even more handy with a full pre-season
McBurnie would have come for Wilder.

Even cashing in on Moore, Anel and Souza sees you sat on about 20m+ of fees to fund that.

I’m not for one minute suggesting all the above are signing for chocolate buttons but you’d have a capable defence, a ready made midfield replacement and know how in attack and wouldn’t have been lavishing 5-7m on centre backs to Millwall and Luton or panic spending on midfielders from Chelsea, not to mention the clearly too much too soon loans of Barry and Bindon.

Those signings, one in, one out were all that needed to happen.

We'd still have loans to play with and I'd be fairly confident that the loans that would have been on Wilder's list wouldn't have been the ones we brought in, three of which are out of their depth.

To offer a small amount of credit to the short lived regime, Soumare's started to look decent and Ogbene's a competent enough Championship footballer but is the sort of guy you'd take on a relatively cheap fee to cover a few positions than waste a loan on. Tanganga's decent and McGuinness is improving but I don't think he can go beyond this level. Mee brings the sort of level headedness that Robinson clearly lacked but is only a short term option.

The multitude of others who turned up could all vanish tomorrow and we wouldn't notice.

 

[harrry1990s]

Aye, the "Hindsight Committee" have had a meeting and have decided that everyone's a fanny.

The previous results/performances having nothing to do with people's judgement at all.............

Calm down, not part of any committees.

I waa laughing at my own half time ‘we’re going down’ panic.

Might want to chill out and see the funny side of life.

 

[bonobo]

I think we would have struggled to match last years form and I suspect we would have been more in the play off pack. I think some of the problems from last season would be more exaggerated, as we are seeing now...around creativity, weakness in possession and the need to rebuild a defence. This would be disappointing and furstrating to a lot of fans, particularly those hung up on the play off final...since we would not have an alternative Selles timeline to compare. At the sametime and particularly given the financial backing of the board, Wilder would have been typically aggressive and proactive in the transfer market and we can expect the team to have started in better physical condition and with a full squad, which could have given us a lot of momentum vis-a-vis promotion rivals.

 

[loyalblade95]

I've heard that a few times. From Wilder I think as well, but how can he?
How does he know who's available? How can he possibly say "send Godfrey back and get Souttar" when he's no idea what t'old slab head will be like by then? Even with the outward loans, Soumare and McCallum have pushed their way into the team in 2 weeks, how do we know Matos and Barry might not in the next 3 months as well?

Even Wilder acknowledged that things will change all the time in regards to the squad and the transfer list, but he'll already have a good idea of what he needs in January.

Like you just mentioned, "send Godfrey back and get Souttar", it doesn't have to be Souttar, but we could send both Godfrey and Bindon back and get a new CB in their place.